- Removed legacy Alembic migration files and consolidated schema management into a new Pydantic-backed initializer (`scripts/init_db.py`).
- Updated `main.py` to ensure the new DB initializer runs on startup, maintaining idempotency.
- Adjusted session management in `config/database.py` to prevent DetachedInstanceError.
- Introduced new enums in `models/enums.py` for better organization and clarity.
- Refactored various models to utilize the new enums, improving code maintainability.
- Enhanced middleware to handle JSON validation more robustly, ensuring non-JSON requests do not trigger JSON errors.
- Added tests for middleware and enums to ensure expected behavior and consistency.
- Updated changelog to reflect significant changes and improvements.
