LIVE|CLI v0.144.0·model GPT-5.6 Sol·verified 2026-07-09
Vol. I · No. 1Independent coverage of OpenAI CodexMonday, July 13, 2026
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OpenAI's official changelog is terse, and the GitHub feed moves near-daily — 903 releases between April 2025 and July 9, 2026. This hub reads each release so you do not have to, annotating what shipped with links back to the primary record every time.

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codex — release log
$ codex update
✓ downloaded codex-cli v0.144.0 (Jul 9)
+ usage-limit reset credits [detailed]
~ app approvals ["writes" mode]
Δ MCP interactive auth [no opt-in needed]
+ app-server auth [runtime]
# previous release
v0.143.0 (Jul 8) remote plugins on by default
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Releases shipped
903
since Apr 2025
Latest
v0.144.0
2026-07-09
Cadence
near-daily
GitHub releases

Counted from github.com/openai/codex/releases · verified 2026-07-09

The Ledger

Newest first — every item is taken from the official changelog entry for that version, with our annotation after it.

v0.144.0Latest
  • Usage-limit reset credit details. The CLI now surfaces the detail behind usage-limit reset credits.
  • "writes" app-approval mode. App approvals gain a new mode named "writes".
  • MCP interactive auth without the experimental opt-in. Interactive authentication for MCP servers no longer requires an experimental flag.
  • Runtime app-server authentication. App-server authentication now happens at runtime.

Desk read: three of the four items are approvals or authentication plumbing — a permissions release rather than a feature drop.

v0.143.0
  • Remote plugins enabled by default. No opt-in needed anymore.
  • Richer plugin catalog rows. More detail per plugin in the catalog view.
  • npm marketplace sources. Plugin sources can now come from npm.

Desk read: remote plugins going on-by-default is the headline change here.

Honest note

Per-release annotated pages are rolling out — the ledger starts at v0.143.0 and grows with each release. Deeper explainers for the releases that matter land onthe wire.

Where is the official Codex changelog?

Direct answer

It lives in two places. The prose changelog is atlearn.chatgpt.com/docs/changelog — it moved there from developers.openai.com/codex/changelog, which now permanently redirects. The full version-by-version record isgithub.com/openai/codex/releases, where the CLI has shipped 903 releases since April 2025, most days of the week. We annotate the ones that change how you work.