Published 2026-10-02 · Original GitHub release notes and downloads
Changes
- macOS startup: preserves the official startup sequence, avoiding overlapping launch ownership and stale-owner delays that can disrupt language, onboarding, and window-control initialization.
- Natural close cleanup: the private window’s red close button stops its owned process and removes the isolated session; minimizing preserves the window.
- Official notifications and tooltips: banners and launch warnings reuse Codex components, styles, and animations. The banner follows the current home composer; tooltip preparation shares source reads and renderer capabilities.
- Unified hat rendering: the original hat-glasses lines use a single path, inheriting host color and opacity across installed and standalone open entry points.
- Windows startup hardening: retains pending opens until actual readiness, tolerates optional UI delays, and preserves the running official app if injection fails. Store package-change recovery adds bounded diagnostics and stronger package and Runtime identity checks.
- Concurrent Windows cache publication: retries temporary directory-handle sharing violations within one bounded window. Existing cache contents are still verified; persistent contention fails safely.
Upgrade
Run inc update for the CLI and Runtime. An older patched macOS app also needs incodex uninstall, then incodex install, to replace its loader and use the startup fix.
Windows app integration adds an experimental current-user login observer; incodex uninstall removes that entry and stops it. See the upgrade guide.
Limitations in this release
- Optional macOS app integration still prevents official Appshot from working; uninstalling integration restores the official app.
- Automatic Windows Store recovery remains experimental. Its first cold launch after a real Store update is unverified.
- After an official Codex update, fully quit Codex and run
incodex installagainst the current package.
This entry describes the release when published. For current steps, see the manual; for isolation limits, see the privacy boundary.