Codex Updates & Release Notes

New features

• Apple Messages: Use the Apple Messages plugin to read and search Messages chats on your Mac and prepare or send messages. It’s available on all plans in the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. You can use the plugin in ChatGPT Work and Codex. By default, ChatGPT sends messages only after you approve the message and its recipients. See the plugin guide for persistent-approval risks, revocation steps, and the known issue with tasks that disable approval prompts.
• Site co-editing: Where Site collaboration is available, owners can invite active members of the same workspace as editors. Editors can read the Site’s live database data, update the Site, save versions, and publish changes after the owner publishes the Site for the first time. Owners retain control of the audience, settings, analytics, ownership, version restoration, and editor access.
• Editable Site URLs: Where URL editing is available, owners can change an existing Site’s ChatGPT-hosted address without creating another deployment. The previous address redirects to the new URL. Custom domains are a separate, existing feature and aren’t changed by this setting.
• Computer History in Europe: Computer History is now available in the EEA, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom for ChatGPT Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS. It’s off by default and requires Memories. Business and Enterprise administrators must enable access before workspace members can choose to turn it on.
• Shared thread snapshots: On all Codex plans, share a read-only snapshot of a local Codex thread from the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. The snapshot doesn’t update when the original thread changes. Personal-account links can be opened by anyone with the link; workspace-account links are limited to members of the originating workspace. Codex redacts known secret patterns, but review the shared content because sensitive content may remain. View or revoke links in ChatGPT data controls, under Shared links.
• Unified pinned threads: Keep the same pinned chats across the ChatGPT desktop app and iOS.

Computer History is an opt-in feature in the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS that turns activity across apps and websites into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use. Choose which apps and websites contribute, pause collection, and review or delete your history at any time.

Computer History is available to ChatGPT Pro, Business, and Enterprise users. Business and Enterprise administrators must enable access before workspace members can turn it on. Initial availability excludes the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Install the ChatGPT desktop app on Linux

The ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is available in preview for supported Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora desktop distributions on x64 and ARM64 processors. Download the .deb or .rpm package for your distribution, then sign in to work with projects, local files, and Codex.

Import setup and recent work from other agents

The desktop app supports Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Cursor. Import instructions, settings, skills, plugins, projects, and recent work, then turn on automatic updates in Settings > Import to keep imported work in sync.

Codex CLI can also import supported setup and recent chats from Claude Code and Cursor with /import.

New Features

• Install portable Agent Plugins and search across local, personal, workspace, and remote plugin catalogs. (#36544, #36409, #36919, #36796)
• Organize conversations into persistent, manually ordered sections and browse long transcripts incrementally. (#35722, #36007, #36380, #36948, #36950)
• Enable automatically reviewed approvals with the new --approve-for-me CLI flag. (#36373)
• Import Cursor-managed skills and synchronize changes to imported Claude and Cursor conversations without creating duplicates. (#36361, #36356, #35623)
• Support the opt-in MCP 2026-07-28 protocol, including paginated discovery, multi-round requests, and non-blocking server startup. (#35724, #35725, #35590, #35742)
• Enable cached web search and remote conversation compaction for Amazon Bedrock. (#36938, #36981)

Bug Fixes

• Redact secrets and complete bearer tokens from displayed commands and replayed conversation history. (#36893, #36908)
• Prevent lost or stalled terminal input when focus returns, MCP servers initialize, or Ghostty handles keyboard shortcuts. (#35649, #35957, #36834)
• Correct rendering and cursor positioning for Japanese characters, emoji, hyperlinks, and text near viewport boundaries. (#35960, #35962, #37166)
• Properly interrupt Windows background processes and handle Windows filesystem paths consistently. (#35655, #35851, #37129)
• Require explicit trust for unfamiliar local projects and enforce managed authentication restrictions before credentials are used. (#36960, #37132)
• Harden plugin isolation and deny network access when policy updates fail. (#37027, #36967, #36037)

Documentation

• Improve the bundled OpenAI documentation skill with targeted official-source lookup and clearer guidance for Codex, model selection, and API workflows. (#36014)

Chores

• Upgrade the MCP SDK to 3.0.0, Ratatui to 0.30.2, and V8 to 150.4.0. (#36001, #35959, #35831)
• Secure macOS release notarization using Azure Key Vault instead of exporting private signing keys. (#37154)
• Remove the deprecated codex exec --full-auto flag; use --sandbox workspace-write instead. (#36054)
• Stop publishing redundant Linux bundle archives; use the standard codex-package- release archives. (#36342)

Changelog

Full Changelog: rust-v0.146.0...rust-v0.147.0

Browse and find context faster

The latest ChatGPT desktop app update makes browsing, reviewing code, and editing generated images faster and easier.

• Type in the built-in browser’s address bar to revisit pages from your browsing history or search Google when there’s no match.
• Manage your browsing history in Settings, and let ChatGPT search that history when a task needs to find a page you visited before.
• Use the Chrome extension to mention open tabs or bring highlighted page text into your side chat.
• Ask questions about any YouTube video in the Chrome extension and get answers in seconds.
• Right-click a webpage and select Ask ChatGPT.

Learn more about the built-in browser and the Chrome extension.

Review changes across repositories

See all repositories in a multi-folder project and the lines changed in each one. Select Review to inspect diffs across those repositories without switching between separate review views.

Refine generated images

Open generated images in an expanded viewer, and switch between Focused view and Canvas view. Add comments across images, choose the ones you want, and send targeted edits without leaving your conversation. Learn more about image generation.

Other improvements and bug fixes

• Added a new “Activity view” in the sidebar to view which chats you engaged with recently and require attention. Click the bell or use Cmd/Ctrl+Opt+U to change to the new view.
• Updated browser settings to show only supported browsers.
• Improved Windows installation reliability when package file paths are long.
• Other performance and bug fixes.

New Features

• Name new sessions with /new or /clear, pin important threads, and switch between side conversations without closing them. (#34605, #34840, #35011)
• Support Agent Plugins manifests, workspace plugin publishing, and additional plugin marketplaces for Amazon Bedrock and Claude Code. (#35105, #35254, #34931, #34979)
• Fork threads with paginated history, including temporary forks that do not appear in thread listings. (#35220, #35251)
• Connect app-server to remote Code Mode hosts over WebSocket. (#35078, #35098)
• Enable standalone web search for compatible custom model providers. (#34846)
• Discover executor-provided skills and securely read their associated resources, including explicitly selected skills. (#35184, #35198)

Bug Fixes

• Honor configured proxies across authentication, plugin downloads, MCP authorization, remote execution, WebSockets, redirects, and LM Studio connections. (#34479, #34509, #34655, #34678, #35023, #35056, #35239)
• Keep MCP connections and Apps tools current when authentication or configuration changes, reconnecting closed servers without restarting healthy connections. (#34952, #34957, #35028, #35144, #35146, #35151)
• Preserve submitted messages, final responses, failed-turn errors, imported timestamps, and approval settings across interruptions, replay, imports, and forks. (#34839, #34777, #35524, #34989, #34664)
• Improve terminal responsiveness and rendering, including nonblocking interrupts, keyboard handling, narrow layouts, hyperlinks, and refreshed mention results. (#35000, #35021, #34775, #34778, #35365, #35375)
• Fix Windows navigation keys, reliably terminate sandboxed process trees, and preserve proxy settings during security reviews. (#34625, #34624, #35036)
• Retain more available skills under tight context budgets and warn when skill catalogs must be truncated. (#34732, #34738, #34997)

Documentation

• Document shared HTTP-client usage, proxy-aware connection pooling, and safe outbound request handling. (#34669)
• Clarify Windows drive-letter canonicalization for PathUri values. (#34667)

Chores

• Publish release artifacts, channel metadata, and installer aliases through OpenAI-hosted release infrastructure, with GitHub fallback. (#34505, #34508, #34729, #34910)
• Sign and notarize bundled macOS helper executables before packaging. (#35264)
• Reduce app-server serialization overhead and unnecessary request-building allocations. (#34761, #34766, #34825)
• Add enterprise-plan recognition and administrator controls for in-app updates. (#35238, #35537)

Changelog

Full Changelog: rust-v0.145.0...rust-v0.146.0

Powered by GPT-Live, ChatGPT Voice lets you talk through work and coordinate tasks in Chat, Work, and Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app.

Start a new chat or task in voice mode, then ask ChatGPT to start, check, or steer work in other threads. On macOS, turn on Screen context to share an appshot of your frontmost window.

Voice is available with Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, and Enterprise plans in the desktop app and through Remote on iOS.

Local projects in the ChatGPT desktop app can now include multiple related folders. From a project’s menu, select Edit project to add folders and choose the primary folder. New chats, Git operations, and automatic discovery of AGENTS.md, skills, and config.toml use the primary folder. Secondary folders remain available for file search, reading, and editing.

Get started with ChatGPT Voice and multi-folder local projects.

Codex is now part of the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS and Windows. Existing Codex app users can update as usual and keep their projects, settings, and workflows. You can make Codex the default view and, on macOS, keep the Codex app icon.

New features

• Edit Markdown and code directly in the app, use inline annotations, and ask Codex to revise selected content.
• Use PR Chat to review GitHub pull requests and ask Codex about changes in context. Send inline review feedback, inspect proposed patches, and edit, accept, or reject them without leaving the app.
• Connect custom domains to published Sites.

Performance improvements and bug fixes

• Made Computer Use faster with GPT-5.6.
• Made task and subagent activity easier to follow while Codex works.
• Simplified plugin management by moving it into Settings.
• Improved permission handling when resuming tasks or sending follow-ups.
• Added clearer Full access warnings and dialog when combinging Full access with Ultra.
• Improved macOS and Windows setup, including macOS installation, Git-backed workflows, and Computer Use on Windows.
• Fixed task resumption for local projects and onboarding retry loops.
• Fixed scrolling in pull request reviews and expanded Mermaid diagram labels.
• Improved mobile connection reliability and fixed video rendering for SSH projects.
• Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.