Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.268,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A new, self-contained zip-file parser was added, handling local file headers, the central directory, the end-of-central-directory record, Zip64 (for large archives), and both stored and deflate-compressed entries. It exposes a function that reads a zip file's contents into a map of entry names to their raw bytes, and is used for extracting entries such as those from MCPB packages.
Why
This gives Claude Code its own zip-reading code for unpacking archives like MCPB packages, rather than relying on some other mechanism for that job.
