What’s new in Codex 0.130.0

Official releaseReleased May 8, 2026Original notes on GitHub

New features

Plugin details now show bundled hooks, and plugin sharing exposes link metadata plus discoverability controls. (#21447, #21495, #21637)
Added codex remote-control as a simpler entrypoint for starting a headless, remotely controllable app-server. (#21424)
App-server clients can page large threads with unloaded, summary, or full turn item views. (#21566)
Bedrock auth can now use AWS console-login credentials from aws login profiles. (#21623)
view_image can resolve files through the selected environment for multi-environment sessions. (#21143)

Live app-server threads now pick up config changes without requiring a restart. (#21187)
Turn diffs stay accurate across apply-patch operations, including partial failures that still mutated files. (#21180, #21518)
Thread summaries, renames, resume, and fork paths work better through ThreadStore, including threads without local rollout paths. (#21264, #21265, #21266)
Remote compaction now emits response.processed for v2 streams and avoids sending service_tier on API-key compact requests. (#21642, #21676)
Windows sandbox setup now grants sandbox users access to the desktop runtime binary cache. (#21564)
Removed stale “research preview” wording from the codex exec startup banner. (#21683)

Fixed issue templates so CLI reports keep the intended guidance, labels apply correctly, and feature requests link to the right contributing docs. (#21685, #21686, #21688)
Updated install and tooling docs to consistently use cargo install --locked. (#21592)

Added a faster Cargo profiling build profile and disabled empty doctest targets to speed up Rust development loops. (#21574, #21584)
Hardened dependency and CI hygiene with fully qualified GitHub Action pins, a Dependabot cooldown, and a cargo-shear upgrade. (#21436, #21547, #21599)
Simplified internal surfaces by removing unused device-key APIs, extra skills roots, the remote thread-store implementation, and string-keyed MCP tool maps. (#21487, #21485, #21596, #21454)
Added configurable OpenTelemetry trace metadata and richer review/feedback analytics for better debugging and triage. (#21556, #18747, #21434, #21498)