Release 50.1.0

[timsaucer]

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.

There is a user request to back port some features from main into release 50 so they are available before the next release in November. This issue is to track the status of back porting.

The current plan is to base the release on commit 16d4c03 that comes in from #1269

This would exclude the work underway on using SQL parsing so that it is all released at once instead of a partial solution.

Please comment below if there are additional PRs you think should be included.

[timsaucer]

cc @milenkovicm in case you feel strongly about timing of the SQL parsing features

[milenkovicm]

Would it be possible to get DF.parse_to_sql released in 50.1 we can time others for later ?

[milenkovicm]

I can back port it to 50.1 branch if needed

[timsaucer]

I'll include it. No worries.