2.4.0 - 2026-08-27

Release Notes

🔌 API (breaking)

• (api) [breaking] Sync only reading direction per series, not every reader setting

🔌 API

• (api) Give reading direction one vocabulary and validate every write
• (api) Let any reader fix a series' reader settings for themselves
• (api) Resolve reading direction per caller, not per series

🚀 Features

• (db) Store per-user reader settings for a series
• (web) Carry per-series reading directions over to the account

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (web) Stop the reader rewriting a series for everyone who reads it

Install codex 2.4.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/AshDevFr/codex/releases/download/v2.4.0/codex-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/AshDevFr/codex/releases/download/v2.4.0/codex-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download codex 2.4.0

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>