Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
InternalsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.312,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A WebSocket is a long-lived two-way connection between Claude Code and a server. The shared code that opens these connections can now pass a compression setting, so each connection can choose whether its messages are compressed. Before, it only passed headers, proxy and security settings.
Why
This could change how much data remote-session and similar connections send.