You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SessionsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.248,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
If the very first partial read of a stored transcript fails with a recognisable error, Claude Code now streams the whole object through the same parser instead of giving up with "transcript ranged read failed".
Details
The fallback applies only to a failure at offset 0; later chunk failures still surface as errors.
Evidence
transcript ranged read failed
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
