1.18.1 - 2026-05-06

Release Notes

🚀 Features

• (tasks) Emit progress events from nine more task handlers
• (tasks) Show target titles and live elapsed time in active-tasks badge
• (ui) Render progress bar and message for live tasks in active-tasks badge

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (scanner) Stop overriding book strategy with ComicInfo on volume/chapter

🧪 Testing

• (scanner) Use MetadataFirst strategy for ComicInfo metadata test

Install codex 1.18.1

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/AshDevFr/codex/releases/download/v1.18.1/codex-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/AshDevFr/codex/releases/download/v1.18.1/codex-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download codex 1.18.1

File	Platform	Checksum
codex-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
codex-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
codex-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
codex-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
codex-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum

Verifying GitHub Artifact Attestations

The artifacts in this release have attestations generated with GitHub Artifact Attestations. These can be verified by using the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --repo AshDevFr/codex

You can also download the attestation from GitHub and verify against that directly:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --bundle <file-path of downloaded attestation>