{"version":"2.1.285","anchor":"local-host-detection-on-windows-handles-case-and-truncated-h","canonical_anchor":"local-host-detection-on-windows-handles-case-and-truncated-h","heading":"Windows now matches its own machine name regardless of letter case","tier":"notice","area":"Windows","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285\/e\/local-host-detection-on-windows-handles-case-and-truncated-h","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285","markdown":"### Windows now matches its own machine name regardless of letter case\n\nOn Windows, the check for whether a host is this machine now ignores letter case and matches shortened forms of the name\n\n**Unclear.** What Claude Code uses this check for is not clear.\n\n**What**\n\nOn Windows, the check for whether a host name means this machine now ignores upper and lower case and also matches shortened forms of the machine name.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis changes which host names Claude Code treats as local.\n\n- Area: Windows\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}