You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
UpdaterArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.242,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
An auto-update check is now skipped if one ran recently, so a long-lived session stops making redundant checks. The skip is logged with how many seconds ago the last check ran. There is no flag.
Details
Updater state (time of the last auto-update check, an update-restore failure marker, and minted preserved inodes) moved from module-level globals into one per-process object.
The self-heal paths that restore a missing claude binary from a preserved <exe>.old.<timestamp> copy now receive that state explicitly instead of reading globals.
The npm install and uninstall shell-outs now resolve the home directory through a helper rather than calling os.homedir() directly.
Evidence
auto-update check throttled (last check
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
