notes/2.0.0/client-boot-timeout.md

### Fixes

- Don't hang forever when a forked sbt server never writes its portfile. The thin client now bounds the connect wait to 5 minutes (tunable with the `SBT_CLIENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT` environment variable, in seconds), then fails with a "did not start within N seconds" message followed by the server's captured stderr. Previously the wait was unbounded, and on Windows it ignored process death entirely. Addresses [#9484](https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/9484).
[2.x] fix: Bound the client boot wait when the forked server never starts (#9549 ) 2026-08-04 15:59:48 -04:00			`### Fixes`

			- Don't hang forever when a forked sbt server never writes its portfile. The thin client now bounds the connect wait to 5 minutes (tunable with the `SBT_CLIENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT` environment variable, in seconds), then fails with a "did not start within N seconds" message followed by the server's captured stderr. Previously the wait was unbounded, and on Windows it ignored process death entirely. Addresses [#9484](https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/9484).