Release Notes

This page tracks releases for both the Codex Translation Editor extension (the translation features) and the Codex application (the editor platform). The extension is where most user-facing changes happen.

If you are troubleshooting a problem, compare your symptoms with the fixes below and then use the Troubleshooting guide to decide whether you need to update, retry, or escalate.

Extension releases: GitHub App releases: Stable

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Codex Translation Editor Extension

v0.24.0 — March 23, 2026 (Latest)

🔧 Improvements

• Add infrastructure for future extension locking/pinning

v0.23.0 — March 18, 2026

🚀 New Features

• Added line numbers for biblical texts at import
• Project list and search now display and use the project's Git name for consistency
• Clicking a comment bubble now immediately opens the "New Comment" card if no existing comments
• Added "Biblical-Hebrew-Aramaic-Greek" as a new language option

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where search results sometimes failed to display after getting no results
• Corrected language storage issues for consistent use across projects
• Fixed an issue where 1 and 2 JHN in the Macula Bible were not being imported correctly
• Fixed a bug where long project names could cause duplicate project IDs during creation

🔧 Improvements

• Optimized performance and memory usage, especially for comments, by enhancing display information handling
• Significantly optimized performance and responsiveness when interacting with comment threads and replies
• Virtualized the "All Comments" list and optimized the Comments Provider for faster loading of large comment files
• Streamlined project creation by removing project type selection and unnecessary startup screens

v0.22.0 — March 2, 2026

🔧 Improvements

• Archived projects display correctly
• The project export workflow is now smoother and more intuitive to use
• Improved display of cell line numbers, now distinct from speaker labels

v0.21.0 — March 2, 2026

🚀 New Features

• Improved handling and display of verse range references in content
• Enhanced feedback is provided to users when opening projects
• The "Comments All" section now offers sorting based on project structure
• Project types are simplified by removing the "Bible" vs. "Non-Bible" differentiation
• Comments now display file, milestone, and line context instead of complex internal IDs

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed: File and folder deletion now requires more steps to prevent accidental data loss
• Fixed: Exporters can now consistently handle content from older imported projects, including verse range cells
• Fixed: Progress bar tooltips no longer obscure important modals like delete confirmations
• Fixed: The audio play button now reliably works on every click
• Fixed: The audio icon now correctly displays after syncing a project

🔧 Improvements

• The HTML exporter can now successfully export content from eBible and USFM imported files
• The frequency of A/B testing and attention checks has been greatly reduced
• Main menu items are now optimized for smaller screens, collapsing into a single column
• Chapter navigation header responsiveness has been significantly improved across various screen sizes
• The editor now remains open after an AI generation, streamlining your editing workflow

v0.20.0 — February 10, 2026

🚀 New Features

• Added the ability to edit system messages

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues for offline orphaned projects detection

🔧 Improvements

• Improved upload speed as well as retries of media files
• Significantly improved overall offline functionality and project state management, including a "server unreachable" status
• Implemented UI locking and messages to provide better feedback during project fixing and swapping operations
• Enhanced project swap workflows with clearer notifications, improved filtering, and better handling of offline states
• Added loading indicators and improved project list refreshing, especially during connectivity restoration
• Enabled instant switching between webviews for a smoother user experience

v0.19.0 — February 10, 2026

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where LLM generation could fail during A/B tests

🔧 Improvements

• Initial content now loads more reliably and displays correctly, even with complex data

v0.18.0 — February 5, 2026

🚀 New Features

• Project Swap for seamless project transitions

🔧 Improvements

• Automatically checks for and downloads missing audio files during project activations
• Project name handling refined with whitespace trimming and prevented saving of unchanged names

v0.17.0 — February 4, 2026

🚀 New Features

• Introduced a Codex Migration Tool, accessible directly from the main menu

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where line number offsets were incorrect after milestone updates
• Removed problematic keyboard shortcuts that interfered with editor use

🔧 Improvements

• Milestone updates now reflect changes instantly within the editor interface
• Better handling for DOCX files, including improved import and export capabilities
• Improved subtitle alignment logic, enhancing accuracy, structure, and robustness of imported content
• Child cells now stay on the same page as their parent cells for improved readability
• Enhanced robustness of file saving, especially when overwriting existing files

v0.16.0 — January 29, 2026

🚀 New Features

• Milestones in the Accordion can now be edited inline for quicker adjustments
• You can now edit source and target milestones independently

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Saving failures in the TextCellEditor now display an error message
• Fixed issues that caused editor to crash

🔧 Improvements

• The deprecated "Book name" option has been removed from the main menu, streamlining the interface

v0.15.0 — January 20, 2026

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue with the importer to ensure reliable data import

v0.14.0 — January 15, 2026

🚀 New Features

• Enhanced subtitle import functionality to support optional cell labels
• Enhanced milestone cell editing, including consistent UUIDs, improved error handling, and file type-specific edit options
• Introduced an initial milestone page selector accordion for easier navigation and added a dedicated edit button for milestone names
• Enhanced validation system with support for text/audio validation levels, required validations, and improved progress display
• Implemented comprehensive protection for locked cells, preventing modifications to content, timestamps, labels, and attachments
• Enhanced new page navigation within the chapter navigation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed misplaced paratext cells, ensuring correct order within documents
• Fixed dark mode color inconsistencies across the editor
• Fixed paratext cells incorrectly contributing to subsection progress calculations

🔧 Improvements

• Reduced file sizes when importing .x files and temporarily disabled lock/unlock controls in the UI for clarity
• Enhanced cell merging and highlighting, now working for both Bible and non-Bible formatted content
• Improved stability and reliability of notebook file saving, and optimized data migrations
• Validation tooltips now display percentages and levels on hover, replacing text descriptions
• Sync progress messages now dismiss automatically upon completion, and webviews close for deleted books/files

v0.13.0 — December 11, 2025

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Added Content Security Policy directives for sourcemaps and Cloudflare in remote web environments
• Resolved an issue where the save button appeared incorrectly after using the Sparkle button
• Corrected a bug related to A/B testing functionality
• Security policy adjusted for better compatibility and function with preview APIs
• Project IDs are no longer incorrectly appended to project names during creation

🔧 Improvements

• Improved username retrieval for more consistent authentication across the editor

v0.12.0 — December 3, 2025

🚀 New Features

• Projects now generate a unique ID at creation, tied to the project folder, making them easier to find even if the name changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Enhanced resilience of the publishing feature to gracefully handle missing project metadata
• Resolved issues where project identifiers could mismatch during initialization
• Corrected an incorrect "Project name cannot be empty" error message that appeared when opening the Create New Project modal
• Prevented the creation of projects with duplicate folder names

🔧 Improvements

• Ensured that the edited project name is consistently displayed throughout the Project Setup
• Improved the project publishing process to use unique project IDs, making published projects easier to identify
• Added a loading state to the "Initialize Project" button to prevent multiple clicks during project setup
• Improved project initialization flow in the Main Menu, ensuring consistency and preventing unnecessary metadata file creation
• Prevented recent saves from being accidentally overwritten by external file changes

v0.11.0 — November 28, 2025

🚀 New Features

• Notifies users if they're offline when trying to generate a translation using AI
• Automatic preservation of paratextual cell positions during merge resolutions
• Robust authentication and status checks added for offline login and project lists
• Work on projects and view downloaded projects even without an internet connection (does not require login)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the projects list displayed with an incorrect size

🔧 Improvements

• Improved startup flow by ensuring local assets load correctly
• Enhanced reliability with improved error handling when fetching project overviews
• Improved security and expanded connectivity options within the cell editor
• Enhanced accuracy in displaying cell counts, line numbers, and child cell labels

v0.10.0 — November 28, 2025

🚀 New Features

• New support for importing and exporting Biblica content
• Rename your projects easily using the new "Rename Project" modal

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved issues that were affecting the Biblica content importer and exporter
• Fixed an error where project metadata could be misread due to a race condition after edits

🔧 Improvements

• Project metadata now includes CRDT edit history for more robust change tracking and data integrity
• When migrating, chat system messages are now automatically generated if not already present, based on project languages

v0.9.0 — November 26, 2025

🚀 New Features

• Added Biblica content import and export capabilities

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved a problem with audio merging when in source edit mode
• Fixed an issue where merging cells with audio didn't always include all previously merged audio

🔧 Improvements

• Sync is now automatically disabled when logged out, with a message indicating this
• Clicking the sparkle icon now prompts a sign-in modal if you're logged out
• The login button is now disabled with a clear message if the Frontier extension is not active
• Cleaned up the login page by removing redundant Frontier authentication messages
• Improved version warnings by using standard VS Code information messages

v0.8.0 — November 22, 2025

🚀 New Features

• Media files are now properly arranged into specific folders based on the chosen download strategy
• Implemented comprehensive find and replace functionality, supporting scoped operations within the editor
• Enhanced project healing options, allowing users to select sync or AI Learning via a new UI dropdown
• Introduced a simple and detailed mode toggle for viewing AI Metrics
• Added remote healing capabilities for projects, including Frontier integration

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Addressed various prompting issues within the editor
• Fixed authentication handling to use the Frontier extension API for more reliable session management
• Resolved a bug affecting the functionality of the search checkbox
• Corrected an issue where media strategy changes were not preserved upon collapsing and expanding groups
• Fixed multiple login issues, including preventing users from logging in on web or after logging out

🔧 Improvements

• Removed redundant media file verification, significantly speeding up project opening for auto-download strategies
• User validations are now retained during cell content updates, including search and replace operations
• Enhanced the login page with updated prompts for restart information, improved styling, and an added reset password button
• Improved remote healing management, including better viewing and sorting of healing history
• Project healing now disables when offline, and remote healing checks bypass the cache for better connectivity

v0.7.0 — November 11, 2025

🚀 New Features

• Dedicated modal for editing book names
• Option to remove IDs from plain text exports
• Audio validation progress displays on navigation cards
• FFmpeg and FFprobe now download automatically when importing audio

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Lock files no longer prevent synchronization
• Transcription issues resolved
• Validation buttons no longer disappear when using AI autocomplete
• Cell content now saves correctly in all scenarios
• Fixed audio import failures due to missing dependencies

🔧 Improvements

• Requires Frontier v0.4.17 or higher
• OBS Translation Memory System roundtrip support added
• Sync status between Codex and Frontier is now more consistent
• Book and corpus renaming is more reliable with improved corpus marker handling

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Codex Application

The Codex application is a fork of VSCodium, a community-driven, freely-licensed distribution of Visual Studio Code without Microsoft's telemetry. App updates provide the editor platform, while the extension (above) provides translation features.

Current version: v1.108.11148