Ollama — The AI Toolchain

Ollama v0.33.1

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:09:57 GMT

Ollama v0.33.1 adds structured output and Qwen3.8 Flash Next on the MLX backend, plus OLLAMA_HOST-aware Pi configuration. • Adds structured output support to the MLX runner, enabling constrained-format responses on Apple Silicon via the MLX backend. • Adds support for the Qwen3.8 Flash Next model on the MLX backend.

Ollama v0.33.0

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:52:46 GMT

Ollama v0.33.0 adds Claude Desktop integration, an 'Apps' connect experience, and smarter KV-cache-preserving prefill restore points. • Adds Claude Desktop integration on macOS: connect Ollama as a third-party gateway so Claude Desktop can use local Ollama models, with model selection, auto-mode, and install assistance from the menu bar. • Disables Claude Code's 'tokens left' token-countdown system message injection to preserve the KV cache across requests.

Ollama v0.32.15

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:25:16 GMT

Ollama v0.32.15 adds a desktop onboarding flow and a model metadata cache that cuts time-to-first-token roughly in half. • Adds a new desktop onboarding flow on first launch, guiding users through sign-in, local-only, or skip options before presenting the `ollama` command.

Ollama v0.32.14

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:41:23 GMT

Ollama v0.32.14 adds WebP image support and more flexible system message placement for Qwen models. • Adds WebP image transcoding for llama-server, enabling WebP inputs to be used in multimodal prompts. • Qwen renderer now tolerates system messages in non-leading positions, allowing more flexible conversation structures.

Ollama v0.32.14

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:41:23 GMT

Ollama v0.32.14 adds WebP image transcoding and robust Qwen system-message handling. • Automatically transcodes WebP image payloads to PNG before forwarding to llama-server, enabling vision model requests with WebP inputs (previously unsupported). • Qwen renderer now passes non-leading system messages through the raw ChatML path instead of returning an HTTP 500, supporting coding clients that inject runtime system prompts mid-conversation.

Ollama v0.32.13

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:16:07 GMT

Ollama v0.32.13 adds Qwen3.8 model support including developer instructions and OpenAI-compatible agent compatibility. • Adds Qwen3.8 model support with a dedicated renderer handling reasoning-effort and preserved-thinking chat template semantics. • Supports developer-role instructions for Qwen3.8, folding leading system/developer prefixes into a single system turn so OpenAI-compatible coding agents (which commonly send `developer` role messages) work without modification.

Ollama v0.32.13

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:16:07 GMT

Ollama v0.32.12

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:37:00 GMT

Ollama v0.32.12 adds Qwen3.8 27B support with an Apple Silicon MLX-optimized variant. • Adds `qwen3.8:27b` model, runnable via `ollama run qwen3.8:27b`, targeting coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks. • Adds `qwen3.8:27b-mlx`, an Apple Silicon-optimized MLX variant of Qwen3.8 27B, tuned for maximum performance and output quality in repeated tasks and coding agents.

Ollama v0.32.12

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:37:00 GMT

Ollama v0.32.12 adds Qwen3.8 27B support with an Apple Silicon MLX-optimized variant. • Adds `qwen3.8:27b-mlx` model tag, an MLX-optimized build of Qwen3.8 27B tuned for maximum performance and output quality on Apple Silicon devices. • Adds `qwen3.8:27b` model to the Ollama library, bringing Qwen3.8 27B capabilities for coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks.

Ollama v0.32.11

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:22:12 GMT

Ollama v0.32.11 adds DeepSeek Harness and Meta Muse Code support, plus web search in the Responses API. • Adds `ollama launch dsh` support for DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's open-source agent harness. • Adds `ollama launch muse` support for Muse Code, Meta's agentic coding CLI. • The OpenAI-compatible Responses API now supports web search.

Ollama v0.32.11

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:22:12 GMT

Ollama v0.32.11 adds DeepSeek Harness and Muse Code launch integrations plus web search in the OpenAI Responses API. • Adds `ollama launch dsh` to launch DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's open-source agent harness. • Adds `ollama launch muse` to launch Muse Code, Meta's agentic coding CLI. • Adds support for the Nemotron 3.5 prompt layout, selecting the 3.5 parser and renderer from its checkpoint template.

Ollama v0.32.9

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:23:33 GMT

Ollama v0.32.9 adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters for always-on agents. • Adds `nemotron-3.5-lightning` model support via `ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning` — a 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters designed for always-on agent harnesses. • Adds the Nemotron 3 model architecture to Ollama's backend, enabling the new model family.

Ollama v0.32.9

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:23:33 GMT

Ollama v0.32.9 adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B MoE) with built-in speculative decoding and MLX support for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni. • Adds `nemotron-3.5-lightning`, a 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters, runnable via `ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning`. • Adds the Nemotron 3 architecture backend with MLX support for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, including Mamba2/recurrent layers, MoE routing, and quantized NVFP4/MXFP8 expert paths. • Serves the Nemotron model's multi-token prediction head as a built-in self-draft speculator, enabling speculative decoding without a separate draft model.

Ollama v0.32.8

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:49:29 GMT

Ollama v0.32.8 adds Muse Glimmer model support across NVIDIA, AMD, and additional platforms. • Adds `muse-glimmer` model support on NVIDIA, AMD, and additional platforms (Apple Silicon was supported since v0.32.7), enabling local coding-agent and long-running personal-assistant workloads. • Supports running `muse-glimmer` with `ollama launch claude --model muse-glimmer` to power Claude Code locally. • Supports running `muse-glimmer` with `ollama launch pi --model muse-glimmer` for a lighter-weight coding-agent workflow. • Supports running `muse-glimmer` with `ollama launch openclaw --model muse-glimmer` and `ollama launch hermes --model muse-glimmer` for personal-assistant frameworks.

Ollama v0.32.8

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:49:29 GMT

Ollama v0.32.8 adds Muse Glimmer model support across NVIDIA, AMD, and additional platforms. • Adds `muse-glimmer` model, runnable via `ollama run muse-glimmer`, supporting coding agent integrations (Claude Code, Codex, Pi) and personal assistant frameworks (OpenClaw, Hermes) on all platforms including NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. • Adds `ollama launch claude --model muse-glimmer` to wire Muse Glimmer directly into Claude Code as a local backend. • Adds `ollama launch openclaw --model muse-glimmer` and `ollama launch hermes --model muse-glimmer` to power personal assistant frameworks locally with Muse Glimmer.

Ollama v0.32.7

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:49:15 GMT

Ollama v0.32.7 adds Muse Glimmer 30B via MLX engine on Apple Silicon, with DFlash and image input support. • Adds `muse-glimmer:30b-mlx` model tag, enabling `ollama run muse-glimmer:30b-mlx` to download and run the 30B multimodal Muse Glimmer model locally on Apple Silicon via Ollama's MLX engine. • Adds `ollama launch` subcommand to start coding agent and personal assistant frameworks (e.g. `claude`, `pi`, `openclaw`, `hermes`) directly against a local model via `--model`. • MLX engine on Apple Silicon gains DFlash support and image input for Muse Glimmer as of this release.

Ollama v0.32.7

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:49:15 GMT

Ollama v0.32.7 adds Muse Glimmer 30B multimodal support with DFlash and image input on Apple Silicon MLX engine. • Adds `muse-glimmer:30b-mlx` model tag, enabling `ollama run muse-glimmer:30b-mlx` to run Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B multimodal model locally via the MLX engine on Apple Silicon. • Adds `ollama launch claude --model muse-glimmer:30b-mlx`, `ollama launch pi --model muse-glimmer:30b-mlx`, `ollama launch openclaw --model muse-glimmer:30b-mlx`, and `ollama launch hermes --model muse-glimmer:30b-mlx` to wire Muse Glimmer into Claude Code, Pi, OpenClaw, and Hermes agent frameworks. • Adds DFlash block-diffusion draft model support to the MLX runner, enabling speculative decoding on Apple Silicon for Muse Glimmer. • Adds image input support to the MLX runner for Muse Glimmer (and Qwen3.5), enabling multimodal prompts on Apple Silicon. • Adds `ctrl+o` keyboard shortcut to the agent TUI to toggle completed thinking trace details inline. • Streams live thinking deltas in the agent TUI beneath a `Thinking ↓ N tokens` row, collapsing to a persistent `Thought` row when a response or tool call begins. • Expands namespace tool declarations in the OpenAI Responses API, unfolding nested `tools` arrays into namespace-qualified flat function names so namespaced tool calls are fully declared to the model.

Ollama v0.32.6

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:49:20 GMT

Ollama v0.32.6 brings automatic speculative decoding for Qwen3.5 on Apple GPUs and OpenAI-compatible streaming fixes. • Adds `stream_options.include_usage` support to `/v1/chat/completions` streaming, now matching OpenAI's wire format: `role` only on the first chunk, `finish_reason` on its own trailing chunk, and usage in a separate chunk. • Adds `kimi-k3:cloud` tag so `ollama run kimi-k3` can pull cloud-only models that publish no default tag, instead of failing. • Qwen3.5 on Apple GPUs now automatically uses the model's MTP head for speculative decoding via the MLX engine, improving inference speed. Breaking changes: • Experimental image generation has been temporarily removed; users must continue using v0.32.5 for image generation support.

Ollama v0.32.6

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:49:20 GMT

Ollama v0.32.6 adds OpenAI-compatible streaming, cloud-model fallback, and automatic speculative decoding for Qwen3.5 on Apple GPUs. • Adds `stream_options.include_usage` support to `/v1/chat/completions` streaming, now matching OpenAI's wire format: `role` only on the first chunk, `finish_reason` on its own trailing chunk, and usage in a separate chunk. • Truncated responses from `/v1/chat/completions` now correctly report `finish_reason: "length"` instead of `"finish_reason: "tool_calls"`. • Qwen3.5 inference on Apple GPUs is faster: the MLX engine now automatically uses the model's MTP head for speculative decoding. • Experimental image generation has been removed; users needing it should remain on v0.32.5. Breaking changes: • Experimental image generation support is removed in v0.32.6. Workloads depending on it must stay on v0.32.5.

Ollama v0.32.4

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:22:12 GMT

Ollama v0.32.4 adds Laguna Apple GPU support and improves speculative-decoding draft quantization. • Adds support for the Laguna architecture on Apple GPUs via the MLX engine. • Quantizes draft-model output heads at the requested type when creating speculative-decoding drafts.

Ollama v0.32.4

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:22:12 GMT

Ollama v0.32.4 adds Laguna MLX support with memory residency, smarter speculative-decoding quantization, and agent skill permissions. • Quantizes draft-model output heads at the requested quantization type when creating speculative-decoding drafts, aligning draft and base model precision. • Adds permission/approval flow for model-initiated `skill` tool invocations in the agent TUI, while preserving direct user slash-skill activation without a prompt. • Adds `/system` prompt inspection and on/off toggle commands to the agent TUI, with cache-impact warning and completions while typing.

Ollama v0.32.3

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:44:28 GMT

Ollama v0.32.3 adds CUDA on Windows ARM64, B200 GPU support, Laguna 2.1 model capabilities, and restored Claude Code Channels. • Adds CUDA support on Windows ARM64, enabling GPU-accelerated inference on ARM-based Windows devices. • Adds B200 GPU support via CUDA 12 (compute capability 10.0 on Linux). • Reduces memory use on Linux CUDA and ROCm iGPUs through Direct I/O (`dio`) enablement. • Adds chat, thinking, and tool calling support for Laguna 2.1 models, including a Metal inference fix. • Updates the MLX and llama.cpp engines.

Ollama v0.32.3

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:44:28 GMT

Ollama v0.32.1

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:27:23 GMT

Ollama v0.32.1 improves Gemma 4 tool calling, MLX timeout support, and agent context awareness. • MLX text model loading now respects the `OLLAMA_LOAD_TIMEOUT` environment variable, enabling timeout control for MLX backends. • The interactive agent now receives the current working directory, giving models better project context during sessions. • Agent web search and fetch now prompt users to run `ollama signin` when authentication is required. • Improved Gemma 4 tool calling and multi-turn reasoning, including more reliable tool-response continuations.

Ollama v0.32.0

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:03:46 GMT

Ollama v0.32.0 launches an interactive agent experience and renames the ChatGPT integration. • New interactive agent experience: running `ollama` with no arguments now launches an agent for coding, web search, and delegating work. • Simplified `ollama launch` menu now surfaces only the most popular integrations; all others remain accessible via `ollama launch` directly. • Adds deprecation warnings before launching older agent models (CodeLlama, Qwen2.5(-coder), Llama 3.x, Mistral, StarCoder, base DeepSeek-R1 tags).

Ollama v0.31.2

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:28:22 GMT

Ollama v0.31.2 enables flash attention on older NVIDIA GPUs and iGPU vision model offloading. • Enables flash attention on older NVIDIA GPUs with compute capability 6.x, unlocking faster inference on Pascal-generation hardware. • iGPU can now offload vision models with padding to fit available memory, expanding multimodal model support on integrated graphics. • `ollama launch` for Claude Code now disables telemetry by default.

Ollama v0.31.1

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:10:17 GMT

Gemma 4 on Apple Silicon now generates tokens ~90% faster via automatic multi-token prediction (MTP) — no config needed. • Enables multi-token prediction (MTP) for Gemma 4 on Apple Silicon, delivering ~90% faster token generation on average with no configuration or output changes.

Ollama v0.30.11

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:52:05 GMT

Ollama v0.30.11 adds thinking capability detection, auto-install for Claude Code and opencode, and broader CUDA/GPU support. • Adds thinking capability detection for opencode integration. • Auto-installs Claude Code when missing, streamlining AI coding assistant setup. • Auto-installs opencode when missing, reducing manual setup steps. • Detects model drift when the Codex App UI switches models. • Adds sm_86 GPU architecture support to the CUDA v13 Windows preset. • Adds Compute Capability 87 (CC 87) support for CUDA v13 on Jetson devices. • Uses the host Vulkan loader on Windows for improved GPU compatibility. • Sizes multimodal projector (mmproj) offload based on projector memory. • Aligns the generate endpoint with native chat templates for more consistent output. • Unifies and tunes speculative decoding on the MLX runner.

Ollama v0.30.10

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:22:02 GMT

Ollama v0.30.10 brings Command A and North family models to Apple Silicon via the MLX engine. • Supports Command A and North family models running on Apple Silicon using the MLX engine.

Ollama v0.30.9

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:55:07 GMT

Ollama v0.30.9 adds Cohere2Moe architecture support and context-window overflow error reporting. • Supports the Cohere2Moe model architecture for running Cohere mixture-of-experts models locally. • Returns an error when a single message exceeds the current context window, enabling clearer failure handling in pipelines.

Ollama v0.30.7

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:51:48 GMT

Ollama v0.30.7 adds `ollama launch hermes-desktop` for a native visual interface to the Hermes agent. • Adds `ollama launch hermes-desktop` to spin up Hermes Desktop, a native UI for managing Hermes agent conversations, integrations, and messaging apps. • OpenAI-compatible API models list now aligns with available model tags, improving API accuracy.

Ollama v0.30.6

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:00:18 GMT

Ollama v0.30.6 adds Gemma 4 QAT models, Oh My Pi IDE agent integration, and improved Apple Silicon embedding quantization. • Adds Gemma 4 QAT model variants (`gemma4:*-qat` tags) with quantization-aware training to reduce memory requirements and boost on-device performance. • New `ollama launch omp` command integrates with Oh My Pi, an AI coding agent with IDE integration. • MLX embedding layers now use NVFP4 global scale for improved quantization quality on Apple Silicon.

Ollama v0.30.5

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:00:37 GMT

ollama launch hermes-desktop skips rebuilds on installed apps; native Windows support added for ollama launch hermes. • Supports skipping rebuild in `ollama launch hermes-desktop` when a packaged desktop app is already installed. • Enables native Windows installs via the Hermes PowerShell installer with `ollama launch hermes`.

Ollama v0.30.4

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:48:32 GMT

Ollama v0.30.4 adds NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Ultra and improves MLX Modelfile REQUIRES support for experimental model creation. • New model: Nemotron-3-Ultra, NVIDIA's model optimized for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows. • `ollama create --experimental` now respects the `REQUIRES` directive in Modelfiles for MLX-based models.

Ollama v0.30.3

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:35:43 GMT

Ollama v0.30.3 adds support for running the Gemma 4 12B multimodal model locally. • Supports Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal model with advanced reasoning designed to run on consumer laptops.

Ollama v0.30.2

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:37:18 GMT

Ollama v0.30.2 adds Qwen Code support, Laguna architecture backend, and Radeon 8060S GPU enablement. • Adds Qwen Code model support via `ollama launch`, including guided Cline CLI installation when missing. • Adds llama.cpp backend support for Poolside's Laguna model architecture. • Enables Radeon 8060S integrated GPUs by default. • Includes template details in logs to aid troubleshooting of model prompts. • llama.cpp backend now includes cached prompt tokens in token accounting, improving usage reporting for prompt-cache-hit requests.

Ollama v0.24.0

Thu, 14 May 2026 02:24:24 GMT

Ollama v0.24 launches Codex App support with built-in browser, review mode, and reworked MLX sampler. • Adds `ollama launch codex-app` to run OpenAI's Codex desktop experience with parallel thread support, built-in worktree management, and git functionality. • Codex App includes a built-in browser for loading local servers and annotating pages directly to request code changes. • Codex App includes a Review mode for leaving inline comments and iterating on code without leaving the workspace. • Supports `ollama launch codex-app --restore` to revert to a previous Codex App configuration. • Reworked MLX sampler improves generation quality on Apple Silicon.

Ollama v0.23.4

Wed, 13 May 2026 20:40:22 GMT

ollama launch opencode now accepts image inputs when using vision models. • Enables image input support for vision models via `ollama launch opencode`.

Ollama v0.30.0

Wed, 13 May 2026 14:32:54 GMT

Ollama v0.30.0 adds llama.cpp engine support, broader GGUF model compatibility, and faster NVIDIA performance. • Adds llama.cpp engine as a backend, augmenting the existing MLX engine on Apple Silicon and extending support to a wider range of hardware. • Supports GGUF-based models from Hugging Face directly, including user fine-tuned models. • Delivers faster inference performance on NVIDIA hardware. Breaking changes: • `nomic-embed-text` now converts inputs to lowercase per the model card; prior Ollama versions incorrectly preserved mixed case, so embeddings generated by this model will differ from previous versions.

Ollama v0.23.2

Thu, 07 May 2026 20:23:10 GMT

Ollama v0.23.2 caches /api/show for ~6.7x faster model-load latency and refines launch integration management. • Caches `/api/show` API responses, cutting median latency by ~6.7x and accelerating integrations such as VS Code. • Adds `ollama launch claude-desktop --restore` command to return Claude Desktop to its normal state after integration removal. • Improves backup workflow when managing `ollama launch` integrations. • Delivers a cleaner image-generation layout in the MLX runner. Breaking changes: • `ollama launch` no longer includes Claude Desktop; the third-party integration has been removed because it was limited to Anthropic models.

Ollama v0.23.1

Tue, 05 May 2026 17:13:31 GMT

Ollama v0.23.1 adds Gemma 4 MTP speculative decoding on Mac, delivering 2x+ speed on 31B coding tasks. • Supports Gemma 4 MTP (Multi-token Processing) speculative decoding on Macs via the MLX runner, enabling 2x+ speed gains for the Gemma 4 31B model on coding tasks.

Ollama v0.23.0

Sun, 03 May 2026 03:34:11 GMT

Ollama v0.23.0 adds `ollama launch claude-desktop` support and server-driven featured model recommendations. • Adds `ollama launch claude-desktop` to launch Claude Desktop (including Claude Cowork and Claude Code) directly from Ollama. • Surfaces featured models in the Ollama app via server-driven recommendations.

Ollama v0.22.1

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:30:57 GMT

Ollama v0.22.1 updates the Gemma 4 renderer for thinking and tool calling, and decouples model recommendations from app updates. • Updated Gemma 4 renderer with improved thinking and tool calling support. • Model recommendations now refresh independently, without requiring an Ollama update. • Aligns the desktop app's launch page with `ollama launch` integrations.

Ollama v0.22.0

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:00:25 GMT

Ollama v0.22.0 adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Omni and Poolside Laguna XS.2 to the model library. • Adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Omni multimodal model via `ollama run nemotron3`. • Adds Poolside's Laguna XS.2, an open-weight coding-focused model, via `ollama run laguna-xs.2`.

Ollama v0.21.3-rc0

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:15:38 GMT

Ollama v0.21.3-rc0 adds `max` as a think value and maps OpenAI reasoning effort to think parameter. • Accepts `"max"` as a valid value for the `think` parameter, enabling maximum reasoning depth in a single flag. • Maps OpenAI Responses API `reasoning_effort` field to Ollama's `think` parameter, enabling OpenAI-compatible clients to control thinking mode.

Ollama v0.21.2

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:29:24 GMT

Ollama v0.21.2 bundles web search in OpenClaw and stabilizes the `ollama launch` onboarding flow. • OpenClaw integration now includes Ollama's web search plugin out of the box, enabling web-augmented queries without manual plugin setup.

Ollama v0.21.1

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:18:02 GMT

Ollama v0.21.1 adds Kimi CLI integration, logprobs support in MLX, and faster MLX sampling. • New `ollama launch` command installs and runs the Kimi CLI, enabling long-horizon agentic execution via a multi-agent system with models like `kimi-k2.6:cloud`. • MLX runner now supports logprobs for compatible models. • Faster MLX sampling via fused top-P and top-K in a single sort pass, with repeat penalties applied in the sampler. • Improved MLX prompt tokenization by moving tokenization into request handler goroutines. • GLM4 MoE Lite gains a performance improvement with a fused sigmoid router head.

Ollama v0.21.0

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:00:17 GMT

Ollama v0.21.0 adds Hermes Agent, GitHub Copilot CLI integration, and Gemma 4 on Apple Silicon MLX. • Adds `ollama launch hermes` to run the Hermes Agent, which automatically creates skills to better serve research and engineering workflows. • Adds GitHub Copilot CLI as a supported integration in `ollama launch`, configurable alongside other coding agents in a single command. • Supports running Gemma 4 via the MLX backend on Apple Silicon, including a text-only MLX runtime. • Adds mixed-precision quantization to the MLX backend. • Expands MLX backend with new op wrappers: Conv2d, Pad, activations, trig, masked SDPA, and RoPE-with-freqs. • `ollama launch opencode` now writes config inline instead of to a separate file, consistent with other integrations.

Ollama v0.20.5

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:11:20 GMT

Ollama v0.20.5 adds OpenClaw messaging-channel setup and flash attention for Gemma 4. • New `ollama launch openclaw` command sets up OpenClaw channels, connecting WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and other messaging platforms. • Enables flash attention for Gemma 4 on compatible GPUs. • `ollama launch opencode` now auto-detects curl-based OpenCode installs at `~/.opencode/bin`.

Ollama v0.20.3

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:19:10 GMT

Ollama v0.20.3 adds latest models to the app and improves Gemma 4 tool calling support. • Adds latest models to the Ollama App model library. • Improves Gemma 4 tool calling capabilities.

Ollama v0.20.0

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:54:22 GMT

Ollama v0.20.0 adds Google Gemma 4 model family support across four sizes including MoE and dense variants. • Supports Google Gemma 4 models in four sizes: E2B, E4B, 26B (Mixture of Experts with 4B active parameters), and 31B (Dense). • Adds SentencePiece-style BPE tokenizer support.

Ollama v0.19.0

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:07:30 GMT

Ollama v0.19.0 powers Apple Silicon with MLX backend and adds web search to `ollama launch pi`. • Adds MLX-powered inference backend for Apple Silicon, leveraging unified memory architecture for improved performance. • Adds web search plugin to `ollama launch pi`, using Ollama's built-in web search capability. • MLX runner now creates periodic snapshots during prompt processing, enabling more resilient long-context runs.

Ollama v0.18.3

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:00:57 GMT

Ollama v0.18.3 adds direct VS Code integration via GitHub Copilot, letting local models be used inside the editor. • Enables VS Code GitHub Copilot integration so any local or cloud Ollama model can be selected directly inside Visual Studio Code.

Ollama v0.18.1

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:21:51 GMT

Ollama v0.18.1 adds web search/fetch for OpenClaw and headless mode for `ollama launch`. • Adds web search and web fetch plugin for OpenClaw via `ollama launch openclaw`, enabling local and cloud models to retrieve and extract readable web content. • Supports installing the web search capability directly into an existing OpenClaw setup with `openclaw plugins install @ollama/openclaw-web-search`. • Adds non-interactive (headless) mode to `ollama launch` via `--yes` flag and required `--model` argument, enabling automated pipelines, CI/CD security checks, and scripted prompt evaluation. • Enables OpenClaw subagent task execution in headless mode for automated multi-step workflows.

Ollama v0.18.0

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:37:49 GMT

Ollama v0.18 adds non-interactive launch support, Nemotron-3-Super, ROCm 7, and Ollama-as-OpenClaw provider • Adds `--yes` flag to `ollama launch` for non-interactive/scripted use (GitHub Actions, CI pipelines, etc.) • Adds Nemotron-3-Super (122B) model with strong reasoning and tool calling, runnable via cloud tag or locally with 96GB+ VRAM • Ollama can now be selected as an authentication and model provider during OpenClaw onboarding • Cloud models (`:cloud` tag) no longer require `ollama pull` — they connect automatically • Ships with ROCm 7, bringing updated AMD GPU support • Up to 10x lower latency for MiniMax-M2.5 and up to 2x for Qwen3.5 on Ollama's cloud for North American customers • Up to 2x faster speeds with Kimi-K2.5 via OpenClaw Breaking changes: • ROCm 7 is now bundled; AMD GPU users must update drivers to the latest version for continued GPU support.

Ollama v0.17.8-rc4

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:30:50 GMT

Ollama v0.17.8-rc4 adds MLX int4 groupsize 64 support and updates ROCm on Linux to v7.2. • Updates ROCm support on Linux to v7.2. • Adds MLX int4 groupsize 64 quantization support for Apple Silicon inference. • MLX runner now reads model parameters directly from the Modelfile during model creation. • Removes requirement to pull stubs for cloud models, streamlining cloud model usage.

Ollama v0.17.7

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:51:09 GMT

Ollama v0.17.7 adds thinking-level support in the API and context-length compaction for `ollama launch`. • Supports named thinking levels (e.g., `"medium"`) for thinking models via Ollama's API. • Adds context-length parameter to enable compaction when using `ollama launch`.

Ollama v0.17.5

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:59:48 GMT

Ollama v0.17.5 adds Qwen3.5 model support and peak memory visibility in the MLX engine. • Adds Qwen3.5 model series (0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B parameters) to the Ollama library. • `ollama run --verbose` now shows peak memory usage when using Ollama's MLX engine.

Ollama v0.17.4

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:47:22 GMT

Ollama v0.17.4 adds Qwen 3.5 and LFM 2 models plus tool call indices in parallel tool calls. • Adds Qwen 3.5, a multimodal open-source model family, available via `ollama pull qwen3.5`. • Adds LFM 2, a hybrid on-device model family including LFM2-24B-A2B (24B params, efficient inference), available via `ollama pull lfm2`. • Includes tool call indices in parallel tool call responses, enabling callers to correlate multiple simultaneous tool invocations. Breaking changes: • Users on v0.17.1 will not receive this update automatically and must re-download Ollama manually.

Ollama v0.17.1

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:00:28 GMT

Ollama v0.17.1 adds Nemotron architecture, web search for tool-capable models, and auto-update download controls. • Adds support for the Nemotron model architecture in Ollama's engine. • Enables web search capabilities for models that support tools via the Ollama app. • Adds configuration option to disable automatic update downloading. • Improves LFM2 and LFM2.5 model support in Ollama's engine. • MLX engine now delivers improved memory usage. Breaking changes: • `ollama create` no longer defaults to affine quantization for unquantized models when using the MLX engine — existing workflows relying on that default will produce differently quantized output.

Ollama v0.17.0

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:40:46 GMT

Ollama v0.17.0 adds `ollama launch openclaw` for one-command OpenClaw setup with web search and open model support. • New `ollama launch openclaw` command installs and configures OpenClaw automatically, enabling use with open models like Kimi-K2.5, GLM-5, and Minimax-M2.5. • Adds web search capability in OpenClaw when using cloud models, allowing internet-augmented responses. • macOS and Windows apps now automatically select context length based on available VRAM.

Ollama v0.16.3

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:11:27 GMT

Ollama v0.16.3 adds Cline CLI integration, always-on model picker, and Gemma 3/Llama/Qwen 3 MLX support. • New `ollama launch cline` subcommand launches the Cline CLI integration directly. • `ollama launch ` now always shows the model picker, making model selection explicit on every launch. • Adds Gemma 3, Llama, and Qwen 3 architectures to the MLX runner, enabling local Apple Silicon acceleration for those model families.

Ollama v0.16.2

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:43:11 GMT

Ollama v0.16.2 adds web search for cloud models and a new setting to block cloud data egress. • Adds web search support when running `ollama launch claude` with `:cloud` models. • New `OLLAMA_NO_CLOUD=1` environment variable (and app setting) to disable cloud models and keep data on-device.

Ollama v0.16.1

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:40:00 GMT

Ollama v0.16.1 lets image generation models respect OLLAMA_LOAD_TIMEOUT and improves install UX on macOS and Windows. • Image generation models now honor the `OLLAMA_LOAD_TIMEOUT` environment variable, enabling timeout control for slow-loading diffusion models. • macOS `curl` install script no longer prompts for a password unless elevation is actually required. • Windows `iem` install script now displays progress during installation.

Ollama v0.16.0

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:19:43 GMT

Ollama v0.16.0 adds a new `ollama launch` command, Ctrl+G editor integration, and two new frontier models. • New `ollama launch` command lets users start apps (e.g., Pi) pre-connected to a local model. • Ctrl+G keybinding opens an external text editor for editing prompts during an interactive model session. • MLX runner now supports GLM-4.7-Flash. • Adds GLM-5 (744B total / 40B active MoE) and MiniMax-M2.5 to the model library.

Ollama v0.15.6

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:58:40 GMT

ollama launch now auto-downloads missing models instead of erroring out • Enables `ollama launch` to automatically download missing models on demand rather than returning an error.

Ollama v0.15.5

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:21:21 GMT

Ollama v0.15.5 adds sub-agent support, browser-based sign-in, VRAM-aware context limits, and two new models. • Adds argument passthrough to `ollama launch`, enabling flags like `--resume` to be forwarded to the launched tool. • Adds sub-agent support to `ollama launch` for planning, deep research, and similar multi-step agentic workflows. • `ollama signin` now opens a browser window to the connect page for easier authentication. • Adds GLM-4.7-Flash support on Ollama's experimental MLX engine. • Adds new model Qwen3-Coder-Next, optimized for agentic coding workflows and local development. • Adds new model GLM-OCR, a multimodal model for complex document understanding.

Ollama v0.15.4

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:13:41 GMT

Ollama v0.15.4 adds automatic OpenClaw onboarding flow to `ollama launch openclaw`. • Triggers the standard OpenClaw onboarding flow when running `ollama launch openclaw` for the first time.

Ollama v0.15.3

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:29:48 GMT

Ollama v0.15.3: `ollama launch` now respects OLLAMA_HOST and improves Ministral tool calling • Enables `ollama launch` to use the `OLLAMA_HOST` environment variable when connecting, so custom host configurations are honored automatically. • Improves tool calling support for Ministral models. Breaking changes: • The `ollama launch clawdbot` subcommand is renamed to `ollama launch openclaw`; any scripts or workflows invoking `ollama launch clawdbot` will break.

Ollama v0.15.2

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:52:57 GMT

Ollama v0.15.2 adds `ollama launch clawdbot` to spin up Clawdbot using local Ollama models. • New `ollama launch clawdbot` command launches Clawdbot powered by locally running Ollama models.

Ollama v0.15.0

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:40:42 GMT

Ollama v0.15.0 adds `ollama launch` to connect local models with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Droid instantly. • New `ollama launch` command integrates Ollama models with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Droid without separate configuration. • Supports Ctrl+J and Shift+Enter for inserting newlines in `ollama run` interactive sessions.

Ollama v0.14.3

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:53:57 GMT

Ollama v0.14.3 adds image-generation support via /api/generate and two new text-to-image models. • Adds Z-Image Turbo, a 6B-parameter text-to-image model from Alibaba's Tongyi Lab for high-quality photorealistic image generation. • Adds Flux.2 Klein, Black Forest Labs' fastest image-generation model to date. • Adds GLM-4.7-Flash, a 30B-class model optimized for lightweight deployment balancing performance and efficiency. • Adds LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, a hybrid model family designed for on-device deployment. • Enables image generation via the existing `/api/generate` API endpoint.

Ollama v0.14.2

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:50:51 GMT

Ollama v0.14.2 adds multiline CLI input, improved OpenResponses API conformance, and the TranslateGemma 55-language model. • Supports multiline input in the Ollama CLI via Shift+Enter or Ctrl+J. • Improves `/v1/responses` API conformance to the OpenResponses specification. • Adds TranslateGemma, a new collection of open translation models built on Gemma 3 supporting 55 languages.

Ollama v0.14.1

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:02:29 GMT

Ollama v0.14.1 adds experimental image generation model support on macOS and Linux (CUDA). • Supports experimental image generation models on macOS and Linux (CUDA), starting with Z-Image-Turbo.

Ollama v0.14.0

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:33:45 GMT

Ollama v0.14.0 adds an agent loop with bash tool, Anthropic API compatibility, image generation, and Modelfile version pinning. • New `ollama run --experimental` flag opens an agent loop CLI with a built-in `bash` tool for agentic workflows. • Adds Anthropic API compatibility via the `/v1/messages` endpoint, enabling Anthropic-compatible clients to target Ollama. • New `REQUIRES` Modelfile command lets model authors declare the minimum Ollama version required to run the model. • Adds experimental support for image generation models powered by MLX. • Adds Swift source code syntax highlighting in the Ollama app. • Linux install bundles now use `zst` compression for faster downloads.

Ollama v0.13.5

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:39:08 GMT

Ollama v0.13.5 adds BERT model support, DeepSeek-V3.1 tool parsing, and the FunctionGemma function-calling model. • Adds built-in renderer and tool parsing for DeepSeek-V3.1, enabling structured function-calling workflows with that model. • New `functiongemma` model available: a Gemma 3 270M variant fine-tuned explicitly for function calling.

Ollama v0.13.4

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 09:24:40 GMT

Ollama v0.13.4 adds Nemotron 3 Nano and OLMo 3/3.1 models, with Flash Attention now on by default. • Adds Nemotron 3 Nano, an efficient open model optimized for agentic workloads. • Adds OLMo 3 and OLMo 3.1, open language models pre-trained on the Dolma 3 dataset and post-trained on Dolci datasets. • Enables Flash Attention automatically by default for all models, improving inference performance.

Ollama v0.13.3

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:14:37 GMT

Ollama v0.13.3 adds Devstral-Small-2, rnj-1, and nomic-embed-text-v2-moe models plus improved embedding truncation. • Adds Devstral-Small-2 (24B), a code-focused model optimized for multi-file editing and software engineering agents. • Adds rnj-1, an 8B dense model from Essential AI optimized for code and STEM tasks. • Adds nomic-embed-text-v2-moe, a multilingual Mixture-of-Experts text embedding model for multilingual retrieval. • Improves truncation logic for the `/api/embed` and `/v1/embeddings` endpoints.

Ollama v0.13.2

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:39:32 GMT

Ollama v0.13.2 enables flash attention by default for vision models and adds Qwen3-Next. • Adds Qwen3-Next model, the first in the Qwen3-Next series, optimized for parameter efficiency and inference speed. • Enables flash attention by default for vision models (mistral-3, gemma3, qwen3-vl, and others), improving memory utilization and performance when processing image inputs.

Ollama v0.13.1

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:48:04 GMT

Ollama v0.13.1 adds two new Mistral models, tool calling and thinking support for cogito-v2.1, and switches nomic-embed-text to Ollama's native engine. • Adds Ministral-3, an edge-optimized model designed to run on a wide range of hardware. • Adds Mistral-Large-3, a multimodal mixture-of-experts model for production-grade and enterprise workloads. • Enables tool calling support for the cogito-v2.1 model. • Adds thinking and tool parsing for cogito-v2.1. • Switches nomic-embed-text to use Ollama's native engine by default.

Ollama v0.13.0

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:16:07 GMT

Ollama v0.13.0 adds DeepSeek-OCR, Cogito-V2.1, a new bench tool, and DeepSeek-V3.1 architecture support. • Adds DeepSeek-OCR model support for document OCR, layout-grounded extraction, figure parsing, and markdown conversion from images. • Adds Cogito-V2.1 instruction-tuned model, currently the top open-weight LLM from a US company. • New `bench` CLI tool for benchmarking local model performance (built from the Ollama repo with Go). • Supports DeepSeek-V3.1 architecture natively in Ollama's engine.

Ollama v0.12.11

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:27:51 GMT

Ollama v0.12.11 adds log probability support to its API and opt-in Vulkan GPU acceleration. • Adds `logprobs` field to Ollama's generate API and OpenAI-compatible API, returning per-token log probabilities and raw bytes for classification, evaluation, and perplexity tasks. • Adds `top_logprobs` parameter to expose the N most-likely alternative tokens at each position, enabling token-level introspection. • Adds opt-in Vulkan GPU acceleration via `OLLAMA_VULKAN=1`, broadening hardware support to AMD, Intel, and integrated GPUs. • Adds WebP image support in Ollama's desktop app. • Ollama now prefers dedicated GPUs over iGPUs when scheduling models.

Ollama v0.12.10

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:41:21 GMT

Ollama v0.12.10 adds embedding model support in `ollama run`, tool call IDs in the chat API, and Vulkan GPU improvements. • Enables `ollama run` to generate vector embeddings by running embedding models directly from the CLI, including via stdin piping. • Returns tool call IDs from the `/api/chat` API endpoint. • Enables flash attention for Vulkan GPU backends. • Adds Vulkan memory detection for Intel GPUs using DXGI+PDH. • Shows login instructions when switching to a cloud model in interactive mode.

Ollama v0.12.8

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:22:27 GMT

Ollama v0.12.8 adds flash attention for qwen3-vl and automatic model unload before removal. • Enables flash attention by default for `qwen3-vl`, improving inference performance.

Ollama v0.12.7

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 02:07:54 GMT

Ollama v0.12.7 adds Qwen3-VL and MiniMax-M2 models, file uploads in the app, adjustable thinking levels, and OpenAI-compatible embedding format support. • Adds Qwen3-VL multimodal model support in sizes from 2B to 235B parameters. • Adds MiniMax-M2, a 230B parameter model optimized for coding and agentic workflows, available on Ollama's cloud. • New app UI: attach one or multiple files when prompting a model. • New app UI: adjust thinking levels for gpt-oss models to tune response depth. • The OpenAI-compatible `/v1/embeddings` endpoint now supports the `encoding_format` parameter. • Extends tool-call parsing to handle responses that don't conform to the standard `{"name": name, "arguments": args}` format. • New API documentation site launched at https://docs.ollama.com/api.

Ollama v0.12.6

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:02:31 GMT

Ollama v0.12.6 adds tool-call search support, default flash attention for Gemma 3, and experimental Vulkan GPU backend. • Adds web/tool-call search capability when running DeepSeek-V3.1, Qwen3, and other tool-calling-compatible models. • Enables flash attention by default for Gemma 3, improving performance and memory utilization. • Introduces experimental Vulkan GPU backend (build-from-source only), extending support to AMD and Intel GPUs not currently supported by Ollama.

Ollama v0.12.5

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:30:53 GMT

Ollama v0.12.5 adds structured output support for thinking models via /api/chat • Supports structured outputs for thinking models when using the `/api/chat` API Breaking changes: • macOS 12 Monterey and macOS 13 Ventura are no longer supported. • AMD gfx900 and gfx906 (MI50, MI60, etc) GPUs are no longer supported via ROCm.

Ollama v0.12.4

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:38:12 GMT

Ollama v0.12.4 enables flash attention by default for Qwen3 models and adds a new override to disable it. • Enables flash attention by default for Qwen3 and Qwen3 Coder models, improving inference performance without manual configuration. • Adds support for overriding default flash attention via `OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=0` for models where it is enabled by default. Breaking changes: • macOS 12 Monterey and macOS 13 Ventura are no longer supported. • AMD gfx900 and gfx906 (MI50, MI60, etc.) GPUs are no longer supported via ROCm.

Ollama v0.12.3

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 05:08:26 GMT

Ollama v0.12.3 adds DeepSeek-V3.1 and Kimi-K2 models plus sign-in URL prompting on push. • Adds DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus, a hybrid model supporting both thinking and non-thinking modes, runnable locally or on Ollama's cloud. • Adds Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905, a 1-trillion-parameter MoE model with 32B activated parameters, available via cloud. • `ollama push` now outputs a sign-in URL when authentication is required.

Ollama v0.12.2

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:19:20 GMT

Ollama v0.12.2 adds a web search API to ground model responses in live data and expands new-engine model support. • New web search API lets models retrieve live web results to reduce hallucinations and improve accuracy, with a free tier for individuals and higher rate limits via Ollama Cloud. • Qwen3 architecture models, including MoE variants, now run on Ollama's new engine. • Supports multi-regex pretokenizers in Ollama's new engine. • Ollama's new engine can load tensors by matching a prefix or suffix.

Ollama v0.12.1

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 23:19:05 GMT

Ollama v0.12.1 adds Qwen3 Embedding model support and tool calling for Qwen3-Coder. • Adds Qwen3 Embedding, a state-of-the-art open embedding model from the Qwen team, available via `ollama pull qwen3-embedding`. • Enables tool calling support for Qwen3-Coder models.

Ollama v0.12.0

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:29:57 GMT

Ollama v0.12.0 adds cloud-hosted large models, native BERT and Qwen3 engine support, and smarter thinking-prompt handling. • Adds cloud model support (preview): run massive models like `qwen3-coder:480b` on datacenter-grade hardware with the `-cloud` tag suffix. • Supports BERT-architecture models natively on Ollama's own engine. • Supports Qwen3-architecture models natively on Ollama's own engine. • Skips parsing an initial `` block when it is provided in the prompt for `/api/generate`, enabling cleaner reasoning-model workflows.

Ollama v0.11.11

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:02:41 GMT

Ollama v0.11.11 adds CUDA 13 support and a new `dimensions` field for embed requests. • Supports CUDA 13 for GPU-accelerated inference. • Adds `dimensions` field to embed requests, enabling control over output embedding size. • Enables new memory estimates in Ollama's new engine by default, improving resource planning for hybrid and recurrent models. • Adds Cmd+/- zoom controls for text sizing in Ollama's desktop app. • Enables copying of assistant messages in Ollama's desktop app.

Ollama v0.11.10

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:27:40 GMT

Ollama v0.11.10 adds support for EmbeddingGemma, a new best-in-class open embedding model. • Supports EmbeddingGemma, a new open embedding model with best-in-class performance for its size.

Ollama v0.11.9

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:14:18 GMT

Ollama v0.11.9 overlaps GPU and CPU computations for improved inference performance. • Improves performance by overlapping GPU and CPU computations during inference.

Ollama v0.11.8

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:43:44 GMT

Ollama v0.11.8 enables flash attention by default for gpt-oss on supported hardware. • Enables flash attention by default for `gpt-oss` models on systems that support it, reducing memory overhead during inference.

Ollama v0.11.7

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:04:05 GMT

Ollama v0.11.7 adds DeepSeek-V3.1 support with hybrid thinking and cloud Turbo mode preview. • Adds DeepSeek-V3.1 (671B parameter model) to the Ollama model library. • Supports hybrid thinking on compatible models: enable or disable chain-of-thought reasoning per request via the `think` field in the API or `/set think`/`/set nothink` CLI commands. • Introduces Turbo mode (preview): routes inference for large models like DeepSeek-V3.1 to cloud hardware via `OLLAMA_HOST=ollama.com`.

Ollama v0.11.5

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 02:38:31 GMT

Ollama v0.11.5 adds opt-in improved VRAM memory estimates, multi-GPU scheduling gains, and CPU flash attention support. • New opt-in memory management (`OLLAMA_NEW_ESTIMATES=1`) improves VRAM utilization and reduces out-of-memory errors when scheduling models on GPUs. • Improved multi-GPU scheduling reduces VRAM allocation when running across more than 2 GPUs. • Enables flash attention for pure-CPU models via `OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1`. • The Ollama app now persists default model, Turbo, and Web Search selections across restarts.

Ollama v0.11.4

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:17:41 GMT

Ollama v0.11.4 improves OpenAI-compatible API support: simultaneous content+tool calls, tool name propagation, and always-on reasoning. • Supports content and tool calls coexisting in the same OpenAI-compatible message, enabling richer agentic responses. • Propagates the tool name when converting role=tool messages in the OpenAI-compatible layer. • Always provides reasoning output in OpenAI-compatible responses.

Ollama v0.11.0

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:56:24 GMT

Ollama v0.11 adds native support for OpenAI's gpt-oss 20B and 120B open-weight models with built-in web search and MXFP4 quantization. • Adds OpenAI gpt-oss 20B and 120B open-weight models, runnable locally via `ollama run gpt-oss:20b` and `ollama run gpt-oss:120b`. • Supports native MXFP4 quantization format for gpt-oss MoE weights (4.25 bits/param), enabling the 20B to run on 16 GB RAM and the 120B on a single 80 GB GPU. • Enables built-in optional web search to augment gpt-oss models with real-time information. • Supports configurable reasoning effort (low, medium, high) for gpt-oss models to balance quality and latency. • Exposes full chain-of-thought reasoning output from gpt-oss models. • Supports function calling, Python tool calls, and structured outputs via gpt-oss models' native agentic capabilities. • Adds SWA (sliding window attention) KV-cache enhancement to retain additional cache entries.

Ollama v0.10.0

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:23:58 GMT

Ollama v0.10.0 adds context-length visibility in `ollama ps`, WebP image support, and 10-30% multi-GPU performance gains. • Adds context length display to `ollama ps` output for loaded models. • Supports WebP images in the OpenAI-compatible API. • Delivers 10-30% performance improvement when using multiple GPUs. • Improves performance of `gemma3n` models by 2-3x. • Launches redesigned desktop app for macOS and Windows. Breaking changes: • Parallel request processing now defaults to 1 (previously higher), which will reduce throughput for workloads relying on the previous concurrent-request default.

Ollama v0.9.6

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:26:29 GMT

Ollama v0.9.6 lets tool-role messages carry a `tool_name` field in `/api/chat`. • Supports `tool_name` field in messages with `"role": "tool"` via the `/api/chat` endpoint, enabling precise tool-call attribution in multi-turn agentic conversations.

Ollama v0.9.5

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:39:28 GMT

Ollama v0.9.5 adds network exposure, configurable model directory, and a faster native macOS app. • Enables exposing Ollama over the network so other devices (including low-powered ones) can access a centrally running instance. • Supports configuring the model storage directory, enabling models to live on external drives or custom paths. • Ships a native macOS application with smaller installation footprint and faster startup time. • Adds NativeMind to the Community Integrations list. Breaking changes: • Ollama for macOS now requires version 12 (Monterey) or newer; installations on older macOS versions will no longer be supported.

Ollama v0.9.4

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 02:45:46 GMT

Ollama v0.9.4 adds network exposure and configurable model directory via the desktop apps. • Enables exposing the Ollama server on the network so other devices (or remote users) can access models running on a powerful local machine. • Adds configurable model storage directory, allowing models to be stored on external drives or any non-default path. • Delivers a native macOS app with significantly smaller install footprint and faster startup. Breaking changes: • Ollama for macOS now requires version 12 (Monterey) or newer; installations on older macOS versions will no longer be supported.

Ollama v0.9.3

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:55:41 GMT

Ollama v0.9.3 adds support for Google's Gemma 3n models, optimized for laptops, tablets, and phones. • Supports Gemma 3n models (e2b and e4b variants), designed for efficient on-device execution across laptops, tablets, and phones with training data covering 140+ spoken languages.

Ollama v0.9.1

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:18:42 GMT

Ollama v0.9.1 adds tool calling for DeepSeek-R1 671B and Magistral, plus a redesigned macOS/Windows preview app. • Adds tool calling support for DeepSeek-R1-2508 (671B) and Magistral models. • Supports disabling thinking mode on Magistral (with recommended system prompt change). • New preview macOS and Windows desktop apps with network exposure, local browser access, and configurable model directory. • macOS app rebuilt as a native application for smaller footprint and faster startup. • Enables exposing Ollama on the network so other devices (or remote users) can reach a central Ollama host. • Allows local browser access so web applications can directly call the local Ollama API. • Model storage directory is now configurable, enabling use of external drives or custom paths.

Ollama v0.9.0

Thu, 29 May 2025 05:41:01 GMT

Ollama v0.9.0 adds controllable thinking mode for reasoning models, exposing chain-of-thought as a separate API field. • Adds thinking mode support: enable or disable chain-of-thought reasoning for compatible models (DeepSeek R1, Qwen 3) independently per request. • New `thinking` field in API chat responses separates the model's reasoning trace from its final `content` for easy parsing. • New `/set think` and `/set nothink` CLI commands toggle thinking mode interactively during a session. • New `"think": true/false` API parameter in `/api/chat` allows per-request control of thinking behavior. • Adds support for DeepSeek-R1-0528, the updated 8B distilled and 671B full models with improved reasoning.

Ollama v0.8.0

Tue, 27 May 2025 19:55:15 GMT

Ollama v0.8.0 adds streaming support for tool call responses. • Streams responses that include tool calls, enabling real-time output during tool-augmented LLM interactions. • Adds improved memory estimate debug information in logs when running models in Ollama's engine.

Ollama v0.7.1

Wed, 21 May 2025 22:17:35 GMT

Ollama v0.7.1 adds Qwen 3 & Qwen 2 multimodal support and truncation indicators in `ollama show`. • Supports Alibaba's Qwen 3 and Qwen 2 architectures in Ollama's multimodal engine. • `ollama show` now displays `...` when output data is truncated.

Ollama v0.7.0

Tue, 13 May 2025 00:10:33 GMT

Ollama v0.7.0 adds multimodal vision model support, WebP image input, and corrected HTTP 405 responses. • Supports multimodal vision models via Ollama's new engine, including Meta Llama 4, Google Gemma 3, Qwen 2.5 VL, and Mistral Small 3.1. • Accepts WebP images as input to multimodal models. • API now returns HTTP 405 (Method Not Allowed) instead of 404 for disallowed methods, enabling more accurate client-side error handling. • Improved performance of importing safetensors models via `ollama create`. • Improved prompt processing speeds of Qwen3 MoE on macOS.

Ollama v0.6.8

Sat, 03 May 2025 22:56:44 GMT

Ollama v0.6.8 delivers major performance gains for Qwen3 MoE models on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. • Improves inference performance for Qwen3 MoE models (`30b-a3b` and `235b-a22b`) on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.

Ollama v0.6.7

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:16:02 GMT

Ollama v0.6.7 adds Llama 4 multimodal, Qwen3, Phi 4 reasoning models, and raises default context window to 4096 tokens. • Adds support for Meta's Llama 4 multimodal models, enabling image-and-text inference locally. • Adds support for Microsoft's Phi 4 Reasoning and Phi 4 Mini Reasoning models for state-of-the-art chain-of-thought tasks. • Adds Qwen3 family (dense and MoE variants) to the model library. • Increases default context window from its previous limit to 4096 tokens, unlocking longer conversations and documents out of the box.

Ollama v0.6.6

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 04:34:58 GMT

Ollama v0.6.6 adds IBM Granite 3.3 and DeepCoder models, experimental faster downloader, and expanded tool-call type support. • Adds IBM Granite 3.3 (2B and 8B) models with 128K context length, fine-tuned for reasoning and instruction-following. • Adds DeepCoder 14B (and 1.5B) fully open-source coder model at O3-mini level. • New experimental faster model downloader with improved performance and reliability, enabled via `OLLAMA_EXPERIMENT=client2`. • Improves performance of `ollama create` when importing models from Safetensors. • Supports tool function parameters with either a single type or an array of types. • Includes `items` and `$defs` fields in the API to properly handle `array` types. • Adds `OpenAI-Beta` headers to the CORS safelist, enabling broader cross-origin API access.

Ollama v0.6.5

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:15:39 GMT

Ollama v0.6.5 adds Mistral Small 3.1, a top-performing vision model in its weight class. • Adds support for Mistral Small 3.1, described as the best-performing vision model in its weight class.

Ollama v0.6.4

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:14:24 GMT

Ollama v0.6.4 adds model capability metadata to /api/show and AMD RDNA4 GPU support on Linux. • Adds model capability metadata (e.g. `vision`) to `/api/show` API responses. • Adds AMD RDNA4 GPU support on Linux.

Ollama v0.6.3

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:56:08 GMT

Ollama v0.6.3 adds sliding window attention optimizations for Gemma 3 and smarter `ollama create` for safetensors imports. • Adds sliding window attention optimizations for Gemma 3, improving inference speed and memory efficiency for long context windows. • `ollama create` now reports the name of unsupported architectures instead of failing silently.

Ollama v0.6.2

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:11:33 GMT

Ollama v0.6.2 adds multi-image support for Gemma 3 and AMD Strix Halo GPU support. • Supports multiple images in a single Gemma 3 prompt, enabling multimodal workflows. • Adds support for AMD Strix Halo GPUs. • `ollama create --quantize` now works when converting Gemma 3 models from safetensors format.

Ollama v0.6.1

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:58:48 GMT

Ollama v0.6.1 adds Command A model support, verbose model inspection, and new CLI hotkeys. • Adds Command A, a 111B-parameter enterprise-grade model, to the Ollama library. • New `ollama show --verbose` / `ollama show -v` flag prints additional model data beyond the default output. • Adds Ctrl+P and Ctrl+N hotkeys for navigating history in `ollama run` interactive sessions.

Ollama v0.6.0

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:37:42 GMT

Ollama v0.6.0 adds support for Google Gemma 3 in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes. • Supports Google Gemma 3 multimodal model in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes via `ollama run gemma3`.

Ollama v0.5.13

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:27:51 GMT

Ollama v0.5.13 adds NVIDIA Blackwell support, a new default context length env var, and three new models including Phi-4-Mini with function calling. • New `OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH` environment variable lets operators set the default context length server-wide without per-request overrides. • Ollama is now compiled for NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, enabling inference on the latest NVIDIA hardware. • Adds Phi-4-Mini model with multilingual support, reasoning, mathematics, and function calling. • Adds Granite-3.2-Vision, a compact vision-language model for visual document understanding (tables, charts, diagrams, infographics). • Adds Command R7B Arabic, a model optimized for advanced Arabic language tasks targeting MENA enterprises. • Accepts requests from Visual Studio Code and Cursor via origins beginning with `vscode-file://`, enabling IDE-native integration. Breaking changes: • Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10, and RHEL 8+ or later are now required to run Ollama on Linux — older Linux distributions are no longer supported.

Ollama v0.5.12

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:32:40 GMT

Ollama v0.5.12 adds Perplexity R1 1776, OpenAI-compatible tool_calls responses, and X-Stainless-Timeout header support. • Adds Perplexity R1 1776 model: a post-trained DeepSeek-R1 variant with fewer topic refusals. • OpenAI-compatible API now returns `tool_calls` in responses when a model invokes a tool. • Accepts `X-Stainless-Timeout` as a valid header on OpenAI API endpoints.

Ollama v0.5.9

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:33:49 GMT

Ollama v0.5.9 adds DeepScaleR and OpenThinker reasoning models to the library. • Adds DeepScaleR, a 1.5B-parameter math-reasoning model fine-tuned on Deepseek-R1-Distilled-Qwen-1.5B, available via `ollama pull deepscaler`. • Adds OpenThinker, a fully open-source family of reasoning models distilled from DeepSeek-R1, available via `ollama pull openthinker`.

Ollama v0.5.8

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:40:08 GMT

Ollama v0.5.8 adds AVX-512 CPU acceleration and broadens GPU compatibility to non-AVX hosts • Adds AVX-512 instruction support for additional CPU inference acceleration on compatible hardware. • Enables NVIDIA and AMD GPUs on systems whose CPUs lack AVX instructions, broadening deployment targets. • Adds AVX2 instruction usage when offloading to NVIDIA and AMD GPUs for improved hybrid performance. • New `ollama-darwin.tgz` archive package replaces the previous `ollama-darwin` standalone binary for macOS distribution. Breaking changes: • The `ollama-darwin` standalone binary is replaced by the `ollama-darwin.tgz` package; scripts or pipelines that download the old binary path will break. • The steps to build Ollama with GPU acceleration from source have changed; existing build procedures must be updated per the development documentation.

Ollama v0.5.7

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:17:33 GMT

Ollama v0.5.7 adds native import support for Command R and Command R+ safetensor models. • Supports importing Command R and Command R+ architectures directly from safetensors files.

Ollama v0.5.5

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:55:42 GMT

Ollama v0.5.5 adds 8 new models including DeepSeek-V3 and Phi-4, plus a faster /api/create endpoint that now accepts JSON. • Adds Phi-4 (14B, Microsoft) to the model library. • Adds Command R7B (Cohere) for efficient inference on commodity GPUs and edge devices. • Adds DeepSeek-V3, a 671B MoE model with 37B parameters activated per token. • Adds OLMo 2 (7B and 13B) trained on up to 5T tokens. • Adds Dolphin 3, a general-purpose instruct-tuned model supporting coding, math, agentic, and function-calling use cases. • Adds SmallThinker, a small reasoning model fine-tuned from Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct. • Adds Granite 3.1 Dense (2B and 8B) from IBM, trained on over 12 trillion tokens. • Adds Granite 3.1 MoE (1B and 3B) from IBM, designed for low-latency long-context inference. • Updates the `/api/create` endpoint to improve model conversion speed and accept a JSON object body. Breaking changes: • The `/api/create` API endpoint (used by `ollama create`) is not backwards compatible: both the Ollama server and the `ollama` CLI must be version 0.5.5 or later, and the Python/JavaScript `ollama` library must be updated to the latest version when calling `ollama.create`.

Ollama v0.5.4

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:54:59 GMT

Ollama v0.5.4 adds the Falcon3 family of sub-10B models optimised for science, math, and coding. • Adds Falcon3 model family (sub-10B parameters) with strong performance in science, math, and coding tasks.

Ollama v0.5.2

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:43:33 GMT

Ollama v0.5.2 adds EXAONE 3.5 bilingual models (2.4B–32B) and case-insensitive OLLAMA_ORIGINS host matching. • Adds EXAONE 3.5 instruction-tuned bilingual (English/Korean) models ranging from 2.4B to 32B parameters, developed by LG AI Research. • `OLLAMA_ORIGINS` now matches hosts case-insensitively, simplifying origin allowlist configuration. Breaking changes: • The Linux `ollama-linux-amd64.tgz` directory structure has changed — manual Linux installations must retain the new directory layout and contents of the tar file after upgrading.

Ollama v0.5.0

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:35:06 GMT

Ollama v0.5.0 adds JSON-schema structured outputs and experimental KV cache quantization to cut VRAM usage. • Supports structured outputs via JSON schema in the `format` parameter across the REST API, Python library, and JavaScript library — constraining model responses to a defined shape. • Adds Llama 3.3 (70B) model, offering performance comparable to Llama 3.1 405B. • Adds Snowflake Arctic Embed 2, a multilingual frontier embedding model. • Experimental `OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE` env var enables KV cache quantization at 4-bit (`q4_0`), 8-bit (`q8_0`), or 16-bit (`f16`), reducing VRAM requirements for longer context windows.

Ollama v0.4.6

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:11:52 GMT

Ollama v0.4.6 adds QwQ reasoning model, streaming tool calls, and SVG input validation. • Adds QwQ, an experimental AI reasoning model from the Qwen team, available via `ollama pull qwq`. • Tool calls are now included in streaming responses, enabling real-time agentic workflows without waiting for full completion. • Ollama now returns an explicit error when an SVG image is submitted, surfacing unsupported input early.

Ollama v0.4.5

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:19:22 GMT

Ollama v0.4.5 lets `ollama push` print the uploaded model URL and accepts X-Stainless-Retry-Count from OpenAI clients. • Accepts `X-Stainless-Retry-Count` header used by many OpenAI API clients, improving compatibility. • `ollama push` now prints the uploaded model URL on ollama.com after a successful push.

Ollama v0.4.4

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:28:20 GMT

Ollama v0.4.4 adds Marco-o1 reasoning model and clean file-redirect output. • Adds Marco-o1, Alibaba AIDC-AI's open large reasoning model, to the Ollama library. • Redirecting CLI output to a file now suppresses progress bars and spinners, enabling clean log capture.

Ollama v0.4.3

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:27:30 GMT

Ollama v0.4.3 adds Tülu 3 and an updated Mistral Large with improved long context and function calling. • Adds Tülu 3, a fully open-source instruction-following model family from the Allen Institute for AI, available via `ollama pull tulu3`. • Adds updated Mistral Large with improved long context, function calling, and system prompt support, available via `ollama pull mistral-large`.

Ollama v0.4.2

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 01:22:31 GMT

Ollama v0.4.2 adds NVIDIA Jetson support, three new models, and improved Modelfile error reporting. • Supports NVIDIA Jetson devices via the standard install script. • Adds Qwen 2.5 Coder in six sizes (0.5B–32B) for code generation tasks. • Adds OpenCoder (1.5B and 8B) with English and Chinese chat support. • Adds Athene V2 (72B) optimised for code completion, mathematics, and log extraction. • `ollama create` now reports line numbers for Modelfile errors, speeding up authoring.

Ollama v0.4.0

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 05:10:12 GMT

Ollama v0.4 adds Llama 3.2 Vision (multimodal) support and Safetensors import without a Modelfile. • Supports the Llama 3.2 Vision (Mllama) multimodal architecture, enabling image-understanding workloads via `ollama run llama3.2-vision`. • Enables importing models directly from Safetensors files without requiring a Modelfile when running `ollama create`. • Follow-on requests to vision models are now significantly faster, enabling more responsive multi-turn visual conversations.

Ollama v0.3.14

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:31:45 GMT

Ollama v0.3.14 adds IBM Granite 3 MoE and Dense model support for low-latency and RAG/tool-use workloads. • Adds Granite 3 MoE (1B and 3B): IBM's first mixture-of-experts Granite models optimized for low-latency inference. • Adds Granite 3 Dense (2B and 8B): IBM Granite models designed for tool-use, RAG, code generation, and translation. • Supports the IBM Granite and GraniteMoE model architectures natively.

Ollama v0.3.13

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:41:40 GMT

Ollama v0.3.13 adds Llama Guard 3 and ShieldGemma safety classification models for LLM input/output screening. • Adds Llama Guard 3 support: Meta's fine-tuned content safety classification models for screening LLM inputs and outputs. • Adds ShieldGemma support: Google DeepMind's instruction-tuned models for evaluating text prompts and responses against defined safety policies.

Ollama v0.3.12

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:39:10 GMT

Ollama v0.3.12 adds Llama 3.2 and Qwen 2.5 Coder support, plus ARM Windows compatibility. • Adds Llama 3.2 (1B and 3B) models from Meta, optimized for small-footprint deployments. • Adds Qwen 2.5 Coder, a code-specialized model series with improved code generation and reasoning. • Supports ARM Windows machines.

Ollama v0.3.11

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:40:04 GMT

Ollama v0.3.11 adds `ollama stop` to unload running models and ships five new models including Qwen 2.5 and Bespoke-Minicheck. • New `ollama stop` command to unload a running model from memory on demand. • Adds Solar-Pro-Preview (22B), Qwen 2.5 (up to 128K context), Bespoke-Minicheck (fact-checking), Mistral-Small (22B), and Reader-LM (HTML-to-Markdown) to the model library. • Shows an error when importing a model with an invalid number of tokens in the vocabulary, catching bad imports early. • The `ollama/ollama` container image now starts almost immediately, cutting startup time by ~5 seconds.

Ollama v0.3.10

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:17:06 GMT

Ollama v0.3.10 adds MiniCPM-V multimodal, Yi-Coder, and DeepSeek-V2.5 models plus automatic CUDA 11 fallback for older NVIDIA drivers. • Adds Yi-Coder, an open-source code language model series delivering state-of-the-art coding performance under 10B parameters. • Adds DeepSeek-V2.5, combining DeepSeek-V2 general chat and DeepSeek-Coder-V2 coding capabilities in a single model. • Automatically falls back to CUDA 11 for older NVIDIA drivers incompatible with CUDA 12, expanding GPU support without manual configuration. Breaking changes: • The OpenAI-compatible chat and completions APIs no longer scale `temperature` and `frequency_penalty`, which will change generation behavior for any integration that relied on Ollama's previous scaling of these parameters.

Ollama v0.3.9

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:26:05 GMT

Ollama v0.3.9 adds path support to OLLAMA_HOST and improves error messaging for unsupported models. • Supports URL paths in `OLLAMA_HOST`, enabling deployments behind reverse proxies with subpath routing. • Shows improved error messages when attempting to run unsupported models.

Ollama v0.3.7

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:45:41 GMT

Ollama v0.3.7 adds Hermes 3, Phi 3.5, and SmolLM models plus CUDA 12 support for up to 10% GPU performance gains. • Adds Hermes 3 (Nous Research flagship LLM with tool-calling support) via `ollama run hermes3`. • Adds Phi 3.5, a 3.8B-parameter lightweight model competitive with larger models. • Adds SmolLM family of small models at 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters trained on a new high-quality dataset. • Adds CUDA 12 support, improving performance by up to 10% on newer NVIDIA GPUs. • Improves throughput of `ollama pull` and `ollama push` on slower network connections. • Linux distribution now ships as a `tar.gz` archive bundling the `ollama` binary with required libraries. Breaking changes: • Ollama on Linux is now distributed as a `tar.gz` file instead of a standalone binary; existing install scripts or package pipelines that expected a bare binary will need to be updated to extract the archive.

Ollama v0.3.6

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:27:42 GMT

Ollama v0.3.6 adds Phi-3 Safetensors import, faster GGUF importing, and progress feedback for ollama create. • Supports importing Phi-3 models from Safetensors via `ollama create`. • Shows progress information during GGUF file imports in `ollama create`. • Faster GGUF file importing by minimizing file copies.

Ollama v0.3.4

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:28:23 GMT

Ollama v0.3.4 adds a batch embedding API with normalization and metrics, plus three new multilingual embedding models. • New `/api/embed` endpoint supports batch embedding generation — submit multiple documents in a single request. • Normalized embeddings now returned by default from `/api/embed`, improving similarity search accuracy. • New `truncate` parameter on `/api/embed` lets callers enforce strict input-length control. • Embedding API responses now include `load_duration`, `total_duration`, and `prompt_eval_count` performance metrics. • Adds BGE-M3, a multilingual multi-granularity large embedding model from BAAI. • Adds BGE-Large, a large English embedding model. • Adds Paraphrase-Multilingual, a multilingual embedding model supporting 50+ languages. • NUMA support is now autodetected to improve inference performance on multi-socket systems.

Ollama v0.3.3

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:37:11 GMT

Ollama v0.3.3 adds timing and token-count metrics to both native and OpenAI-compatible embedding APIs. • Adds `total_duration`, `load_duration`, and `prompt_eval_count` statistics to the `/api/embed` response. • Adds usage metrics to the `/v1/embeddings` OpenAI compatibility endpoint.

Ollama v0.3.1

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:18:45 GMT

Ollama v0.3.1 adds Gemma 2 2B, min_p sampling, auto-detected stop params, and tool_calls finish_reason in the OpenAI-compatible API. • Adds Gemma 2 2B (2-billion-parameter model by Google DeepMind) to the model library via `ollama run gemma2:2b` • Supports `min_p` sampling option for more controlled text generation • OpenAI-compatible API now returns `finish_reason: tool_calls` when a tool call occurs

Ollama v0.3.0

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 01:57:13 GMT

Ollama v0.3.0 adds tool/function-calling support via the Chat API, plus four new models including Llama 3.1 and Mistral Large 2. • Adds tool calling support to the Chat API, enabling models to invoke functions, browse the web, run code interpreters, and interact with external APIs. • Supports Llama 3.1 (8B, 70B, 405B) with native tool-calling capability. • Supports Mistral Large 2 (123B) with 128k context, code generation, tool calling, math, and multilingual reasoning. • Supports Firefunction v2, an open-weights function-calling model competitive with GPT-4o function calling. • Supports Llama-3-Groq-Tool-Use, a series of models optimized for tool use and function calling.

Ollama v0.2.8

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 18:21:56 GMT

Ollama v0.2.8 adds Mistral Nemo (12B, 128k context) and NuExtract (3.8B info-extraction) models, plus template validation on create. • Adds Mistral Nemo, a 12B model with 128k context length built by Mistral AI and NVIDIA, available via `ollama run mistral-nemo`. • Adds NuExtract, a 3.8B Phi-3-based model fine-tuned for structured information extraction. • `ollama create` now validates templates at creation time, catching errors before deployment.

Ollama v0.2.6

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:22:42 GMT

Ollama v0.2.6 adds Mathstral, a 7B math reasoning model from Mistral AI. • Adds Mathstral, a 7B model from Mistral AI optimized for math reasoning and scientific discovery, available via `ollama pull mathstral`.

Ollama v0.2.4

Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:03:13 GMT

Ollama v0.2.4 enables loading models larger than system memory when disk space is available. • Supports loading models larger than system memory by spilling to disk when disk space is available.

Ollama v0.2.0

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:25:35 GMT

Ollama v0.2.0 adds concurrent request handling, multi-model loading, and three new models including Gemma 2. • New `ollama ps` subcommand shows which models are currently loaded, along with size, processor utilization, and expiry time. • Supports serving multiple simultaneous requests in parallel using only a small amount of additional memory per request — enabling concurrent chat sessions, code completion, document processing, and multi-agent workloads. • Supports loading multiple different models into GPU memory at the same time, with automatic load/unload based on request demand and available GPU memory — enabling RAG pipelines where embedding and text completion models run side-by-side. • Adds GLM-4, a multilingual general-purpose model competitive with Llama 3, to the Ollama model library. • Adds CodeGeeX4, a code-completion and AI software development model, to the Ollama model library. • Adds Gemma 2, Google's next-generation model with improved output quality, to the Ollama model library. • Returns a descriptive error on Linux when the system lacks sufficient memory to load a model.

Ollama v0.1.48

Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:30:26 GMT

Ollama v0.1.48 adds expanded model info display via `/show info` in `ollama run` • The `/show info` command in `ollama run` now displays additional model information.

Ollama v0.1.47

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:09:56 GMT

Ollama v0.1.47 adds support for Google Gemma 2 models (9B and 27B). • Adds support for Google Gemma 2 models in both 9B and 27B parameter sizes.

Ollama v0.1.45

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:11:17 GMT

Ollama v0.1.45 expands `ollama show` with full model metadata and adds DeepSeek-Coder-V2 support. • Expands the `api/show` endpoint to return extensive model metadata. • Reports GPU configuration variables in `ollama serve` output for improved observability. • Enhanced GPU discovery and multi-GPU support with concurrency. • Faster model loading on Windows with CUDA GPUs.

Ollama v0.1.42

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 07:06:58 GMT

Ollama v0.1.42 adds Qwen 2 models, faster pulls, auto prompt-template detection, and Electron/Tauri app access. • `ollama create` now automatically detects prompt templates for popular model architectures including Llama, Gemma, and Phi. • `ollama pull` is now faster when it detects a model is already partially or fully downloaded. • Ollama can now be accessed from local apps built with Electron and Tauri, and from apps developed in local HTML files.

Ollama v0.1.40

Fri, 31 May 2024 05:49:35 GMT

Ollama v0.1.40 adds Codestral, IBM Granite Code, and DeepSeek V2 models to the library. • Adds `codestral` to the Ollama model library — Mistral AI's first code model, designed for code generation tasks. • Adds `granite-code` to the Ollama model library in `3b` and `8b` parameter sizes from IBM. • Adds `deepseek-v2` to the Ollama model library — a Mixture-of-Experts language model.

Ollama v0.1.39

Wed, 22 May 2024 02:46:48 GMT

Ollama v0.1.39 adds Llama 3 Safetensors import, flash-attention flag, new models, and OLLAMA_NOHISTORY support • Adds `OLLAMA_NOHISTORY=1` environment variable to disable shell history when using `ollama run`. • Adds experimental `OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1` environment variable flag for `ollama serve` to improve token generation speed on Apple Silicon Macs and NVIDIA GPUs. • Adds `--quantize` flag to `ollama create` (e.g. `--quantize q4_0`) enabling import and quantization of Llama 3 and its finetunes from Safetensors format. • `ollama create` now supports creating models from I-Quant GGUF files. • Adds `Ctrl+W` keyboard shortcut to `ollama run`. • Adds Cohere Aya 23 (`aya`), a multilingual LLM covering 23 languages, to the model library. • Adds Mistral 7B v0.3 (`mistral:v0.3`) with initial function calling support to the model library. • Adds Phi-3 Medium (`phi3:medium`), a 14B-parameter open model by Microsoft, to the model library. • Adds Phi-3 Mini 128K (`phi3:mini-128k`) and Phi-3 Medium 128K (`phi3:medium-128k`) with 128K context window support to the model library. • Adds IBM Granite Code (`granite-code`), a family of open foundation models for code intelligence, to the model library.

Ollama v0.1.38

Wed, 15 May 2024 00:28:00 GMT

Ollama v0.1.38 adds `ollama ps` to inspect loaded models and `/clear` to reset chat session history. • Adds `ollama ps` command to display currently loaded models, their memory footprint (in GB/MB), and processor usage (GPU vs CPU percentages). • Adds `/clear` command inside `ollama run` sessions to reset chat history without ending the session. • Adds Falcon 2, an 11B-parameter causal decoder-only model trained on 5T tokens, available via `ollama pull falcon2`. • Adds Yi 1.5 (Apache 2.0) in 6B (`yi:6b`), 9B (`yi:9b`), and 34B (`yi:34b`) sizes.

Ollama v0.1.35

Fri, 10 May 2024 15:15:29 GMT

Ollama v0.1.35 adds on-the-fly quantization via `--quantize` flag and a new `done_reason` field in API responses. • Adds `--quantize` / `-q` flag to `ollama create` to quantize `float16` or `float32` models (from GGUF files or library models) at import time, supporting formats such as `q4_0`. • Adds `done_reason` field to API responses describing why generation stopped. • Adds Llama 3 ChatQA model (`llama3-chatqa`), an NVIDIA model optimised for conversational QA and retrieval-augmented generation.

Ollama v0.1.34

Tue, 07 May 2024 05:13:41 GMT

Ollama v0.1.34 adds five new models including multimodal Llava Llama 3 and Llava Phi 3. • Adds Llava Llama 3 (`llava-llama3`), a high-performing multimodal LLaVA model fine-tuned from Llama 3 Instruct. • Adds Llava Phi 3 (`llava-phi3`), a small multimodal LLaVA model fine-tuned from Phi 3. • Adds StarCoder2 15B Instruct (`starcoder2:15b-instruct`), an instruction-tuned variant of the StarCoder2 code model. • Adds CodeGemma 1.1 (`codegemma`), an updated release of Google's CodeGemma model. • Adds StableLM2 12B (`stablelm2:12b`), a new 12B parameter version of Stability AI's StableLM 2 model. • Updates Moondream 2 (`moondream`) with improved runtime parameters for better response quality.

Ollama v0.1.33

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:51:17 GMT

Ollama v0.1.33 adds Llama 3 and experimental concurrency via OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL and OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS • Adds `OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL` environment variable to handle multiple simultaneous requests for a single model (experimental). • Adds `OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS` environment variable to load multiple models into memory simultaneously (experimental). • Adds Llama 3 (Meta), Phi 3 Mini (Microsoft 3.8B), Moondream (edge vision-language model), Llama 3 Gradient 1048K (up to 1M token context), Dolphin Llama 3, and Qwen 110B to the model library.

Ollama v0.1.32

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 23:01:58 GMT

Ollama v0.1.32 adds five new models including WizardLM 2 and Mixtral 8x22B, plus smarter GPU/CPU model splitting on macOS. • Adds `wizardlm2:8x22b` and `wizardlm2:7b` (WizardLM 2 from Microsoft AI) with improved performance on complex chat, multilingual, reasoning, and agent use cases. • Adds `snowflake-arctic-embed`, a suite of text embedding models by Snowflake optimized for retrieval performance. • Adds `command-r-plus`, a large language model purpose-built for RAG use cases. • Adds `dbrx`, a 132B open general-purpose LLM created by Databricks. • Adds `mixtral:8x22b`, Mistral AI's new Mixture of Experts base model. • On macOS, Ollama now splits models that exceed available VRAM across GPU and CPU to maximize inference performance for large models. • Improves VRAM utilization to reduce out-of-memory errors and increase GPU efficiency.

Ollama v0.1.31

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:09:53 GMT

Ollama v0.1.31 adds embedding model support with REST API, Python, and JavaScript library access for RAG workflows. • Adds embedding model support via the REST API, Python library (`ollama-python`), and JavaScript library (`ollama-js`), enabling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. • Adds Qwen 1.5 32B (`qwen:32b`), a multilingual model competitive with larger models. • Adds StarlingLM Beta (`starling-lm:beta`), a 7B model with Apache 2.0 license. • Adds DolphinCoder StarCoder 7B (`dolphincoder:7b`), an uncensored coding-focused variant based on StarCoder2. • Adds StableLM 1.6 Chat (`stablelm2:chat`), an instruction-tuned version of StableLM 1.6.

Ollama v0.1.30

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:19:40 GMT

Ollama v0.1.30 adds Command R and mxbai-embed-large models plus improved AMD MI300/MI300X accelerator support. • Adds `command-r` to the model library: a large language model optimized for conversational interaction and long-context tasks. • Adds `mxbai-embed-large` to the model library: a state-of-the-art large embedding model. • Improved support for AMD MI300 and MI300X accelerators. Breaking changes: • Model data filenames in `~/.ollama/models/blobs` are renamed from using `:` to `-` as a separator. The change is applied automatically on upgrade, but downgrading to v0.1.29 or lower on Linux or macOS requires manually reverting the filenames: `find ~/.ollama/models/blobs -type f -exec bash -c 'mv "$0" "${0//-/:}"' {} \;`

Ollama v0.1.29

Sun, 10 Mar 2024 02:24:04 GMT

Ollama v0.1.29 adds AMD GPU acceleration and experimental Safetensors model import via Modelfile • Adds experimental Safetensors model import via the `FROM ` directive in a Modelfile. • Shows documentation for supported environment variables when running `ollama -h`. • Adds AMD GPU acceleration support (preview) on Windows, Linux, and Docker, covering AMD Radeon RX, Radeon PRO, and Instinct families including `MI300X`, `7900 XTX`, `W7900`, and more.

Ollama v0.1.28

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 06:41:09 GMT

Ollama v0.1.28 adds StarCoder2 and DolphinCoder models with improved LLaVA 1.6 support. • Adds `starcoder2` model (3B, 7B, and 15B parameter variants), a transparently trained open code LLM. • Adds `dolphincoder` model, a code-focused chat model based on StarCoder2 15B. • Improves support for `llava` 1.6 models. • Vision models such as `llava` now respond better to text-only prompts.

Ollama v0.1.27

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:55:46 GMT

Ollama v0.1.27 adds support for Google's Gemma family of models in 2b and 7b parameter sizes. • Adds support for Google's Gemma lightweight open models, runnable via `ollama run gemma:2b` or `ollama run gemma:7b`.

Ollama v0.1.26

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 04:20:05 GMT

Ollama v0.1.26 adds support for `bert` and `nomic-bert` embedding models. • Supports `bert` and `nomic-bert` embedding models.

Ollama v0.1.25

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:21:20 GMT

Ollama v0.1.25 brings native Windows preview with GPU acceleration, full model library access, and OpenAI-compatible API. • Setting `keep_alive` to a negative value (e.g. `-1`) now keeps a model loaded indefinitely, enabling persistent in-memory model serving. • Ollama is now available natively on Windows (preview), with built-in GPU acceleration, access to the full model library, and the Ollama API including OpenAI compatibility.

Ollama v0.1.24

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:02:10 GMT

Ollama v0.1.24 adds OpenAI Chat Completions API compatibility and the Qwen 1.5 model family. • Adds `POST /v1/chat/completions` endpoint providing initial OpenAI Chat Completions API compatibility, enabling existing OpenAI-compatible clients and SDKs to point at a local Ollama instance without code changes. • Adds Qwen 1.5 model family (`qwen`) from Alibaba Cloud, spanning 0.5B to 72B parameter sizes, available via the Ollama model library.

Ollama v0.1.23

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:34:56 GMT

Ollama v0.1.23 adds `keep_alive` API parameter, LLaVA 1.6 vision models, and broader Nvidia GPU support. • Adds `keep_alive` parameter to the `/api/generate` (and `/api/chat`) API to control how long a model stays loaded in memory — accepts positive durations (e.g. `20m`, `1hr`, `30`), `0` to unload immediately, or a negative value (e.g. `-1`) to keep loaded indefinitely; default is 5 minutes. • Enables passing image paths to `ollama run` when running multimodal models. • `ollama serve` now prints the prompt when the `OLLAMA_DEBUG=1` environment variable is set. • `ollama run` now allows sending messages without images to multimodal models. • Updates the LLaVA model family to version 1.6, adding a new `llava:34b` variant alongside the existing `llava` (7B) and `llava:13b`, with support for up to 4x higher image resolution and improved text/chart/diagram reasoning. • Adds GPU support for Nvidia compute capability 5 devices, including GeForce GTX 900/700-series, Quadro M-series, Tesla M60/M40, and NVS 810.

Ollama v0.1.22

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:19:36 GMT

Ollama v0.1.22 adds Stable LM 2, a 1.6B small language model. • Adds support for Stable LM 2 (`stablelm2`), a state-of-the-art 1.6B small language model, to the Ollama model library.

Ollama v0.1.21

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 01:20:10 GMT

Ollama v0.1.21 adds conversation save/load, MESSAGE Modelfile command, Python/JS libraries, and broader CPU support • Adds `/save ` and `/load ` commands inside `ollama run` to persist and restore conversations and model settings (including `/set parameter` and `/set system` changes) as a named model. • Adds `MESSAGE` Modelfile command to pre-seed conversation history when building a model with `ollama create`, enabling techniques like Chain-Of-Thought prompting. • Publishes first-release official Python (ollama-python) and JavaScript (ollama-js) client libraries for Ollama. • Extends CPU support to processors without AVX instructions, enabling Ollama to run in virtual machines, Rosetta, and GitHub Actions environments. • Delivers ~10% model inference speed boost on CPUs with AVX2 support. • Adds GPU-to-CPU automatic fallback when a GPU detection error is encountered at model load time. • Adds four new models to the library: Qwen (1.8B–72B), DuckDB-NSQL (text-to-SQL for DuckDB), Stable Code, and Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral. • Improves Nvidia GPU detection, especially under WSL.

Ollama v0.1.20

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:12:52 GMT

Ollama v0.1.20 adds MegaDolphin 120B and updates OpenChat and Dolphin Mistral models. • Adds `megadolphin` to the model library: a 120B parameter version of the Dolphin model. • Updates `openchat` to version `3.5-0106`. • Updates `dolphin-mistral` to the latest DPO Laser version for higher benchmark scores and more robust outputs. • Adds correct multi-GPU memory allocation across all GPUs on multi-GPU machines.

Ollama v0.1.19

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:45:52 GMT

Ollama v0.1.19 adds LLaMa-Pro model support, expandable context windows via `num_ctx`, and broader `OLLAMA_ORIGINS` URL support. • Sets context window size via `num_ctx` in `/set parameter num_ctx` (CLI) or the `options.num_ctx` field in the `POST /api/generate` JSON body — enabling up to 32K context with models like Mistral. • `OLLAMA_ORIGINS` environment variable now accepts browser extension URLs, widening permitted request origins. • Adds the LLaMa-Pro model to the library — an 8B expansion of LLaMa by Tencent specializing in language, programming, and mathematics. • Offloads more processing to the GPU where possible, improving throughput on supported hardware. • Enables larger models such as `mixtral` to run on Macs with less memory.

Ollama v0.1.18

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:00:23 GMT

Ollama v0.1.18 adds four new models and a keyboard shortcut help command in the CLI. • Adds `/? shortcuts` help command inside `ollama run` to list available keyboard shortcuts. • Adds TinyLlama (1.1B) to the model library: `ollama run tinyllama`. • Adds OpenHermes 2 (7B, Mistral fine-tune) to the model library: `ollama run openhermes`. • Adds WizardCoder 33B code-generation model to the model library: `ollama run wizardcoder:33b`. • Adds Dolphin Phi (2.7B, uncensored, Microsoft Phi-based) to the model library: `ollama run dolphin-phi`. • Ollama now automatically pulls new models when an older `ggml` format model is run, removing the need to manually fetch updated versions. Breaking changes: • Custom `ggml` format models referenced in a `Modelfile` will no longer work as before — they must be imported as GGUF models instead.

Ollama v0.1.17

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:37:09 GMT

Ollama v0.1.17 adds Microsoft Phi-2, Solar, and OpenChat models plus a guaranteed `message` object in `/api/chat` responses. • Adds `phi` model support via `ollama run phi` — Microsoft's Phi-2 2.7B model with reasoning and language understanding comparable to 13B models, including a default multi-turn conversation prompt template. • `/api/chat` now always returns a `message` object in every response, even when `content` is an empty string. • Adds `solar` model (`ollama run solar`) — a 10.7B model designed for single-turn conversation. • Updates `openchat` model to OpenChat-3.5-1210, a 7B model with improved coding task performance. • Updates `wizard-math` model to WizardMath v1.1, a 7B math reasoning model now based on Mistral.

Ollama v0.1.16

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:58:28 GMT

Ollama v0.1.16 adds Mixtral and Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture support. • Adds support for the Mixtral model via `ollama run mixtral` (requires at least 48 GB of memory), enabling use of a high-quality open-weights mixture of experts model. • Adds support for Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture broadly, enabling other MoE-based models beyond Mixtral. • Adds Dolphin Mixtral (`jmorgan/dolphin-mixtral`), an uncensored fine-tuned MoE model optimized for coding tasks.

Ollama v0.1.15

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 06:44:37 GMT

Ollama v0.1.15 adds multimodal model support with image inputs via CLI and API, plus enriched model details from the show endpoint. • Adds `images` parameter to the Generate API (`POST /api/generate`) accepting a list of base64-encoded `png` or `jpeg` images up to 100MB each, enabling vision-capable models like LLaVA. • Adds `images` field to `user` role messages in the Chat API (`POST /api/chat`), allowing image inputs in multi-turn conversations. • Extends `POST /api/show` to return a `details` object with `format`, `families`, `parameter_size`, and `quantization_level` fields for the requested model. • Adds multimodal image input to `ollama run`: include a full path to a `png` or `jpeg` file directly in the prompt to pass images to vision models. • Adds two new multimodal models to the library: `llava` (7B and 13B) and `bakllava` (Mistral 7B + LLaVA architecture).

Ollama v0.1.14

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:02:20 GMT

Ollama v0.1.14 adds a Chat API with message history, a version endpoint, and two new models. • New `POST /api/chat` endpoint accepts a `messages` array with `role` and `content` fields, enabling multi-turn chat with full conversation history passed per request. • New `GET /api/version` endpoint for programmatically checking the running Ollama version. • Adds version-mismatch warning when connecting to a remote instance via `OLLAMA_HOST`. • Adds StableLM Zephyr (`stablelm-zephyr`), a lightweight chat model designed for low-end hardware. • Adds Magicoder (`magicoder`), a family of 7B models trained on 75K synthetic OSS-Instruct code snippets.

Ollama v0.1.13

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 04:24:49 GMT

Ollama v0.1.13 adds in-session system prompt and parameter tuning via `/set`, plus three new models. • Adds `/set system ` command inside `ollama run` to set the system prompt interactively during a session. • Adds `/set parameter ` command inside `ollama run` to tune inference parameters (e.g. `num_ctx`, `temperature`, `seed`) without restarting. • Adds three new models to the Ollama library: `starling-lm` (RLHF-trained chat), `meditron` (Llama 2 adapted for medical domain), and `deepseek-llm` (2-trillion-token bilingual LLM). • Improves `ollama pull` progress bar with a simpler design showing more consistent download speed and remaining time.

Ollama v0.1.12

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:17:15 GMT

Ollama v0.1.12 adds Yi Chat 34B and improves multi-line prompt handling in the CLI. • Adds Yi Chat (the chat variant of the Yi 34B model) to the Ollama model library, available via `ollama run yi`. • Supports multi-line prompts delimited by `"""` and improved paste functionality in `ollama run`. • Adds Option (Alt) + Backspace word-deletion keybinding in the `ollama run` interactive prompt.

Ollama v0.1.11

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:07:00 GMT

Ollama v0.1.11 adds Orca 2, DeepSeek Coder, and Alfred models plus GPU support for q5_0 and q5_1 quantizations. • Adds `q5_0` and `q5_1` quantized models to GPU execution, unlocking faster inference for those quantization levels. • Adds Orca 2 model (`orca2`), a Llama 2 fine-tune optimized for reasoning tasks. • Adds DeepSeek Coder model (`deepseek-coder`), a code-focused model available in 1.3B, 6.7B, and 33B parameter sizes. • Adds Alfred model (`alfred`), a conversational model supporting both chat and instruct use cases.

Ollama v0.1.10

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 01:38:11 GMT

Ollama v0.1.10 adds JSON mode for `ollama run`, stdin prompt piping, and remote model builds via `OLLAMA_HOST`. • Adds `--format json` flag to `ollama run` to enable JSON output mode from the command line. • Adds `/set format json` in-session command to switch an active `ollama run` chat session to JSON mode. • `ollama create` now respects `OLLAMA_HOST` to build models against a remote Ollama instance. • Enables piping prompts into `ollama run` via standard input, allowing shell pipelines like `head -30 README.md | ollama run codellama ''`. • Adds three new models to the library: OpenChat (`ollama run openchat`), Neural-chat (`ollama run neural-chat`), and Goliath (`ollama run goliath`).

Ollama v0.1.9

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 05:03:10 GMT

Ollama v0.1.9 adds JSON mode and raw mode to /api/generate, plus a new bilingual Yi model. • Adds `format` parameter to `POST /api/generate` — set it to `json` to force models to always return valid JSON (JSON mode). • Adds `raw` parameter to `POST /api/generate` — set `{"raw": true}` to bypass Ollama's prompt templating entirely (raw mode). • Adds the Yi bilingual model (English and Chinese) to the Ollama library, available via `ollama pull yi`.

Ollama v0.1.8

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:06:42 GMT

Ollama v0.1.8 adds five new models and dramatically faster push speeds up to 1 GB/s for large models. • Adds `codebooga` to the model library: a high-performing code instruct model created by merging two existing code models. • Adds `dolphin2.2-mistral` to the model library: a Mistral-based instruct-tuned model fine-tuned for improved conversation and empathy. • Adds `mistrallite` to the model library: a Mistral fine-tune with enhanced long-context processing capabilities. • Ollama now honours large context sizes on models such as `codellama` and `mistrallite`. • `ollama push` is now dramatically faster: 7B models push at up to ~100 MB/s and 70B+ models at up to 1 GB/s when network permits.

Ollama v0.1.6

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:58:19 GMT

Ollama v0.1.6 adds two new models, multi-line paste in `ollama run`, and configurable model storage via `OLLAMA_MODELS`. • Adds `OLLAMA_MODELS` environment variable to configure where Ollama stores models. • `OLLAMA_HOST` now defaults to port `443` when `https://` is specified and port `80` when `http://` is specified, removing the need to manually append ports. • Enables pasting multi-line strings in `ollama run`. • All `chat` and `instruct` library models now support setting the `system` parameter via the `SYSTEM` command in the `Modelfile`. • Adds Dolphin 2.1 Mistral (`dolphin2.1-mistral`), an instruct-tuned model based on Mistral trained on a dataset filtered to remove alignment and bias. • Adds Zephyr Beta (`zephyr`), a Mistral-based model with chat performance reported to meet or exceed Llama 2 70b in several categories.

Ollama v0.1.4

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:56:15 GMT

Ollama v0.1.4 adds OpenHermes 2 Mistral, faster model switching, and unicode support for starcoder/sqlcoder/falcon. • Adds `ollama pull starcoder` (and `sqlcoder`, `falcon`) to get updated builds with full unicode support — existing pulls must be re-pulled. • Faster model switching: models stay loaded between requests when switching parameters (e.g. `temperature`) or system prompts, eliminating reload overhead. • Adds OpenHermes 2 Mistral to the model library (`ollama pull openhermes2-mistral`), a Mistral fine-tune trained on 900,000+ instructions with strong multi-turn chat performance. • `ollama serve` now prints the current Ollama version on startup. • `ollama run` now surfaces descriptive runtime errors (e.g. insufficient memory) instead of silent failures. • New documentation guide for importing existing models (GGUF, PyTorch, etc.) into Ollama.

Ollama v0.1.2

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:46:02 GMT

Ollama v0.1.2 adds non-streaming API responses, HTTP/HTTPS proxy support, two new models, and 25x faster pull speeds. • Adds `stream: false` parameter to API endpoints (e.g. `/api/generate`) to return a complete, non-streaming response in a single payload instead of a token stream. • Supports HTTP and HTTPS proxies via the `HTTP_PROXY=http://` and `HTTPS_PROXY=https://` environment variables. • Adds two new models to the library: `zephyr` (fine-tuned Mistral 7B) and `mistral-openorca` (Mistral 7B fine-tuned on the OpenOrca dataset). • `ollama pull` download speeds improved from ~60 MB/s to over 1.5 GB/s (25x) on fast network connections, enabling practical use of large models over high-bandwidth links. • `q8_0`, `q5_0`, `q5_1`, and `f32` quantization formats now use GPU acceleration on Linux. • `ollama create` now displays feedback while reading model metadata.

Ollama v0.1.1

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:47:27 GMT

Ollama v0.1.1 adds cancellable responses and clean session exit controls for `ollama run`. • Adds `Ctrl+C` to cancel in-progress responses during an `ollama run` session. • Adds `Ctrl+D` and `/bye` as exit commands for `ollama run` sessions.

Ollama v0.1.0

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:22:41 GMT

Ollama v0.1.0 adds Linux support with out-of-the-box Nvidia GPU acceleration and multi-GPU server compatibility. • Adds Linux support with Nvidia GPU acceleration enabled out-of-the-box, installable via `curl https://ollama.ai/install.sh | sh`. • Supports multi-GPU cloud servers, automatically offloading as many model layers as the GPU(s) can handle for maximum performance. • Supports WSL 2 with GPU acceleration. • Runs on CPU-only systems as well as a wide range of GPUs, from hobby gaming cards to workstation-class hardware such as the H100.

Ollama v0.0.20

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 22:04:24 GMT

Ollama v0.0.20 adds IPv6 support, auto-pull on remote, faster model loading, and a Python client library. • Adds `api/client.py`, a Python client library for accessing Ollama programmatically. • `OLLAMA_HOST` now accepts IPv6 hostnames. • Sending an empty `prompt` field to `/api/generate` pre-loads the model so the next request is faster. • `ollama run` now loads models immediately on startup, reducing latency even on the first prompt. • `ollama run` automatically pulls models that don't exist when connected to a remote Ollama instance. • `ollama run` gains hint text display and terminal-width word-wrapping for improved readability. • Progress reporting improved for `ollama pull` and `ollama push`.

Ollama v0.0.19

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:39:30 GMT

Ollama v0.0.19 adds GGUF model import support and automatic local data cleanup. • Supports importing and running GGUF file type models locally. • Automatically cleans up unused local model data. • Updated Docker image available via `docker pull ollama/ollama`.

Ollama v0.0.18

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 20:54:27 GMT

Ollama v0.0.18 adds `ollama show` command to inspect model system prompts, parameters, templates, and Modelfiles. • New `ollama show` command with `--system`, `--parameters`, `--template`, and `--modelfile` flags to inspect a model's system prompt, parameters, default prompt template, and Modelfile respectively. • Adds a new sentiments example contributed by @technovangelist. • Building from source now requires running `go generate ./...` to generate dependencies, with `cmake` as a new build prerequisite. Breaking changes: • Building from source now requires running `go generate ./...` before `go build .`, and `cmake` must be installed — existing build workflows that skip this step will fail.

Ollama v0.0.17

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:21:30 GMT

Ollama v0.0.17 adds multi-model removal and unique content-based IDs in `ollama list`. • Supports removing multiple models in a single command: `ollama rm mario:latest orca-mini:3b` • `ollama list` now displays a unique content-based ID for each model.

Ollama v0.0.16

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 01:49:19 GMT

Ollama v0.0.16 adds version flags, 34B model support, and HTTPS model paths for `ollama run` • Adds `ollama -v` and `ollama --version` flags to check the installed Ollama version. • Supports running 34B parameter models such as `codellama` via `ollama run`. • Accepts model names or paths prefixed with `https://` when using `ollama run`.

Ollama v0.0.15

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:52:01 GMT

Ollama v0.0.15 adds remote host targeting, fine-tuned model adapters, smarter embedding reuse, and a public model library. • Supports targeting remote Ollama hosts via `OLLAMA_HOST= ollama run llama2`, enabling centralized model serving. • Adds `ADAPTER` Modelfile instruction to `ollama create` for experimental creation of fine-tuned models. • Adds `context` field to `/api/generate` API documentation, surfacing conversation context as a named API surface. • Skips regenerating embeddings in `EMBED` Modelfile blocks when input files have not changed, reducing redundant computation. • Reuses an already-loaded model for `/api/embeddings` requests when one is available, avoiding redundant model loads. • Parses memory requirements from ggml format models to validate GPU support before running. • Launches public model library at ollama.ai/library, making curated models browsable and downloadable. • Logs embedding eval timing for performance observability. • Adds `dockerit` example tool for building and running applications in Docker containers.

Ollama v0.0.14

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:46:38 GMT

Ollama v0.0.14 adds LangChain integration, embeddings API, 70B Metal models, and a configurable OLLAMA_HOST • New `/api/embeddings` endpoint enables embedding generation for any loaded model. • New `EMBED` instruction in the Modelfile for experimental embedding configuration. • Adds LangChain integration for using Ollama as an LLM backend in Python LangChain pipelines. • Adds `llama2:70b` model with Apple Metal GPU support (recommended 64 GB+ RAM), runnable via `ollama run llama2:70b`. • Adds `llama2-uncensored:70b` model with Metal support, runnable via `ollama run llama2-uncensored:70b`. • Adds configurable rope frequency parameters for fine-grained model context control. • `ollama pull` now supports concurrent pulls of the same model across multiple terminal windows.

Ollama v0.0.13

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:07:52 GMT

Ollama v0.0.13 adds Intel Mac support, `/show` model inspector, `--verbose` load timing, and auto-start from CLI. • Adds `--verbose` flag to `ollama run` to display model load duration times. • Adds `/show` command inside `ollama run` sessions to inspect the currently loaded model. • Supports multi-line string input in `ollama run` using triple-quote (`"""`) delimiters. • Auto-starts the Ollama server when invoking the CLI without Ollama already running. • Extends Intel Mac support, enabling Ollama to run on that platform for the first time. • Models now stay loaded in memory between messages automatically, accelerating series of prompts. • Removes the update dialog in favor of a subtle tray-menu hint when a new version is ready.

Ollama v0.0.12

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:04:39 GMT

Ollama v0.0.12 adds `ollama cp` for renaming models, k-quant support, and localhost CORS access for its API. • Adds support for running k-quant models. • `ollama create` now automatically pulls models referenced in a `FROM` instruction that are not available locally. • Enables Apple Accelerate framework for performance improvements. • Ollama's API now accepts requests from websites hosted on `localhost` (CORS support).

Ollama v0.0.11

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:59:54 GMT

Ollama v0.0.11 adds `ollama list` and `ollama rm` subcommands plus checksum verification on `ollama pull`. • New `ollama list` subcommand displays all locally downloaded models with their size and last-modified time. • New `ollama rm` subcommand deletes a locally stored model by name. • The `ollama pull` subcommand now verifies downloaded model integrity against its checksum.

Ollama v0.0.3

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 23:53:25 GMT

Ollama v0.0.3 adds larger prompt support, better error reporting, and moves logs to ~/.ollama/logs • Logs are now written to `~/.ollama/logs` for easier debugging and audit. • `ollama run` now supports a larger prompt, removing a previous size constraint. • `ollama run` now prints better errors when a problem is encountered. • Much faster performance across the board.