Digest / Week of March 16–22, 2026
Codex Week in Review — March 16–22, 2026
358 new issues filed ·
225 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Error running remote compact task
- bwrap: Approval prompt shown for almost every command
- bwrap: Failed RTM_NEWADDR: Operation not permitted
- Performance: high CPU utilization with IDE extension
- Couldn't set up admin sandbox
- Desktop automations silently fall back to workspace-write sandbox regardless of app configuration
- high CPU consuming when codex diff render
- High API error rate during remote compaction; now ALL Codex CLI API calls fail with “high demand” error last ~2hrs
- `apply_patch` fails on Windows after first write in sandbox-owned directory in VS Code Extension
- Increase cap of sessions in VS Code extension
- Support moving/remapping a workspace folder without losing thread history
- Custom subagents in .codex/agents are not accessible from tool-backed Codex sessions as docs imply
- Desktop app: explicit cross-thread orchestration over existing thread/* and turn/* primitives
- Codex is looking for bwrap in wrong place
- Support inbound MCP notifications routed into an active Codex CLI session
- Suppress the warning `⚠ Codex could not find system bubblewrap at /usr/bin/bwrap` when sandbox is bypassed.
- "Open in Popup Window" now replaces the existing popup instead of opening multiple windows
- Inconsistent scrollback / output rendering behavior on Windows Terminal vs macOS terminal
- Sandboxed tool calls fail on Ubuntu 20.04 with bubblewrap 0.4.0 ('bwrap: Unknown option --argv0')
- Playwright MCP no longer offers or remembers "approve for this session"
Day by day
- March 16, 2026 49 new · 34 resolved
- March 17, 2026 65 new · 22 resolved
- March 18, 2026 46 new · 17 resolved
- March 19, 2026 52 new · 29 resolved
- March 20, 2026 69 new · 90 resolved
- March 21, 2026 45 new · 21 resolved
- March 22, 2026 32 new · 12 resolved