OpenAI Codex CLI vrust-v0.79.0
Summary
New Features - Add multi-conversation “agent control” so a session can spawn or message other conversations programmatically (8783, 8788) - Add app-server thread/rollback so IDE clients can undo th...
Release Notes
New Features - Add multi-conversation “agent control” so a session can spawn or message other conversations programmatically (8783, 8788) - Add app-server thread/rollback so IDE clients can undo the last N turns without rewriting history (8454) - Add websearchcached to enable cached-only Web Search results as a safer alternative to live requests (8795) - Allow global exec flags (model/json/sandbox toggles, etc.) to be passed after codex exec resume (8440) - Show time/version-targeted announcement tips in the TUI, driven by a TOML file in the repo (8752) - Add an [analytics] enabled=... config section to control analytics behavior (8350) Bug Fixes - Fix TUI2 transcripts so streamed markdown reflows on resize and copy/paste preserves soft wraps (8761) - Make applypatch parsing tolerant of whitespace-padded Begin Patch / End Patch markers (8746) - Render paths relative to the current working directory before checking git roots, improving output in non-git workspaces (8771) - Prevent CODEXMANAGEDCONFIGPATH from overriding managed config in production, closing a policy bypass (8762) - Ensure app-server conversations respect the config passed in by the client (8765) - Reduce TUI UX glitches: suppress popups when browsing input history, fix copy “pill” rendering, and clear background terminals on interrupt (8772, 8777, 8786) Documentation - Clarify onboarding/login guidance for headless/remote setups by steering users to codex login --device-auth (8753) - Update model examples used in tooling/config to current gpt-5.2 naming (8566) Chores - Refactor skills discovery to use the config layer stack so all configured skill folders are considered (8497) - Auto-populate GitHub release notes at release creation time (8799) - Add more applypatch test scenarios to harden coverage (8230) - Tweak unified exec event emission to only send “begin” when a PTY is present (8780) Changelog Full Changelog: https://github.com/openai/codex/compare/rust-v0.78.0...rust-v0.79.0 - 8753 [device-aut