Release 1.15.1 cherry picks

Cherry Picks back to master for 1.15.1

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Not the biggest fan of changing the formatting for the MRs listed in the CHANGELOG (compared to 1.14.1) but the rendered Markdown file doesn't change much.

I'll allow it this time.

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