Weekly patch release v1.7.7

[kaushikb11]

What does this PR do?

gh pr list -s merged -S 'merged:2022-09-13T22:00:00.000Z..2022-09-21T22:00:00.000Z' --json mergedAt,milestone,url,mergeCommit,title --jq 'sort_by(.mergedAt) | reverse | .[] | select((.milestone.title == "pl:1.7.x") or (.milestone.title == null) or (.milestone.title == "all:next")) | [.url, .mergeCommit.oid, .title] | join(" ")' --limit 100

https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14809 ac5e0b3bd9f7efb00c8e2d42413616c132db5530 Fixed `TypeError` on 1.7.6 when `torch.distributed` unavailable
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14787 326e5afafd35ab89545a739a347a5d8db27cec81 Update pandas requirement from <=1.4.3,>1.0 to >1.0,<1.5.1 in /requirements
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14794 f167d7650858b1a3c2689cb4f8385236f8fc6144 Update hpu-tests.yml to support v1.6.0 release
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14771 12bae9b7f5585ff22836e1665b3f3a563f90b60a Update wandb requirement from <0.13.2,>=0.10.22 to >=0.10.22,<0.13.4 in /requirements
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14714 39f899a80cb1118431576838cd3f86ead01404ff Fix neptune-client package available detection
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14762 4f9c7793e754545366796e041fe431d1e9e646a2 Fix TensorBoardLogger creating redundant experiment when finalizing
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14752 d9be959bc22b9c5fa4c5225370223eca75e27718 fix: keep pre versions
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14750 ced94874b28a0d5206b1a845b9833d7e6b32ea86 Use valid pypi versions for install in assistant
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14744 fbb7177e5f86948773ab05f423b19727183f208d Combine the pip install commands in conda workflow
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14718 57ae32783ab1967549d9f2cabdc01d12cb545f94 update codeowners
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14730 4f88014cc5d19e395d93afcde1f7c53fa0b958ef Docs: fix link to title
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14724 5ff78f0753c6ac030b344fd985cf21ec8dc3b47f Use the setter in the children recursively
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14671 f3736f642a2871b4ee39716b618a6d96fbcdfeb2 Update ipython[all] requirement from <8.4.1 to <8.5.1 in /requirements
https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/14656 bc9dd1fb2a87085bb31f465f2a749515e1858459 Break hpu graphs into two for better performance

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[kaushikb11]

Waiting for #14821 to get in

[awaelchli]

I agree that #14708 is too hard to include and is not worth it. It would be good if you could drop the commit completely instead of having a reverting one. Also not sure why there are merge commits, can they be removed?

Furthermore:

• Needs to update the release date in changelog title
• Package version bump in __version__.py

Otherwise LGTM.

[awaelchli]

If there's still room, I can cherry pick #14822.

[carmocca]

@awaelchli I addressed your comments but did not cherry-pick #14822. It would need to be completely re-done for this branch as the original targets the new lite code.