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// HOW THIS ISSUE IS MADE
We read every release from the 174 tools on our watchlist at the source — GitHub and GitLab release notes, vendor release pages and changelogs, project blogs and feeds, vendor press releases, and the source code behind the tag. Bug-fix-only releases and non-product newsroom noise are dropped; what's left is summarized down to the new capability, how to try it, and any screenshots or videos the release itself published. Every entry links to the sources it was built from.
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.
Claude Code v2.1.80 adds MCP push channels, inline plugin settings, effort frontmatter, and rate-limit statusline fields.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch v2.1.80 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout v2.1.80
└──▷ TRY IT
Push messages into your session from an MCP server during a long-running workflow — currently in research preview.
$ claude --channels
Set a specific effort level for a skill or slash command so it always runs at the right cost/quality trade-off when invoked.
yaml
# In your skill or slash-command frontmatter:
---
effort: low
---
›Adds rate_limits field to statusline scripts exposing Claude.ai rate-limit usage across 5-hour and 7-day windows, including used_percentage and resets_at.
›Adds source: 'settings' plugin marketplace source so plugin entries can be declared inline in settings.json without a separate marketplace lookup.
›Adds CLI tool usage detection to plugin tips, supplementing existing file-pattern matching for smarter plugin suggestions.
›Adds effort frontmatter key for skills and slash commands to override the model effort level on a per-command basis.
›Adds --channels (research preview) enabling MCP servers to push messages directly into a running session.
Crush v0.51.0 adds native Docker MCP Catalog integration and new --continue/--session CLI flags.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch v0.51.0 https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout v0.51.0
└──▷ TRY IT
Resume the last AI session non-interactively to continue a scripted or automated workflow without re-entering context.
$ crush run --continue
Jump back into a specific named session from the terminal, skipping the session-picker UI.
$ crush --session <session-id>
Enable the Docker MCP Catalog so Crush can pull in context-relevant MCPs (e.g. Postgres, ARM) on demand during a conversation.
📍In Crush, press ctrl+p, then choose "Enable Docker MCP Catalog" (requires Docker Desktop to be running).
›Integrates the Docker MCP Catalog natively, pulling relevant MCPs on demand during conversations (enable via ctrl+p > 'Enable Docker MCP Catalog' with Docker Desktop running).
›Adds crush r and crush s as short aliases for crush run and crush session.
›Adds --continue flag to resume the last session in both TUI (crush --continue) and non-interactive (crush run --continue) modes.
›Adds --session <session-id> flag to open a specific past session directly from the CLI or TUI.
›Adds --routermode flag to enable OpenAI-compatible Router Mode, allowing full config-reloads and automatic model hotswapping via reverse proxy within existing requests and responses; requires admin mode enabled, streaming supported.
›Adds initial_model option to model swapping to reference the originally loaded model when using router mode.
›Adds Auto Unload Timeout feature to unload all models after a specified number of seconds, designed to pair with --routermode for automatic reload workflows.
›Adds --ttsgpu toggle for Qwen3TTS GPU acceleration, with Vulkan speed improvements.
›Extends --sdlora to accept directories, enabling all image LoRAs in the directory to be loaded at runtime via <lora:filename:multiplier> syntax in image generation prompts.
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›Supports the Qwen3TTS 1.7B model for text-to-speech with improved voice quality and voice cloning.
›AceStep 1.5 music generation now supports Reference Audio uploads, MP3 output, and defaults to stereo output.
›Improved Ollama emulation now buffers responses for endpoints that only support streaming.
›MCP now supports notifications and can handle simultaneous STDIO requests and requests with multiple parts.
›OpenAI-compatible endpoints now return dynamic IDs and accurate token usage in responses.
›Adds Nemotron model support and Qwen3.5 improvements via upstream merge.
LangChain 1.2.13 adds LangSmith integration metadata to create_agent and init_chat_model, and registers Baseten as a built-in provider.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch langchain==1.2.13 https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout langchain==1.2.13
›Adds LangSmith integration metadata support to create_agent and init_chat_model for improved observability tracing.
›Registers baseten in _BUILTIN_PROVIDERS, enabling it as a first-class provider in model initialization.
OpenAI Agents SDK v0.12.5 exposes auth and httpx_client_factory in MCP SSE/StreamableHttp transport params.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch v0.12.5 https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout v0.12.5
›Adds auth and httpx_client_factory parameters to MCP SSE and StreamableHttp transport configuration, enabling custom authentication and HTTP client injection for MCP server connections.
Composio CLI 0.2.5 adds a manage namespace for advanced commands and moves code-gen under a unified generate command.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch @composio/[email protected] https://github.com/ComposioHQ/composio.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout @composio/[email protected]
›Adds manage namespace to the CLI for grouping advanced commands.
›Moves Python and TypeScript SDK code-generation subcommands under a unified generate command.
└──▷ BREAKING ON UPGRADE
!The Python and TypeScript SDK generation subcommands (py and ts) have been moved under the generate command; any scripts or workflows invoking the old command paths will break.
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