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 6.1.12
- Tool approvals. Automatic approval waits until ChatGPT finishes streaming the requesting message. This should prevent the early-approval
Invalid conversation bodyfailure in saved chats (#858). - Images in saved chats. Uploads target the active message composer even when ChatGPT keeps a second, hidden composer on the page (#866).
- Long messages and Bigger Context. Completed upload parts remain accounted for when ChatGPT removes older messages from the page. Verification no longer tries to expand an unfinished submission, restores collapsed messages and the viewport after reading, and accepts automatically linked URLs while checking the exact text. This addresses the reported expansion timeouts and several saved-chat failures (#863, #866).
- Helper crashes. A replacement helper cannot take a running tab through the fresh-message path and submit the prompt twice. The turn now stops with an explicit instruction to inspect the existing chat before retrying (#854).
- Temporary Chat guidance. When ChatGPT does not expose usable personalization or connector controls, the error points to Settings → Save chats in ChatGPT and explains that chats stay in history. Existing privacy choices remain unchanged (#864).
- Useful safe logs. Failed-turn exports now include the privacy-safe page state already captured locally. Environment-recovery diagnostics distinguish unrecognized context from missing native ownership evidence without recording paths or message content (#861, #865).
The missing-summary reply in #863, the missing-directory report in #861, the vanished conversation in #865, and the newly reported turn-ID mismatch in #867 remain under investigation. This patch does not claim to resolve those separate causes.
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.
- Saved-chat reliability. Since 6.1.11, new setups use saved chats and Verify runtime checks the selected chat mode. Explicit off settings are preserved. Earlier fixes cover the
isDestroyedcleanup crash, missing workspace lists after Codex restarts, and recovery from explicitly registered additionalCODEX_HOMEdirectories. - 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 the reporters in #854, #858, #861, #863, #864, #865, and #866 for the examples and diagnostic captures. Previous V6 fixes also benefited from @AlvaroBiano, @jclllycf, and everyone who tested saved chats in #436 and #857. 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.