Sonnet 5 is the new default model for Pro, Team Standard, and Enterprise subscription seats: top-tier coding and tool use at Sonnet pricing, with a native 1M-token context window and adaptive thinking on by default. API pricing is promotional at $2/$10 per MTok through August 31. Requires v2.1.197 or later.
Switch to Sonnet 5 by name, or pick it from the model picker:
The Chrome integration is out of preview for everyone on a direct Anthropic plan. Claude Code drives your browser through the Claude in Chrome extension: it opens tabs, clicks through pages, fills forms, reads console logs, and shares your login state, so it can test the app it builds without you switching contexts.
Use Claude Code with ChromeClaude now keeps working while subagents run and picks up their results when they finish, instead of pausing the conversation to wait. Claude still runs a subagent in the foreground when it needs the result before continuing, and background subagents surface every permission prompt in your main session. Pin a subagent’s behavior with the background frontmatter field.
The Claude desktop app is now available on Ubuntu 22.04+ and Debian 12+ in beta, on x86_64 and arm64. You get the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as macOS and Windows: parallel sessions, visual diff review, an integrated terminal and editor, and live app preview. Installs from Anthropic’s apt repository, so updates arrive through regular package updates.
Claude Desktop on LinuxClaude FM is on the air. /radio opens the lo-fi radio stream in your browser for something to code to, and prints the stream URL when no browser is available. Not available on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Agent Platform, or Microsoft Foundry.
Tune in from any session:
Other wins
/model when you haven’t picked a model yourself/skill-a /skill-b do XYZ now load all leading skills (up to 5), not only the firstAskUserQuestion dialogs no longer auto-continue by default; opt into an idle timeout via /config--help, VS Code, and JetBrains; --permission-mode manual is accepted alongside default/dataviz skill gives chart and dashboard design guidance, with a runnable color-palette validatorclaude agents now commit, push, and open a draft PR when they finish code work in a worktree, instead of stopping to askcode-reviewer now exact-match instead of substring-matching; use mcp__brave-search__.* to match all tools from a hyphenated MCP serverCLAUDE_ENABLE_STREAM_WATCHDOG=0 to disable)