Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Environment VariablesArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.228,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Direct process.env reads were replaced with a shared env object across terminal detection, scroll telemetry, git-bash resolution, editor selection, Bedrock and Vertex selection, workflows and MCP. Truthiness parsing is now centralized, so variables like CLAUDE_CODE_WORKFLOWS are compared to explicit true/false rather than tested loosely.
