You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ConfigurationArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.238,
Bug FixesSection of the release
What
When ~/.claude.json is corrupt, a failure while backing up the broken file is now logged and recovery continues, instead of stopping there.
Details
The message includes the underlying error text.
The watcher behind the config was also tightened: it now drops its freshness subscription if the storage backend changed underneath it, and ignores an update event that matches the version this process just loaded.
Its fallback log line now reads "using the fs.watchFile poll" rather than "staying on" it.
Evidence
Could not back up corrupted config (
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
