- Apiserver adds two new metrics `etcd_requests_total` and `etcd_request_errors_total` that allow users to monitor requests to etcd storage, split by operation and resource type. ([#117222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117222), [@iyear](https://github.com/iyear)) [SIG API Machinery]

* CRDs support metadata.generation and implement spec/status split ([#50764](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50764), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))

* CRDs support metadata.generation and implement spec/status split ([#50764](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50764), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))

  - The schema for the alpha `CSINodeInfo` CRD has been split into `spec` and `status` fields, and new fields `status.available` and `status.volumePluginMechanism` added. Clusters using the previous alpha schema must delete and recreate the CRD using the new schema. ([#70515](https://github.com/kubernetes/ku...

- Text logging in Kubernetes components now uses [textlogger](https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/klog/v2@v2.120.0/textlogger). The same split streams of info and error log entries with buffering of info entries is now also supported for text output (off by default, alpha feature). Previously, this was only supported for JSON. Performance is better also without split streams. ([#114672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114672), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

- Added support for split image filesystem in kubelet. ([#120616](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120616), [@kannon92](https://github.com/kannon92))

- `PidPressure` now evicts pods from lowest priority to highest priority ([#72844](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72844), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
- Split up the mondo `kubernetes-test` tarball into `kubernetes-test-portable` and `kubernetes-test-{OS}-{ARCH}` tarballs. ([#74065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74065), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))

### VMware