Codex SQLite feedback logs can write ~640 TB/year and rapidly consume SSD endurance #28224

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   Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

   • Codex Desktop app-server leaks child processes and writes excessive logs after crash/restart #26869
   • Desktop launch can fail when logs_2.sqlite grows large: app-server SQLite pool times out during startup #27741
   • Cold start scales badly with large ~/.codex state: 419 MB logs DB + 625 MB sessions cause 1–5 min startup on WSL2 #28166

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3. 1996fanrui commented on Jun 14, 2026

   

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   cc @charley-oai @jif-oai since #12969 introduced the SQLite feedback log sink at TRACE level.

   I pushed a minimal branch here:
   https://github.com/1996fanrui/codex/tree/codex/reduce-sqlite-feedback-log-writes

   The proposed patch does not disable feedback logs. It only changes the SQLite feedback log sink from global TRACE to this default filter:

   warn,codex_api=info,codex_app_server=info,codex_core=info,codex_mcp=info,codex_state=info,codex_tui=info
   

   In my local sample, the retained SQLite log content was mostly TRACE plus codex_otel INFO mirror rows, so this should drop the high-volume low-signal writes while keeping INFO+ logs for core Codex targets.

   I tried to open an upstream PR, but GitHub returned:

   GraphQL: 1996fanrui does not have the correct permissions to execute CreatePullRequest
   

   Other possible fixes if the default-filter approach is not the preferred direction:

   • add a config escape hatch, for example sqlite_logs_enabled = false or a feedback-log-specific filter setting;
   • keep SQLite feedback logs opt-in or sampled instead of always-on at TRACE;
   • truncate or summarize large websocket/SSE/raw event payloads before storing them;
   • enforce a global write/size budget in addition to per-thread retention.

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4. ZenulAbidin commented on Jun 17, 2026

   

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   This is a very serious bug, as it can not only cause login failures on Linux boxes if the system is rebooted while the disk is full, but Codex in /goal mode will actively delete files and folders on your disk in a vain attempt to gain disk space. So the severity of this issue needs to be increased as data loss is possible when using Codex in this way.

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5. jordanade commented on Jun 17, 2026

   

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   WTF this is ridiculous. PLEASE have more respect for your users.

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6. Nicolas0315 commented on Jun 17, 2026

   

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   I prepared a PR-ready branch against current main, but upstream PR creation is still blocked for my account with:

   GraphQL: Nicolas0315 does not have the correct permissions to execute `CreatePullRequest`
   

   Branch:
   https://github.com/Nicolas0315/codex/tree/codex/log-db-default-filter

   Compare:
   https://github.com/openai/codex/compare/main...Nicolas0315:codex/log-db-default-filter?expand=1

   Proposed PR title:

   [codex] Limit persisted SQLite log verbosity
   

   Proposed PR body, following the recent Codex PR format:

   Why

   logs_2.sqlite is currently attached with a global TRACE filter in both the app server and TUI. On my Windows Codex app install, that persisted high-volume websocket internals and OTel mirror records into the diagnostic SQLite log DB:

   • .codex/logs_2.sqlite: 729,575,424 bytes
   • .codex/logs_2.sqlite-wal: 39,255,392 bytes
   • retained rows: 269,141
   • TRACE: 123,026 rows / 269,065,577 estimated bytes
   • top persisted targets included codex_api::endpoint::responses_websocket, codex_otel.log_only, codex_otel.trace_safe, and log

   This matches the write-amplification report here and the Desktop launch failure mode in #27741. The change keeps diagnostic logs enabled, but makes the persisted SQLite sink less noisy by default.

   What changed

   • Add a shared log_db::default_filter() for the persistent SQLite log sink.
   • Persist INFO+ by default instead of TRACE.
   • Raise known high-volume mirror/dependency targets to WARN+:
     • codex_otel.log_only
     • codex_otel.trace_safe
     • hyper_util::client::legacy::*
     • log
     • opentelemetry_sdk
   • Use the shared filter from both app-server and TUI log DB setup.
   • Update the SQLite sink filter test to cover retained Codex INFO logs and dropped low-value OTel/mirror logs.

   Validation

   • git diff --check
   • just test -p codex-state sqlite_sink_default_filter_drops_low_value_logs
   • just test -p codex-tui sqlite_sink_default_filter_drops_low_value_logs compiled the package, then exited with no matching tests.
   • just fmt completed Rust/Python formatting, then failed on Windows in the Bazel buildifier step with [WinError 2].
   • A broader just test -p codex-app-server run compiled and executed tests but timed out after reporting 831 passed, 4 failed, 6 skipped; the visible failures appeared unrelated to this log filtering change, including a skills fixture warning count mismatch.

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7. ZenulAbidin commented on Jun 18, 2026

   

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   Here I have made two scripts which can serve as temporary mitigations for the WAL issue until OpenAI fixes it.

   The first script trims the WAL while Codex processes are running:

   #!/usr/bin/env bash
   # trim-codex-wal.sh
   # Trims the logs_2.sqlite and WAL files by truncating the checkpoint database
   set -u
   
   CODEX_DIR="${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"
   DB="$CODEX_DIR/logs_2.sqlite"
   WAL="$CODEX_DIR/logs_2.sqlite-wal"
   SHM="$CODEX_DIR/logs_2.sqlite-shm"
   
   bytes() {
     if [ -e "$1" ]; then
       stat -c '%s' "$1" 2>/dev/null || stat -f '%z' "$1" 2>/dev/null || echo 0
     else
       echo 0
     fi
   }
   
   human() {
     if command -v numfmt >/dev/null 2>&1; then
       numfmt --to=iec --suffix=B "$1" 2>/dev/null || echo "$1 bytes"
     else
       echo "$1 bytes"
     fi
   }
   
   show_sizes() {
     echo
     echo "Codex SQLite files:"
     for f in "$DB" "$WAL" "$SHM"; do
       printf "  %-45s %12s\n" "$f" "$(human "$(bytes "$f")")"
     done
   }
   
   echo "[LIVE RUN] Codex WAL truncate only"
   echo "Codex dir: $CODEX_DIR"
   echo "DB:        $DB"
   echo "WAL:       $WAL"
   echo "SHM:       $SHM"
   
   if [ ! -f "$DB" ]; then
     echo
     echo "ERROR: Codex DB not found:"
     echo "  $DB"
     exit 1
   fi
   
   if ! command -v sqlite3 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     echo
     echo "ERROR: sqlite3 is not installed or not in PATH."
     exit 1
   fi
   
   show_sizes
   
   BEFORE_WAL="$(bytes "$WAL")"
   
   echo
   echo "Running SQLite WAL checkpoint/truncate..."
   echo "Command:"
   echo "  PRAGMA wal_checkpoint(TRUNCATE);"
   
   RESULT="$(
     sqlite3 "$DB" <<'SQL' 2>&1
   PRAGMA busy_timeout = 5000;
   PRAGMA wal_checkpoint(TRUNCATE);
   SQL
   )"
   RC=$?
   
   AFTER_WAL="$(bytes "$WAL")"
   
   echo
   echo "SQLite output:"
   if [ -n "$RESULT" ]; then
     printf '%s\n' "$RESULT"
   else
     echo "(no output)"
   fi
   
   show_sizes
   
   echo
   echo "Result:"
   echo "  WAL before: $(human "$BEFORE_WAL")"
   echo "  WAL after:  $(human "$AFTER_WAL")"
   
   if [ "$RC" -ne 0 ]; then
     echo
     echo "Failed: sqlite3 returned exit code $RC."
     echo "Likely causes: DB is busy, Codex is actively writing, or disk is critically full."
     exit "$RC"
   fi
   
   if [ "$AFTER_WAL" -lt "$BEFORE_WAL" ]; then
     echo
     echo "Success: Codex WAL was truncated."
   elif [ "$AFTER_WAL" -eq "$BEFORE_WAL" ]; then
     echo
     echo "No size change."
     echo "Possible reasons:"
     echo "  - WAL was already small/checkpointed."
     echo "  - Codex or another process currently has an active transaction."
     echo "  - Codex is still writing and recreated WAL content immediately."
   else
     echo
     echo "WAL grew during the run, probably because Codex was actively writing."
   fi
   
   echo
   echo "Done."
   

   To run as a cron job:

   # Run `crontab -e` in your shell and then add the following line at the end
   */15 * * * * /bin/bash "$HOME/trim-codex-wal.sh" > "$HOME/.codex-wal-clean.log" 2>&1
   

   Note that the main table is trimmed, but there might be other tables which still accumulate data over a much slower period of time, requiring the script below.

   The second script deletes the log and WAL files and kills all running Codex processes in order to immediately free disk space:

   #!/usr/bin/env bash
   # fix-codex-wal.sh
   # Deletes the logs-2.sqlite* files and sends SIGTERM followed by SIGKILL to all codex-related processes
   # in order to close the open file handles which will allow disk space to be freed
   set -u
   
   CODEX_DIR="${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"
   DB="$CODEX_DIR/logs_2.sqlite"
   WAL="$CODEX_DIR/logs_2.sqlite-wal"
   SHM="$CODEX_DIR/logs_2.sqlite-shm"
   
   PIDS=""
   
   add_pid() {
     case "${1:-}" in
       ''|*[!0-9]*) return ;;
       "$$") return ;;
     esac
   
     case " $PIDS " in
       *" $1 "*) ;;
       *) PIDS="$PIDS $1" ;;
     esac
   }
   
   bytes() {
     if [ -e "$1" ]; then
       stat -c '%s' "$1" 2>/dev/null || stat -f '%z' "$1" 2>/dev/null || echo 0
     else
       echo 0
     fi
   }
   
   human() {
     if command -v numfmt >/dev/null 2>&1; then
       numfmt --to=iec --suffix=B "$1" 2>/dev/null || echo "$1 bytes"
     else
       echo "$1 bytes"
     fi
   }
   
   show_sizes() {
     echo
     echo "Codex SQLite files:"
     for f in "$DB" "$WAL" "$SHM"; do
       printf "  %-45s %12s\n" "$f" "$(human "$(bytes "$f")")"
     done
   }
   
   show_processes() {
     if [ -z "$(printf '%s' "$PIDS" | tr -d ' ')" ]; then
       echo "None."
       return
     fi
   
     printf "%-8s %-8s %-6s %-10s %-12s %s\n" "PID" "PPID" "STAT" "TTY" "ELAPSED" "CMD"
   
     for pid in $PIDS; do
       ps -p "$pid" -o pid=,ppid=,stat=,tty=,etime=,cmd= 2>/dev/null
     done
   }
   
   echo "[LIVE RUN] Codex WAL/SHM cleanup"
   echo "Codex dir: $CODEX_DIR"
   echo "DB:        $DB"
   echo "WAL:       $WAL"
   echo "SHM:       $SHM"
   
   show_sizes
   
   echo
   echo "[1/5] Finding Codex-related processes..."
   
   for pid in $(pgrep -u "$USER" -x codex 2>/dev/null); do
     add_pid "$pid"
   done
   
   for pid in $(pgrep -u "$USER" -x node 2>/dev/null); do
     cmd="$(ps -p "$pid" -o cmd= 2>/dev/null || true)"
   
     case "$cmd" in
       *codex*|*.codex*|*openai*codex*)
         add_pid "$pid"
         ;;
     esac
   done
   
   echo
   echo "[2/5] Finding processes holding Codex WAL/SHM files..."
   
   if command -v lsof >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     for f in "$WAL" "$SHM"; do
       if [ -e "$f" ]; then
         for pid in $(lsof -t -- "$f" 2>/dev/null); do
           add_pid "$pid"
         done
       fi
     done
   
     for pid in $(
       lsof -nP +L1 2>/dev/null | awk -v dir="$CODEX_DIR" '
         index($0, dir "/logs_2.sqlite-wal") && /deleted/ { print $2 }
         index($0, dir "/logs_2.sqlite-shm") && /deleted/ { print $2 }
       '
     ); do
       add_pid "$pid"
     done
   else
     echo "lsof not found; cannot check open/deleted WAL handles."
   fi
   
   echo
   echo "[3/5] Processes to terminate:"
   show_processes
   
   if [ -n "$(printf '%s' "$PIDS" | tr -d ' ')" ]; then
     echo
     echo "Sending SIGTERM..."
   
     for pid in $PIDS; do
       echo "TERM $pid: $(ps -p "$pid" -o cmd= 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)"
       kill "$pid" 2>/dev/null || true
     done
   
     sleep 3
   
     STILL=""
   
     for pid in $PIDS; do
       if kill -0 "$pid" 2>/dev/null; then
         STILL="$STILL $pid"
       fi
     done
   
     if [ -n "$(printf '%s' "$STILL" | tr -d ' ')" ]; then
       echo
       echo "Some processes survived SIGTERM; sending SIGKILL:"
   
       printf "%-8s %-8s %-6s %-10s %-12s %s\n" "PID" "PPID" "STAT" "TTY" "ELAPSED" "CMD"
       for pid in $STILL; do
         ps -p "$pid" -o pid=,ppid=,stat=,tty=,etime=,cmd= 2>/dev/null || true
       done
   
       for pid in $STILL; do
         echo "KILL $pid: $(ps -p "$pid" -o cmd= 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)"
         kill -9 "$pid" 2>/dev/null || true
       done
     else
       echo "All targeted processes exited after SIGTERM."
     fi
   fi
   
   echo
   echo "[4/5] Deleting Codex WAL/SHM files..."
   
   if [ -e "$WAL" ]; then
     echo "Deleting: $WAL"
     rm -f -- "$WAL"
   else
     echo "Not found: $WAL"
   fi
   
   if [ -e "$SHM" ]; then
     echo "Deleting: $SHM"
     rm -f -- "$SHM"
   else
     echo "Not found: $SHM"
   fi
   
   show_sizes
   
   echo
   echo "[5/5] Final cleanup check..."
   
   if command -v lsof >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     echo "Remaining deleted Codex files still held open, if any:"
     lsof -nP +L1 2>/dev/null | grep -F "$CODEX_DIR" || echo "None found."
   else
     echo "lsof not found; skipping deleted-handle check."
   fi
   
   echo
   echo "Disk usage:"
   df -h "$HOME" 2>/dev/null || true
   du -xsh "$CODEX_DIR" 2>/dev/null || true
   
   echo
   echo "Done."
   

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8. Gerry9000 commented on Jun 19, 2026

   

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   plz fix

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10. Necmttn commented on Jun 21, 2026

    

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    The log DB should have an explicit byte budget and retention policy. Durable usage/diagnostic events can stay queryable, while websocket/SSE TRACE payloads need sampling, level caps, and rotation independent of the state DB. A startup receipt with effective log level, DB byte cap, WAL checkpoint policy, and dropped-row count would make write pressure visible before SSD wear becomes the signal.

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11. Nicolas0315 commented on Jun 21, 2026

    

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    Additional native Windows check against current main:

    • Upstream source inspected: 63f009e9dad2e70454b7ed6434d8aa28dfb52b51
    • Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
    • Codex Desktop active during the sample

    Current source still attaches the persistent SQLite log layer with a global TRACE filter in both app-server and TUI:

    • codex-rs/app-server/src/lib.rs
      • log_db::start
      • .with_filter(Targets::new().with_default(Level::TRACE))
    • codex-rs/tui/src/lib.rs
      • log_db::start
      • .with_filter(Targets::new().with_default(Level::TRACE))

    I also checked the current log sink implementation:

    • codex-rs/state/src/log_db.rs
      • events are formatted into feedback_log_body, queued, then inserted by a background task.
      • the sink drops low-level opentelemetry_sdk TRACE/DEBUG, which helps one specific noisy target.
    • codex-rs/state/src/runtime/logs.rs
      • each batch inserts rows, then prunes inside the same transaction.

    That means DB size or retained row count can stay stable while insert/prune churn continues.

    Local aggregate-only measurement from .codex\logs_2.sqlite over 15 seconds, without reading log bodies:

    • retained rows before: 56,766
    • retained rows after: 56,766
    • retained row delta: 0
    • MAX(id) before: 191,131,613
    • MAX(id) after: 191,131,862
    • MAX(id) delta: 249 rows inserted in 15s
    • retained estimated bytes delta: +135,974 bytes

    Top retained target+level groups in this Windows sample were still dominated by the same categories already reported here:

    • codex_api::endpoint::responses_websocket TRACE
    • codex_otel.log_only INFO
    • codex_otel.trace_safe INFO
    • codex_core::stream_events_utils INFO
    • codex_client::transport TRACE
    • rmcp::service TRACE
    • codex_api::sse::responses TRACE
    • log TRACE

    This reinforces the earlier point: visible DB growth is not a reliable proxy for write pressure. Even with a stable retained row count, the append-and-prune path is still doing work. The low-risk patch shape still looks like filtering before formatting/queueing/inserting, not only pruning after insert.

    I also rebuilt a narrow local candidate patch against the current origin/main head:

    • base: f774455 (code-mode: linearize cell terminal state (#29286))
    • adds codex_state::log_db::default_filter()
    • uses the shared filter from app-server and TUI instead of Targets::new().with_default(Level::TRACE)
    • keeps global WARN+
    • keeps INFO+ for core Codex targets (codex_api, codex_app_server, codex_core, codex_mcp, codex_state, codex_tui)
    • raises known high-volume mirror/dependency targets to WARN+ (codex_otel.log_only, codex_otel.trace_safe, hyper_util, log, opentelemetry_sdk)

    Local validation:

    • cargo test -p codex-state sqlite_sink_default_filter_drops_low_value_logs -> 1 passed
    • cargo test -p codex-state log_db -> 7 passed
    • cargo check -p codex-app-server -p codex-tui -> passed
    • cargo fmt --check -> passed; stable rustfmt emitted repo-config warnings that imports_granularity is nightly-only
    • git diff --check -> passed

    Per docs/contributing.md, I am not opening a PR unless invited, but this latest local patch is PR-shaped if maintainers want this direction.
12. cooltzy commented on Jun 22, 2026

    

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    I hope the developers see this issue.

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    Shame on such low software quality with such high memory prices and SSD cost...

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15. rodalpho commented on Jul 12, 2026

    

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    Which version has it fixed? Is it in the desktop app?

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16. etraut-openai commented on Jul 12, 2026

    

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    Our series of fixes for this problem are in the latest shipping desktop app, CLI, and IDE extension.

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17. darlingm commented on Jul 12, 2026

    

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    Our series of fixes for this problem are in the latest shipping desktop app, CLI, and IDE extension.

    Not quite yet. 0.144.1 does not have #31789, #31790, #31791, and #31792. 0.145.0-alpha.4 includes them, so 0.145.0 likely will too.

    Also, please see #32496. A different root cause is causing about 1.3 TB/year in unnecessary writes, according to the numbers in the issue. (Much less than was on this issue.) Codex is continually rewriting models_cache.json and scope_v3.json.

    Would it be possible for OpenAI to add a regression test that ensures: (1) Codex during idle doesn't make more than a very minimal amount of I/O; and (2) Codex during usage doesn't absurdly increase its I/O? It might be best to split 2, into one version that fakes the model to test the harness in isolation, and one end-to-end test that makes sure new model/harness combinations don't come up with something that bumps it significantly. The latter could of course trip from random model behavior. If OpenAI logged and compared the values, they would not only see spikes but also worrisome trends in I/O usage that could be investigated.

    While at it, testing CPU and GPU usage similarly would be a big help. There are several issues about crazy high usage, often tracked down to animations being unnecessarily repeatedly updated a crazy number of times a second.

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18. gustavopch commented on Jul 12, 2026

    

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    @etraut-openai Codex has been tracking this issue for me. I asked its opinion (GPT 5.6 Sol High), and it doesn't think this is fully solved:

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    I retested the SQLite logging behavior on macOS. The upstream fixes have substantially reduced the original churn, but the current desktop build still persists noisy TRACE/DEBUG activity at a much higher rate than when the local filter is enabled.

    Scenario	App/engine	Mitigation	Duration	MAX(id) change	Rate	Net retained rows
    Earlier affected build (July 1)	codex-cli 0.142.5	Off	96.9s	+3,212	33.1 IDs/s	+57
    Current desktop build (July 12)	App 26.707.51957, bundled codex-cli 0.144.0-alpha.4	Off	41.45s	+305	7.36 IDs/s	+9
    Same current build	App 26.707.51957, bundled codex-cli 0.144.0-alpha.4	On	41.89s	+19	0.45 IDs/s	+1

    The mitigation is a local SQLite trigger that rejects TRACE/DEBUG records and known noisy targets. It does not block INFO, WARN, or ERROR logging.

    This shows two things:

    1. The upstream fixes improved the unmitigated rate substantially: 33.1 -> 7.36 IDs/second.
    2. On the current build, enabling the filter still reduces churn by about 16x: 7.36 -> 0.45 IDs/second.

    During the current-build test without mitigation, 305 IDs were allocated while only 9 additional rows remained. That is consistent with continuing insert-and-prune activity.

    The newly retained records were dominated by:

    • codex_app_server::outgoing_message / TRACE: 133
    • codex_api::sse::responses / TRACE: 35
    • codex_mcp::connection_manager / TRACE: 30
    • hyper_util TRACE/DEBUG: 67

    No log bodies were read during these measurements.

    Is this residual TRACE/DEBUG churn considered expected after the fixes? If not, is desktop app 26.707.51957 missing part of the fix, and which desktop or bundled CLI version should contain it?

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19. 0xdevalias commented on Jul 13, 2026

    

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    Is this residual TRACE/DEBUG churn considered expected after the fixes? If not, is desktop app 26.707.51957 missing part of the fix, and which desktop or bundled CLI version should contain it?

    @gustavopch It seems like you're still using 0.144.0-alpha.4 in those tests; whereas an earlier comment from @darlingm suggests that there are more fixes that will land in 0.145.0-alpha.4+, that sound like they should address some if not all of those:

    Not quite yet. 0.144.1 does not have #31789, #31790, #31791, and #31792. 0.145.0-alpha.4 includes them, so 0.145.0 likely will too.

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20. daryll-swer commented on Jul 13, 2026

    

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    We should be getting partial refunds or a non-expiring limit reset as compensation for this.
    --@mtsitzer

    So are we getting some refunds/limit resets or ANY compensation for killing our SSDs? For weeks or nah?

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21. gustavopch commented on Jul 13, 2026

    

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    @0xdevalias Ah, thanks for pointing it out. I just updated from 26.707.51957 to 26.707.61608 and the bundled Codex CLI is still 0.144.0-alpha.4. I guess we'll have to wait a few more days.

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22. HGT158 commented on Jul 20, 2026

    

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    So has this issue been fixed in the latest version of the Codex desktop app?

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