Merge branch '5.4.x' into 5.5.x

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diff --git a/docs-md/developer-guide/serialization.md b/docs-md/developer-guide/serialization.md
@@ -35,7 +35,12 @@ ksqlDB supports these serialization formats:
 
 ### DELIMITED
 
-The `DELIMITED` format supports comma separated values.
+The `DELIMITED` format supports comma-separated values. You can use other
+delimiter characters by specifying the VALUE_DELIMITER when you use
+VALUE_FORMAT='DELIMITED' in a WITH clause. Only a single character is valid
+as a delimiter. The default is the comma character. For space- and
+tab-delimited values, use the special values `SPACE` or `TAB`, not an actual
+space or tab character.
 
 The serialized object should be a Kafka-serialized string, which will be
 split into columns.

diff --git a/docs/developer-guide/serialization.rst b/docs/developer-guide/serialization.rst
@@ -207,7 +207,12 @@ KSQL currently supports three serialization formats:
 DELIMITED
 ---------
 
-The ``DELIMITED`` format supports comma separated values.
+The ``DELIMITED`` format supports comma separated values. You can use other
+delimiter characters by specifying the VALUE_DELIMITER when you use
+VALUE_FORMAT='DELIMITED' in a WITH clause. Only a single character is valid
+as a delimiter. The default is the comma character. For space- and
+tab-delimited values, use the special values ``SPACE`` or ``TAB``, not an actual
+space or tab character.
 
 The serialized object should be a Kafka-serialized string, which will be split into columns.