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Claude Code v2.1.248 ·

Background daemon can retire a same-version instance

The background daemon can now retire a same-version instance; build is 2.1.248.

Under the hood Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.248
Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background DaemonArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.248,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What

The background daemon takeover now folds in an extra caller-supplied condition, so a transient daemon running the same version can be retired instead of being left in place. Build metadata moves to 2.1.248.

Details
Evidence

tengu_bg_daemon_binary_takeover

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

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Feature flag
tengu_bg_binary_takeover Not enough to say

Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.

This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.248: on

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.248. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_bg_binary_takeover

See this entry in the whole of v2.1.248 →

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