Point release: cherry picks, versions and change log update. (microso…

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* Add new tryPylance banner experiments (microsoft#14759)

Co-authored-by: Bill Schnurr <[email protected]>

* Put linter prompt behind experiment (microsoft#14731)

* Add new linter prompt

* Tests

* Fix typos

* Show linter install message only once.

* Add more tests and news

* Updates for point release.

Co-authored-by: Jake Bailey <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Bill Schnurr <[email protected]>

Point release change log and version update (microsoft#14750)

* Point release change log and version update

* Fix process picker (microsoft#14700)

* Workaround VSCode bug for process picker

* Fix how we pass in icons to VSCode

* update change log with cherry pick

Co-authored-by: Kartik Raj <[email protected]>

Version, change log and cherrypicks for nov release (microsoft#14696)

* change log updates

* Update gifs

* Fix for interpreter selection (microsoft#14693)

* Fix for interpreter selection

* Fix linting errors

* Minor tweak to property removal

Don't call acquireVsCodeApi more than once (microsoft#14543)

* Use globalThis

* Make this.vscodeApi accessible and pass it through

update version, changelog and thrid party notices (microsoft#14280)

Escaping fix broke a number of things (microsoft#14145) (microsoft#14154

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* Fixes for escaping

* Push a comment ot start PR again

* Cache task is failing

* Remove cache task

* Not fixing so just put back cache task

fixed annoying warnings (microsoft#14049)

More tests failing with gpu error (microsoft#13935)

* Try different version of VS code in release

* Change to make it use the actual variable

* Use a real version

* Two more version changes

Replace 'master' with 'main' in readme (microsoft#13845)

PORT showStartPage setting fix (microsoft#13706) (microsoft#13758)

* fix showStartPage setting on configSettings.ts (microsoft#13706)

* fix showStartPage setting on configSettings.ts

* add news file

* Fix unit tests

* oops

* update changelog