Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Message QueueArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.280,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code's internal message queue now counts messages in a separate "urgent" lane toward its total unsent-message count, alongside messages already in flight or pending. The queue's backoff mechanism (which pauses retries after a failure) can now also be given an absolute timestamp marking when to resume, rather than only a duration to wait.
Why
This makes backlog reporting account for urgent messages that weren't previously counted, and lets backoff pauses be scheduled to a specific resume time instead of only a relative delay.
