You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SessionsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.291,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When you resume a session, Claude Code reads its transcript file, the record of the whole conversation. Two things about that read have changed.
Pausing: the read used to stop now and then so the interface stayed responsive. It now reads the file in chunks in one continuous pass.
Retrying: the read used to start over when the file had been rewritten during loading, up to a limit, and then report an error. That retry loop and its error are gone.
If a transcript cannot be read, Claude Code now logs a "transcript unreadable" message.
Why
Resuming a very large session may make the screen stop responding until loading finishes. A file that changes while it is being read is no longer retried.
