Changelog for IDE Extension
What is the type of issue?
Documentation is missing
What is the issue?
The Codex VSCode extension misses a CHANGELOG that shows what actually changed in any given release.
The current Marketplace version history page (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=openai.chatgpt) only displays the date of Codex VSCode releases, but nothing else. Why upgrade from X to Y if there's no way to understand what that implies or buys us? Did /review or /status find it's way from the Codex CLI release into the VSCode extension release? Currently, there's no way to answer that question.
Looking at the https://github.com/openai/codex repo's git commits or browsing the github issues does not yield any further info either - they are only concerned with the Codex CLI.
Twitter? ouf of luck.
Codex VSCode Menu or Button? Nothing like that exists, unfortunately.
If the Codex VSCode extension had a public git repo I could easily figure it out myself from the git commits, but there's no such public repo either.
The extension simply appears as a black box.
FWIW, here is an example how a normal CHANGELOG page looks like: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/ms-python.python/changelog
That is, it contains the usual kind of CHANGELOG entries, not just a laconic date, and the page is reachable by clicking "Version History", then clicking "CHANGELOG" at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.python
Where did you find it?
_No response_
8 Comments
Any news on this?
Is there any workaround in the meantime to understand what a new extension release is doing or not?
As it is closed source, without a changelog it is very hard to understand what we clicking for an upgrade.
Same issue here, I'd like to know!
#metoo
What’s new in 0.4.79?
I disabled auto-update around 0.4.68 after Enter started submitting the prompt instead of inserting a newline (major behavior change). I’m on 0.4.71 now and hesitant to update further without knowing what changed between releases.
Is there a changelog or release notes somewhere? If not, can you publish minimal version history (even bullet points) so users can evaluate upgrades?
Right now, upgrading is basically “click update and hope nothing breaks.” I’d rather not.
any news on this ?
New is that the version is now 26.325.21211.
Yeah, I don't get it either 🤷
I'm just happy that Codex is quite good and useful tool. These silly issues we're reporting are mere annoyances, not breaking issues.
Eventually, we'll grow out of baby illnesses and get some real QoL updates.
I’d like to add that the same issue also applies to the Codex app.
Some major updates are posted at https://developers.openai.com/codex/changelog, but for smaller and more frequent updates there does not seem to be a reliable way to check what actually changed.
This makes it difficult to understand whether a behavior change, bug fix, UI change, or newly added feature came from a specific update. It would be very helpful if the Codex app and the VSCode extension both had more detailed and consistently updated release notes, even for minor releases.
Without that, users are left guessing and have to manually compare behavior between versions. I would really appreciate it if this could be reviewed together with the VSCode extension changelog issue.