Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
InternalsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.246,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The switch that stops compressing request bodies after a server rejects one now writes through the storage handle. The stored record and its timestamp and status are unchanged, and setting CLAUDE_CODE_GZIP_REQUEST_BODIES still bypasses persistence entirely.
Evidence
gzipRequestBodiesLatchedOff
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.