Claude Code v2.1.116

Claude Code v2.1.116 was released on April 20, 2026.

Summary

- /resume on large sessions is significantly faster (up to 67% on 40MB+ sessions) and handles sessions with many dead-fork entries more efficiently - Faster MCP startup when multiple stdio servers ...

Release Context

This was the 90th Claude Code release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
It shipped 3 days after Claude Code v2.1.114 (April 17, 2026).

Shipped around the same time

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Release Notes

/resume on large sessions is significantly faster (up to 67% on 40MB+ sessions) and handles sessions with many dead-fork entries more efficiently
Faster MCP startup when multiple stdio servers are configured; resources/templates/list is now deferred to first @-mention
Smoother fullscreen scrolling in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf terminals — /terminal-setup now configures the editor's scroll sensitivity
Thinking spinner now shows progress inline ("still thinking", "thinking more", "almost done thinking"), replacing the separate hint row
/config search now matches option values (e.g. searching "vim" finds the Editor mode setting)
/doctor can now be opened while Claude is responding, without waiting for the current turn to finish
/reload-plugins and background plugin auto-update now auto-install missing plugin dependencies from marketplaces you've already added
Bash tool now surfaces a hint when gh commands hit GitHub's API rate limit, so agents can back off instead of retrying
The Usage tab in Settings now shows your 5-hour and weekly usage immediately and no longer fails when the usage endpoint is rate-limited
Agent frontmatter hooks: now fire when running as a main-thread agent via --agent
Slash command menu now shows "No commands match" when your filter has

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