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Claude Code 2.1.248
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Claude Code 2.1.248 was released on August 27, 2026 with 49 documented changes.
What changed in Claude Code 2.1.248?
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- A new restricted mode enhances security by limiting tool access, disabling command execution, and ignoring external configuration files.
- Users can now configure an experimental per-agent prompt cache expiration, allowing for more granular control over caching behavior.
- Administrators of Enterprise organizations can now access a new usage credits portal to manage and request higher usage limits.
- Cross-session messaging has been expanded to support communication between sessions on the same machine, even with telemetry disabled or on specific cloud platforms.
- Several issues related to long-running sessions, including prompt cache misses and session disappearance, have been resolved to improve stability and context retention.
- Improvements have been made to the Workflow tool's prompt efficiency and the prompt-footer PR badge's update frequency.
Is this the latest version?
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