Codex CLI 0.138.0 release notes

Version

0.138.0

Released

8 June 2026

Status

Stable release

What's new in Codex CLI 0.138.0

The official notes for Codex CLI 0.138.0 list 15 changes: 2 performance improvements, 1 security change and 12 other changes.

• 2 performance improvements
• 1 security change
• 12 other changes

Highlights

• security change Startup is more resilient across environments, with support for /usr/bin/bash, shorter Linux proxy socket paths, and pre-refresh of expired OAuth-backed…
• performance improvement resume --last now finds the newest matching session through the state DB first, which speeds up restore on large local…
• performance improvement Large MCP/Ollama streams and long message histories process much faster thanks to optimized byte scanning.
• other change The /app command can now hand off the current CLI thread into Codex Desktop on macOS and native Windows, and…
• other change Local image attachments and standalone image generations now expose their saved file paths to the model, which makes follow-up edits…

Our short summary: changes are counted and classified automatically from the official notes, and highlights are shortened. The complete, authoritative list is in the official release notes on GitHub.

Full release notes on GitHub (Codex CLI 0.138.0)

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