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Neither version has one big feature; the theme is closing the edges of long and unattended sessions: compaction retries, stale files and the 200K stop behavior.
Adrian Koch
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October 27, 2026
Claude Code v2.1.310 (2026-10-23) and v2.1.311 (2026-10-26) carry an unusual number of items about Compaction, effort and permissions. Everything below is from the official changelog, with the version marked on each item; the "what this means" section is my judgment and says so. Compaction v2.1.311: when the model's reply during compaction has no summary in it, Claude Code now usually asks for the summary once more before it replaces the conversation. v2.1.311: fixed Claude seeing stale...