Digest / Week of April 20–26, 2026
Codex Week in Review — April 20–26, 2026
721 new issues filed ·
320 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Support 1M token context for GPT-5.5 in Codex
- Frequent reconnect loop in Codex App: websocket closed by server before response.completed
- Unable to open past conversation history in VS Code extension
- Selected model is at capacity
- Custom stdio MCP server discovered by /mcp but tools not exposed to Desktop threads
- Pro weekly usage limit depletes unusually fast on 5.5, worsened by unstable context compaction
- unexpected status 404 Not Found: Model not found gpt-5.4
- Codex Desktop GPT-5.5 remote compaction fails and leaves thread unusable
- Add full RTL (Right-To-Left) text direction support for Arabic & Hebrew users
- config.toml context window settings are not respected
- Codex macOS startup failure: unsupported feature enablement `workspace_dependencies`
- Flagged while already being verified
- 403 forbidden error.
- Make skills metadata context budget configurable instead of hardcoded 2%
- Codex Desktop will not boot up on Mac OS Arm
- Desktop performance collapses in profiles with a few very large local conversation histories (typing, scrolling, thread list, random exits)
- Codex CLI 0.124.0 misreports `gh auth status` as invalid inside Codex session
- Feature request: Full Computer Use support for Codex Desktop on Windows
- TUI: support Markdown math rendering for inline and block LaTeX
- Codex Desktop IAB cannot inspect external pages because app-server fails to start on Windows
Day by day
- April 20, 2026 92 new · 40 resolved
- April 21, 2026 75 new · 41 resolved
- April 22, 2026 75 new · 44 resolved
- April 23, 2026 117 new · 56 resolved
- April 24, 2026 171 new · 56 resolved
- April 25, 2026 105 new · 40 resolved
- April 26, 2026 86 new · 43 resolved