v1.0.0-rc.16

If Stim is not installed globally, replace stim below with npx stim-cli.

New

• stim doctor reports the running CLI version, the first stim executable resolved from PATH, and every distinct Stim installation found on PATH. It flags the setup when the resolved executable is older than the CLI currently running. (0070bae)

Fixes

• The benchmark harness accepts ABI-scoped Android APK cache keys when validating a native-change run. (93bfeb1)
• Benchmark run guards reject the wrong Stim version inside the timed shell, enforce inactivity and hard timeouts across process trees, and preserve failures hidden inside shell chains. (e3410c2)

Docs

• The release guide defines an explicitly authorized expedited lane for release candidates, including the checks it may omit and the package, CI, tagging, and publishing safeguards it must retain. (5da0e95)

QA

Expedited RC authorized on 2026-09-05. Omitted locally before the version commit: format:check, lint, typecheck, knip, unit tests, test:e2e, test:runtime, and the pre-tag native/manual matrix. Retained before the version commit: candidate build, CLI version/help/guide, and tarball inspection. Retained after push: exact-release-commit CI, including its format, lint, build, typecheck, knip, unit, cross-platform e2e, and published-runtime jobs.