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Claude Code v2.1.246 ·

Background task bookkeeping distinguishes failed from unfinished

A failed background task is no longer indistinguishable from one still running.

Under the hood Internal Changes
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Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background TasksArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.246,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What

The helper that folds a task event log into results now also returns the set of tasks whose entries were failures, so a task that failed is no longer indistinguishable from one that simply has no result yet.

Evidence

failed

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

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