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v2.1.94 Claude Code Release Notes

Apr 7, 2026
Claude's Analysisby Sonnet 4.6
Full Analysis

Default effort rises from medium to high for API-key, Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, and enterprise users; 15 fixes cover terminal rendering, plugin hooks, and UTF-8 corruption.

Changes
25
Total Changes (vs Average)
1.4×
Version Type
Patch
Release Focus
Bug Fixes
Days Since Prior Release
4
Release # This Month
#5 of 26
Bug Fix Ratio
64%
Post-Release Edits
—
Change Category
Ecosystem Impact
VS Code returns after a 5-release absence with cold-open and dropdown fixes. MCP has appeared in 9 of the last 10 releases and Plugins/Skills in 8 of 10, reflecting sustained, parallel investment in Claude's extensibility layer.
Key Themes
3Effort Level & Provider Defaults|7Plugin & Hook Infrastructure|8Terminal Rendering & Input|3VS Code Returns|4Core Session Reliability
May Help If You've Noticed
Your agent silently hangs or stalls after hitting a rate limit, with no error shown
Claude says 'Not logged in' on macOS even after authenticating via Console
Hooks you defined in plugin YAML frontmatter appear to do nothing
Clicking a link in the terminal opens two browser tabs instead of one
CJK or multibyte characters appear as garbled symbols when streaming JSON input

Changes in Claude Code v2.1.94

Added5 changes

  • •Added support for Amazon Bedrock powered by Mantle, set CLAUDE_CODE_USE_MANTLE=1
  • •Added compact Slacked #channel header with a clickable channel link for Slack MCP send-message tool calls
  • •Added keep-coding-instructions frontmatter field support for plugin output styles
  • •Added hookSpecificOutput.sessionTitle to UserPromptSubmit hooks for setting the session title
  • •[VSCode] Added a warning banner when settings.json files fail to parse, so users know their permission rules are not being applied

Improved2 changes

  • •Improved --resume to resume sessions from other worktrees of the same repo directly instead of printing a cd command
  • •[VSCode] Reduced cold-open subprocess work on starting a session

Fixed16 changes

  • •Fixed agents appearing stuck after a 429 rate-limit response with a long Retry-After header — the error now surfaces immediately instead of silently waiting
  • •Fixed Console login on macOS silently failing with "Not logged in" when the login keychain is locked or its password is out of sync — the error is now surfaced and claude doctor diagnoses the fix
  • •Fixed plugin skill hooks defined in YAML frontmatter being silently ignored
  • •Fixed plugin hooks failing with "No such file or directory" when CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT was not set
  • •Fixed ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} resolving to the marketplace source directory instead of the installed cache for local-marketplace plugins on startup
  • •Fixed scrollback showing the same diff repeated and blank pages in long-running sessions
  • •Fixed multiline user prompts in the transcript indenting wrapped lines under the ❯ caret instead of under the text
  • •Fixed Shift+Space inserting the literal word "space" instead of a space character in search inputs
  • •Fixed hyperlinks opening two browser tabs when clicked inside tmux running in an xterm.js-based terminal (VS Code, Hyper, Tabby)
  • •Fixed an alt-screen rendering bug where content height changes mid-scroll could leave compounding ghost lines
  • •Fixed FORCE_HYPERLINK environment variable being ignored when set via settings.json env
  • •Fixed native terminal cursor not tracking the selected tab in dialogs, so screen readers and magnifiers can follow tab navigation
  • •Fixed Bedrock invocation of Sonnet 3.5 v2 by using the us. inference profile ID
  • •Fixed SDK/print mode not preserving the partial assistant response in conversation history when interrupted mid-stream
  • •Fixed CJK and other multibyte text being corrupted with U+FFFD in stream-json input/output when chunk boundaries split a UTF-8 sequence
  • •[VSCode] Fixed dropdown menus selecting the wrong item when the mouse was over the list while typing or using arrow keys

Changed1 change

  • •Changed default effort level from medium to high for API-key, Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry, Team, and Enterprise users (control this with /effort)

Other1 change

  • •Plugin skills declared via "skills": ["./"] now use the skill's frontmatter name for the invocation name instead of the directory basename, giving a stable name across install methods

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