Digest / Week of April 13–19, 2026
Codex Week in Review — April 13–19, 2026
513 new issues filed ·
268 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Codex app on macOS shows 'Computer Use plugin unavailable'
- Context compaction fails with unknown parameter 'prompt_cache_retention'
- Mac app shows persistent blurred/translucent overlay below composer
- Fix: Desktop App - Message send is delayed for ~8 seconds in new sessions after the latest update
- Keep throwing "I'm sorry, but I cannot assist with that request"
- Customizable status line
- [Bug] Computer Use plugin remains "unavailable" on macOS Intel (x86_64) despite MCP server showing as enabled and latest Intel build
- Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact)
- Error running remote compact task
- Regression: Playwright MCP stdio processes still leak after #16895 fix — 213 orphaned pairs, 13.6 GB RSS
- Review tab gets stuck on "Loading diff" on Windows because Codex App passes /F:/... as a literal path to git diff
- Codex Desktop terminal font rendering is still broken / spaced out
- Codex keeps running after weekly limit is reached, without consuming remaining credits
- Codex Desktop: Computer Use approval denied in old/resumed threads after restart, while new threads can authorize normally
- Persistent "Unable to transcribe audio" issue
- Codex Desktop repeatedly starts full MCP stacks for new sessions/subagents, causing severe slowdown and memory pressure
- Abnormally high ram usage in mac app
- Display dot files and folders (.agents/.codex etc)
- [Bug] Recursive Context Poisoning (Cloudflare/WAF) triggering persistent History Loss and False Rate Limits
- Backspace seems to delete more than one character, making prompting harder.
Day by day
- April 13, 2026 64 new · 28 resolved
- April 14, 2026 69 new · 33 resolved
- April 15, 2026 75 new · 33 resolved
- April 16, 2026 97 new · 53 resolved
- April 17, 2026 90 new · 33 resolved
- April 18, 2026 56 new · 63 resolved
- April 19, 2026 62 new · 25 resolved