V6 brings ChatGPT Web models into Codex's model and Effort selectors, optional Pro usage tracking, Bigger Context, and control over saved or temporary browser chats. Windows, macOS, and Linux packages include the fixes accumulated throughout V6.
Changes in 6.1.11
- Saved chats by default. New setups use regular ChatGPT conversations, where users report the Codex connector is still available when it disappears from Temporary Chat. Verify runtime now respects Settings → Save chats in ChatGPT instead of always testing Temporary Chat. Existing off settings are preserved: enable the setting yourself if you encounter this problem. Saved conversations remain in ChatGPT history, and ChatGPT memory and custom instructions may apply.
- Continuation after a Codex restart. Fixed compaction rejecting workspace roots when the current Codex record explicitly grants full access but omits its workspace list. Explicit permissions, working directory, and task identity remain checked.
- Separate Codex homes. A shared launcher can now recover CLI tasks from explicitly registered additional
CODEX_HOMEdirectories. See the setup instructions. Conflicting permissions or duplicate task ownership still produce an error. - Bigger Context handoff. Fixed a timeout while trying to expand a message that ChatGPT had already moved into Activity. Previously acknowledged context still undergoes the same content checks.
- Launcher tab cleanup. Fixed the
isDestroyedJavaScript crash when a browser tab is destroyed outside the normal close action and later reaches cleanup. - Clearer failures. Detect ChatGPT errors even when they replace the assistant message. Validate the native tool token's exact format and explain how to copy it correctly. Safe diagnostics now record whether a model control is hidden, covered, disabled, or on a stalled page without recording conversation text.
V6 features and earlier fixes
- Models and effort. GPT-5.6 and GPT-6 choices remain separate, with account-supported reasoning levels in Codex. Free accounts expose Luna/Think. Model selection handles ChatGPT's updated picker, slow loading, translated controls, and locked Pro options while checking the selected model before sending.
- Bigger Context. Large tasks use one, two, or six messages. GPT-6 Sol supports up to 120,000 tokens on Plus and 240,000 on Pro at supported reasoning levels; Instant keeps its standard context. Luna/Think support is experimental. Earlier patches fixed collapsed messages, upload processing, oversized-message errors, and Markdown parsing stalls.
- Chat controls and suggestions. Optional New browser chat for each turn rebuilds the same task in a fresh conversation. Optional next-message suggestions use GPT-6 Sol Medium when the context fits. Saved chats and fresh chats are independent settings.
- Pro usage estimates. The Limits tab tracks the launcher's own submissions for supported Pro plans, with separate model allowances and a warning from 75%. These are local estimates; messages sent elsewhere and OpenAI's actual remaining quota are not included.
- Long tasks and tools. Improved compaction, delegated instructions, Page context, date updates, workspace recovery, and cancellation. Fixed overlapping connector handshakes interrupting another task's tool call. Accepted work survives a disconnected response stream.
- Replies and Activity. Supports both ChatGPT layouts, preserves code, links, formulas, and plan markers, and keeps changing previews and hidden follow-up labels out of answers. Activity distinguishes preparation, generation, tool execution, and approval waits.
- Sign-in, startup, and updates. Improved passkey sign-in, account switching, logout, browser crash recovery, and startup while signed out. Preserves valid configuration and a manually disconnected bridge. Includes system HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy support, Windows-trusted certificates, and improved update recovery.
- Desktop packages. Native Linux x64/ARM64 packages join Windows and both macOS architectures. Earlier V6 updates improved window restoration, browser sizing and system theme handling, plugin naming, and setup diagnostics.
ChatGPT account limits and safety refusals still apply. The Pro Researcher skill is also available for users who want to delegate research to Pro sub-agents.
Thanks to @AlvaroBiano and @jclllycf for the workspace and separate-home reproductions, and to everyone in #436 and #857 who tested saved chats. Earlier V6 fixes include contributions and reports from @nofihq, @jgafarias, @pereponkin, @mhughdo, and @host-felice.
Update
Finish active tasks, quit the launcher, install the update, and reopen it. Restart Codex after updating its integration. Your settings and browser profile are preserved. If your connector is missing from Temporary Chat, enable Settings → Save chats in ChatGPT; an existing off setting is not changed automatically.
If a closed issue still happens, open a new issue with Activity → Export safe log, the failure time, launcher/Codex versions, and model/effort. If your issue remains open, add the new results there.