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1-hour cache writes were undercounted by 37.5%. Anthropic bills prompt-cache writes
with the 1-hour TTL at 2× input, versus 1.25× for the 5-minute TTL — and Claude Code
sessions use the 1-hour TTL. The extension priced all cache writes at the 5-minute
rate. It now splits the 1-hour portion out of every usage record and prices it at 2×. Your cache-write cost figures will step up after this release — the new numbers are
the correct ones, not an increase in your actual usage.
Sonnet 5 is priced correctly ($2 / $10 per MTok introductory pricing, through
2026-08-31) — it previously fell through to the $3 / $15 default, overstating Sonnet 5
usage by ~50%. Model matching is also more robust: Bedrock-style prefixed ids
(anthropic. / us.anthropic.) now match, and an unlisted or future id is priced by
its family (a future Opus prices as Opus) instead of silently billing at the mid-tier
default.
Totals no longer dip or zero out on transient file errors. Three separate causes,
all fixed to keep the last good data and retry: a session file locked mid-write (common
on Windows) was cached as empty until its next change; a failed listing of the log
directory purged every parsed file and published zeros; and a failed stat on one file
silently dropped its contribution for a pass.
Today's bar no longer disappears from the Daily chart for the rest of the month
after a DST spring-forward in timezones where the clocks skip midnight (e.g. Havana,
Santiago, the Azores).
Case-distinct projects on Linux no longer merge./dev/API and /dev/api are
different directories on a case-sensitive filesystem and now group separately in By project; Windows and macOS keep folding case, matching their filesystems.
The status bar's four items are now distinguishable in the right-click "Hide" menu.
They used to appear as four identical unnamed entries sharing one visibility setting;
each now has its own name and remembers its own visibility.
"Explain with AI" can no longer get stuck on "Analyzing your usage…" — an
unexpected failure now surfaces as an error box in the panel.
A relocated CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR is honored everywhere. The log reader, the limits
cache, credentials, and the shared multi-window cache all resolve from the same root;
previously the live-limits fetch honored the override while the log and cache readers
kept reading ~/.claude, splitting the two sources.
Changed
Much lighter on long, heavy histories. The active session file is no longer re-read
and re-parsed in full on every assistant turn — only the newly appended lines are read
and folded into the parsed cache (with truncation/rewrites detected and re-parsed in
full). Cold startup streams files in chunks instead of loading each as one giant string,
and yields to the editor while parsing. A refresh that finds nothing changed reuses the
previous result instead of rebuilding the record set, repeated strings (model ids,
paths, session ids) are stored once, and the dashboard webview is released while hidden
and rebuilt on reveal — with the last AI explanation preserved — instead of keeping a
full browser context alive in memory.
The limit colors are now yours. The status-bar sunburst and the dashboard bars turn
yellow at your first predictiveAlerts.warnThresholds value and red at your last
(75% / 90% by default), so the colors always agree with your warning notifications. An
explicit warning from Anthropic can still escalate a color, never downgrade one — and
the status bar and dashboard can no longer disagree with each other.
The 5-hour pace meter is visible again for the whole window. 1.4.0 stopped it from
crying wolf, but overshot: it hid the projection for the first half of every window and
whenever you paused for a few minutes, so most of the time there was simply no estimate —
the meter looked broken. It now shows from early in the window and stays put while you're
idle. Early on, the projection is damped toward your current utilization instead of
hidden: a thin early slice extrapolates wildly (5h 15% at 30 min in would read a raw → 150%), so the meter is shrunk toward where you actually are and firms up to the plain
projection by the time the window is half over. Past the half-mark the number is exactly
what 1.4.0 showed. The breach popup is unchanged — it still fires only once the window
is at least half over, you're actively burning, and you're clear of the on-pace band — so
an always-on meter never brings back false "you'll breach" warnings.