Digest / Week of July 27 – August 2, 2026
Codex Week in Review — July 27 – August 2, 2026
886 new issues filed ·
113 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Paginated history drops valid flattened rollout records and reuses ordinals
- Regression: iOS Remote only lists projects with recent chats
- BLOCKER - Model not found gpt-5.6-sol
- Windows sandbox: CreateProcessAsUserW fails with error 5 when the resolved shell is the MSIX (Store) build of pwsh
- [IDE] Max reasoning effort is missing in the VS Code extension while available in Codex App
- FUCK YOU OPENAI, FUCK YOU
- [Windows Desktop] Full-process PowerShell/WMI polling remains in 26.721.4979.0 and contributes to system-wide input lag
- Codex VS Code Extension – Diff view fails to open
- [BUGFIX INCLUDED] Windows unelevated sandbox rejects enforceable split writable roots, breaking apply_patch updates and deletes
- `0.147.0-alpha.4`: OpenAI parent still sends encrypted V2 task to non-OpenAI child after #35845
- ChatGPT Chrome extension had a nodePath bug and cannot be opened
- Rollout JSONL files deleted at app-server process transition: 934 of 942 threads orphaned (Windows 26.721.4979)
- [P0][Regression] macOS app OOM-crashes at startup: external-agent-import parses 1.73 GB from Claude Desktop's app-support directory on every launch
- Continuing a sidebar conversation in a new task fails with "no rollout found"
- [Windows app] System-wide mouse/input lag from repeated PowerShell WMI process snapshots
- CLI hard-fails at startup when any process holds a write lock on logs_2.sqlite (telemetry DB gates boot; flat 5s busy_timeout, no retry)
- Subagent task payload invisible to custom non-OpenAI providers (DeepSeek): encrypted_content block dropped with multi_agent_version v2
- Possible incorrect Codex weekly usage accounting on ChatGPT Plus (weekly quota exhausted in less than 24 hours)
- New realtime voice chats start projectless instead of attaching to the selected project folder
- Windows sandbox fails with helper_unknown_error: apply deny-read ACLs in workspace-write mode
Day by day
- July 27, 2026 129 new · 21 resolved
- July 28, 2026 118 new · 11 resolved
- July 29, 2026 153 new · 18 resolved
- July 30, 2026 145 new · 20 resolved
- July 31, 2026 123 new · 17 resolved
- August 1, 2026 115 new · 15 resolved
- August 2, 2026 103 new · 11 resolved