Digest / Week of March 2–8, 2026
Codex Week in Review — March 2–8, 2026
442 new issues filed ·
197 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Usage dropping too quickly
- Support standalone Windows installer (`codex-setup.exe`)
- 5.3 apply_patch fails under sandboxed default permission on Windows
- Codex desktop on Windows cannot start PowerShell host in session (8009001d)
- Windows: bundled rg in Codex Desktop resolves on PATH but fails with Access Denied in integrated PowerShell
- Background process polling wastes tokens: each write_stdin poll triggers full API turn with complete history
- Excessive approval prompts after recent changes for Playwright MCP
- macOS Input Bug: Control-F cursor movement is broken in the Codex app
- Windows desktop in WSL mode uses the Windows CODEX_HOME inside WSL and creates/stores worktrees on /mnt/c instead of the WSL filesystem
- Codex APP（windows）can not open jetbrains IDEA
- Codex Error: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses)
- Error running remote compact task
- Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact)
- Stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses)
- Accented characters not working in Codex on WSL2 terminal in VSCode
- Codex App on Windows, when configured to use WSL, continues to reference the Windows-hosted config.toml
- Codex Windows crashed with WSL - WSL config location
- Codex app doesn't open in WSL with bash
- Hyperlinks not rendered properly and non-clickable now in VS Code extension
- gpt-5.4 generates response to earlier messages not the last user message
Day by day
- March 2, 2026 43 new · 27 resolved
- March 3, 2026 63 new · 40 resolved
- March 4, 2026 41 new · 24 resolved
- March 5, 2026 66 new · 26 resolved
- March 6, 2026 105 new · 23 resolved
- March 7, 2026 59 new · 36 resolved
- March 8, 2026 65 new · 21 resolved