v1.5.102

Restores access to ChatGPT's local state service when it is loaded from the shared app module, including pinned-chat protection used by automatic maintenance.

Repeated Enable reuses a healthy sidebar when its source, configuration and registration match. Live updates preserve the selected sidebar view and device filter. Windows startup reports whether update monitoring was confirmed.

Validation: complete source suite, PowerShell 5.1 and 7 startup regressions (now part of the automatic test matrix), Windows/macOS release builds, independent Sol and Claude Opus reviews, and a live Windows session with unchanged ChatGPT PID and start time. Repeated sidebar Enable took 68 ms with its registration and publisher preserved; this is not a complete cold-start timing. Native macOS runtime, secondary Windows devices and cold sign-in were not validated for this release.

v1.5.101 — Reliable Windows Start menu registration

Fix Windows Start menu registration when Remote Enabler is installed or updated from a packaged desktop app.

• Register shortcuts in the real current-user Start menu and repair a missing entry automatically.
• Preserve stable launcher paths, direct/proxy preferences and foreign shortcuts.
• Keep background shortcut workers hidden, bounded and cleaned up; report setup failures without blocking normal app startup.
• Include the shortcut helper in copied updater bundles and support retrying setup after a temporary Explorer failure.

Validated with PowerShell 5.1/7, isolated shortcut/setup/updater regressions, native Start menu discovery and attachment to an already-running ChatGPT session. Independently reviewed with Sol and Claude Opus.

Remote Enabler v1.5.100

Remote Enabler v1.5.100 completes legacy updater recovery when an old Windows coordinator owns a persistent console-host child.

The program distinguishes exactly identified console infrastructure from active child work, while retaining process, lock, journal and idle-state protections. Recovery preserves the running ChatGPT application.

Includes the startup attachment, automatic updater reconnection, project grouping and publisher recovery improvements from v1.5.99.

Remote Enabler v1.5.99

Remote Enabler v1.5.99 improves startup, attachment to an already-running Windows app, and recovery of the local update service.

• Reconnect the updater after a lost renderer bridge and retry checks after failures. Show local service disconnection separately from release availability.
• Keep native project membership while preserving explicitly projectless chats and compatible peer inventories.
• Attach to compatible running Windows sessions without restarting ChatGPT; preserve proxy-mode requirements and exact process ownership.
• Use windowless startup helpers, migrate owned duplicate shortcuts, and avoid unnecessary maintenance and full package scans on ordinary startup.
• Preserve interrupted-update recovery across older updater/controller capabilities and retain one rollback version subject to live dependency protection.

Windows and macOS packages share renderer and transport fixes. Native startup/attachment acceptance on each operating system remains separate from source and package validation.

v1.5.98 - Keep chats in their native project folders

Fixes project chats appearing under Recents when Codex's direct thread listing omits a project ID even though the native sidebar knows the correct project. The renderer preserves native project membership and publishes it to other devices; a non-null direct ID still wins. Compatible helper updates can hot-load without closing ChatGPT.

Verification: grouping, publisher reliability, peer transfer, thread visibility, and native connection self-tests passed. The Windows release package and macOS package built. The full Windows source suite did not finish because this locked-down machine could not create its medium-token test worker; live multi-device acceptance is separate.

v1.5.97 - Continue startup when desktop package is in use

Fixes Windows startup aborting when the signed desktop update returns 0x80073D02 (package resources in use). The updater now defers that update and allows injection into the unchanged healthy installed package, using the existing bounded deferral mechanism. No forced application shutdown or new compatibility gates.

Verification: Windows MSIX fixture suite passed in Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7; both prelaunch controller tests passed; independent source review found no material issues. Packaged release built successfully. Live injected startup remains pending user-approved restart. No macOS runtime changes.

v1.5.96 - Proxy Remote authentication and background services

Fix Windows proxy Remote device-key challenge routing and attach the publisher heartbeat and automatic updater before waiting for sidebar readiness. Existing account authorization remains unchanged; no new version or layout allowlist is added.

Restart ChatGPT through Remote Enabler to activate the proxy runtime change. Native Remote can remain online while a separately launched ordinary ChatGPT app is not publishing helper inventory.

Validation: focused proxy/runtime and startup tests passed; live local proxy reads and update checks recovered. The broad Windows suite was incomplete because the detached-session test could not create its medium-token worker on the restricted test machine. macOS artifacts are built but not live-tested here.

ChatGPT Remote Enabler v1.5.95

Startup and installation reliability improvements:

• Continue Windows startup when the helper update is unavailable and local recovery verifies an intact installation, without an unnecessary launcher respawn.
• Give renderer readiness its full timeout after discovery, retry temporary probe failures, and retain bounded retry diagnostics.
• Repair missing Windows helper files across releases while preserving one rollback and recovery compatibility with older transaction journals.
• Reduce startup database rewrites on Windows and macOS. Log retention remains automatic; compaction runs when at least 64 MiB and half the database are free.

Validation: targeted PowerShell 5.1/7 startup, readiness, maintenance and transaction tests passed, including interrupted repairs and recovery after a blocked write. Windows/macOS archives and Windows launcher checks passed. Native macOS runtime acceptance and live cold-start timing were not rerun.

Review status: the final independent Sol review was clean. Findings from completed Claude Opus reviews were corrected and tested; the final Claude re-review remains incomplete because of the review service session limit.

ChatGPT Remote Enabler v1.5.94

Cold startup now waits up to 30 seconds for the exact Codex renderer target, while live-update commands retain a 45-second parent timeout. Default probes remain fast and startup diagnostics record requested and effective discovery windows.

No ChatGPT restart is required for this helper-only update.

ChatGPT Remote Enabler v1.5.93

Windows startup is now independent of ChatGPT version numbers, executable or ASAR hashes, UI strings, and minifier layouts. It discovers installed runtime capabilities, prepares proxy hooks semantically, and accepts the session only after live renderer readiness.

Process recovery is bound to the exact helper-owned PID, executable, start identity, and requested loopback debug arguments. Adopted, unrelated, reused, or concurrently started ChatGPT processes are left untouched.

The current-user MSIX path now continues with the unchanged healthy Store package when a verified newer package fails specifically with Windows deployment error 0x80073D28. Project membership sharing, stale offline loading indicators, startup progress timing, and Windows/macOS renderer parity are also improved.

Validation covered the complete source suite, PowerShell 5.1 and 7, Windows and macOS launch/update paths, all-connections proxy behavior, current plus one rollback retention, actual installed-runtime semantic analysis, and a clean final Sol XHigh review. Claude Opus 5 could not run because the authenticated subscription returned its session-limit error before accepting input.