31.2.1

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Bug fixes

• curate format-dates: Removed redundant warning messages that were previously displayed when using --failure-reporting "warn". #1816 (@victorlin)
• filter: Improved performance of --output-sequences by using SeqKit internally. #1794 (@victorlin)
• filter: Improved performance when using --sequences without --sequence-index by skipping indexing of --sequences when no sequence-based filters are used. #1827 (@victorlin)
• filter: Fixed a bug that prevented proper checking of duplicates and sequence index mismatches on VCF inputs. #1826 (@victorlin)
• merge: Fixed a performance bug where input sequence file validation unnecessarily loaded file contents into device memory. #1820 (@victorlin)
• refine: Fixed a bug where inferred dates were being wrongly marked as not inferred. #1829 (@victorlin)