make it possible to complete the initialization process from outside the metabase.core namespace and trigger it in our test setup process so that logins work for unit tests again.

add a quick conditional to our current-user-id middleware to ensure it doesn't attempt to validate the session if we haven't initialized the app yet.

update password update api endpoint to always check the current password when a user is updating their own account.

updating versioning stuff so that we have individualized pieces of information which allows us to do different formatting in various places where needed.