v0.12.0-rc.1

What's Changed

• fix(bench): tolerate CRLF-ified patch payloads and pin byte-exact checkouts by @jleni in #571
• fix(remote): enforce max_bytes when Content-Length is unavailable by @Ysh204 in #547
• fix(config): expand bare "~" in shellexpand by @Ysh204 in #545
• Update ammonia to 4.1.4 (RUSTSEC-2026-0213) and drop a stale advisory ignore by @jleni in #574
• Add [cache] storage_layout_advice to mute copy-restore layout advisories by @jleni in #573
• ci(package-publish): trigger Scoop bucket autoupdate on release by @emmanuelm41 in #576
• docs: add Scoop (Windows) install instructions by @emmanuelm41 in #575
• ci(package-publish): publish kache to Chocolatey on release by @emmanuelm41 in #577
• docs: add Chocolatey (Windows) install instructions by @emmanuelm41 in #578
• ci(aur): publish official kache-bin to the AUR by @emmanuelm41 in #579
• fix(wrapper): avoid following symlinks for warning marker files by @Ysh204 in #546
• feat(daemon): prefetch P0.5 measurement closure (#583) by @jleni in #584
• In-flight build observability: heartbeat, ETA, stuck detection, miss diagnostics, monitor panel by @jleni in #585
• feat(daemon): experimental daemon-assisted local hits (#565 milestone 1) by @jleni in #587
• Never gate daemon startup on tmutil addexclusion by @jleni in #589
• perf(local-hit): never wait to fill a pin batch by @jleni in #591
• feat: add OpenDAL S3 and filesystem remotes by @jleni in #593
• refactor(gc): decouple eviction selection from removal mechanism by @jleni in #596
• chore(nix): drop flake-utils input by @meskill in #597
• feat(gc): index compile_time_ms so eviction can see rebuild cost by @jleni in #598

New Contributors

• @meskill made their first contribution in #597

Full Changelog: v0.11.0...v0.12.0-rc.1