Claude Code v2.1.208 is the release to take if you run long or headless sessions.

It patches leaks that only bite over time: MCP stdio server stderr accumulating unbounded, LSP documents staying open indefinitely, and pasted images retained in the agent view (Releasebot). On top of that, background agents now commit, push, and open a draft PR on completion instead of stopping to ask, the Explore agent inherits your session model capped at opus instead of running on haiku, and there's a new /doctor check that proposes trimming CLAUDE.md content Claude can already derive from the codebase. There's also an opt-in plain-text screen-reader mode via claude --ax-screen-reader. If you run 24/7 agents or headless -p loops, the memory fixes alone are the reason to update today rather than waiting for a feature you want.