What
Claude Code now shows a warning when the version you are running is below a minimum version that has been announced to it from Anthropic's servers. The warning suggests one of these, depending on how your setup is managed:
- Ask your admin to raise
requiredMaximumVersion, the organization setting that stops Claude Code from running newer versions - Ask your IT team
- Run
claude update
The wording depends on whether updates are turned off with DISABLE_UPDATES and on whether your organization sets requiredMaximumVersion. The warning appears only when Claude Code runs as the command-line tool or through the SDK command line. If the check itself fails, no warning is shown.
Why
Organizations can now have their users warned in advance that a newer version will be required, instead of users finding out only when their version stops working.