Digest / Week of April 27 – May 3, 2026
Codex Week in Review — April 27 – May 3, 2026
666 new issues filed ·
291 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Phone number verification doesn't work
- Codex App frequently freezes/stutters on Windows 11 Pro despite sufficient system resources
- Codex Desktop project chat histories disappeared after recent update
- Codex App: View > Toggle File Tree is enabled but does not reliably reveal the file tree
- ChatGPT asking phone number verify but didn't send any code yet
- Feature request: support multiple named accounts per app/connector
- Goals: active goal continuation prompt and audit requirements can be lost after mid-turn compaction
- App silently creates empty `~/Documents/Codex` folder on every launch
- Codex Desktop App becomes laggy because it scans all `~/.codex/sessions` rollout files instead of respecting Desktop-visible session index/state
- Custom pets fail to load in WSL environments due to path normalization
- `/goal` slash command does not work in 0.128.0
- Speed setting resets to Fast on VS Code reopen and cannot be changed while Codex settings tab is open
- Codex Desktop should use a project-scoped MCP process pool instead of starting MCP per session
- Computer Use crashes SkyComputerUseService when inspecting Outlook on macOS
- Codex Desktop shows workspace dependency repair on Windows 10, but install fails because Windows 10 is unsupported
- fix(browser): Browser Use cannot connect to IAB from Node REPL on macOS
- MCP tool invocation regressed for custom/local providers (Ollama Responses API) in v0.117.0+
- Phone number formatting bug for +251 adds extra leading zero and prevents verification code delivery
- Low cache hit rate when Codex integrates with GPT-5.5
- Feature Request: [App] Make the "Chats" project directory configurable
Day by day
- April 27, 2026 99 new · 31 resolved
- April 28, 2026 107 new · 42 resolved
- April 29, 2026 111 new · 33 resolved
- April 30, 2026 88 new · 38 resolved
- May 1, 2026 110 new · 32 resolved
- May 2, 2026 86 new · 89 resolved
- May 3, 2026 65 new · 26 resolved