Digest / Week of May 25–31, 2026
Codex Week in Review — May 25–31, 2026
712 new issues filed ·
259 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- macOS Codex relaunch loop exhausts syspolicyd file descriptors and blocks app launches
- Add an option to disable automatic conversion of long pasted prompts into .txt attachments
- Windows sandbox: spawn setup refresh fails on Codex CLI 0.133.0
- GitHub OAuth callback fails with "Unable to find Electron app" on Windows
- Scope Codex VS Code chats to the current workspace/project
- GPT-5.5 Fast suddenly feels as slow as Standard, with long thinking/context/search stalls
- Codex Desktop Windows: connector OAuth "Open in Codex" opens Electron error instead of completing callback
- Windows Computer Use screenshot fails on Windows 10 22H2 when SetIsBorderRequired is called
- HERMES AGENT OAUTH BROKEN - "Error: 'NoneType' object is not iterable"
- Codex session logs grow to 700MB-2GB from repeated compaction history and raw tool output
- Codex Desktop high CPU from unbounded active thread metadata and local history/list processing
- [Windows] Bundled plugins (Computer Use, Browser, Chrome, LaTeX) unavailable — copyfile fails on EFS-encrypted WindowsApps files
- Codex ChatGPT login flow
- Windows Codex Desktop spawns powershell.exe every second for full process polling, causing high CPU usage
- Computer Use cannot determine Chrome URL on Windows, even on chrome://newtab/
- Windows Codex App: Browser Use blocked by enterprise network policy even for example.com
- Windows Computer Use plugin fails to bootstrap: native pipe path is unavailable
- Codex app accumulates stale subagents in cache/UI and they cannot be closed reliably
- Codex Desktop keeps stale app connector link after reauth-required 401 until codex_apps cache is cleared
- Tracker: Codex business access-tokens broken (401 unauthorized)
Day by day
- May 25, 2026 88 new · 18 resolved
- May 26, 2026 105 new · 28 resolved
- May 27, 2026 107 new · 26 resolved
- May 28, 2026 89 new · 30 resolved
- May 29, 2026 86 new · 19 resolved
- May 30, 2026 134 new · 41 resolved
- May 31, 2026 103 new · 97 resolved