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Claude Code v2.1.257 ·

npm cache stale-entry cleanup reworked to scan on-disk index files directly

Stale npm cache entries are now cleaned by walking the cache index directly and removing both record and blob.

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Stale npm cache entries are now cleaned by walking the cache index directly and removing both record and blob.

The periodic cleanup of stale @anthropic-ai/claude-* entries in the npm cache no longer goes through the npm cache library's streaming API. It now walks the cache's index-v5 directory directly, parsing entries itself, and removes both the index record and the content blob for expired or duplicate entries.

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