June 2025 Status Update

[bolinfest]

Hi all, I just wanted to post a quick update with respect to the Rust CLI Cutover plan I announced a few weeks ago.

First, I want to acknowledge that progress against the burndown list has not been as fast as we hoped. Recently, we formally merged the Codex CLI and Codex Web efforts internally and have spent time doing joint planning and prototyping (as well as taking some much-needed vacation!).

As part of that exercise, we’ve been increasing staffing for the CLI. It will take some time for folks to ramp up, but you will start to see some new names in the committer list over the next few weeks!

In addition to furthering the development of the CLI, this will also increase our bandwidth to triage issues, reply to pull requests, etc. We will also invest in updating the docs and contribution guidelines to reflect the new focus on the development of the Rust version of the CLI.

In terms of timing, we plan to cut our first official beta release of the Rust CLI early next week. After giving folks a week or two to kick the tires, we plan to graduate from beta and formally retire the TypeScript CLI.

Thanks for bearing with us and we're excited with the work we have in the pipeline!

[bolinfest]

The Rust CLI is now the default when you install the Codex CLI via Homebrew!

Homebrew/homebrew-core#228615 was recently merged to update the brew formula, so if you brew update, you should now be able to brew install codex and codex --version should be codex-cli 0.2.0 if you have the latest version! If you see 0.1.xxx, then perhaps the new version of the formula hasn't propagated all the way across the internet, so continue to brew update until brew info codex says it's at 0.2.0 (or later!).

[ChrisWiles]

Gemini cli blew yall away 80 PRs merged in a week vs y'all doing 1 or less a day very disappointing switching to. Rust and not merging open source PRs

[otorba]

Hi! It's great that the Rust version of the Codex CLI is growing! Please concentrate on this issue. It prevents many users from using the Rust version.