Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
NetworkArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.321,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code receives replies as a stream, piece by piece. It now marks each stream as the main reply or something else, can be told to stop holding back pieces, and counts the pieces it held. When a request is retried, it tracks the address for each attempt, so a request that was redirected to a new address is handled.
Why
This is internal plumbing for streaming and display, with little you would notice directly.