Claude Code 2.1.281 release notes

Version

2.1.281

Released

23 September 2026

Status

Stable release

What's new in Claude Code 2.1.281

The official notes for Claude Code 2.1.281 list 176 changes: 10 new features, 90 fixes, 1 performance improvement, 1 security change and 74 other changes.

• 10 new features
• 90 fixes
• 1 performance improvement
• 1 security change
• 74 other changes

Highlights

• security change Fixed macOS credential writes dropping stored MCP OAuth tokens or deleting the keychain entry when the login keychain was locked…
• new feature Added Claude apps gateway support for newer Claude Desktop keys in desktop policy blocks, including blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories and disableBypassPermissionsMode
• new feature Added assume_role on Claude apps gateway Bedrock upstreams: the gateway calls Bedrock as an IAM role it assumes through STS…
• new feature Added guardrail: {id, version} on Claude apps gateway Bedrock upstreams to apply an Amazon Bedrock guardrail to every request sent…
• new feature Added telemetry.resource_attributes to the Claude apps gateway config, to put fixed labels on the telemetry of Claude Desktop and /login…

Our short summary: changes are counted and classified automatically from the official notes, and highlights are shortened. The complete, authoritative list is in the official release notes on GitHub.

Full release notes on GitHub (Claude Code 2.1.281)

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