Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.226,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The build-constant stamp is rewritten: VERSION moves from 2.1.225 to 2.1.226, BUILD_TIME from 2026-08-07T19:37:58Z to 2026-08-08T00:42:40Z, and GIT_SHA to e140b3281c1e8d834468889bd0a5c3fd2f15507c. Nothing changes beyond the reported version.
Details
The constant is inlined at every use site, so all 52 changes in this group are the same object re-stamped.
Visible in the startup banner, --version output, the Current version: line in the update flow, and the update/downgrade console messages.
Sent in the claude-code/ and claude-cli/ User-Agent strings and in the x-environment-runner-version header, where it is prefixed shr-.
Also drives the daemon-vs-CLI mismatch warning, the /doctor and feedback reports, the SDK get_binary_version control response, the npm update check's npm view <package>@<tag> version call, the Datadog sourcemap group identifiers, and the version field on numerous telemetry events.
Not gated; everyone on this build sees it.
Evidence
x-environment-runner-version, VERSION: "2.1.226"
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
