diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8c462f916165..69022c3bf0c9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,65 @@
 # Changelog
 
+Please look at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/releases for the latest releases and changelogs.
+
+## 2022.10.1 (14 July 2022)
+
+### Code Health
+
+-   Update app insights key by [karthiknadig](https://github.com/karthiknadig) in ([#19463](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/pull/19463)).
+
+### Thanks
+
+Thanks to the following projects which we fully rely on to provide some of
+our features:
+
+-   [debugpy](https://pypi.org/project/debugpy/)
+-   [isort](https://pypi.org/project/isort/)
+-   [jedi](https://pypi.org/project/jedi/)
+    and [parso](https://pypi.org/project/parso/)
+-   [jedi-language-server](https://pypi.org/project/jedi-language-server/)
+-   [Pylance](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release)
+
+Also thanks to the various projects we provide integrations with which help
+make this extension useful:
+
+-   Debugging support:
+    [Django](https://pypi.org/project/Django/),
+    [Flask](https://pypi.org/project/Flask/),
+    [gevent](https://pypi.org/project/gevent/),
+    [Jinja](https://pypi.org/project/Jinja/),
+    [Pyramid](https://pypi.org/project/pyramid/),
+    [PySpark](https://pypi.org/project/pyspark/),
+    [Scrapy](https://pypi.org/project/Scrapy/),
+    [Watson](https://pypi.org/project/Watson/)
+-   Formatting:
+    [autopep8](https://pypi.org/project/autopep8/),
+    [black](https://pypi.org/project/black/),
+    [yapf](https://pypi.org/project/yapf/)
+-   Interpreter support:
+    [conda](https://conda.io/),
+    [direnv](https://direnv.net/),
+    [pipenv](https://pypi.org/project/pipenv/),
+    [poetry](https://pypi.org/project/poetry/),
+    [pyenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv),
+    [venv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html#module-venv),
+    [virtualenv](https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/)
+-   Linting:
+    [bandit](https://pypi.org/project/bandit/),
+    [flake8](https://pypi.org/project/flake8/),
+    [mypy](https://pypi.org/project/mypy/),
+    [prospector](https://pypi.org/project/prospector/),
+    [pylint](https://pypi.org/project/pylint/),
+    [pydocstyle](https://pypi.org/project/pydocstyle/),
+    [pylama](https://pypi.org/project/pylama/)
+-   Testing:
+    [pytest](https://pypi.org/project/pytest/),
+    [unittest](https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#module-unittest)
+
+And finally thanks to the [Python](https://www.python.org/) development team and
+community for creating a fantastic programming language and community to be a
+part of!
+
 ## 2022.10.0 (7 July 2022)
 
 ### Enhancements
diff --git a/build/test-requirements.txt b/build/test-requirements.txt
index d70fb8bb62e4..d5eef1245b0b 100644
--- a/build/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/build/test-requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# pin setup tools to prevent issue with 'use_2to3'
+setuptools==63.2.0
+setoptconf==0.3.0
+
 # Install flake8 first, as both flake8 and autopep8 require pycodestyle,
 # but flake8 has a tighter pinning.
 flake8
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 68868b717d1a..5e2a84080ab5 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
     "name": "python",
-    "version": "2022.11.0-dev",
+    "version": "2022.12.0-rc",
     "lockfileVersion": 2,
     "requires": true,
     "packages": {
         "": {
             "name": "python",
-            "version": "2022.11.0-dev",
+            "version": "2022.12.0-rc",
             "license": "MIT",
             "dependencies": {
                 "@vscode/extension-telemetry": "^0.6.2",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0c5bdb9d1aac..bdc8411360f7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     "name": "python",
     "displayName": "Python",
     "description": "IntelliSense (Pylance), Linting, Debugging (multi-threaded, remote), Jupyter Notebooks, code formatting, refactoring, unit tests, and more.",
-    "version": "2022.11.0-dev",
+    "version": "2022.12.0-rc",
     "featureFlags": {
         "usingNewInterpreterStorage": true
     },
@@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@
         "vscode-tas-client": "^0.1.22",
         "winreg": "^1.2.4",
         "xml2js": "^0.4.19",
-        "which":"^2.0.2"
+        "which": "^2.0.2"
     },
     "devDependencies": {
         "@istanbuljs/nyc-config-typescript": "^1.0.2",
@@ -1846,7 +1846,7 @@
         "@types/uuid": "^8.3.4",
         "@types/vscode": "~1.68.0",
         "@types/winreg": "^1.2.30",
-        "@types/which":"^2.0.1",
+        "@types/which": "^2.0.1",
         "@types/xml2js": "^0.4.2",
         "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^3.7.0",
         "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^3.7.0",