What’s new in Codex 0.146.0

Official releaseReleased Jul 29, 2026Original notes on GitHub

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)

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)

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

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)