Digest / Week of May 4–10, 2026
Codex Week in Review — May 4–10, 2026
733 new issues filed ·
326 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- codex is really too slow
- Codex Desktop silently hides project conversations outside the global recent-50 window
- Full Claude Code Hook Parity (29+)
- Windows Desktop: Chrome plugin unavailable in Norway/EU even though extension is connected
- Computer Use Chrome extension is unavailable in Chrome Web Store; is there an offline installer?
- 0.129.0: /compact fails with unknown service_tier parameter
- Hooks no longer run after Codex Desktop update
- VS Code Codex: central editor panel opens blank on Windows because custom URI route uses fsPath
- Thread navigation/loading slows from unbounded metadata and eager large-history hydration
- state runtime: corrupt `state_5.sqlite` (SQLite "file is not a database") wedges startup with no auto-recovery
- Make Codex CLI sessions available in Codex desktop history
- Compaction failure
- Windows Codex Desktop: Chrome plugin and Browser Use setup hang; plugin uninstall fails with os error 5
- VS Code Codex extension DNS failures: Could not resolve any host name
- Codex Web cannot open PRs
- Previously-existing sessions with full access require approvals
- Codex Desktop Chrome plugin native host connects to different socket than Codex browser-use pipe and times out
- Context compact error
- Codex Web: "Failed to create task" when starting a new cloud task
- Codex CLI still renders at stale terminal size after resize
Day by day
- May 4, 2026 106 new · 37 resolved
- May 5, 2026 99 new · 37 resolved
- May 6, 2026 100 new · 29 resolved
- May 7, 2026 104 new · 42 resolved
- May 8, 2026 146 new · 40 resolved
- May 9, 2026 101 new · 24 resolved
- May 10, 2026 77 new · 117 resolved