Digest / Week of April 6–12, 2026
Codex Week in Review — April 6–12, 2026
400 new issues filed ·
240 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Codex CLI recommends gpt-5.4, then fails with 'Selected model is at capacity' despite available quota
- Codex Windows App keeps spawning `git.exe status --porcelain=v1 -z` and leaves orphan `git.exe` / `conhost.exe` processes
- On Ubuntu, every single normal edit requires skipping sandbox
- Booting MCP Server
- Codex does not auto-refresh routed MCP OAuth tokens even when a refresh token is stored
- Windows app: older local threads disappear from sidebar and sidebar search after restart while still present on disk
- Remote compaction intermittently fails with stream disconnected before completion
- Windows ARM64 running Codex App in Emulation
- Windows: npm install -g @openai/codex installs 0.120.0 but CLI fails with missing @openai/codex-win32-x64
- Windows: App does not fully exit on window close (X) + UI hit-testing issue in sidebar ("New Chat")
- New progress bar indicator for context remaining is a downgrade
- Excessive SQLite WAL writes during streaming due to TRACE logs ignoring RUST_LOG
- can't change model and reasoning efforts sometimes
- Codex CLI renders hook additionalContext as visible developer message
- Feature Request: Ability to check agent status and parent-child wait mechanism
- Recent Thread history wiped in app, present in CLI
- VS Code extension: high renderer CPU in non-git workspace caused by repeated git stable-metadata worker loop
- Status 503 issue persistent
- TUI return can leave stale busy spinner and active-turn inhibitor after subagent completion on Linux/tmux
- Codex tui logs keeps growing and not getting rotated
Day by day
- April 6, 2026 45 new · 33 resolved
- April 7, 2026 42 new · 23 resolved
- April 8, 2026 56 new · 37 resolved
- April 9, 2026 54 new · 25 resolved
- April 10, 2026 70 new · 23 resolved
- April 11, 2026 74 new · 72 resolved
- April 12, 2026 59 new · 27 resolved