What’s new in Codex 0.149.0

Official releaseReleased Aug 20, 2026Original notes on GitHub

New features

Added an interactive codex agents dashboard for searching, starting, opening, renaming, and stopping tasks, with configurable shortcuts. (#39094, #39112, #39114, #39142)
Added /cd, /pwd, and /cwd commands for managing the working directory in TUI sessions. (#38894)
Added codex queue for sending messages to existing local or remote sessions. (#39092)
Expanded Vim editing with character replacement and more change motions such as cw, c$, and cc. (#39661)
codex doctor now diagnoses endpoint protection, network/proxy failures, desktop app state, and update connectivity. (#38827, #38918, #39060, #39074)
SDK users can now pass exact CLI config overrides and select max or ultra reasoning effort. (#38817, #39662)

Queued messages now wake idle sessions reliably, resolve duplicate session names more usefully, and preserve pasted or deferred command semantics. (#39034, #39385, #39604)
Resumed and forked threads now restore their active permission profile instead of silently falling back to current defaults. (#39153)
Fixed duplicate sub-agent activity and tightened TUI routing for sub-agent notifications and approvals. (#39049, #39088)
Realtime WebRTC sideband connections now reconnect after unexpected transport loss without dropping pending output. (#39257)
Inline TUI history now remains available in Windows Terminal scrollback. (#39619)
Inactive TUI thread replay buffers are now bounded to prevent excessive retained streamed output. (#39081)

Clarified that external contributions should go through issues and design discussion rather than pull requests. (#39089)
Documented DNS exfiltration risks and trust limitations for secure devcontainers. (#39283)