Weekly Patch Release v1.5.2

[awaelchli]

What does this PR do?

Contains all bugfixes to be released next week. As bugfixes get merged to master, they will get cherry-picked into this branch by the individual author (core) or on-caller.

For staff/core: The new release guide is here.

gh pr list -s merged -S 'merged:2021-11-09T18:30:00.000Z..2021-11-16T18:30:00.000Z' --json mergedAt,milestone,url,mergeCommit,title --jq 'sort_by(.mergedAt) | reverse | .[] | select((.milestone.title == 
"1.5.x") or (.milestone.title == null)) | [.mergedAt, .url, .mergeCommit.oid, .title] | join(" ")' --limit 100

2021-11-16T04:36:48Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10550 6dfcb6afc542506c17875e23aa10cf7cbd6bcec2 Skip strategy=ddp_spawn, accelerator=cpu, python>=3.9 tests
2021-11-15T22:31:45Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10486 60850ef51002fe1525208149a5502e2d4637b6cb fix overfit_batch sampler replacement logic
2021-11-15T22:12:55Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10470 65ebfed3aedcbeb38dd1ada0b0a4b32f13038929 Fix `to_torchscript()` causing false positive deprecation warnings
2021-11-15T21:04:49Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10520 dcafc95f2b0fd3f176d425139ca99676ce943a12 Avoid deprecated `progress_bar_refresh_rate` usage
2021-11-15T19:13:01Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10493 1de3539eac6e83992735b64bf517beaa840a13f2 Resolve instantiation problem with init_meta_context
2021-11-15T10:03:46Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10463 ffb40060c099f08f1f5b3e94ea58284e6503e556 shutdown workers on failure
2021-11-12T18:03:47Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10461 847e24011af32dcf7bf14577b1e2e0a5fe3fb727 Squeeze the early stopping monitor
2021-11-11T19:53:40Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10454 09cf167237e867f1ec67a5db87e5a02c2cea4b69 Change attributes of `RichProgressBarTheme` dataclass
2021-11-10T04:42:27Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/9702 ce149f64517883caf8abce7718c7bca5769f43ce Fix support for dataclasses with ClassVar/InitVar in `apply_to_collection`
2021-11-09T21:25:54Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10439 eeef5a80ac4eac49dfca6d63c34a1c5627dbe496 Update Changelog for v1.5.1
2021-11-09T20:06:10Z https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10374 8d810d614472b8c68caaac6cd413210569c5df63 Enable distributed training with CombinedDataLoader and max_size_cycle

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Part of #1 (it's a lie, this is just here to avoid noisy GitHub bot)

[awaelchli]

#10559 will be included if time allows

[tchaton]

LGTM !