Digest / Week of March 30 – April 5, 2026
Codex Week in Review — March 30 – April 5, 2026
429 new issues filed ·
292 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- High CPU usage on macOS after updating Codex in VS Code extension to 26.325.31654
- High GPU usage while the app is “thinking” due to tiny useless animation
- VSCode extension: open-in-targets error loop causes high CPU (Code Helper Renderer 100%+)
- Codex desktop app intermittently freezes Windows shell/UI; opening Codex Settings stops the freeze
- TUI voice transcription
- Codex app on Windows: WSL agent mode fails with: Error creating task Invalid request: AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path
- Codex Desktop triggers sustained syspolicyd/trustd CPU spikes on macOS
- Expected a base64-encoded data URL with an image MIME type
- 0.118.0 sandbox write regression on Linux
- VS Code extension spikes CPU and logs "open-in-target not supported in extension" while rendering diffs after Codex edits files
- TUI freeze during agent fan-out
- TUI/CLI performance regression from 116 to 117
- feat: configurable Windows agent shell (powershell/git-bash)
- Codex Mac Desktop App: existing threads don't load after app restart
- [BUG] Codex v0.118.0 causes macOS kernel panic (os_refcnt overflow) — 2 crashes in 1 day on Apple Silicon
- Frustrated with arbitrary weekly limit resets
- `/resume` not showing the thread name.
- Codex Web Screenshots Are Not anymore available
- Add global search across thread titles and conversation content
- Windows app repeatedly spawns \git ls-files --others --exclude-standard -z`; `ntfs.sys` `NtFC` nonpaged pool grows continuously`
Day by day
- March 30, 2026 53 new · 43 resolved
- March 31, 2026 62 new · 22 resolved
- April 1, 2026 72 new · 18 resolved
- April 2, 2026 81 new · 68 resolved
- April 3, 2026 64 new · 90 resolved
- April 4, 2026 52 new · 27 resolved
- April 5, 2026 45 new · 24 resolved