OpenAI Codex 0.162.1 released
A patch release fixing a terminal UI crash and startup compatibility issues with background servers.
What changed in 0.162.1
- Terminal interface no longer crashes when handling multi-line asynchronous questions, preserving line breaks and hyperlinks.
- Startup failures resolved when background server feature settings differ from CLI defaults; compatibility checks now only apply to explicit overrides.
Summarised by AgentGid from OpenAI's official release notes on GitHub, as reported there; read the original before relying on it. Price, status and release dates come from our daily data.
OpenAI Codex at a glance
| What it is | OpenAI's coding agent, offered as an open-source terminal CLI, an IDE extension, a desktop app and a cloud agent that works on repositories. Users sign in with a ChatGPT account or use an OpenAI API key; with an API key… |
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| Latest version | 0.166.0, Oct 29, 2026. This page is about an earlier release. |
| Release pace | 8 stable releases in the last 30 days; 0.162.1 came 1 day after the previous one |
| Price | Free + $8/mo. Included in ChatGPT plans: Free $0, Go $8/month, Plus $20/month, Pro from $100/month ($100, $200 or $500 tiers), Business $20/user/month billed annually ($25 monthly), Enterprise … Official pricing ↗ (checked Oct 6, 2026) |
| Live status | Up 6 incidents in the last 30 days on the official status page |
| Usage limit resets | Last reset 3d ago, announced by @thsottiaux on X. All resets |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 27.8M up 15.4% |
| Gid Score | 84 #1 in Terminal coding agents |
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