What is the difference between versions 0.4.x and 0.5.x?

Open 💬 2 comments Opened Nov 21, 2025 by saidelike
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the VS Code extension are you using?

0.4.43 vs 0.5.43

What subscription do you have?

OpenAI

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.1.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

It seems the VS Code extensions 0.4.43 and 0.5.43 are exactly the same, except the version shown!

What is the reason behind that?

Downloading the 0.4.43 extension from https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/openai/vsextensions/chatgpt/0.4.43/vspackage (gzipped then zipped) or https://openvsxorg.blob.core.windows.net/resources/openai/chatgpt/0.4.43/openai.chatgpt-0.4.43.vsix (zipped)

Downloading the 0.5.43 extension from https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/openai/vsextensions/chatgpt/0.5.43/vspackage (gzipped then zipped) or https://openvsxorg.blob.core.windows.net/resources/openai/chatgpt/0.5.43/openai.chatgpt-0.5.43.vsix (zipped)

Can confirm same binaries:

extensions % diff -s openai.chatgpt-0.4.43/extension/bin/macos-aarch64/codex openai.chatgpt-0.5.43/extension/bin/macos-aarch64/codex
Files openai.chatgpt-0.4.43/extension/bin/macos-aarch64/codex and openai.chatgpt-0.5.43/extension/bin/macos-aarch64/codex are identical

Just the version is different among the entire extension's files!

extensions % diff -r openai.chatgpt-0.4.43/ openai.chatgpt-0.5.43/
diff -r openai.chatgpt-0.4.43/extension/package.json openai.chatgpt-0.5.43/extension/package.json
7c7
<   "version": "0.4.43",
---
>   "version": "0.5.43",
diff -r openai.chatgpt-0.4.43/extension.vsixmanifest openai.chatgpt-0.5.43/extension.vsixmanifest
4c4
<                       <Identity Language="en-US" Id="chatgpt" Version="0.4.43" Publisher="openai" />
---
>                       <Identity Language="en-US" Id="chatgpt" Version="0.5.43" Publisher="openai" />
18c18
< 
---
>                               <Property Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Code.PreRelease" Value="true" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

N/A

What is the expected behavior?

A single version branch is available to make it easier for people to compare their versions.

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 9 months ago

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

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etraut-openai contributor · 9 months ago

The "0.5" version is a prerelease. The "0.4" version is a production release. We typically post a prerelease first and then promote it to a production release after we have confidence that it's working well for the subset of users who opt in to prereleases.

I agree this could be documented better.