v2.0.2: report safety, platform fixes, and installer improvements

Claude Ads v2.0.2

This update improves installation guidance, report safety, platform evidence, and release validation.

• Adds Google Search/DSA overlap and duplicate-keyword checks based on account routing evidence.
• Makes Meta planning and creative workflows distinguish account, Pixel, and conversion cold starts.
• Corrects Microsoft native-export conversion mapping to ConversionsQualified.
• Escapes untrusted PDF report text and captions.
• Stops failed landing-page analyses from producing misleading grades.
• Validates generated image output before treating it as a successful artifact.
• Improves legacy-install preflight and cross-installer ownership handling.
• Refreshes platform evidence and hardens dependency and release checks, including importer-module and callable-alias regressions.

Community acknowledgments

Thank you to the people whose reports and proposals informed this update. Some fixes were independently implemented or superseded, so these acknowledgments do not imply that each submitted patch was merged.

• @principisimone-sys for the Search/DSA overlap request (#65).
• @HarKro753 for the Meta account, Pixel, and conversion cold-start request (#53).
• @plcosta for the marketplace case-normalization report and proposed documentation fix (#17, #18).
• @ulises2k for reporting the stale marketplace-alias installation problem (#56).
• @kutzki for the Windows dependency-lock and older-install update report (#57).
• @SamaEducationalCo for reporting misleading grades after failed landing-page analysis (#61), and @Bortlesboat for a proposed fix (#66).
• @gabbyran2026-gif and @AbundantASG for proposed fixes to the target-lock test subprocess stub (#58, #59).
• @hendrixfreire for the sensitive-file ignore-pattern report (#32).
• @josefresco for reporting non-actionable Smart Conversions removal advice (#50).
• @dead-simba for prompting a fresh review of Meta architecture guidance (#15).
• @c6zks4gssn-droid for the repository-tooling proposal, including CodeQL (#29).

Verification and scope

Source commit: e38b53059829aef092f186dd2c9803615e18f25f.

• Local tests: 645 passed, 25 platform-specific tests skipped on Linux.
• Public GitHub CI and CodeQL passed on this commit.
• Two clean-commit package builds were verified and byte-identical.
• Dependency audit passed with 17 documented, expiring not_affected exceptions and no unhandled advisories.
• External signed model evaluation, signed release reviews, and the strict private-branch release run are not represented as completed by this release. Publication follows the owner's explicit instruction; the combined repository release gate is not claimed as passed.

The Python core retains its independent 2.0.0 version. Existing capability restrictions remain in force; this update does not enable disabled live integrations or health-scoring profiles. Dependency exceptions remain subject to their documented scope and expiry.

Downloads

Use claude-ads-2.0.2.zip for the packaged distribution. Verify it against SHA256SUMS. The release manifest records the source commit and file hashes; sbom.cdx.json records the runtime dependency inventory.

Prepared on 2026-09-10 and published on 2026-09-11. The previous v2.0.1 release remains available.