← Claude Code changelog

Claude Code 2.1.116

This release delivers significant performance and user experience enhancements, including up to 67% faster session resume times and an improved inline thinking progress spinner. Plugin management is streamlined with automatic dependency installation, and fullscreen terminal scrolling is now much smoother. Developers benefit from the ability to run diagnostics even while a response is being generated, better `gh` rate limit hints, and enhanced security with stricter sandbox path checks. Numerous fixes address terminal rendering issues, keyboard shortcut inconsistencies, and critical command reliability, ensuring a more stable and efficient development environment.

Changed

  • `/resume` on large sessions is significantly faster (up to 67% on 40MB+ sessions) and handles sessions with many dead-fork entries more efficiently
  • Faster MCP startup when multiple stdio servers are configured; `resources/templates/list` is now deferred to first `@`-mention
  • Smoother fullscreen scrolling in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf terminals — `/terminal-setup` now configures the editor's scroll sensitivity
  • Thinking spinner now shows progress inline ("still thinking", "thinking more", "almost done thinking"), replacing the separate hint row
  • `/config` search now matches option values (e.g. searching "vim" finds the Editor mode setting)
  • `/doctor` can now be opened while Claude is responding, without waiting for the current turn to finish
  • `/reload-plugins` and background plugin auto-update now auto-install missing plugin dependencies from marketplaces you've already added
  • Bash tool now surfaces a hint when `gh` commands hit GitHub's API rate limit, so agents can back off instead of retrying
  • The Usage tab in Settings now shows your 5-hour and weekly usage immediately and no longer fails when the usage endpoint is rate-limited
  • Agent frontmatter `hooks:` now fire when running as a main-thread agent via `--agent`
  • Slash command menu now shows "No commands match" when your filter has zero results, instead of disappearing
  • Security: sandbox auto-allow no longer bypasses the dangerous-path safety check for `rm`/`rmdir` targeting `/`, `$HOME`, or other critical system directories

Fixed

  • Fixed Devanagari and other Indic scripts rendering with broken column alignment in the terminal UI
  • Fixed Ctrl+- not triggering undo in terminals using the Kitty keyboard protocol (iTerm2, Ghostty, kitty, WezTerm, Windows Terminal)
  • Fixed Cmd+Left/Right not jumping to line start/end in terminals that use the Kitty keyboard protocol (Warp fullscreen, kitty, Ghostty, WezTerm)
  • Fixed Ctrl+Z hanging the terminal when Claude Code is launched via a wrapper process (e.g. `npx`, `bun run`)
  • Fixed scrollback duplication in inline mode where resizing the terminal or large output bursts would repeat earlier conversation history
  • Fixed modal search dialogs overflowing the screen at short terminal heights, hiding the search box and keyboard hints
  • Fixed scattered blank cells and disappearing composer chrome in the VS Code integrated terminal during scrolling
  • Fixed an intermittent API 400 error related to cache control TTL ordering that could occur when a parallel request completed during request setup
  • Fixed `/branch` rejecting conversations with transcripts larger than 50MB
  • Fixed `/resume` silently showing an empty conversation on large session files instead of reporting the load error
  • Fixed `/plugin` Installed tab showing the same item twice when it appears under Needs attention or Favorites
  • Fixed `/update` and `/tui` not working after entering a worktree mid-session