You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
MemoryArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.224,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The startup wait for a first memory store pull used to also trigger when org-memory discovery marked stores as pending. That latch and its setter were removed, so the wait now depends only on whether CLAUDE_MEMORY_STORES is set.
Evidence
markDiscoveredStoresPending
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.