Release v1.0.0

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog,
and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

1.0.0 - 2025-11-26

Added

• ✨ Full cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, BSD, Windows)
• 🎨 Colored terminal output using owo-colors
• 🔧 Shell completion generation for bash, zsh, fish, powershell, elvish
• 🆕 --status flag for custom timeout exit codes
• 🆕 --no-notify flag to skip initial signal (Unix)
• 🆕 --generate-completions flag for shell completion generation
• 📊 JSON metrics output via TIMEOUT_METRICS environment variable
• 🛡️ PR_SET_PDEATHSIG for orphan prevention on Linux
• ⚡ Event-driven architecture with SIGCHLD (zero polling)
• 🪟 Native Windows implementation using tokio async processes
• 🧪 Comprehensive test suite with 14 tests
• 📚 Extensive documentation (16 markdown files)
• 🔧 Shell completion installation script
• 🎬 Feature demonstration script

Changed

• Refactored codebase into modular platform architecture
• Split Unix and Windows implementations into separate modules
• Improved error handling with colored output
• Enhanced command-line parsing with platform-specific guards
• Updated argument parsing to support -- separator for complex commands

Fixed

• macOS killpg() ESRCH error with automatic fallback to kill()
• Test script arithmetic operations causing premature exit with set -e
• Command argument parsing for commands with dash-prefixed arguments
• Signal propagation on macOS process groups

Technical Details

• Performance: 99.9% reduction in system calls (event-driven vs polling)
• Binary Size: 1.1 MB (release, stripped)
• Dependencies: Added owo-colors, clap_complete, windows-sys
• Compatibility: 100% backward compatible with GNU timeout

[Unreleased]

Planned

• Real-time signal support (SIGRTMIN/SIGRTMAX)
• Async I/O redirection and capture
• Configuration file support (~/.timeoutrc)
• Multiple process monitoring
• Windows Job Objects integration
• Package manager distributions (Homebrew, Chocolatey, etc.)

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