- Add release candidate (rc) support to release.sh with latestRC tagging
- Bump VERSION, backend pyproject.toml, and frontend package.json to 0.9.19-rc.1
- Add local frontend/openapi.json so build no longer needs running backend
- Update generate:types and validate-types.sh to use local openapi.json
- Fix frontend tests: remove unused imports/variables and update mock data
