Auto-cleanup old versions after update
Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 2 comments · opened Feb 14, 2026 · closed Feb 14, 2026
The
standalone installer keeps old binaries in ~/.local/share/claude/versions/ without ever cleaning them up.
Each version is ~175MB, so after a few updates it wastes 500MB+. The updater should delete old versions after
successfully symlinking the new one.
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