oh-my-codex v0.18.9

0.18.9 is a patch release after 0.18.8 for update-channel reliability, project-local runtime state lookup, tmux/cmux question rendering, Autopilot/Ultragoal gate visibility, and release/CI hardening. It preserves existing package layout and CLI compatibility while tightening how dev-source updates, review lanes, HUD reconciliation, and release evidence behave.

Highlights

• Stable/dev update channels are explicit — OMX update now distinguishes stable and dev channels, dev-source updates build installable package artifacts from a local checkout, and Windows update paths fall back to npm.cmd when direct npm lookup fails.
• Project-local runtime state lookup is safer — SessionStart project memory lookup works with boxed OMX_ROOT, and project-local omx resume history listing preserves the intended project history during isolated launches.
• Deep-interview and question panes are more robust — omx question delivers env vars through an export/prefix path under cmux/tmux shims, short panes keep deep-interview questions visible, and deep-interview handoffs are grounded in repo docs before execution.
• Autopilot, review, and Ultragoal gates are clearer — Autopilot ralplan write guards are phase-aware, review subagent model/effort choices are respected, and Ultragoal HUD stays active until goals finish.
• HUD and CI reliability improved — repeated tmux HUD reconciliation stays scoped to the emitting pane, fork PR CI avoids self-hosted skips, and self-hosted prerequisite install is hardened.

Fixes / compatibility

• Existing update, HUD, Autopilot, Ultragoal, deep-interview, and project-local state files remain compatible; this release tightens fallback behavior and release evidence without intentional breaking changes.
• 0.18.8 post-publish evidence cleanup commits are included as internal release-readiness hygiene in the compare range.
• Nested crates/omx-sparkshell/Cargo.lock remains a standalone historical lockfile recording omx-sparkshell 0.1.0; workspace package versioning is governed by root Cargo.toml and root Cargo.lock, both bumped for 0.18.9.

Merged PR inventory

#2713, #2711, #2710, #2709, #2708, #2706, #2704, #2703, #2702, #2699, #2697, #2693, #2691, #2690.

Validation

Release readiness evidence is recorded in docs/qa/release-readiness-0.18.9.md.

Local gates before tagging include version sync, build, lint/no-unused, native-agent/plugin-bundle verification, catalog docs check, full tests, targeted compatibility/runtime tests, live OMX/Codex smoke where prerequisites are available, mandatory UltraQA, release body generation and review, git diff --check, npm pack --dry-run, packed-install smoke, and native asset/manifest verification evidence.

The GitHub release workflow remains the authoritative cross-platform native asset gate after tag push, including the uploaded native-release-manifest.json. During publication, npm provenance signing hit repeated Fulcio ECONNRESET failures; a temporary GitHub Actions fallback published the exact v0.18.9 tag artifact with npm publish --provenance=false, matching the prior release-train outage procedure.

Contributors

Thanks to bellman, @Bongseop-Kim, @iqdoctor, and @Yeachan-Heo for contributing to this release.

Full Changelog: v0.18.8...v0.18.9