fix: always load version from package.json at runtime

codex-cli/src/app.tsx

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 import type { ApprovalPolicy } from "./approvals";
 import type { AppConfig } from "./utils/config";
+import type { TerminalChatSession } from "./utils/session.js";
 import type { ResponseItem } from "openai/resources/responses/responses";
 
 import TerminalChat from "./components/chat/terminal-chat";
 import TerminalChatPastRollout from "./components/chat/terminal-chat-past-rollout";
 import { checkInGit } from "./utils/check-in-git";
-import { CLI_VERSION, type TerminalChatSession } from "./utils/session.js";
 import { onExit } from "./utils/terminal";
+import { CLI_VERSION } from "./version";
 import { ConfirmInput } from "@inkjs/ui";
 import { Box, Text, useApp, useStdin } from "ink";
 import React, { useMemo, useState } from "react";

codex-cli/src/components/chat/terminal-chat-input.tsx

@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ export default function TerminalChatInput({
 
         try {
           const os = await import("node:os");
-          const { CLI_VERSION } = await import("../../utils/session.js");
+          const { CLI_VERSION } = await import("../../version.js");
           const { buildBugReportUrl } = await import(
             "../../utils/bug-report.js"
           );

codex-cli/src/components/chat/terminal-chat.tsx

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import {
   uniqueById,
 } from "../../utils/model-utils.js";
 import { createOpenAIClient } from "../../utils/openai-client.js";
-import { CLI_VERSION } from "../../utils/session.js";
 import { shortCwd } from "../../utils/short-path.js";
 import { saveRollout } from "../../utils/storage/save-rollout.js";
 import ApprovalModeOverlay from "../approval-mode-overlay.js";
@@ -36,6 +35,7 @@ import chalk from "chalk";
 import { Box, Text } from "ink";
 import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
 import React, { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { CLI_VERSION } from "src/version.js";
 import { inspect } from "util";
 
 export type OverlayModeType =

codex-cli/src/utils/agent/agent-loop.ts

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import { parseToolCallArguments } from "../parsers.js";
 import { responsesCreateViaChatCompletions } from "../responses.js";
 import {
   ORIGIN,
-  CLI_VERSION,
   getSessionId,
   setCurrentModel,
   setSessionId,
@@ -33,6 +32,7 @@ import { handleExecCommand } from "./handle-exec-command.js";
 import { HttpsProxyAgent } from "https-proxy-agent";
 import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 import OpenAI, { APIConnectionTimeoutError, AzureOpenAI } from "openai";
+import { CLI_VERSION } from "src/version.js";
 
 // Wait time before retrying after rate limit errors (ms).
 const RATE_LIMIT_RETRY_WAIT_MS = parseInt(

codex-cli/src/utils/check-updates.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import type { AgentName } from "package-manager-detector";
 
 import { detectInstallerByPath } from "./package-manager-detector";
-import { CLI_VERSION } from "./session";
+import { CLI_VERSION } from "../version";
 import boxen from "boxen";
 import chalk from "chalk";
 import { getLatestVersion } from "fast-npm-meta";

codex-cli/src/utils/session.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-// Node ESM supports JSON imports behind an assertion. TypeScript's
-// `resolveJsonModule` takes care of the typings.
-import pkg from "../../package.json" assert { type: "json" };
-
-// Read the version directly from package.json.
-export const CLI_VERSION: string = (pkg as { version: string }).version;
 export const ORIGIN = "codex_cli_ts";
 
 export type TerminalChatSession = {

codex-cli/src/version.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+// Note that "../package.json" is marked external in build.mjs. This ensures
+// that the contents of package.json will always be read at runtime, which is
+// preferable so we do not have to make a temporary change to package.json in
+// the source tree to update the version number in the code.
+import pkg from "../package.json" with { type: "json" };
+
+// Read the version directly from package.json.
+export const CLI_VERSION: string = (pkg as { version: string }).version;