Codex CLI 0.8.0 release notes

Version

0.8.0

Released

19 July 2025

Status

Stable release

What's new in Codex CLI 0.8.0

The official notes for Codex CLI 0.8.0 list 7 changes: 1 performance improvement and 6 other changes.

• 1 performance improvement
• 6 other changes

Highlights

• performance improvement As a heads up, github.com/openai/codex/pull/1596 changes the organization of the ~/.codex/sessions folder so it has YYYY/MM/DD subfolders. This should make…
• other change As of github.com/openai/codex/pull/1594, we now stream the response from the model in the TUI and when using codex exec
• other change github.com/openai/codex/pull/1589 changes ctrl-d so it only exits the TUI if the composer is empty (it will still exit the TUI…
• other change github.com/openai/codex/pull/1571 fixes a longstanding issue where we failed to handle long MCP tool names gracefully (github.com/openai/codex/issues/1289 was the relevant GitHub…
• other change github.com/openai/codex/pull/1603 introduced a --json flag to codex exec so that it prints output as JSONL to stdout

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 0.8.0)

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