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5.0.0 (2026-06-22)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• rename distributedTtl option to distributedLease (#551)

Added

• add cron.parse and cron.validateDetailed (#548) (cbe36bc)
• add lastRun() introspection getter (#557) (5d858ca)
• added bree to readme (94c139f)
• added bree to readme (bee9aa0)
• added jitter to the tasks (e82975c)
• added maxExecutions option (07c4510)
• added maxRandomDelay to the tasks (0559ad9)
• added Options (259c6f0)
• blocking io detection (27563da)
• configurable executeTimeout for background tasks (default: no timeout) (5f46889)
• configurable executeTimeout for background tasks (default: no timeout) (65aee63)
• configurable logger + opt-out of the missed-execution warning (1e3d420)
• configurable logger + opt-out of the missed-execution warning (14a5dd7)
• day-of-month: Quartz-style W, L-n and ? modifiers (#570) (cbe379b)
• distributed run coordination (one instance per fire across a fleet) (#549) (2ba12f1)
• getNext added on task (7981164)
• run task on demand or on init (3792abb)
• support L (last day of month) in the day-of-month field (#396) (1ab9abc)
• support extended day-of-week tokens (# nth weekday and L last weekday) (#560) (c2db9d1)
• task introspection (getNextRuns, match, msToNext, isBusy, runsLeft, getPattern) (#547) (394e57e)
• testing background task (8450a1a)
• using async await and checking features, looking okay (8b8f5eb)

Fixed

• add uuid dependency (f370a0d)
• add uuid dependency (5d715f1)
• background task resolution path (57a7b74)
• badges (111e803)
• build (e3662e7)
• build cjs and esm (530fecc)
• chai import (a12e1ee)
• change getStatus() return type to string (c1dae18)
• change getStatus() return type to string (b8b6446)
• cleanup execution:finished listener when execute() fails (2c5141f)
• cleanup execution:finished listener when execute() fails (fcab4de)
• create id function making it compatible with old node version li… (ea019c7)
• create id function making it compatible with old node version like node 16 (29d96b5)
• crypto import (16d3a9b)
• date parsed to 24:00 (5bed625)
• destroy (a8d51ea)
• destroy (3788243)
• fixed interop of ESM and CJS on Windows (50bfc82)
• fixed task import on Windows (7821a27)
• get next match (c76f95e)
• get next match (c76f95e)
• get next match (e5d9cdd)
• get next run (fbd6826)
• getNextMatch returns past dates near DST boundaries (d789934)
• getNextMatch() returns past dates near DST boundaries (657497d)
• getNextMatch() returns past dates near DST boundaries (5fa3232)
• gmt on node 16 (b3988ef)
• handle GMT+0 as Z in getTimezoneGMT and fix EventEmitter ESM import (f989527)
• import EventEmitter as a named import in the inline task (d846506)
• import EventEmitter as a named import in the inline task (59316b9)
• invalid value separator (0c6b8f9)
• invalid value separator (2319e04)
• isDayWildcard (a898e9e)
• lint (386cb1a)
• make test command compatible with windows shell (31b5070)
• make test command compatible with windows shell (c5ea4b3)
• matching with timezone (33ad7a3)
• overlap (81053ea)
• overlap (340eb12)
• range with step (f9751b3)
• removing timeZoneName from localized time (7ffaf13)
• removing useless Object.asign (fde1746)
• require (bc3d96b)
• resolve getNextMatch returning past dates near DST boundaries (d175f12)
• set max delay (1c86d20)
• stop (9453ded)
• stop (4523664)
• surface real background task start errors and stop orphaned daemons (#535) (da270d2)
• sync package-lock.json version with package.json (4.2.1) (d84e060)
• sync package-lock.json version with package.json (4.2.1) (b806688)
• tests (3452cfc)
• tolerate late heartbeats so drifting timers don't skip executions (#534) (e519d6c)
• uuid (a2c5851)

Performance

• build: bundle dist into flat files instead of preserving modules (#566) (c80a396)
• id: drop crypto.randomBytes from internal id generation (#564) (7c5015c)
• pattern: parse cron expression once per TimeMatcher (#562) (dd0a2a9)
• runner: run inline when no random delay is configured (#565) (dad56e1)
• time: cache Intl.DateTimeFormat instances per timezone (#561) (cf69f32)
• time: compute the GMT offset lazily (#563) (a309d5f)

Changed

• build with Rollup (ESM + CJS + dts) and migrate tests to Vitest (d51701c)
• build with Rollup (ESM + CJS + dts) and migrate tests to Vitest (9d9cc38)
• drop the now-dead LocalizedTime.set and cover localTimeToTimestamp (ec785ae)
• hoist field sorting, widen search bound, add edge-case tests (8c7eb05)
• name the time-of-day bound check and drop the dead expressions field (9bbf599)
• rename distributedTtl option to distributedLease (#551) (23c7849)
• rewrite matcher-walker to infer next run from cron fields (58cabac)
• rewrite matcher-walker to infer the next run from cron fields (74874cd)
• src#node-cron: apply optimizations (72ff630)
• src#node-cron: apply optimizations (f0cbe3b)
• time-matcher: use intl date format instead of moment (5f278cb)
• use intl.DateTimeFormat instead of moment-timezone (422fb05)

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