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v2.1.200 Breaking

This release includes 2 breaking changes for platform teams planning a safe upgrade.

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Affected surfaces

auth rbac

Summary

AI summary

Dialogs no longer auto‑continue; permission mode defaults to Manual.

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What's changed

  • Changed AskUserQuestion dialogs to no longer auto-continue by default; opt into an idle timeout via /config
  • Changed the "default" permission mode to "Manual" across the CLI, --help, VS Code, and JetBrains; --permission-mode manual and "defaultMode": "manual" are accepted alongside default
  • Fixed a crash at startup when disabledMcpServers or enabledMcpServers in .claude.json is set to a non-array value
  • Fixed background sessions silently stopping mid-turn after sleep/wake or when reopening a stalled session
  • Fixed background sessions re-running a turn cancelled with Esc after a stall respawn
  • Fixed background agents never starting again after a crash left a stale daemon.lock whose PID the OS reused
  • Fixed background-agent daemon handover so a reinstalled older build can no longer take over the daemon; build recency is now judged by the version's embedded build timestamp
  • Fixed background-agent roster issues: transient corruption permanently disabling orphan cleanup, older binaries not preserving fields written by newer versions, and socket auth tokens being stripped during daemon restarts
  • Fixed subagents cut off by a rate limit before producing any text output returning an empty result instead of failing cleanly
  • Fixed control bytes from background-agent output reaching the terminal in the agent view
  • Fixed claude agents --plugin-dir <dir> not showing the plugin's agents and skills in the agent view when the flag is placed after agents
  • Fixed project-scoped plugins not loading correctly from git worktrees of the same repository
  • Fixed /mcp server list not tracking focus for screen readers and magnifiers
  • Fixed voice dictation showing a misleading "Voice connection failed" message when a recording captures no audio
  • Fixed rendering flicker under tmux 3.4+ by enabling synchronized terminal output
  • Improved screen-reader output: decorative glyphs are now hidden, transcript symbols read as short labels, and nested tables read as Header: value. lines
  • Improved the install script to explain when installation is killed by the system running out of memory

Breaking Changes

  • Changed `AskUserQuestion` dialogs to no longer auto‑continue by default; opt into an idle timeout via `/config`
  • Changed the "default" permission mode across CLI, VS Code, and JetBrains to "Manual" (accepts `--permission-mode manual` and `

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Earlier breaking changes

  • v2.1.215 Claude no longer automatically runs /verify and /code-review skills
  • v2.1.160 Renames dynamic‑workflow trigger keyword from `workflow` to `ultracode`; `workflow` no longer triggers a run
  • v2.1.160 Deprecates and removes the `CLAUDE_CODE_OPUS_4_6_FAST_MODE_OVERRIDE` environment variable; it is now a no‑op
  • v2.1.147 Renames /simplify to /code-review; removes cleanup-and-fix behavior.

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