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Claude Code v2.1.242

Auto-update checks are throttled within a long-running process

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Updater

Long-running sessions stop making redundant auto-update checks; there is no flag for it.

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.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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