Claude Code v2.1.232 Changelog

This release is all about making Claude Code work better as a team player. If you use Claude to code, it now handles multitasking and talking to other Claude windows much more smoothly. It also adds stronger security for GitLab users and fixes a bunch of bugs that used to cause crashes, freezes, or weird glitches.

What's new

• Background subagents: When Claude needs to do a side-task, it can now spin off a "fork" (a background helper) that remembers the full conversation so far. This lets it work on things without freezing up your main chat.
• Mentioning other sessions: You can now type @ in your prompt to tag another Claude session by name. Claude will send a direct message to that specific session so they can work together.
• Smarter message delivery: When you send a message to another session, it just sends it right away if the name matches exactly, instead of asking you to confirm the target.
• Unique session names: If you try to start or rename a session with a name someone else is already using, Claude will automatically give yours a unique variation (like name-word-word) and let you know.
• New settings options: You can now use /config to set rules for how long dialogs stay open and whether you want to accept, hold, or refuse messages from your other Claude sessions.
• Better GitLab security: The app now automatically hides (redacts) GitLab passwords and tokens so they don't accidentally get exposed. It also gives the GitLab command-line tool the same safe, sandboxed protection as the GitHub tool.
• GitLab plugin support: You can now easily download plugins from GitLab repositories just by pasting the URL, exactly like you already could with GitHub.
• Friendlier settings names: You can use easier-to-remember names like additionalMarketplaces and allowedMarketplaces in your settings instead of the older, clunkier terms.
• Fable 5 advisor: The Fable 5 AI helper is back as an advisor for organizations that use it, and you can manage its usage permissions through the /model fable command.

Improvements

• Faster fullscreen streaming: Long chats won't lag or freeze up anymore because the app stopped doing unnecessary formatting work every time it updated.
• Clearer settings approvals: When your school or company changes a setting, the approval popup now shows the exact web addresses involved and uses much clearer wording.
• Instant feedback menus: The /feedback and /bug commands now open immediately, even if Claude is still typing out a response.
• Easier plugin installs: Installing a brand-new plugin now automatically refreshes the marketplace list first, so you don't have to do it manually.
• Better code reviews: Deep code reviews (which use high or max effort) now run in the background so they don't lock up your screen.
• Smoother images: Pasting or copying images into the app no longer freezes it up while it reads the file.
• Tougher Remote Control: If you're controlling Claude from another device and your internet blips out, it will now keep trying to reconnect for about 30 minutes instead of just giving up.
• Cleaner task panel: When a background helper finishes its job, it hides right away and leaves a small hint (/tasks) so you know where to look.
• Clearer Remote Control messages: If another device takes over your session, ends it, or deletes it, the terminal will tell you exactly what happened instead of confusingly suggesting you reconnect.
• Safer file reading: Bash commands that read files (like < file) are now checked for permissions on all types of computers, keeping your system safer.
• Safer shared computers: If you're using a shared computer (like a school server), hackers can no longer use fake shortcut files to hijack Claude's messaging system.
• Stricter sandbox rules: On Linux, the protected file system sandbox is harder to break out of, and project files can no longer override the safe search tool.

Fixes

• Windows security holes: Fixed a bug where Windows command-line tools could secretly overwrite important system settings or use tricky file shortcuts to bypass permission checks.
• Safer Git repositories: Fixed an issue where a smaller folder inside a larger Git project would automatically be trusted just because the parent folder was. Now, each folder has to earn your trust individually.
• Faster connection fixes: Fixed a bug where connecting to external servers (MCP) would hang for 30 seconds if the server didn't answer properly.
• Remote Control privacy: Fixed a bug where Remote Control sessions would accidentally share the chat history or passwords of the cloud session they were running inside.
• Remote Control stability: Fixed several bugs that made Remote Control sessions crash, show up as new sessions every time you resumed them, or lose their chat history if the worker restarted.
• Cloud login fix: Fixed an issue where the cloud login screen would freeze or exit silently after asking you to "Press Enter" if settings failed to load. It now shows you the error.
• Voice mode fix: Fixed a bug where voice mode got stuck on "listening…" forever if the voice server rejected the connection. It now tells you right away.
• Auto-renewing security certificates: Fixed an issue where you had to restart the app when security certificates (mTLS) updated. Claude now reloads them automatically.
• Region typos: Fixed a bug where typing a bad AWS or Vertex region name would break the web address. It now just falls back to the default area.
• Better error recovery: Fixed a bug where temporary network timeouts would completely ruin your request on Bedrock, Vertex, and gateway setups, instead of just retrying.
• UI text glitches: Fixed visual bugs where text boxes were one column too wide, text collapsed into dots (...), or a weird garbled character appeared when an emoji was cut in half.
• Plugin marketplace fix: Fixed a startup race condition (a timing glitch) that could accidentally delete a plugin marketplace from your list.
• Restart fixes: Fixed bugs where the /update and /tui commands would refuse to restart if a background task was still running.
• Accurate help tips: Fixed a bug where the app suggested using slash commands that weren't actually available in your current session.
• Fable consent fix: Fixed a confusing message that told you to run a command in a session that had already closed.
• Memory imports: Cowork sessions no longer accidentally pull in outside memory files from your user settings.
• Ripgrep security: The sandbox's search tool (ripgrep) can now only be changed by you or your system admin, not by random project settings.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.