What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
The managed configuration for third-party Claude Desktop deployments has new keys. Managed configuration means settings an administrator sets centrally for everyone in an organisation.
defaultModelEffort
alwaysStartWithDefaultModel
modelCatalogEnabled
modelCatalogUrl
claudeInChromePasswordManagersEnabled, whose value comes from the server
Several keys are now marked as applying to the desktop app, and the schema description mentions x-executionTarget. The help for otlpTracesEnabled now says that, when otlpEndpoint is set, this setting alone decides whether traces are exported. Scanning of the credential store also skips its own set of names at the top level of the store.
Why
Administrators of these Desktop deployments get more control over which model people start with and which models they can pick. This is Desktop configuration code that ships inside Claude Code, so it matters mostly to Desktop admins rather than to command-line users.
