Cherry-pick release:1.23.0 PRs to rel-1.23.0 (#25985)
This PR cherry-picks the following PRs to the rel-1.23.0 branch:
* #25938
* #25957
* #25960
* #25968
* #25971
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Co-authored-by: Dmitri Smirnov <yuslepukhin@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Adrian Lizarraga <adlizarraga@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Hariharan Seshadri <shariharan91@gmail.com>
