Claude Desktop 1.1.4498 Release Notes: Dock Bounce, Shell Environment Expansion, and Government Cloud Support
User Attention / Dock Bounce
New dockBounceEnabled app setting triggers macOS dock bounce or Windows/Linux taskbar flash when the app isn't focused and needs user input (permission requests, AskUserQuestion calls, notifications). The bounce ID is tracked and cancelled when notifications are dismissed.
Prompt Suggestions
New promptSuggestion field on sessions persists to disk, restores on reload, and clears when messages are sent. Backend propagates via new prompt_suggestion event type, appears in session snapshots. Gated on feature flag 162211072.
Shell Environment Extraction
Shell path worker now runs env inside interactive shell session and filters through whitelist (CC_ENV_EXTRACT_LIST). Whitelist includes: ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, all CLAUDE_CODE_* variables, CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, CLAUDE_CODE_TMPDIR, and full suite of OTEL_* telemetry variables. Windows gets dedicated code path instead of Unix path.
Spaces: reply_to_space MCP Tool
New reply_to_space MCP tool added (behind feature flag) POSTs messages to organizational Spaces via Anthropic API. New "spaces" MCP server category added. Orchestration notifications now support optional spaceUuid and orgUuid fields. New resetBridge() IPC method returns nulled-out { environmentId, dittoUuid, spaceUuid } context.
Government / Custom Deployment Support
New v1() helper detects gov-cloud/custom deployments. When active: Claude Code's baseUrl derives from detected host instead of hardcoded build-time URL, OAuth configs overridden dynamically, VM bundle downloads use custom host, network egress in renderer restricted to single hostname, and DISABLE_MICROCOMPACT: "1" injected into all spawned subprocesses.
Chrome Bridge Tool-Call Timeout
Tool-call timeout reduced from 120 seconds to 10 seconds. New createTimeoutTimer method handles timeout logic with automatic single-retry, preserving originalStartTime and retried flag across attempts. Countdown pauses during user permission dialogs, restarts with fresh window after response. Elapsed time measured from originalStartTime.
Extension Allowlist Refresh
New refreshAllowlistCheck() method added to Extensions IPC bridge (and several other settings bridges) lets renderer trigger re-evaluation of extension allowlist in main process without restart.
Echo Intel Features Removed
Three methods removed from Echo preload bridge: getSlackPulse, runMacroReflection, and getReflections. Renderer can no longer invoke these intelligence/reflection capabilities through IPC surface.
Minor Changes
requestSkooch on QuickWindow bridge now forwards caller-supplied arguments to main process (previously zero-argument signal).
Analysis Cost
Duration: 40m 48s. Model: claude-sonnet-4-6 (253 calls, 1,010 input, 10,909,859 cache read, 1,709,014 cache write, 509,890 output). Total cost: $28.8886.
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