Claude API ships version 2026-10-21, its first since 2023: sampling parameters removed, new major SDKs across languages
On Oct 21 Anthropic released Claude API version 2026-10-21, its first official version since 2023. It removes the temperature, top_p and top_k sampling parameters and drops old Admin API field names, while new SDK majors (Python 2.0, TypeScript 1.0, Go 2.0, Java 3.0 and more) default to it. Version 2023-06-01 is not deprecated.
Key Takeaways
- Version:
2026-10-21is the Claude API's first official version since 2023;2023-06-01is not deprecated and more frequent versions are planned - Breaking: sending
temperature,top_portop_kreturns a 400 on every model; Claude 4.7+ models behave as before - SDKs: Python 2.0.0, TypeScript 1.0.0, Go 2.0.0 (/v2 path), Java 3.0.0, C# 13.0.0, Ruby 2.0.0, PHP 1.0.0, ant CLI 2.0.0
- Auth: SDKs send the API key as
Authorization: Bearerand hold 1 credential per client; SDK license moves to Apache 2.0 - Platforms: Claude API, Claude Platform on AWS, Microsoft Foundry, Google Cloud; Bedrock only for Claude 4.7+, see the migration guide