You'll notice
claude install refuses to switch to a channel version that predates signature enforcement unless you name it exactly.
When claude install <channel> would resolve to a version that predates release-signature enforcement, the CLI now stops instead of installing it, and tells the user to run claude install <exact version> explicitly if they still want that release.
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The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude install, on CLI reference.
| `claude install [version]` | Install or reinstall the native binary. Accepts a version like `2.1.118`, or `stable` or `latest`. See [Install a specific version](/docs/en/setup#install-a-specific-version) | `claude install stable` |cli-reference see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude install, on CLI reference.