Merge back from release.

[karthiknadig]

Note that this is a manual merge of just the news items. We cannot do a full merge due to how much the release has deviated from main.

[sonarqubecloud]

Kudos, SonarCloud Quality Gate passed!

0 Bugs
0 Vulnerabilities (and 0 Security Hotspots to review)
0 Code Smells

No Coverage information
0.0% Duplication

[codecov-io]

Codecov Report

Merging #14612 into main will increase coverage by 0.21%.
The diff coverage is n/a.

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##             main   #14612      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   64.86%   65.07%   +0.21%     
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  Files         541      541              
  Lines       25156    25377     +221     
  Branches     3545     3587      +42     
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+ Hits        16318    16515     +197     
- Misses       8172     8179       +7     
- Partials      666      683      +17     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
...rc/client/pythonEnvironments/common/commonUtils.ts	85.93% <0.00%> (-14.07%)	⬇️
...nments/discovery/locators/services/condaLocator.ts	93.93% <0.00%> (-6.07%)	⬇️
.../locators/services/virtualEnvironmentIdentifier.ts	90.41% <0.00%> (-4.33%)	⬇️
src/client/common/utils/platform.ts	60.00% <0.00%> (-4.00%)	⬇️
...ient/pythonEnvironments/base/info/pythonVersion.ts	76.47% <0.00%> (-3.53%)	⬇️
src/client/pythonEnvironments/base/info/env.ts	80.39% <0.00%> (+2.39%)	⬆️
...nments/discovery/locators/services/pyenvLocator.ts	94.49% <0.00%> (+5.02%)	⬆️
.../pythonEnvironments/common/externalDependencies.ts	72.34% <0.00%> (+7.47%)	⬆️

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[karthiknadig]

I am merging this to save time. Do let me know if you see something that needs to be addressed.