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New claude project purge Command Wipes Per-Project State

You can now run claude project purge [path] to delete all Claude Code state for a project, including transcripts, tasks, file history, and the config entry. The command supports --dry-run, -y/--yes, -i/--interactive, and --all, giving you a clean way to remove residual state before archiving a repo or handing it off.

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Model Picker Reads From Your Gateway

When ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL points at an Anthropic-compatible gateway, /model now lists models served by that gateway's /v1/models endpoint. If you run Claude Code through an internal proxy, your team's available models appear in the picker without manual configuration.

OAuth Login Now Works in WSL2, SSH, and Containers

claude auth login now accepts the OAuth code pasted directly into the terminal when the browser callback can't reach localhost. If you work in WSL2, over SSH, or inside a container, login no longer hangs waiting for an unreachable callback.

Resume Sessions by Pasting a PR URL

Paste a GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, or Bitbucket PR URL into the /resume search box and Claude Code will find the session that created it. Useful when you want to pick up where you left off on a specific PR without scrolling through your session list.

PowerShell Becomes the Primary Shell When Enabled

When the PowerShell tool is enabled, Claude now treats PowerShell as the primary shell instead of defaulting to Bash. Detection also expanded to cover PowerShell 7 installed via the Microsoft Store, MSI without PATH, or as a .NET global tool.

MCP Servers Can Bypass Tool-Search Deferral

A new alwaysLoad: true option on an MCP server config makes all of that server's tools skip tool-search deferral and stay available throughout the session. Useful for servers whose tools you rely on every turn and don't want gated behind discovery.

PostToolUse Hooks Can Now Rewrite Any Tool Output

PostToolUse hooks can now replace tool output for all tools via hookSpecificOutput.updatedToolOutput, not just MCP tools. You can post-process Bash, Read, or Edit results before the model sees them, opening up redaction and summarization workflows across the full toolset.

Under the Hood

Multiple Multi-GB Memory Leaks Fixed

Several memory issues are resolved this week: unbounded RSS growth when processing many images, up to ~2GB leaked by /usage on machines with large transcript histories, and a leak when long-running tools fail to emit progress events. Pasting an oversized image no longer breaks the session, since images are now downscaled on paste.

Session Reliability Fixes for Sleep, Resume, and Bash

Stream idle timeouts after Mac sleep and during long model thinking pauses are fixed, --resume now skips corrupt transcript lines instead of failing, and the Bash tool no longer becomes permanently unusable when the startup directory is deleted or moved mid-session.

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