You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background TasksArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.323,
Bug FixesSection of the release
What
A background task is a command that keeps running while Claude does other work. When Claude waits on its output with the TaskOutput tool, Claude Code checks the output file at regular intervals.
Each of those checks now always reads the file. An option that let some checks skip reading has been removed, along with a separate way of fetching only the most recent output.
Why
This is an internal simplification of how progress is checked while waiting on a background task.