Claude Code shipped 30+ releases in April 2026.

Most coverage focused on Opus 4.7 and the pricing drama. The real story was in the changelogs nobody read. Custom themes with JSON configuration files. Plugin dependency resolution with version pinning. Effort-aware skills that adjust resource allocation per task. A CI subcommand that drops into your pipeline like eslint. MCP servers that auto-retry, reconnect in parallel, and manage OAuth credentials. None of these features help you write better code. All of them make Claude Code a habitable environment. After 340+ tracked sessions, I stopped seeing Claude Code as a coding assistant.