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News, updates, and stories from the Claude community.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of May 4th
The big story this week is simple: Anthropic doubled the five-hour limits and made Managed Agents feel like a real direction, not a side experiment. The rest of the changelog matters, but mostly as supporting detail.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of April 27th
v2.1.121 drops with breaking Bash changes, cache costs double overnight, Opus 4.7 tokenizer real-world data surfaces, 9 MCP connectors launch for creative tools, and the ecosystem hits 19K stars on the subagents list.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of April 20th
Claude Code v2.1.116–v2.1.119 sharpen resume speed, plugin dependency handling, vim visual mode, hook-driven MCP calls, and config persistence. Anthropic also published a detailed April 23 post-mortem, shipped memory for Managed Agents in public beta, ran a confusing Pro pricing test, and highlighted the Opus 4.6 hackathon winners.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of April 12th
Opus 4.7 goes GA with xhigh as the new Claude Code default, Routines turn Claude Code from a local tool into a cloud workflow, Claude Design ships to push on Figma, and v2.1.110–v2.1.114 land six releases in five days. Plus Project Glasswing's Mythos Preview, Haiku 3 retirement, and a full calendar ahead.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of April 6th
Anthropic's Advisor Tool changes how multi-model APIs work, Claude Managed Agents ships as a quiet major launch, v2.1.98–v2.1.104 close four Bash security holes, and domain-specific skills start getting interesting. Plus: 181 events, 216 leaders, and a packed week ahead.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of March 31st
Claude Code’s leaked internals lit up the ecosystem, Anthropic shipped v2.1.88–2.1.92 in rapid succession, and a new wave of community tools—from OpenClaude and Claurst to agnix, claude-context, and Hermes-style self-improving agent patterns—showed just how fast the meta-layer is forming.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of March 24th
Auto mode lands as a safer alternative to --dangerously-skip-permissions, Computer Use ships on macOS, five releases (v2.1.83–v2.1.87) bring transcript search, PowerShell preview, conditional hooks, and 60+ fixes. Plus: 13,700+ community repos and 155 events across 84 cities.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of March 17th
Four releases (v2.1.78–v2.1.81) ship --bare for scripted pipelines, --channels permission relay, 64K→128K output tokens for Opus, line-by-line streaming, and 30+ bug fixes. Plus: 12,000+ community repos and 132 events across 60 cities.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of March 10th
Five releases (v2.1.72–v2.1.76) with MCP elicitation, effort control, sparse checkouts, and major VSCode integration. Plus: Anthropic invests $100M in Claude Partner Network, 1M-context Opus/Sonnet shipping at standard pricing.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of March 3rd
Voice mode arrives, /loop brings cron-style scheduling, Auto Mode previewed for March 12, Opus 4.6 defaults to medium effort, and Anthropic's traffic spikes so hard they struggle to scale. Plus: 1,300-star SwiftUI skill in 4 days.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of February 24th
Auto-memory arrives, /simplify and /batch ship production automation, Remote Control goes wide, and Anthropic takes a stand against the Pentagon. Plus: 4% of GitHub commits are now from Claude Code.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of February 17th
Sonnet 4.6 arrives, Claude Code gets worktree isolation, a security scanner, and desktop session mobility. Plus: 500 builders submitted 220+ projects for the Opus 4.6 hackathon — and the results are a preview of what software looks like when anyone can build.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of February 10th
Fast mode lands for Opus 4.6, agent teams mature with hooks and memory, a new auth CLI ships, and Claude Code's ARR hits $2.5B.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of February 3rd
Opus 4.6 drops, agent teams build compilers, and VS Code becomes the home for coding agents.
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