Digest / Week of May 11–17, 2026
Codex Week in Review — May 11–17, 2026
755 new issues filed ·
295 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Failed to authorize remote control
- Unable to locate the Codex CLI binary. Set CODEX_CLI_PATH or ensure the Electron resources include bin/codex.
- Waiting for desktop despite Codex App being authorized
- Codex mobile Remote Control stale host cannot be removed and QR pairing fails
- "Oops, an error has occurred" displayed after successful file editing tasks
- Revoked remote control access for a device, connections remain on ChatGPT mobile app without a way to delete, cannot pair again
- Long conversations cannot be opened at all after updating the OpenAI Windows desktop app, urgent fix needed!
- Codex mobile remote connection cannot be paired again after removing device on Mac
- Codex Mobile setup QR on Android resolves to unhandled https://com.openai.chat link
- Mobile remote setup fails with “Secure setup failed” when connecting to computer
- Codex Desktop on Windows is extremely slow even when the computer is fine
- Mac OS could not open codex because it's malware
- Regression: Codex CLI 0.131.0-alpha.22 prints raw ANSI escape sequences in Windows TUI startup/resume
- Conversation Compaction Telemetry / Context Health
- Codex Desktop: context compaction fails with remote compact stream disconnected
- Codex mobile shows running desktop as offline and Reconnect silently does nothing
- Codex Desktop should avoid OneDrive-backed Documents as the default Windows project location
- TypeScript SDK JSONL parser fails on multiline MCP tool results (patch available)
- Better key authentication on SSH host remote connections on the Desktop and iOS apps
- iOS/macOS Remote Control broken after desktop update: host online, mobile 403/offline/stale Plan state
Day by day
- May 11, 2026 99 new · 28 resolved
- May 12, 2026 100 new · 28 resolved
- May 13, 2026 92 new · 32 resolved
- May 14, 2026 94 new · 53 resolved
- May 15, 2026 138 new · 23 resolved
- May 16, 2026 135 new · 108 resolved
- May 17, 2026 97 new · 23 resolved