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Recent Claude Code releases (v2.1.140–v2.1.142) focus on hardening agents, plugins, and background services with dozens of bug fixes and usability improvements. Highlights include better background-session controls and directory-scoped sessions, more robust daemon startup/reconnect behavior (especially on macOS and Windows), resilient hook and tool handling, and improved plugin UX such as exposing LSP servers and surfacing root-level skills. Security and workflow tweaks add HTTPS plugin cloning, workspace-scoped tokens, and notifications/window-title hooks. Overall, the updates reduce crashes and reconnect loops, refine permission and session prompts, and improve operator and developer experiences running Claude agents, plugins, and daemons.
These releases materially improve reliability and developer/operator experience for teams running Claude Code agents, plugins, and daemons. Reduced crashes, clearer session controls, and better plugin UX lower operational overhead and integration friction.
Dossier last updated: 2026-05-20 14:18:14
Anthropic's claude-code v2.1.145 release adds scripting and agent observability features, plus numerous UX and bug fixes. Key additions include a claude agents --json flag to list live Claude sessions for scripting, agent_id and parent_agent_id attributes in OTEL spans with corrected trace parenting for subagents, and status-line JSON now including GitHub repo/PR info. The plugin Discover/Browse screens now preview commands, agents, skills, hooks and MCP/LSP servers before installation, and the terminal tab shows awaiting-input counts. The update also fixes permission prompt bypasses, validation errors, UI freezes, Windows command-separator behavior, voice push-to-talk, task ordering, marketplace banner staleness, non-ASCII teammate API failures, deprecated GraphQL usage, skill invocation loops, and file-read token-limit handling.
The release v2.1.142 for the claude-code project added new claude agents flags for dispatched background sessions, switched fast mode to Opus 4.7 by default (with an override to pin 4.6), and surfaced plugins with root-level SKILL.md as skills. The update exposes LSP servers in plugin detail views, adds a warning when replacing an existing GitHub App in web-setup, and fixes numerous bugs: MCP timeout handling, worktree recognition, daemon reconnect after macOS sleep, upgrade-time daemon exits, background agent crash loops, link-clicking in attached sessions, editor selection, Windows startup deadlocks, terminal color bleed, permission persistence, session title derivation, duplicate model breadcrumbs, plugin path errors and cache cleanup, install counts, and advisories. It also improves reactive compaction and hook configuration errors and removes a stale model suggestion from policy refusals. These changes matter to developers and operators running claude-code agents, plugins, and daemons by improving stability, plugin UX, and background session control.
Anthropic released claude-code v2.1.141, a patch update adding workspace and UX improvements plus numerous bug fixes. Notable changes include a terminalSequence field for hook JSON to enable desktop notifications and window titles; CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_PREFER_HTTPS to clone plugin sources over HTTPS; ANTHROPIC_WORKSPACE_ID for scoping minted tokens; and claude agents --cwd to scope sessions by directory. UX tweaks include a "Summarize up to here" rewind option, clearer auto-mode permission dialogs, preserved permission mode for background agents, and improved spinner feedback. Dozens of fixes address model fallbacks on cloud gateways, Windows daemon error reporting, session and permission prompt bugs, markdown rendering regressions, keybinding issues, and history handling. These updates matter for developers and operators using Claude tooling and integrations.
Anthropic’s Claude Code repository released v2.1.140 with bug fixes and usability improvements for its agent and background services. The update makes Agent tool subagent_type matching case- and separator-insensitive, refreshes the agent color palette, and fixes a hanging /goal when certain hooks are disabled. It also resolves a hot-reload regression with symlinked settings, prevents background-task connection drops and startup failures on machines with strict endpoint security, and adds a retry for remote managed settings on 401 responses. Other fixes include persistence of marketplace policies, loop scheduling, Windows event-loop stalls when executables are missing, terminal cursor behavior, Read tool validation, and clearer plugin warnings. These changes improve reliability for developers and operators using Claude Code tooling.