Latest release not available on npm (yet)

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Aug 15, 2025 by Frulfump Closed Aug 15, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (bolinfest, collaborator) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

0.21.0

Which model were you using?

gpt-5 high

What platform is your computer?

Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64 x86_64

What steps can reproduce the bug?

npm install -g @openai/codex

changed 1 package in 2s

codex --version

codex-cli 0.21.0

date -u

Fri Aug 15 18:01:05 UTC 2025

What is the expected behavior?

I get 0.22.0 https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.22.0 that was released 31 minutes ago.

What do you see instead?

codex --version

codex-cli 0.21.0

Additional information

N/A

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2 Comments

bolinfest collaborator · 1 year ago

Yes, I was letting some folks kick the tires before promoting. It is on both npm and brew now!

Frulfump · 1 year ago

Could there be a command or something added to the GitHub release to try it out, kinda annoying getting the notification it's released and I can't install it. (Isn't that what pre-releases are for?)