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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 v2.1.163 adds version enforcement settings, /plugin list, hook feedback context, and stdio MCP session IDs.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch v2.1.163 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout v2.1.163
└──▷ USE IT
Enforce an approved version range across a managed fleet so users on out-of-range builds are blocked at startup.
Audit which plugins are active in the current session — useful after an update or policy change.
$ /plugin list --enabled
Surface stop-hook diagnostics back to Claude (e.g. a linter summary) so it can react without the run being marked as a hook error.
json
{
"hookSpecificOutput": {
"additionalContext": "Linter found 3 warnings in src/main.ts — please review before finishing."
}
}
›Adds requiredMinimumVersion and requiredMaximumVersion managed settings to enforce a permitted Claude Code version range, refusing startup if the installed version falls outside it.
›New /plugin list command lists installed plugins, with --enabled/--disabled filters to narrow results.
›Adds a 'c to copy' shortcut in /btw that copies the raw markdown answer to the clipboard, preserving formatting on paste.
›Skills: new \$ escape syntax lets command bodies include a literal $ before a digit.
›stdio MCP servers now receive the same CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID environment variable as hooks and Bash when using --resume.
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›Background agent sessions now update to a new Claude Code version silently in the background, eliminating cold-restart wait times when reopening a session after an update.
Pi v0.78.1 adds Ant Ling, NVIDIA NIM, and MiniMax-M3 provider support plus richer extension context APIs.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch v0.78.1 https://github.com/earendil-works/pi.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout v0.78.1
└──▷ USE IT
Adapt an extension's behavior based on whether Pi is running in TUI, RPC, JSON, or print mode — for example, suppressing interactive prompts in JSON mode.
javascript
// Inside an extension command handler
if (ctx.mode === 'json') {
// emit structured output only
} else {
// render rich TUI output
}
Inspect the current base system prompt inputs from within an extension command to tailor or augment the prompt context.
llama.cpp b9499 refactors WebGPU FlashAttention and standardizes quantization support for k/v tensors on the tile path.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch b9499 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout b9499
›Refactors the WebGPU FlashAttention implementation with split k/v quantization and abstracted quantization logic shared between flash_attn and mul_mat operations.
›Adds quantization support to the WebGPU tile path for FlashAttention, broadening the model formats that can run accelerated attention on WebGPU backends.
LanceDB python-v0.33.1-beta.2 adds DataFusion expression support for merge insert predicates.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch python-v0.33.1-beta.2 https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout python-v0.33.1-beta.2
›Supports DataFusion expressions as predicates in merge insert operations, enabling richer conditional logic when upserting records.
LanceDB v0.30.1-beta.2 adds DataFusion expression support for merge insert predicates in Rust.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch v0.30.1-beta.2 https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout v0.30.1-beta.2
›Supports DataFusion expressions as predicates in merge insert operations via the Rust API.
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