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Codex VSCode extension misses a CHANGELOG that shows what actually changed

Open whoschek opened this issue 3 months ago • 1 comments

What is the type of issue?

Documentation is missing

What is the issue?

The Codex VSCode extension misses a CHANGELOG that shows what actually changed in any given release.

The current Marketplace version history page (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=openai.chatgpt) only displays the date of Codex VSCode releases, but nothing else. Why upgrade from X to Y if there's no way to understand what that implies or buys us? Did /review or /status find it's way from the Codex CLI release into the VSCode extension release? Currently, there's no way to answer that question.

Looking at the https://github.com/openai/codex repo's git commits or browsing the github issues does not yield any further info either - they are only concerned with the Codex CLI. Twitter? ouf of luck. Codex VSCode Menu or Button? Nothing like that exists, unfortunately.

If the Codex VSCode extension had a public git repo I could easily figure it out myself from the git commits, but there's no such public repo either.

The extension simply appears as a black box.

FWIW, here is an example how a normal CHANGELOG page looks like: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/ms-python.python/changelog
That is, it contains the usual kind of CHANGELOG entries, not just a laconic date, and the page is reachable by clicking "Version History", then clicking "CHANGELOG" at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.python

Where did you find it?

No response

whoschek avatar Sep 26 '25 22:09 whoschek

Any news on this?

bhack avatar Dec 13 '25 19:12 bhack