This contains the following cherry-picks for the `1.21.1` patch release:
- #23928
- #23978
- #24010
- #24017
- #24113
- #24174 (including a small
change to fix a conflict)
- #24179

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Bump the versions to `1.21.1` in order to publish the patch release for
the required onnxruntime packages.

There is an issue with the 0.46.0 `wheel` version as reported in
pypa/wheel#660. We are currently seeing this
on the Python packaging pipelines, for example in [this
run](https://aiinfra.visualstudio.com/Lotus/_build/results?buildId=740997&view=logs&j=4864752d-f1c3-57c0-06eb-25cee39385a7&s=3fc0883b-27ef-5aa3-1052-0a269c26624c&t=fa95d49e-17f6-501e-c36c-b2949c11fc4a&l=13).

…ine steps (#24365)

Investigating [this
failure](https://aiinfra.visualstudio.com/Lotus/_build/results?buildId=744027&view=logs&j=e0aa037a-ca0a-529d-6a03-a5c9d149fe1a&t=2eb2c023-a94a-592e-a1f1-54add6f4a3b2&l=69)
and [this
failure](https://aiinfra.visualstudio.com/Lotus/_build/results?buildId=744027&view=logs&j=54944931-7164-5479-7b9e-b791f07d59dd&t=01ecb114-a484-5e44-2bca-f46cc3296044&l=69)
we observed that there are 2 packages created in these steps when doing
a release build:
-
`Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.DirectML.1.21.1-dev-20250408-0849-84808eb710.nupkg`
- `Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.DirectML.1.21.1.nupkg`

The problem with this is that the following
[rename](https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/blob/84808eb7102ecb6133b88b7cf35b1ec9b0feadd2/tools/ci_build/github/azure-pipelines/c-api-noopenmp-packaging-pipelines.yml#L172C6-L172C61)
command fails with the error above because it matches multiple files:
`ren Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.DirectML.* win-dml-x86.zip`

Validated that the changes in this PR passed in
https://aiinfra.visualstudio.com/Lotus/_build/results?buildId=754225&view=results