* The 'scheduling_latency_seconds' metric into has been split into finer steps (predicate, priority, preemption). ([#65306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65306), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))

  - 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...

- 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]

* Disabled ScheduleDaemonSetPods if kubelet version less than 1.11; and ScheduleDaemonSetPods is not supported on a 1.13 control plane / 1.10 kubelet split. ([#69566](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69566), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

* 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))

    (indicated either by the kubelet returning from partitioned state,
    deletion of the Node object, deletion of the instance in the cloud provider,
    or force deletion of the pod from the api-server).
    This helps prevent "split brain" scenarios in clustered applications by
    ensuring that unreachable pods will not be presumed dead unless some
    "fencing" operation has provided one of the above indications.

- 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

- 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))