release v0.50.0-rc1

CHANGELOG.md

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+## v0.50.0 (Unreleased 2025-02-03)
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+BREAKING CHANGE
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+Watchman has undergone a complete overhaul of it's API endpoints, public models, search methodology, performance, and much more. We've redesigned Watchman to offer a unified endpoint and models to search sanctioned entities from any supported list. We encourage you to try out the new Watchman and report back any issues, comments, concerns you have.
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+IMPROVEMENTS
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+- search: unified endpoint and model for all supported lists
+- search: better performance for concurrently processing sanction lists
+- search: integrate [libpostal](https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal) for address parsing and normalization
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 ## v0.31.3 (Released 2025-01-13)
 
 IMPROVEMENTS