Claude Code v2.1.218
Claude Code v2.1.218 was released on .
Summary
Claude Code 2.1.218 moves code reviews to the background so they won't interrupt your workflow, and fixes critical issues like Windows paths being corrupted and multi-line pastes breaking in terminals. We've also improved accessibility with screen reader announcements and made...
Release Context
- This was the 173rd Claude Code release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 1 day after Claude Code v2.1.217 (July 21, 2026).
- Claude Code: ships every 1.2 days — 27 releases in the last month.
Why it matters: Code reviews now run silently in background.
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
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- OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.145.0 (July 21, 2026)
- Antigravity CLI v1.1.5 (July 21, 2026)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.73 (July 21, 2026)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.72 (July 20, 2026)
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Release Notes
- Changed /code-review to run as a background subagent, so review work no longer fills your conversation and keeps stacked slash commands as its review target
- Added screen-reader announcements of deleted text for word and line deletions (Option+Delete, Ctrl+W, Cmd+Backspace, Ctrl+U, Ctrl+K) in --ax-screen-reader mode
- Fixed Windows paths with \u-prefixed segments (like C:\Users\unicorn) being corrupted into CJK characters in tool inputs, which made those files inaccessible
- Fixed the left arrow key discarding the conversation with no undo: presses right after editing now ask to confirm, and Esc in the agent view returns to the conversation it backgrounded
- Added HTTP status and error text to claude mcp list and /mcp when a server fails to connect, and a warning for MCP config values with hidden leading or trailing whitespace
- Fixed multi-line paste collapsing into one line with j in place of newlines in terminals that encode pasted newlines as Ctrl+J
- Fixed /context reporting stale pre-compact token usage after compacting from the message picker
- Fixed /ultrareview failing on descriptive arguments like "review my auth changes" — they now run a review of your current branch with the text applied as a note to the findings
- Fixed /code-review ultra silently running a local review in non-interactive sessions — it now launches the cloud review
- Fixed gateway spend metering to price Bedrock application-inference-profile ARNs and other config-mapped upstream model IDs at the configured model's rates
- Fixed mojibake when a long IDE selection was truncated mid-emoji, and a case where a tool executor error could be silently dropped
- Fixed an engine teardown race that could start and abandon a phantom turn, and made input pushed after close consistently rejected
- Fixed spurious "[Request interrupted by user]" messages after interrupted tool calls, and an unpaired tooluse block left in the transcript when a tool aborted mid-response
- Fixed VoiceOver reading "new line" instead of echoing the typed space at the end of the input in --ax-screen-reader mode
- Fixed plugin and settings panels not moving the terminal cursor to the focused row, so screen readers and magnifiers can follow arrow-key navigation
- Fixed crashes (maximum call stack exceeded) when a deeply nested watched directory tree was deleted or moved, and when rendering deeply nested UI trees
- Fixed pull request events occasionally being lost when a session exited immediately after creating or linking a PR
- Fixed the Bedrock setup wi
Other Recent Claude Code Releases
- v2.1.216 (July 20, 2026)
- v2.1.215 (July 19, 2026)
- v2.1.214 (July 18, 2026)
- v2.1.212 (July 16, 2026)
- v2.1.211 (July 15, 2026)
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