claude-code-ultimate-guide-mcp 1.0.4 → 1.2.0

package/content/claude-code-releases.yaml

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Purpose: Track Claude Code product releases for documentation sync
 # Maintained: Manual updates when new releases are announced
 
-latest: "2.1.59"
-updated: "2026-02-26"
+latest: "2.1.85"
+updated: "2026-03-27"
 
 # ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
 # RELEASES (newest first, condensed highlights only)
@@ -12,9 +12,216 @@ updated: "2026-02-26"
 releases:
 
   # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  # 2.1.x Series (January-February 2026)
+  # 2.1.x Series (January-March 2026)
   # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
+  - version: "2.1.85"
+    date: "2026-03-27"
+    highlights:
+      - "Conditional `if` field for hooks — filter when hooks run using permission rule syntax (e.g. `Bash(git *)`) to reduce process spawning overhead"
+      - "CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVER_NAME and CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVER_URL env vars for headersHelper scripts — one helper can serve multiple MCP servers"
+      - "PreToolUse hooks can now satisfy AskUserQuestion by returning updatedInput + permissionDecision: allow (headless integrations)"
+      - "Fixed /compact failing with 'context exceeded' on very large conversations; fixed deniedMcpServers not blocking claude.ai MCP servers"
+      - "Improved scroll performance replacing WASM yoga-layout with pure TypeScript; fixed terminal left in enhanced keyboard mode after exit"
+
+  - version: "2.1.84"
+    date: "2026-03-26"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ PowerShell tool for Windows (opt-in preview) — direct PowerShell access alongside Bash tool"
+      - "TaskCreated hook fires when a task is created via TaskCreate; WorktreeCreate hook supports type: 'http'"
+      - "Global system-prompt caching now works when ToolSearch is enabled (better cache hit rates for MCP users)"
+      - "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_{OPUS,SONNET,HAIKU}_MODEL_SUPPORTS env vars to override effort/thinking detection for 3p providers"
+      - "allowedChannelPlugins managed setting; idle-return prompt after 75+ min suggesting /clear"
+      - "Fixed startup perf on partial clone repos (Scalar/GVFS); Fixed spurious 'Not logged in' errors on macOS keychain"
+
+  - version: "2.1.83"
+    date: "2026-03-25"
+    highlights:
+      - "managed-settings.d/ drop-in directory — separate teams can deploy independent policy fragments that merge alphabetically"
+      - "CwdChanged and FileChanged hook events for reactive environment management (direnv, auto-toolchain switching)"
+      - "Transcript search — press / in transcript mode (Ctrl+O) to search, n/N to step through matches"
+      - "CLAUDE_CODE_SUBPROCESS_ENV_SCRUB=1 strips Anthropic and cloud provider credentials from subprocess environments"
+      - "Security: Fixed --mcp-config CLI flag bypassing allowedMcpServers/deniedMcpServers managed policy"
+      - "Fixed macOS exit hang; fixed screen flashing blank when idle; added sandbox.failIfUnavailable setting"
+
+  - version: "2.1.81"
+    date: "2026-03-22"
+    highlights:
+      - "--bare flag for scripted -p calls — skips hooks, LSP, plugin sync, skill walks (requires API key; no OAuth)"
+      - "--channels permission relay — channel servers can forward tool approval prompts to your phone"
+      - "Resuming a worktree session now switches back to that worktree automatically"
+      - "MCP read/search tool calls collapse into 'Queried {server}' line (expand with Ctrl+O)"
+      - "Plan mode hides 'clear context' option by default (restore with showClearContextOnPlanAccept: true)"
+      - "Fixed concurrent sessions repeatedly re-authenticating when one session refreshes OAuth token"
+
+  - version: "2.1.80"
+    date: "2026-03-20"
+    highlights:
+      - "rate_limits field in statusline scripts for displaying Claude.ai rate limit usage (5h and 7d windows)"
+      - "source: 'settings' plugin marketplace — declare plugin entries inline in settings.json"
+      - "effort frontmatter for skills/slash commands to override effort level on invocation"
+      - "--channels research preview — allow MCP servers to push messages into your session"
+      - "Fixed --resume dropping parallel tool results (all tool_use/tool_result pairs now restored)"
+      - "~80MB memory reduction on startup for large repositories (250k-file repos)"
+
+  - version: "2.1.79"
+    date: "2026-03-19"
+    highlights:
+      - "--console flag for claude auth login (Anthropic Console / API billing authentication)"
+      - "Show turn duration toggle added to /config menu"
+      - "Fixed claude -p hanging when spawned as subprocess without explicit stdin"
+      - "Fixed enterprise users unable to retry on rate limit (429) errors"
+      - "Fixed SessionEnd hooks not firing when using interactive /resume to switch sessions"
+      - "Improved startup memory usage by ~18MB; non-streaming API fallback now has 2-minute timeout"
+
+  - version: "2.1.78"
+    date: "2026-03-18"
+    highlights:
+      - "StopFailure hook event fires when turn ends due to API error (rate limit, auth failure)"
+      - "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA} variable for persistent plugin state that survives plugin updates"
+      - "effort, maxTurns, disallowedTools frontmatter support for plugin-shipped agents"
+      - "Response text now streams line-by-line as generated"
+      - "Security: Fixed silent sandbox disable when sandbox.enabled:true but dependencies missing"
+      - "Fixed deny permission rules not removing MCP server tools before sending to model"
+
+  - version: "2.1.77"
+    date: "2026-03-17"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ Opus 4.6 default max output tokens raised to 64k; upper bound for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 raised to 128k tokens"
+      - "allowRead sandbox filesystem setting to re-allow read access within denyRead regions"
+      - "/copy N to copy Nth-latest assistant response; /branch replaces /fork (alias kept)"
+      - "Fixed PreToolUse hooks returning 'allow' could bypass enterprise deny permission rules — security fix"
+      - "Fixed auto-updater accumulating GBs of memory from overlapping binary downloads (slash-command overlay loop)"
+      - "Fixed --resume silently truncating recent history; Fixed Always Allow on compound bash commands saving dead rules"
+    breaking:
+      - "Agent tool no longer accepts resume parameter — use SendMessage({to: agentId}) to continue a previously spawned agent"
+
+  - version: "2.1.76"
+    date: "2026-03-14"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ MCP elicitation support — servers can request structured input mid-task via interactive dialog (form fields or browser URL)"
+      - "New hooks: Elicitation, ElicitationResult (intercept/override MCP input responses), PostCompact (fires after compaction)"
+      - "-n/--name CLI flag for session display name at startup; worktree.sparsePaths for monorepo sparse checkout"
+      - "/effort slash command to set model effort level; fixed deferred tools (ToolSearch) losing input schemas after compaction"
+      - "Fixed auto-compaction circuit breaker — stops retrying after 3 consecutive failures"
+      - "Fixed Bash(cmd:*) rules not matching when quoted argument contains #; fixed plan mode re-approval after accepted"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.75"
+    date: "2026-03-13"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ 1M context window for Opus 4.6 now default for Max, Team, and Enterprise (no extra usage required)"
+      - "Session name display on prompt bar when using /rename"
+      - "Last-modified timestamps on memory files; hook source displayed in permission prompts"
+      - "Fixed token estimation over-counting for thinking/tool_use blocks (prevented premature compaction)"
+      - "Fixed Bash tool mangling ! in piped commands (e.g. jq 'select(.x != .y)')"
+      - "Improved startup performance on macOS non-MDM machines"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.74"
+    date: "2026-03-12"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ /context command now shows actionable suggestions (context-heavy tools, memory bloat, capacity warnings)"
+      - "⭐ Fixed memory leak in streaming API buffers — unbounded RSS growth on npm path resolved"
+      - "autoMemoryDirectory setting to configure custom directory for auto-memory storage"
+      - "Fixed managed policy ask rules being bypassed by user allow rules or skill allowed-tools"
+      - "Fixed MCP OAuth hanging on callback port conflict; fixed Slack refresh token never re-prompting"
+      - "Fixed SessionEnd hooks killed after 1.5s regardless of hook.timeout (now configurable)"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.73"
+    date: "2026-03-11"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ modelOverrides setting: map model picker entries to custom provider model IDs (Bedrock ARNs etc.)"
+      - "Fixed deadlock when many skill files change at once (e.g. git pull in large .claude/skills/ repo)"
+      - "Fixed subagents with model: opus/sonnet/haiku being downgraded on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry"
+      - "Fixed SessionStart hooks firing twice when resuming via --resume or --continue"
+      - "Changed default Opus model on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry to Opus 4.6 (was 4.1)"
+      - "Deprecated /output-style — use /config instead; output style fixed at session start for prompt caching"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.72"
+    date: "2026-03-09"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ Restored `model` parameter on Agent tool for per-invocation model overrides"
+      - "⭐ Fixed SDK `query()` prompt cache invalidation — up to 12x input token cost reduction"
+      - "CLAUDE.md HTML comments now hidden from Claude when auto-injected; `/plan` accepts optional description"
+      - "Simplified effort levels: low/medium/high (removed max), symbols ○ ◐ ●; `ExitWorktree` tool added"
+      - "Added `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_CRON` env var; `lsof`, `pgrep`, `fd` added to bash auto-approval allowlist"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.71"
+    date: "2026-03-06"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ /loop command: run a prompt or slash command on a recurring interval (e.g. /loop 5m check deploy)"
+      - "⭐ Cron scheduling tools for recurring prompts within a session"
+      - "voice:pushToTalk keybinding now rebindable in keybindings.json (default: space)"
+      - "Fixed stdin freeze in long sessions; 5-8s startup freeze with voice; forked sessions sharing plan files"
+      - "Improved plugin MCP server deduplication; /plugin uninstall now edits settings.local.json"
+      - "Removed startup noise for unauthenticated org-registered claude.ai connectors"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.70"
+    date: "2026-03-06"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ VSCode: spark icon in activity bar listing all sessions; plan markdown view; native MCP management dialog"
+      - "Fixed API 400 errors with third-party gateways (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL) and Bedrock custom inference profiles"
+      - "Fixed empty responses after ToolSearch + prompt-cache bust when MCP server with instructions connects"
+      - "Fixed voice on Windows native binary; clipboard CJK/emoji corruption on Windows/WSL"
+      - "Reduced prompt input re-renders by ~74%; startup memory -426KB; Remote Control poll rate 300× lower"
+      - "Improved /rename works while Claude is processing; /color command can now reset to default"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.69"
+    date: "2026-03-04"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ Security: fixed nested skills loading from node_modules, symlink bypass outside workdir, trust dialog silently enabling all servers, sandbox not blocking non-allowed domains"
+      - "⭐ Hooks: new InstructionsLoaded event (CLAUDE.md/.rules files) + agent_id, agent_type, worktree fields added to all hook events"
+      - "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable for skills to reference their own directory + /reload-plugins command (no restart needed)"
+      - "Voice STT expanded to 20 languages (+10: Russian, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian)"
+      - "15+ memory leak fixes; ~16MB baseline reduction; faster startup (worktree, macOS, MCP); improved MCP binary content (PDFs/Office saved to disk)"
+      - "Sonnet 4.5 users on Pro/Max/Team auto-migrated to Sonnet 4.6"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.68"
+    date: "2026-03-04"
+    highlights:
+      - "Opus 4.6 now defaults to medium effort for Max and Team subscribers"
+      - "Re-introduced 'ultrathink' keyword to enable high effort for the next turn"
+    breaking:
+      - "Opus 4 and Opus 4.1 removed from Claude Code first-party API — auto-migrated to Opus 4.6"
+
+  - version: "2.1.66"
+    date: "2026-03-04"
+    highlights:
+      - "Reduced spurious error logging"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.63"
+    date: "2026-02-27"
+    highlights:
+      - "⭐ HTTP hooks: POST JSON to a URL and receive JSON response (alternative to shell command hooks)"
+      - "⭐ Project configs & auto-memory now shared across all git worktrees of the same repository"
+      - "/simplify and /batch bundled slash commands added"
+      - "`ENABLE_CLAUDEAI_MCP_SERVERS=false` env var to opt out of claude.ai MCP servers"
+      - "/model command now shows currently active model in the picker"
+      - "Major memory leak fixes: WebSocket, MCP caches, git root detection, JSON parsing cache, bash prefix cache, subagent AppState"
+      - "VSCode: remote sessions now appear in conversation history; session rename/remove actions"
+      - "Fixed /clear not resetting cached skills (stale skill content issue)"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.62"
+    date: "2026-02-27"
+    highlights:
+      - "Fixed prompt suggestion cache regression that reduced cache hit rates"
+    breaking: []
+
+  - version: "2.1.61"
+    date: "2026-02-27"
+    highlights:
+      - "Fixed concurrent writes corrupting config file on Windows"
+    breaking: []
+
   - version: "2.1.59"
     date: "2026-02-26"
     highlights:
@@ -676,8 +883,11 @@ breaking_summary:
     - "Heredoc delimiter command smuggling prevention (v2.1.38)"
   installation:
     - "npm installations deprecated - use native installer (v2.1.15)"
+  models:
+    - "Opus 4 and Opus 4.1 removed from Claude Code first-party API — auto-migrated to Opus 4.6 (v2.1.68)"
   behavior:
     - "ultrathink/think keywords now cosmetic only — thinking default with Opus 4.5 (v2.0.67)"
+    - "ultrathink keyword re-introduced — now enables high effort for next turn (v2.1.68)"
   syntax:
     - "Indexed argument syntax changed: $ARGUMENTS.0 → $ARGUMENTS[0] (v2.1.19)"
 
@@ -685,6 +895,10 @@ breaking_summary:
 # MILESTONE FEATURES (quick reference)
 # ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
 milestones:
+  "2.1.78": "StopFailure hook, ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA} persistent state, streaming line-by-line, security: silent sandbox disable fix"
+  "2.1.69": "InstructionsLoaded hook, ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}, 4 security fixes, 15+ memory fixes, Voice STT 20 languages"
+  "2.1.68": "ultrathink re-introduced, Opus 4.6 medium effort default, Opus 4/4.1 removed"
+  "2.1.63": "HTTP hooks, worktree config sharing, /simplify + /batch bundled commands"
   "2.1.36": "Fast mode for Opus 4.6"
   "2.1.32": "Opus 4.6, Agent teams preview, Automatic memory"
   "2.1.18": "Customizable keyboard shortcuts with /keybindings"