Under the hood
Claude Code version bumped to 2.1.277
What
This release updates the build's version number, build time, and git commit identifier to mark Claude Code 2.1.277.
Why
This is a routine version marker for the release.
Names in the bundle2.1.277
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.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up 2.1.277, on Environment variables.
| `TASK_MAX_OUTPUT_LENGTH` | Removed in v2.1.277 and now a no-op, together with the `TaskOutput` tool it sized. Previously set the maximum number of characters of a [background task's](/docs/en/tools-reference#background-commands) output t…env-vars see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up 2.1.277, on Environment variables.