●OPUS5 — Claude Opus 5 has arrived: a faster, more cost-efficient model for coding and knowledge work, now the default on Max and the top choice on Pro●SUNSET — Claude Opus 4.1, deprecated back on June 5, reaches its retirement date today, August 5. Worth checking anywhere you pin an API version●FOCUS — VSCode gains a Focus view that tucks tool activity behind a per-turn summary, so Ctrl+Alt+F leaves you with just the thread of the conversation●MASK — Sandbox credential masking landed for Linux and WSL. Commands inside read a sentinel copy while the proxy substitutes the real value on egress●LEAK — Several long-session memory leaks are fixed, including MCP stdio stderr piling up and LSP documents that never closed●MCP — The 2026-07-28 MCP spec brings a stateless core plus stronger OAuth and OIDC authorization. Monthly SDK downloads have passed 400 million●OPUS5 — Claude Opus 5 has arrived: a faster, more cost-efficient model for coding and knowledge work, now the default on Max and the top choice on Pro●SUNSET — Claude Opus 4.1, deprecated back on June 5, reaches its retirement date today, August 5. Worth checking anywhere you pin an API version●FOCUS — VSCode gains a Focus view that tucks tool activity behind a per-turn summary, so Ctrl+Alt+F leaves you with just the thread of the conversation●MASK — Sandbox credential masking landed for Linux and WSL. Commands inside read a sentinel copy while the proxy substitutes the real value on egress●LEAK — Several long-session memory leaks are fixed, including MCP stdio stderr piling up and LSP documents that never closed●MCP — The 2026-07-28 MCP spec brings a stateless core plus stronger OAuth and OIDC authorization. Monthly SDK downloads have passed 400 million