[Release] anthropics/claude-code v2.1.79: v2.1.79

Claude Code v2.1.79 introduces authentication improvements via Anthropic Console, enhanced UI features including turn duration visibility and AI-generated session titles, and fixes critical bugs affecting subprocess handling, voice mode, streaming, and enterprise rate limiting. The release also improves startup memory usage by ~18MB and adds multi-directory plugin seed support. A new `/remote-control` feature enables bridging VSCode sessions to claude.ai/code for cross-device continuation.

Key Points

• •Added `--console` flag for Anthropic Console (API billing) authentication in `claude auth login`
• •Fixed `claude -p` subprocess hanging issue when spawned without explicit stdin (e.g., Python subprocess.run)
• •Fixed Ctrl+C not working in print mode and `/btw` returning wrong output during streaming
• •Resolved voice mode activation failure on startup when `voiceEnabled: true` is configured
• •Fixed enterprise users unable to retry on 429 rate limit errors
• •Improved startup memory usage by ~18MB across all scenarios
• •Added non-streaming API fallback with 2-minute per-attempt timeout to prevent indefinite hangs
• •`CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_SEED_DIR` now supports multiple directories (`:` on Unix, `;` on Windows)
• •VSCode: New `/remote-control` feature bridges sessions to claude.ai/code for browser/phone continuation
• •VSCode: Session tabs now display AI-generated titles based on first message; fixed thinking pill and session diff button display issues

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