{"version":"2.1.321","anchor":"minimum-version-warning-for-organizations","canonical_anchor":"minimum-version-warning-for-organizations","heading":"Warning when your Claude Code version is below an announced minimum","tier":"notice","area":"Updates","scope":"both","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321\/e\/minimum-version-warning-for-organizations","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321","markdown":"### Warning when your Claude Code version is below an announced minimum\n\nClaude Code can warn you when your version is below an announced minimum, and suggests asking your admin or running claude update\n\n**What**\n\nClaude 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:\n\n- Ask your admin to raise `requiredMaximumVersion`, the organization setting that stops Claude Code from running newer versions\n\n- Ask your IT team\n\n- Run `claude update`\n\nThe 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.\n\n**Why**\n\nOrganizations 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.\n\n- Area: Updates\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: both\n- Heads-up: no"}