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Claude Code v2.1.242 ·

Angle brackets rejected in display names and paths

Angle brackets are now rejected in display names and paths alongside other unsafe characters.

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ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.242,
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What

The filter that rejects unsafe characters in labels now also rejects < and > and their fullwidth equivalents, on top of the control characters, brackets, quotes and backslashes it already caught. A separate URL matcher was tightened to stop absorbing angle brackets and the ellipsis character.

Evidence

\uFF3B\uFF3D\uFF02\uFF1C\uFF1E

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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