Digest / Week of August 10–16, 2026
Codex Week in Review — August 10–16, 2026
845 new issues filed ·
134 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- [Bug] Recurring scheduled tasks disable themselves after successful runs without user authorization
- ChatGPT desktop 26.810.41047 repeatedly spawns Computer Use workers and crashes with V8 OOM on macOS
- [Windows] ChatGPT/Codex desktop app causes system-wide mouse stutter when running without elevation
- [Windows Codex app] Local stdio MCP servers are repeatedly spawned and not reaped within a single task
- Codex Desktop 26.810.41047 can resolve a tracked branch as refs/heads/HEAD when creating a permanent worktree
- ChatGPT on the web: “Too many requests” blocks chat access and disrupts Work tasks
- Codex Windows 26.810.4967 idle main-process CPU busy loop in Chrome plugin app-server hashing
- [Windows][26.810.4967.0] This update makes the entire PC stutter — fully exiting Codex fixes it immediately
- Subagents panel permanently shows completed agents as Active and Working
- [Windows desktop] Chrome native host retry loop consumes a CPU core and causes input lag
- Resume opens a long thread at its first turn: 0.146.1 desynced thread_history projection cursors, and later versions never repair them
- [Windows 11][26.813.12317] ChatGPT/Codex causes persistent system-wide mouse lag and ~10% CPU while idle
- # Windows desktop app 26.810.4967.0 continuously uses high CPU after update, causing mouse and keyboard input lag
- [Bug] Computer Use spawn storm exhausts launchservicesd and triggers WindowServer watchdog kernel panic on macOS 26.5
- [Windows App 26.810.6296.0] Idle ChatGPT.exe loop causes system-wide cursor stutter after Aug 15 update
- CreateProcess: Rejected("Failed to create unified exec process: helper_unknown_error: setup refresh had errors")
- Android Remote cannot start turns in an idle large task: turn/start times out after 30s
- Remote Control cannot attach to a live CLI session on the workstation (completed threads work, in-progress ones fail)
- Codex CLI 0.146.0: /backend-api/codex/responses/compact returns 404 {"detail":"Not Found"}
- Random compaction bug blocking session completely.
Day by day
- August 10, 2026 112 new · 22 resolved
- August 11, 2026 131 new · 18 resolved
- August 12, 2026 137 new · 16 resolved
- August 13, 2026 118 new · 24 resolved
- August 14, 2026 143 new · 16 resolved
- August 15, 2026 122 new · 26 resolved
- August 16, 2026 82 new · 12 resolved