v5.5.0

• fix(#1017): permissive CORS on the photon/nominatim/libpostal drop-in servers (#1018) (bbdf3d8)
• eval(#655): org-cross-GBT sweep — 33 vs FS 27 links, no collapse; + the candidate-verdict wiring the harness lacked (#1013) (28e7d3f)
• feat(#655): the ORG-level cross-source scorer — CCN-joined POS↔Care-Compare labels, held-out 98.5% recall @ ≥95% precision (#1008) (2b423eb)
• fix(#1002): locale-unknown abbreviation expansion in the geocode Stage-1 — Bd du Palais holds the rooftop (#1007) (8ddda65)
• Input robustness: concepts article + metamorphic abbrev/typo/transpose/number-spell perturbations (#1003) (f9565a4)
• feat(#625): the roll-up-signature GBT features — org-name F1 69.0→77.2, over-merge 21→14 (#1006) (8a2d77a)
• fix(#259-class): v5.4.0 dev-weights chain — files_md5 + link-dev-weights defaults missed at the promote (#1005) (efe54ea)
• fix(#259-class): v5.4.0 dev-weights chain — files_md5 + link-dev-weights defaults missed at the promote (#1004) (ddf55a7)
• docs(#625): adjudicate the 21 over-merged clusters — 14 same / 7 distinct; the roll-up signature (#1001) (5b6c87e)
• feat(#655): the cross-source link scorer — trained on NPI-joined NPPES↔Open Payments pairs + case study (#1000) (723f6da)
• feat(#625): --dump-overmerges adjudication packet (21 clusters, TX-300) (#999) (7fbc488)
• feat(#625): exactDiscriminators (code-set overlap) + the A5 taxonomy leg — measured NEUTRAL, recorded (#998) (6ced502)
• chore(#481): name the span-proposer 0.55 — AMBIGUOUS_PROPOSAL_CONFIDENCE (item 7, the bundle's last sliver) (#995) (683e85d)
• format (aa85225)
• docs(concepts): Cartes comparison note — the map apps built on geocoders (298accb)
• feat(#244): AU joins the coarse placer (29-class retrain) + the hard-country safelist — AU 32%→51% ok (#993) (cded427)
• feat(#977): NL PC6 shard + the PC6-over-locality granularity rule — "1012 LG" resolves to its street block (#992) (70eab51)
• feat(#928): IE Eircode — postcode-repair pattern + format-prior entry (IE 17%→68%) (#991) (f7748dd)
• feat(#928): PROMOTE postcodeCountryPrior default-ON + GB/CA on the hard-country safelist (#990) (fd4d459)
• docs(evals): night 34 postmortem (2026-07-05) — levers-not-retrains, $0 Modal (#989) (a392847)
• feat(#928): extend postcodeCountryPrior to CA — placer conflates CA→US/FR too (CA 42%→67%) (#988) (8fa5e47)
• feat(#928): postcodeCountryPrior — a distinctive postcode FORMAT overrides the placer's GB/US conflation (#987) (9598624)
• feat(#985): --hard-country-safelist gate flag — measure a safelist expansion without editing the const (#986) (8be3622)
• feat(#937): the first HU coordinate panel (n=1000) via the OSM→golden builder (#984) (598c46e)
• feat(#937): OSM→golden coordinate-panel builder + the first GB panel (n=1000) (#983) (66e32bc)
• feat(normalize): trim trailing sentence-punctuation noise — clears the last metamorphic xfail (#982) (90b213b)
• feat(#829): lowercase input normalizer — the mirror of #690's all-caps hook (#980) (5b6b3b4)
• test(#963): add the NL postcode case to the production demo smoke — guards the v5.4.0 #924 fix (#979) (8d85123)
• fix(#965): thread production hard-country scoping into fr-admin-split-gate (opt-in --hard-country) (#978) (27119c4)
• docs(v5.4.0): releases matrix + capability row — the #924 NL postcode fix (#976) (52703b0)