node-cron

Added

• Add cron.shutdown(timeout?) for graceful process teardown

• Add unref option for heartbeat timers

• day-of-month: Quartz-style W, L-n and ? modifiers

• Emit task:failed when a background daemon exits unexpectedly

• Support cron expression nicknames (@yearly, @daily, etc.)

Fixed

• Background task state transition on stop/destroy without fork

• Clear jitter timeout on runner stop

• CommonJS type resolution

• Correct falied->failed typo in daemon task error log

• Correct shutdown listener typing that broke the build

• Correlate execute() by id, isolate event hooks, and stop counting manual runs toward maxExecutions

• Daemon serialized task state with wrong field name

• Expand inverted ranges with wrap-around instead of silently swapping

• Harden cron.shutdown() teardown

• Kill orphan child process on background task stop/destroy timeout

• Make concurrent background start() await the daemon and time out coordinator lookups

• Make lifecycle calls on a destroyed task safe no-ops

• Prevent double destroy on registry remove

• release-please: match existing v-prefixed tags

• Runner promise bugs that could hang scheduling or crash process

• Unref the IPC channel so background tasks let the process exit

• Validate the cron expression when scheduling a task

• validate() consistency and multi-asterisk expansion

• Weekday 7-to-0 conversion corrupting ranges

Changed

• Replace chai and sinon with native vitest assertions