What
When Claude Code runs without a person at the keyboard, in print mode (-p) or when driven by another program (the SDK), startup now skips the step that prepares release notes.
Why
These sessions no longer spend startup time on release notes.
Release-notes setup skipped in non-interactive sessions
Non-interactive sessions no longer run the release-notes step at startup
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SDKArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.281,
ImprovementsSection of the release