release: 0.96.1

Author: stainless-app[bot]

.release-please-manifest.json

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 {
-  ".": "0.96.0"
+  ".": "0.96.1"
 }

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Changelog
 
+## 0.96.1 (2026-04-19)
+
+Full Changelog: [v0.96.0...v0.96.1](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python/compare/v0.96.0...v0.96.1)
+
+### Performance Improvements
+
+* **client:** optimize file structure copying in multipart requests ([1f9eed3](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python/commit/1f9eed3a953c8cef0967df8470e04f7ac8fe3235))
+
+
+### Chores
+
+* **tests:** bump steady to v0.22.1 ([a4b7184](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python/commit/a4b7184e57410ae92a409db5ee6fec90edceaa51))
+
 ## 0.96.0 (2026-04-16)
 
 Full Changelog: [v0.95.0...v0.96.0](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python/compare/v0.95.0...v0.96.0)

pyproject.toml

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 [project]
 name = "anthropic"
-version = "0.96.0"
+version = "0.96.1"
 description = "The official Python library for the anthropic API"
 dynamic = ["readme"]
 license = "MIT"

src/anthropic/_version.py

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 # File generated from our OpenAPI spec by Stainless. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
 
 __title__ = "anthropic"
-__version__ = "0.96.0"  # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = "0.96.1"  # x-release-please-version