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DisclaimerUnofficial, and not affiliated with Anthropic. Nearly all of this is read straight out of what ships: npm bundles, captured prompts, published docs. Anthropic's own notes go in verbatim, marked as theirs. The rest is my reading, and every entry carries the strings behind it. If one looks wrong, vote it down and say why.

An unofficial changelog

Claude Code ships every few days.Most of what changes is never written down.

Every published build is pulled off npm within minutes, unpacked, and diffed against the one before it at the syntax-tree level. Anything the bundle can back up gets an entry, and the strings it came from go with it. Anthropic's own notes for the same build usually run to a few bullets.

478Builds read end to end
15Entries in the latest read
1Of those, read as off
799Read as switched off, every build

How often it ships

478 builds · 25 a month on average

Every published version, counted into the month npm dated it. The line across is the average, 25 a month, and the tallest month had 35.

478 releases across 19 months, 2025-02-25 to 2026-08-27.

25 a month on average, 35 in the busiest.

The ledger

last 30 builds · 478 read in total

One row per published version, with what turned up in it. marks a release Anthropic never wrote notes for, one where the notes haven't been posted yet.

v2.1.250 Five entries land the reconnection rework for live artifact watches without switching it on. Lease mode, the flag tengu_slate_lantern_ember, defaults to off, so a stock build… 1 off 9 new 1 fixed v2.1.248 A weekly one-shot reset for the five-hour session limit is built but dark: it appears as a hidden /limit-reset command and a menu row only when the server-supplied config… 107 off 720 new 28 fixed v2.1.247 Several features are compiled into this build but cannot be reached yet, and 58 entries fall into that group. A new system-prompt block named willow_tern would tell the model to… 32 off 210 new 30 fixed v2.1.246 This build carries 68 gated or half-landed items, and a dozen are worth naming. Cloud sessions can seed from a plain folder by bundling it in-process, but the step is skipped… 46 off 315 new 38 fixed v2.1.245 Both of this release's visible changes sit around /autofix-pr, the command that watches your current pull request and fixes problems it finds, and neither is switched on. The… 2 off 1 new 0 fixed v2.1.243 This build carries the scaffolding for language-server support, but nothing in it turns that support on. There is a manager with start, restart and shutdown entry points, and none… 1 off 2 new 0 fixed v2.1.242 Several of the 99 unreleased entries center on plugin hook modules written in JavaScript: a plugin's hooks/hooks.json can name a module that registers hooks in code and talks to… 65 off 279 new 19 fixed v2.1.241 Claude Code now sends the VS Code extension a map of experiment flags at startup, and that map picks up an entry called tengu_sable_thrush, which tells the IDE whether narration… 1 off 4 new 0 fixed v2.1.240 This build carries seven pieces of unreleased work, most of it about how the model's thinking is shown. The machinery to pick a thinking display mode is present, but the one path… 6 off 3 new 0 fixed v2.1.239 This build carries 64 features that are present but not reachable, most waiting on server-side flags. If you hit the 5-hour usage limit, a hidden /low-priority command could… 44 off 213 new 25 fixed v2.1.238 A large amount of artifact work sits in this build without a way to switch it on. The verify action, which lets Claude read console output, uncaught errors and failed resource… 31 off 192 new 25 fixed v2.1.237 This build carries six pieces of a system for letting a session receive events pushed in from outside, none of them switched on. A new Poll tool drains queued harness events and… 4 off 10 new 0 fixed v2.1.236 Thirty-nine entries are in this build but not switched on. A startup tip pointing at a /design command for UI mockups needs both an account entitlement and a feature flag that… 32 off 146 new 15 fixed v2.1.235 A large batch of unreachable work sits in this build, 22 entries in all. A complete "account on hold" sign-in path exists, covering login, setup tokens, API retries and token… 13 off 98 new 11 fixed v2.1.234 A large amount of unfinished work sits in this build without a way to reach it, 50 entries in all. Groundwork for a Slack tagging integration is wired through session state… 45 off 244 new 34 fixed v2.1.233 Thirty-nine entries sit in this build without being switched on. Todo tools are now decided per model, and for opus 4/8, sonnet 5, fable 5 and mythos 5 they are off unless you set… 27 off 126 new 12 fixed v2.1.232 Sixty-eight entries in this build are present but not switched on, most of them clustered around cross-session messaging. @-mentioning another Claude session, the @-mention… 43 off 304 new 32 fixed v2.1.231 2 new 0 fixed v2.1.229 Thirty-nine entries are present but not switched on. A large /design skill drafts multi-artboard canvases published as an editable Artifact, but it needs the… 31 off 147 new 20 fixed v2.1.228 Thirty-nine entries are in this build without being reachable. A diff panel lives inside the REPL, with a file list, a noise filter and an "Ask about selection" action, and… 29 off 152 new 52 fixed v2.1.227 A large amount of cloud-session machinery landed switched off. A device_bash tool would let a session running in the cloud execute shell commands on your machine inside its OS… 51 off 254 new 42 fixed v2.1.226 Claude Code v2.1.226 is a maintenance release. The only change in this build is the version bump itself, from 2.1.225 to 2.1.226. There are no new features, bug fixes, or behavior… 1 new 0 fixed v2.1.225 A device bridge that registers this machine with claude.ai over WebSocket, exposing an MCP server for remote tools, is present but stays off unless the remote gate turns on, and… 18 off 114 new 17 fixed v2.1.224 A large amount of unreachable groundwork sits in this build, 59 entries in all. Cross-session messaging is the bulk of it: a ListAgents tool (alias ListPeers), a startup inbox… 48 off 254 new 39 fixed v2.1.223 Thirty-two entries in this build are present but not switched on. Two read-only tools, memory_list and memory_read, would let Claude browse documents in connected org and project… 24 off 141 new 30 fixed v2.1.222 Fourteen features sit in this build without being switched on. A predicate that would let destructive MCP tools run under remote auto mode is present but disabled, still routing… 13 off 89 new 19 fixed v2.1.221 A large amount of artifact comment machinery sits in this build without a way to reach it: the artifact tool has new comments and reply actions, a subsystem that reads and… 49 off 208 new 37 fixed v2.1.220 A retry path that would drop the classifier beta after an HTTP 400 and a successful bare retry is present in the build but inert: it keys off a beta constant that is null in both… 1 off 8 new 0 fixed v2.1.219 Thirty-nine entries in this build are present but not switched on. Plan mode can carry an interactive workshop page whose choices feed back into the session through a… 35 off 106 new 19 fixed v2.1.218 Version 2.1.218 is a large infrastructure and capability release. The most visible addition is a new whiteboard bundled skill that lets users sketch freehand architecture… 19 new 5 fixed

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