You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
4Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
WindowsArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.248,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
Claude Code can decode win32 input-mode key sequences (ESC [ params _) that some Windows terminals emit, turning them into normal key input including function keys, ctrl/alt modifiers and repeat counts.
Details
The input parser now carries a high-surrogate field across chunks so emoji and other surrogate pairs split across reads are reassembled.
The terminal private-mode table gained WIN32_INPUT_MODE: 9001, and its enable/disable sequence constants moved out of lazy module init.
Evidence
win32HighSurrogate, WIN32_INPUT_MODE: 9001,
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
