1.34.0 - 2026-06-05

Release Notes

🚀 Features

• (config) Make DB fan-out bound and background pool size configurable

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (series) Eliminate list N+1 and SSE-driven refetch storm

⚡ Performance

• (api) Bound per-request DB query fan-out to prevent pool exhaustion
• (db) Isolate background-task DB pool from the API pool
• (web) Relax query refetch defaults to avoid multi-tab refetch storms
• (on-deck) Paginate by series instead of loading all unread books
• (web) Eliminate residual SSE refetch and task-poll storms
• (web) Narrow per-event series/cover invalidations to the detail DTO
• (web) Narrow over-broad query invalidations and throttle task-page refresh
• Cut idle background fetching across SSE, task polling, and reference data

🧪 Testing

• (api) Add connection-pool contention regression test

Install codex 1.34.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/AshDevFr/codex/releases/download/v1.34.0/codex-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/AshDevFr/codex/releases/download/v1.34.0/codex-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download codex 1.34.0

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>