Claude Code Release Notes for 2.1.7 (as rewritten for humans by Claude.ai

New Features

• Hide turn duration with showTurnDuration setting (suppresses "Cooked for 1m 6s" messages)
• Add feedback when accepting permission prompts
• View agent responses directly in task notifications without opening transcript files
• MCP tool search now enabled by default - automatically defers tool descriptions when they exceed 10% of context window, reducing memory usage for large tool collections (disable via disallowedTools if needed)

Security

• Fixed wildcard permission rules incorrectly matching compound commands with shell operators

Bug Fixes

• Windows: Resolved false "file modified" errors from cloud sync, antivirus, or Git timestamp changes
• Windows: Fixed bash command failures when temp paths contained escape-like characters (\t, \n)
• Fixed orphaned tool_result errors during concurrent tool execution failures
• Corrected context window blocking calculation to use effective window (accounting for max output tokens)
• Removed spinner flash when running local commands (/model, /theme)
• Stabilized terminal title animation using fixed-width braille characters
• Fixed incomplete git submodule initialization in plugins
• VSCode: Fixed claudeProcessWrapper passing wrapper path instead of Claude binary path

Performance

• Improved typing responsiveness through optimized terminal rendering

Infrastructure

• Migrated OAuth/API Console from console.anthropic.com → platform.claude.com