Claude Code v2.1.200 Changelog

This update is all about making Claude Code more reliable, secure, and accessible. It focuses heavily on fixing background tasks (so they don't freeze or crash when your computer goes to sleep), improving safety settings, and making the tool work much better with screen readers for visually impaired developers.

Improvements

• Safer Defaults: The tool now defaults to "Manual" permission mode across all apps and code editors. This means Claude will always ask for your okay before running commands or making changes.
• No More Auto-Answering: When Claude asks you a question, it will no longer automatically skip or guess your answer if you walk away, unless you specifically set up a timer using the /config command.
• Better Screen Reader Support: For visually impaired users, screen readers will now read tables and symbols much more clearly and skip useless decorative icons. The system also now properly tracks what you are looking at in the /mcp server list.
• Clearer Out-of-Memory Errors: If your computer runs out of RAM (its temporary working memory) while installing the software, the installer will now clearly explain what happened instead of just crashing.

Fixes

• Background Task Reliability: Fixed several bugs where background tasks would freeze when your computer went to sleep, fail to restart after a crash, or accidentally run a task you had previously cancelled with the Escape key.
• Cleaner Error Messages: If a helper AI gets blocked by a speed limit (rate limit) before it can type, it now gives a clean error instead of a blank screen. Also, voice dictation won't falsely claim a "connection failure" if it simply didn't pick up any sound.
• Visual Cleanups: Fixed screen flickering for users of tmux (a tool that lets you split your terminal into multiple windows) and stopped ugly raw computer code (control bytes) from leaking onto the screen.
• Command and Plugin Fixes: Fixed bugs where custom plugins wouldn't load properly when using Git worktrees (a tool for managing multiple versions of a codebase) or when typing commands in a specific order.
• Configuration Crashes: Fixed a crash that happened if the list of MCP servers (Model Context Protocol—tools that connect Claude to other apps) in your settings file was formatted incorrectly.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.