Relaunching Claude Code is up to a second faster because a needless wait was removed.
What's wrong with this entry?
The relaunch path no longer waits on a 1000 ms pre-cleanup drain before shutting down; it goes straight to the 2000 ms cleanup step and then the analytics flush.
analytics flush timeout
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Related
Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.
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v2.1.234
Startup prefetch failures no longer surface
Both mention startup
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v2.1.239
Deleted working directories are detected at startup and handled during hooks
Both mention startup
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v2.1.242
A socket path taken by another running Claude Code no longer breaks startup
Both mention startup