$ cat openai/month/2026-10-01.log
the month in review · October 2026
Codex 0.165.0 adds Vertex AI provider and GPT-6.1 Terra
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Both SDKs also shipped a breaking change to Live Decisions question instructions in minor releases, so array-shape assumptions break.
0.165.0 openai/codex
The release adds a built-in Google Cloud Vertex AI provider configured with model_provider = "gcp" and puts GPT-6.1 Terra in the model catalogs, so providers are no longer only the ones defined by the API surface. The session picker also gained a repository filter and the agent command center groups by directory.
v7.43.0 openai/openai-node
The release notes call it a breaking change shipped in a minor release: a Live response's Decisions question instructions is now either a string or an array of text, image, or JSON parts, and the notes flag that code reading question.instructions as a string no longer holds. Audit every consumer of that field before the next minor bump, not after.
v3.37.0 openai/openai-python
The Python SDK carries the same Decisions break with equivalent scope: question instructions widens from string to a list of structured text, image, or JSON parts. Any parsing or serialization path built on the old shape needs a union branch on both sides of the stack.
0.160.0 openai/codex
The agent command center gains a keyboard-accessible "Show more" for browsing older tasks, fullscreen selection and middle-click paste on local Linux X11 terminals, and the ability to start sessions outside a project with workspace defaults.
feat: collect final output from beta Agents streams openai/openai-python
The Python helper returns a hosted agent's final answer straight from the stream, whether the call creates a session or continues one. Applications can still render every event, but no longer carry their own turn tracking and final-message accumulator.
Recover daemon startup and updater re-exec after cwd deletion (#49819) openai/codex
Managed daemons and updaters can outlive the directory that launched them, and restarts and updater replacement now survive deletion of that directory by sharing working-directory preparation between both paths.
v7.39.0 openai/openai-node
Realtime connection recovery is now opt-in and bounded, so existing clients keep their current reconnect behavior unless they ask for the new path. Teams that have been working around reconnects should read the option before enabling it.
feat(agents): prepare hosted files and download result artifacts openai/openai-node
The Node SDK can prepare inputs before a hosted session starts, stage another file into a connected environment, and download the artifact belonging to a specific completed result, replacing hand-rolled upload references and artifact pagination. Alongside the rest of the period: standalone Decisions types, prewarmed and suspendable hosted environments, vault metadata filters, typed Live sideban...
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