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- OpenAI doubles Codex usage limits across Pro and Business Premium tiers
OpenAI's Codex team announced it is doubling usage limits for all Pro 100, Pro 200, and Pro 500 tiers and Business Premium, effective immediately. The team said a previously planned reduction to the Pro 200 quota will not happen, acknowledging user feedback, in the latest entry of its day-by-day Codex updates.
- Codex 0.166.0 ships keyboard transcript selection and queue resume
OpenAI shipped Codex 0.166.0. The release adds keyboard-driven transcript selection with word, line, and page motions plus integrated search and configurable shortcuts, and a codex queue --resume command for reloading queued threads. It also puts the newly announced GPT-6.1 Terra model into the bundled, Vertex AI, and Amazon Bedrock model catalogs, renders Markdown consistently across async questions and replies, and gives clearer safety-block explanations with selectable safer follow-up prompts in the TUI.
- Codex 0.165.0 adds a built-in Vertex AI provider
Codex 0.165.0 adds a built-in Google Cloud Vertex AI provider, configured with model_provider = "gcp". The release also adds a repository filter to the session picker and groups directories in the agent command center.
- Codex Day 19: faster Dots calls, mid-chat reasoning changes keep cache, CLI update
OpenAI Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux posts Day 19 small updates: Dots calls connect much faster, changing reasoning mid-conversation in Codex & Work no longer invalidates the cache, and the Codex CLI was updated.
- Codex 0.164.0 adds /presets slots, inline /model and /permissions, and Bedrock setup by default
OpenAI Codex rust-v0.164.0 adds ten numbered /presets slots for reusable prompts, inline /model and /permissions arguments, fullscreen image preview on Kitty/Sixel terminals, enterprise MCP auth via Codex account grants, credential masking in remote Bash/Zsh, and enables the Amazon Bedrock setup wizard by default.