Add JitteredCronTimetable for deterministic schedule jitter

[Pebble32]

Add JitteredCronTimetable, an opt-in CronTriggerTimetable subclass that shifts each DAG's fire time by a deterministic, per-DAG offset drawn from [0, max_jitter). This spreads out DAGs that share a cron expression so they no longer all fire at the same instant, without changing logical_date / data_interval semantics.

Why

@daily expands to 0 0 * * *, so every daily DAG in a deployment is scheduled at exactly midnight. In large deployments this "thundering herd" at the cron boundary overloads the scheduler and workers — enough to cause task failures when dozens of DAGs are born at the same instant.

The existing ways to deal with this don't actually de-collide the schedule:

Existing option	Why it doesn't solve the problem
Hand-pick a unique minute per DAG	Manual, doesn't scale, drifts and re-collides as DAG count grows, and throws away the @daily intent
Hash the DAG id into a literal cron string	Same loss of intent; not reusable across DAGs/teams; every author re-implements it ad hoc
Pools / concurrency limits (parallelism, max_active_tasks_per_dag, pool slots)	These limit or queue execution — the runs are still scheduled at the same instant. They cap contention downstream but never spread the fire times apart at the source.

JitteredCronTimetable is the only approach that moves the fire times themselves, deterministically: the same seed (e.g. the DAG id) always maps to the same offset, so runs stay stable and predictable across scheduler restarts and timetable serialization. Motivated by the discussion in #69027.

What

• New JitteredCronTimetable(CronTriggerTimetable) in both the Task SDK (author-facing, attrs-based) and airflow-core (scheduler-side), plus the serialization wiring (BUILTIN_TIMETABLES mapping, serialize/deserialize, encode/decode across the SDK↔core boundary).
• Two extra kw-only params on top of CronTriggerTimetable: seed: str and max_jitter: timedelta.
• The offset is md5(seed) % max_jitter.total_seconds(), applied as a "strip → cron → apply" coordinate shift so cron/DST alignment is fully delegated to the parent and only the wall-clock fire time is shifted.
• Fully opt-in and safe by default: with the defaults (seed="", max_jitter=timedelta(0)) the offset is zero and it behaves identically to CronTriggerTimetable. Nothing changes for anyone who doesn't use it.

Tests

airflow-core/tests/unit/timetables/test_jittered_cron_timetable.py, modeled on the existing test_trigger_timetable.py:

• jittered runs equal base cron runs shifted by the fixed offset, across a catchup sequence including a DST spring-forward (America/New_York);
• zero max_jitter reproduces CronTriggerTimetable exactly (catchup on/off);
• offsets are deterministic for a given seed, bounded to [0, max_jitter), and spread across distinct seeds;
• serialize/deserialize round-trips seed + window + derived offset;
• full encode → decode round-trip across the SDK/core layers rebuilds the core class.

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related: #69027

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[kaxil]

The guard is max_jitter > timedelta(0) but the divisor is int(max_jitter.total_seconds()), so any 0 < max_jitter < 1s passes the guard and then hits modulo by zero. max_jitter=timedelta(milliseconds=500) raises ZeroDivisionError here at construction. The int() also silently drops sub-second precision, so timedelta(seconds=1.5) truncates to a 1s window and the offset can never exceed it. Flooring the guard at 1s, or dropping the int() truncation, closes both.

[kaxil]

hashlib.md5(seed.encode()) called directly raises on FIPS-enabled Python builds. The hash here isn't security-sensitive, so airflow.utils.hashlib_wrapper.md5 (which passes usedforsecurity=False) keeps it working on FIPS, the same way serialized_dag.py and dagcode.py already do. This runs scheduler-side on every deserialize, so on a FIPS build every DAG using this timetable would fail to load.

[kaxil]

"Only the wall-clock fire time is shifted" reads as if logical_date stays pinned to the cron boundary, but it doesn't. With the default interval=0, next_dagrun_info returns DagRunInfo.interval(next_start_time, next_start_time) where next_start_time is the jittered time, so logical_date (= data_interval.start) moves by the offset too. The max_jitter caveat further down ("the shift cannot push a run's logical_date across a day or period boundary") already assumes this, so the two statements contradict each other. Worth rewording to say the offset shifts logical_date/data_interval as well, or deciding whether logical_date should stay pinned to the boundary.

[kaxil]

With seed defaulting to "", a user who sets max_jitter but forgets seed gets the same md5("") offset for every DAG, so they all fire at the same shifted instant -- the herd just moves off the cron boundary instead of spreading out, silently defeating the point of the feature. The no-op default only makes sense when max_jitter=0 too. Could this raise (or warn) when max_jitter > 0 and seed == ""? Note the core __init__ already makes seed required, so the two classes disagree on this today.