v2.1.97
Claude CodeSummary
This release introduces significant enhancements to the NO_FLICKER mode, including a new focus view toggle and numerous stability fixes for terminal rendering and input handling. Several critical bugs related to permissions, configuration persistence, and API retries have been resolved, alongside improvements to image token usage and CJK input handling for slash commands.
New Features
- Added focus view toggle (Ctrl+O) in NO_FLICKER mode showing prompt, one-line tool summary with edit diffstats, and final response
- Added refreshInterval status line setting to re-run the status line command every N seconds
- Added workspace.git_worktree to the status line JSON input, set when the current directory is inside a linked git worktree
- Added ● N running indicator in /agents next to agent types with live subagent instances
- Added syntax highlighting for Cedar policy files (.cedar, .cedarpolicy)
- Updated /claude-api skill to cover Managed Agents alongside the Claude API
Bug Fixes
- Fixed --dangerously-skip-permissions being silently downgraded to accept-edits mode after approving a write to a protected path
- Fixed and hardened Bash tool permissions, tightening checks around env-var prefixes and network redirects, and reducing false prompts on common commands
- Fixed permission rules with names matching JavaScript prototype properties (e.g. toString) causing settings.json to be silently ignored
- Fixed managed-settings allow rules remaining active after an admin removed them until process restart
- Fixed permissions.additionalDirectories changes in settings not applying mid-session
- Fixed removing a directory from settings.permissions.additionalDirectories revoking access to the same directory passed via --add-dir
- Fixed MCP HTTP/SSE connections accumulating ~50 MB/hr of unreleased buffers when servers reconnect
- Fixed MCP OAuth oauth.authServerMetadataUrl not being honored on token refresh after restart, fixing ADFS and similar IdPs
- Fixed 429 retries burning all attempts in ~13 seconds when the server returns a small Retry-After — exponential backoff now applies as a minimum
- Fixed rate-limit upgrade options disappearing after context compaction
- Fixed several /resume picker issues: --resume <name> opening uneditable, Ctrl+A reload wiping search, empty list swallowing navigation, task-status text replacing conversation summary, and cross-project staleness
- Fixed file-edit diffs disappearing on --resume when the edited file was larger than 10KB
- Fixed --resume cache misses and lost mid-turn input from attachment messages not being saved to the transcript
- Fixed messages typed while Claude is working not being persisted to the transcript
- Fixed prompt-type Stop/SubagentStop hooks failing on long sessions, and hook evaluator API errors displaying "JSON validation failed" instead of the actual message
- Fixed subagents with worktree isolation or cwd: override leaking their working directory back to the parent session's Bash tool
- Fixed compaction writing duplicate multi-MB subagent transcript files on prompt-too-long retries
- Fixed claude plugin update reporting "already at the latest version" for git-based marketplace plugins when the remote had newer commits
- Fixed slash command picker breaking when a plugin's frontmatter name is a YAML boolean keyword
- Fixed copying wrapped URLs in NO_FLICKER mode inserting spaces at line breaks
- Fixed scroll rendering artifacts in NO_FLICKER mode when running inside zellij
- Fixed a crash in NO_FLICKER mode when hovering over MCP tool results
- Fixed a NO_FLICKER mode memory leak where API retries left stale streaming state
- Fixed slow mouse-wheel scrolling in NO_FLICKER mode on Windows Terminal
- Fixed custom status line not displaying in NO_FLICKER mode on terminals shorter than 24 rows
- Fixed Shift+Enter and Alt/Cmd+arrow shortcuts not working in Warp with NO_FLICKER mode
- Fixed Korean/Japanese/Unicode text becoming garbled when copied in no-flicker mode on Windows
- Fixed Bedrock SigV4 authentication failing when AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK or ANTHROPIC_BEDROCK_BASE_URL are set to empty strings (as GitHub Actions does for unset inputs)
Improvements
- Improved Accept Edits mode to auto-approve filesystem commands prefixed with safe env vars or process wrappers (e.g. LANG=C rm foo, timeout 5 mkdir out)
- Improved auto mode and bypass-permissions mode to auto-approve sandbox network access prompts
- Improved sandbox: sandbox.network.allowMachLookup now takes effect on macOS
- Improved image handling: pasted and attached images are now compressed to the same token budget as images read via the Read tool
- Improved slash command and @-mention completion to trigger after CJK sentence punctuation, so Japanese/Chinese input no longer requires a space before / or @
- Improved Bridge sessions to show the local git repo, branch, and working directory on the claude.ai session card
- Improved footer layout: indicators (Focus, notifications) now stay on the mode-indicator row instead of wrapping below
- Improved context-low warning to show as a transient footer notification instead of a persistent row
- Improved markdown blockquotes to show a continuous left bar across wrapped lines
- Improved session transcript size by skipping empty hook entries and capping stored pre-edit file copies
- Improved transcript accuracy: per-block entries now carry the final token usage instead of the streaming placeholder
- Improved Bash tool OTEL tracing: subprocesses now inherit a W3C TRACEPARENT env var when tracing is enabled