This release brings advanced Vim visual mode (v/V) for precise text selection and operations, along with robust custom theme capabilities accessible via a new command or direct file editing. Significant improvements include streamlined usage monitoring, WSL policy inheritance for managed settings, and enhanced flexibility for auto mode configuration. Key fixes address numerous authentication and OAuth stability issues, critical keyboard input freezing, and a credential save crash on Linux/Windows, ensuring a more stable and customizable experience for all users.
Added4
- Added vim visual mode (`v`) and visual-line mode (`V`) with selection, operators, and visual feedback
- Added `DISABLE_UPDATES` env var to completely block all update paths including manual `claude update` — stricter than `DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER`
- Added a "Don't ask again" option to the auto mode opt-in prompt
- Added `claude plugin tag` to create release git tags for plugins with version validation
Changed9
- Merged `/cost` and `/stats` into `/usage` — both remain as typing shortcuts that open the relevant tab
- Create and switch between named custom themes from `/theme`, or hand-edit JSON files in `~/.claude/themes/`; plugins can also ship themes via a `themes/` directory
- Hooks can now invoke MCP tools directly via `type: "mcp_tool"`
- WSL on Windows can now inherit Windows-side managed settings via the `wslInheritsWindowsSettings` policy key
- Auto mode: include `"$defaults"` in `autoMode.allow`, `autoMode.soft_deny`, or `autoMode.environment` to add custom rules alongside the built-in list instead of replacing it
- `--continue`/`--resume` now find sessions that added the current directory via `/add-dir`
- `/color` now syncs the session accent color to claude.ai/code when Remote Control is connected
- The `/model` picker now honors `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_*_MODEL_NAME`/`_DESCRIPTION` overrides when using a custom `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` gateway
- When auto-update skips a plugin due to another plugin's version constraint, the skip now appears in `/doctor` and the `/plugin` Errors tab
Fixed21
- Fixed `/mcp` menu hiding OAuth Authenticate/Re-authenticate actions for servers configured with `headersHelper`, and HTTP/SSE MCP servers with custom headers being stuck in "needs authentication" after a transient 401
- Fixed MCP servers whose OAuth token response omits `expires_in` requiring re-authentication every hour
- Fixed MCP step-up authorization silently refreshing instead of prompting for re-consent when the server's `insufficient_scope` 403 names a scope the current token already has
- Fixed an unhandled promise rejection when an MCP server's OAuth flow times out or is cancelled
- Fixed MCP OAuth refresh proceeding without its cross-process lock under contention
- Fixed macOS keychain race where a concurrent MCP token refresh could overwrite a freshly-refreshed OAuth token, causing unexpected "Please run /login" prompts
- Fixed OAuth token refresh failing when the server revokes a token before its local expiry time
- Fixed credential save crash on Linux/Windows corrupting `~/.claude/.credentials.json`
- Fixed `/login` having no effect in a session launched with `CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN` — the env token is now cleared so disk credentials take effect
- Fixed unreadable text in the "new messages" scroll pill and `/plugin` badges
- Fixed plan acceptance dialog offering "auto mode" instead of "bypass permissions" when running with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`
- Fixed agent-type hooks failing with "Messages are required for agent hooks" when configured for events other than `Stop` or `SubagentStop`
- Fixed `prompt` hooks re-firing on tool calls made by an agent-hook verifier subagent
- Fixed `/fork` writing the full parent conversation to disk per fork — now writes a pointer and hydrates on read
- Fixed Alt+K / Alt+X / Alt+^ / Alt+_ freezing keyboard input
- Fixed connecting to a remote session overwriting your local `model` setting in `~/.claude/settings.json`
- Fixed typeahead showing "No commands match" error when pasting file paths that start with `/`
- Fixed `plugin install` on an already-installed plugin not re-resolving a dependency installed at the wrong version
- Fixed unhandled errors from file watcher on invalid paths or fd exhaustion
- Fixed Remote Control sessions getting archived on transient CCR initialization blips during JWT refresh
- Fixed subagents resumed via `SendMessage` not restoring the explicit `cwd` they were spawned with
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