After updating VS Code to 1.111.0, the Codex/OpenAI sidebar icon disappeared.

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Mar 14, 2026 by ppintosousa Closed Mar 14, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

1.111.0

What subscription do you have?

plus

Which IDE are you using?

VScode

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

After updating VS Code to 1.111.0, the Codex/OpenAI sidebar icon disappeared.
Extension version: 26.311.21342
Rolling back to the previous extension version made the icon reappear.

OS: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
VS Code: 1.111.0
Extension: 26.311.21342

This looks like a regression in the extension UI / activity bar registration.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I can reproduce a regression with the VS Code extension.

After updating VS Code to 1.111.0, the Codex icon disappeared from the sidebar.
Installed extension version: 26.311.21342
Workaround: installing the previous extension version makes the icon reappear.

Please investigate whether 26.311.21342 introduced a regression in the sidebar/activity bar view registration.

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #14586

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etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Please see #14586.