Codex App

Codex joins the ChatGPT desktop app

9. Juli 2026

• •New features: Edit Markdown and code directly in the app, use inline annotations, and ask Codex to revise selected content.
• •New features: Review GitHub pull requests in the sidebar, with reviewer feedback alongside the diff, without leaving the app.
• •New features: Work across repositories in one project.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Made Computer Use faster with GPT-5.6.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Made task activity and progress easier to follow while Codex works.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Simplified plugin management by moving it into Settings.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved mobile connection reliability and fixed video rendering for SSH projects.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex Remote reaches general availability

25. Juni 2026

Codex Remote has reached general availability. Use Codex from the ChatGPT mobile app to start or continue work on a connected Mac or Windows host, review progress, and approve actions from your phone. Remote Control now uses authenticated one-to-one QR pairing between each iOS or Android device and each host. Update the ChatGPT mobile app and Codex App to the latest versions before connecting. Connections used since June 8, 2026, remain paired; older inactive connections need to pair again. The new DigitalOcean plugin lets Codex provision a DigitalOcean Droplet, configure SSH access, and connect it to the Codex App as a remote workspace. See Remote connections for setup and troubleshooting.

Codex app

18. Juni 2026

• •New features: Added Record & Replay, a macOS feature that turns a demonstrated workflow into a reusable skill. Initial availability excludes the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. You or your administrator must also enable Computer Use.
• •New features: Added bulk actions to automation run history so you can mark every run as read or archive eligible runs.
• •New features: Added thread handoff between local and remote hosts, so you can move a thread to a matching project on a connected host and continue it there. Codex can also coordinate the handoff for you.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Added new deep links to manage SSH connections.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved Browser Use so visible-tab routing and annotations persist when a draft browser session moves to the server.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app features are available in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland

16. Juni 2026

• •Computer Use is available on macOS and Windows in these regions, so Codex can operate desktop apps by seeing, clicking, and typing.
• •The Codex Chrome extension is available for browser tasks that need signed-in Chrome context, working across tabs in the background without taking over your browser.
• •Memories can remember useful preferences, recurring workflows, tech stacks, and repository conventions when enabled. Memories are off by default in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
• •Chronicle is available as an opt-in research preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers on macOS, helping Codex build memories from recent screen context.

Codex app

11. Juni 2026

• •New features: Added rate-limit reset banking for Plus and Pro users, including one free reset at launch and referral invitations for earning more during the current promotion. Eligible Business members can invite coworkers to earn shared workspace credits through a separate referral program.
• •New features: Added Developer mode for Browser use in Chrome and the Codex in-app browser. It gives Codex controlled Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) access for performance profiling and deeper debugging of network traffic, console output, runtime errors, and page state.
• •New features: Added the /init command to the app composer for creating project instructions with the same initialization workflow as the Codex CLI.
• •New features: Added customizable macOS Dock icons with light and dark Codex variants.
• •New features: Added Computer Use for Enterprise users outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
• •New features: Added support for configuring per-app access controls for Computer Use on Windows.
• •New features: Added an Unread chats section to the command menu, with the most recently updated unread chat selected by default.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Made Browser use up to 2x faster through CDP and DOM snapshot optimizations that reduce browser round trips.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Made command, browser, integration, and source activity summaries easier to understand, and improved how completed chats present files, automations, and other durable output.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved plugin management by including workspace plugins, refreshing plugin state more reliably after installation or removal, and letting you upload a new version of an already-shared plugin without changing its access.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved usage-limit errors with inline plan and workspace guidance, including reset timing when available.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Added Cmd+Enter and Ctrl+Enter as shortcuts for submitting custom approval feedback.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed Browser use download handling and improved Developer mode recovery and diagnostics.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed scheduled automations so they honor the selected approval mode, and fixed manual project ordering, Browser tab dragging, MCP app sizing after right-pane transitions, and clickable ChatGPT thread mentions.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed issues affecting background agent tab restoration, commit and pull request message generation, sidebar pull request status updates, Codex Mobile QR pairing, remote-control MFA, remote SSH installation and connection, updater prompts, and overlay positioning at non-default zoom levels.

Codex app

9. Juni 2026

• •New features: Added Import to Codex flows for importing supported setup from Claude Code and Claude Cowork, including during onboarding.
• •New features: Revamped plugins screen with separate tabs, marketplace and category filters, keyboard navigation, and clearer install actions.
• •New features: Expanded Settings search to find options from more panels, including Git and pets.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed goal timer overlap in narrow layouts.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Reduced unread notifications while an active goal continues running.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Kept review diff ordering consistent with the file tree.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved window rendering on systems that don’t support translucent backdrops, including Windows 10.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app updates

4. Juni 2026

• •New features: Added activity insights and share cards to the Profile section. You can review Codex usage highlights and save a profile card; sharing is available on consumer ChatGPT plans.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved Computer Use startup readiness and appshot error reporting.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed browser and review UI issues, including fullscreen browser composer controls, hex color swatches, terminal scrollbar alignment, and animated diff stat alignment.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Expanded onboarding with more role choices so Codex can tailor first-run suggestions more accurately.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed configuration writes after plugin installation.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Build and deploy websites with Sites

2. Juni 2026

Sites is now available in preview in the Codex app. Use the Sites plugin to create, save, deploy, and inspect websites, dashboards, internal tools, web apps, and games hosted by OpenAI. Open Sites in the app sidebar to return to your projects and manage hosted environment variables and secrets. ChatGPT Business workspaces include Sites by default. ChatGPT Enterprise admins can enable Sites for the appropriate roles through role-based access control (RBAC).

Terminal placement controls

1. Juni 2026

• •New features: Added Default terminal location in General settings. When the bottom panel is enabled, choose whether the terminal shortcut and environment actions open terminal tabs in the bottom panel or the right panel.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Computer use and mobile access on Windows

29. Mai 2026

• •New features: Computer Use now works on Windows. Codex can operate Windows desktop apps by seeing, clicking, and typing in the foreground while it works.
• •New features: Remote control now supports Windows devices. You can start Codex work on a Windows device from ChatGPT on iOS or Android, or from a Mac running Codex, and check its progress remotely.
• •New features: The Profile section now shows your profile details, usage stats, and token activity.
• •New features: Added thread coordination for local projects and worktrees, including separate background threads when explicitly requested.
• •New features: Expanded search for past Codex app threads to include conversation content and Git branch names.
• •New features: Added stable identicons for background subagents across the app.
• •New features: Improved keyboard shortcut settings with keypress search and a reset-all action.
• •New features: Improved Chrome context capture for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides tabs.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Appshots, goal mode, and more

21. Mai 2026

• •Goal mode is no longer an experimental feature and is available in the Codex app, IDE extension, and CLI. With Goal mode, you can have Codex drive toward a specific objective for hours or even days.
• •Remote computer use, so Codex can use desktop apps after your Mac locks, including remotely via Codex Mobile. Codex scopes locked use to active, trusted computer use turns and includes safeguards such as short-lived authorization, covered displays, relock on local input, and manual-unlock fallback.
• •Plugin sharing through marketplace sources is available for ChatGPT Business. Enterprise support is coming soon. Teams can distribute reusable plugin bundles that include skills, app integrations, MCP servers, and lifecycle hooks.
• •Advanced in-app browser annotations let you tweak styling such as font size, colors, and spacing directly using annotations. This gives Codex a clearer signal for changes.
• •Browser-use improvements across in-app browser & Chrome: Codex can now download and extract all image assets from a page much more quickly. Codex can now extract structured data from pages more effectively and find information more quickly with a read-only JS sandbox.
• •Chrome extension will create less clutter when using it. Codex will no longer create tab groups when taking over existing tabs, and at the end of a task for handoff. Instead, it uses tab icons to indicate status.
• •Significantly improved reliability for browser use. We fixed bugs on Windows, flaky availability of the plugin to non geo-blocked regions, and many other issues impacting performance.

Codex app

8. Mai 2026

• •New features: Added an in-app trust review flow for hooks and kept Hooks settings reachable even before hooks are fully configured.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Restored tooltip-wrapped dropdowns that could stop opening after the tooltip rewrite.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Preserved in-progress message edits across thread switches.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed several desktop workflow regressions, including Ctrl+V paste in the Windows terminal, opening modified external links outside the in-app browser, and keeping feedback slash commands attached to the right thread.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved loading and panel polish by showing model loading while a thread resumes, hiding unavailable model controls during load, and bundling summary-panel layout and hover fixes.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Kept the Computer Use settings control visible even when uninstalled and disabled problematic extension hover panels.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex for Chrome

7. Mai 2026

With the new extension for Chrome, Codex is even better at working with apps and websites in your browser. It works in parallel across tabs in the background without taking over your browser, and you stay in control of which websites Codex can use. Learn more in the Codex Chrome extension documentation.

Codex app

5. Mai 2026

• •New features: Added dictation cleanup plus a configurable dictation dictionary for names, file paths, and code symbols.
• •New features: Added zoom and download controls to the image lightbox.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved voice and dictation error messages for microphone, connection, and quota failures.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed in-app browser comment markers so they stay aligned across scrolling, zoom, and responsive layout changes.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Made pull request creation and recovery flows more reliable by preserving newly created pull request state, classifying more app-server failures as restart-required, and stopping exhausted remote reconnect loops.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

24. April 2026

• •New features: Added a tooltip on realtime delegation messages to clarify that Codex uses the surrounding voice conversation as context.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed search in long review files so next and previous results reliably jump to off-screen matches.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Kept embedded MCP app panels from restarting or losing state during fullscreen changes and thread reloads.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed several desktop regressions, including tray crashes when the local connection is missing, duplicate macOS fullscreen menu entries, and broken global dictation hotkeys on older macOS versions.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

20. April 2026

• •New features: Added local branch search and non-image file pasting in the composer.
• •New features: Added collapsible sidebar sections, tray usage-limit surfacing, and a command-palette theme switcher.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Made review faster and more stable with better diff batching and preserved diff and search state.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed projectless cwd and permissions handling, default file opening, spreadsheet suggestions, and remote-control reconnect issues.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex can now help with more of your work

16. April 2026

• •Verify more of your work: The Codex app now includes an early in-app browser. You can open local or public pages that don’t require sign-in, comment directly on the rendered page, and ask Codex to address page-level feedback.
• •Verify more of your work: Computer use lets Codex operate macOS apps by seeing, clicking, and typing, which helps with native app testing, simulator flows, low-risk app settings, and GUI-only bugs.
• •Verify more of your work: The feature isn’t available in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland at launch.
• •Start, follow, and steer work: Chats are threads you can start without choosing a project folder first. They’re useful for research, writing, planning, analysis, source gathering, and tool-driven work that doesn’t begin in a codebase.
• •Start, follow, and steer work: For work that needs a later check-in, thread automations can wake up the same thread on a schedule while preserving the conversation context. Use them to check a long-running process, watch for updates, or continue a follow-up loop without starting from scratch.
• •Start, follow, and steer work: The task sidebar makes plans, sources, generated artifacts, and summaries easier to follow while Codex works. Context-aware suggestions can also help you pick up relevant follow-ups when you start or return to Codex.
• •Stronger for software development: Codex now brings more of the pull request workflow into the app. You can inspect GitHub pull requests in the sidebar, review comments in the diff, review changed files, then ask Codex to explain feedback, make changes, check them, and keep the review moving.
• •Review richer outputs: The artifact viewer can preview generated files such as PDF files, spreadsheets, documents, and presentations in the sidebar before you commit or share them. Memories, where available, can also carry useful context from past tasks into future threads, including stable preferences, project conventions, and recurring work patterns.
• •Other features: Remote connections - We’re gradually rolling out SSH remote connections in alpha
• •Other features: Support for multiple terminals
• •Other features: macOS menu bar and Windows system tray support
• •Other features: Multi-window support
• •Other features: Intel Mac support
• •Other features: New plugins
• •Other features: Improved thread and tool rendering

Codex app

12. April 2026

• •New features: Added command-menu file search, including Cmd+P routing into workspace file search.
• •New features: Added rich previews in the sidebar file viewer for images, PDFs, and Markdown.
• •New features: Added terminal tabs per thread, a selected-text Ask Codex overlay, and a Help menu feedback entry.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved review diff whitespace handling and search highlighting.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed in-app browser address bar and external-open issues, plus several file viewer and side-panel bugs.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

10. April 2026

• •New features: Added Windows Store updater support.
• •New features: Expanded pull request workflows with an activity timeline, PR-page commenting, and push choices in the push modal.
• •New features: Added workspace file tabs in the thread side panel, drag-and-drop tab reordering, run action editing, and a logout confirmation dialog.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved pull request board performance and comment flyouts.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved update and navigation resilience, and fixed projectless visibility, unread-state, and pinned-row edge cases.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

9. April 2026

• •New features: Added collapsible inline review comments and inline or detached review modes.
• •New features: Added a Git summary and Sources section in the thread side panel.
• •New features: Added a New Quick Chat command and local video embeds in the app.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Preserved thread scroll position per conversation and unread state across windows.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved review refresh reliability, and fixed dictation loss, right-panel reset, and GitHub reconnect messaging.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

1. April 2026

• •New features: Added workspace settings to the app.
• •New features: Added “Don’t ask again” handling and polish for custom MCP approval panels.
• •New features: Added native Windows updater support, including MSIX support, plus a Windows system tray menu so Codex can stay resident after the last window closes.
• •New features: Added app and file @ mentions in the automation composer, surfaced subagent diff stats in the composer, and added artifact cards for generated file citations.
• •New features: Added a Quick Chat app-menu shortcut, a review file tree open menu, early heartbeat automation affordances in threads, and image support for remote connections.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed review panel scroll jumps and PR status actions while a conversation is still running.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed several multi-window issues, plus @-mention results, duplicate project labeling, Windows runGit behavior, and revert, unstage, and stage-all actions.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved remote-thread and sidebar polish, Windows update recovery, unsupported-version guidance, and overall thread search speed.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed sticky review issues such as diff hunk expansion, header overlap, archive-thread crashes, and window-zoom shell sizing.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

25. März 2026

• •New features: Redesigned the skills and plugins browse and manage pages.
• •New features: Added per-window zoom and a clearer edited-files state in review.
• •New features: Added automation titles and icons in the sidebar, plus bundled Raycast themes.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Kept loaded threads and projects visible during reconnects and made navigation feel faster.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed archive freezes, markdown wrapping, hotkey-window regressions, and several permissions, terminal, and worktree issues.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

24. März 2026

• •New features: Added search for past Codex app threads, including a sidebar shortcut and keyboard shortcuts for jumping to recent threads.
• •New features: Added a one-click option to archive all local threads in a project.
• •New features: Synced key settings between the Codex app and the VS Code extension, and added a settings entry point in the extension.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

20. März 2026

• •New features: Added Floating Composer v2.
• •New features: Added terminal shortcuts for jumping by word and line.
• •New features: Improved plugin discovery surfaces and file-path rendering for saved images.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed sidebar crashes when subagent turn items are missing.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed pop-out thread routing and preserved local paths for composer image attachments.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

19. März 2026

• •New features: Added skills to the @ menu so you can insert them from the composer alongside other mentions.
• •New features: Cmd/Ctrl+F now starts with your current text selection, which makes searching reviews and diffs faster, alongside broader review navigation improvements such as a refreshed file tree and percentage-based file tree resizing.
• •New features: Added a branded loading shimmer while the app starts.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved collapsed diff summaries in review.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed slash-command focus and composer alignment issues, and polished plugin cards and step details.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

18. März 2026

• •New features: You can now fork a conversation from an earlier message, not just the latest turn.
• •New features: Added slash commands for switching models and reasoning levels, and made slash commands work in the middle of a draft prompt.
• •New features: Added notifications for plan mode questions so it’s easier to notice when Codex needs input.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed thread handoff and subagent navigation issues across worktrees and the VS Code extension.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

16. März 2026

• •New features: Added back and forward buttons in the header so you can move between recent screens more quickly.
• •New features: Added an Open in Finder, Open in Explorer, or Open in File Manager action from thread menus to jump straight to a thread’s project folder.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved resume and thread error toasts with clearer details when something goes wrong.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

12. März 2026

• •Revamped Automations: You can now choose whether automations run locally or on a worktree, define custom reasoning levels and models, and use templates to find inspiration for new automations.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Various bug fixes and performance improvements.

Codex app

11. März 2026

• •New features: Codex can now read the integrated terminal for the current thread, so it can check the status of a running development server or refer back to failed build output while it works with you.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.

Codex app

5. März 2026

• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Improved remote connections with clearer connection errors, better status updates, and clearer host labels in thread and settings views.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed copy and paste shortcuts in the integrated terminal on Windows.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed an issue where archived pinned threads could reappear in the sidebar.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Fixed an issue where repeated codex://new links could stop prefilling a new conversation when the app was already open.
• •Performance improvements and bug fixes: Additional performance improvements and bug fixes.