Schaller set out to write a SANE scanner backend for the Plustek OpticFilm 8200i, whose newer chipset Linux did not support. He says he got "nowhere for the longest time" with Claude and gave up for a few months.
In the News: October 15, 2026 (Extra 2)
A GNOME developer says a recorded Windows reference session gave Claude a trace to diff, and it fixed a laptop camera and wrote a scanner driver.
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Claude Code changelog, version 2.1.301
October 15, 2026 · Adds CLAUDE_CODE_RETRY_WATCHDOG_MAX_USAGE_LIMIT_WAIT_MS, so unattended retry mode ends a request at a usage limit that resets too far away instead of waiting. It also adds classifier_verdict and permission_mode to OpenTelemetry tool_decision events. We read the added, changed and improved lists; the collapsed bug-fix list was not read.