Releases: ollama/ollama
v0.3.9
What's Changed
- Fixed error that would occur when running Ollama on Linux machines with the ARM architecture
- Ollama will now show an improved error message when attempting to run unsupported models
- Fixed issue where Ollama would not auto-detect the chat template for Llama 3.1 models
OLLAMA_HOST
will now work with with URLs that contain paths
New Contributors
- @bryanhonof made their first contribution in #6074
Full Changelog: v0.3.8...v0.3.9
v0.3.8
What's Changed
- Fixed error where the
ollama
CLI couldn't be found on the path when upgrading Ollama on Windows
New Contributors
- @seankhatiri made their first contribution in #6530
Full Changelog: v0.3.7...v0.3.8
v0.3.7
New Models
- Hermes 3: Hermes 3 is the latest version of the flagship Hermes series of LLMs by Nous Research, which includes support for tool calling.
- Phi 3.5: A lightweight AI model with 3.8 billion parameters with performance overtaking similarly and larger sized models.
- SmolLM: A family of small models with 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters, trained on a new high-quality dataset.
What's Changed
- CUDA 12 support: improving performance by up to 10% on newer NVIDIA GPUs
- Improved performance of
ollama pull
andollama push
on slower connections - Fixed issue where setting
OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL
would cause models to be reloaded on lower VRAM systems - Ollama on Linux is now distributed as a
tar.gz
file, which contains theollama
binary along with required libraries.
New Contributors
- @pamelafox made their first contribution in #6345
- @eust-w made their first contribution in #5964
Full Changelog: v0.3.6...v0.3.7
v0.3.6
What's Changed
- Fixed issue where
/api/embed
would return an error instead of loading the model when theinput
field was not provided. ollama create
can now import Phi-3 models from Safetensors- Added progress information to
ollama create
when importing GGUF files - Ollama will now import GGUF files faster by minimizing file copies
Full Changelog: v0.3.5...v0.3.6
v0.3.5
What's Changed
- Fixed
Incorrect function
error when downloading models on Windows - Fixed issue where temporary files would not be cleaned up
- Fix rare error when Ollama would start up due to invalid model data
- Ollama will now provide an error instead of crashing on Windows when running models that are too large to fit into total memory
New Contributors
- @jessegross made their first contribution in #6145
- @rgbkrk made their first contribution in #5985
- @Nicholas42 made their first contribution in #6235
- @cognitivetech made their first contribution in #6305
Full Changelog: v0.3.4...v0.3.5
v0.3.4
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New embedding models
- BGE-M3: a large embedding model from BAAI distinguished for its versatility in Multi-Functionality, Multi-Linguality, and Multi-Granularity.
- BGE-Large: a large embedding model trained in english.
- Paraphrase-Multilingual: A multilingual embedding model trained on parallel data for 50 languages.
New embedding API with batch support
Ollama now supports a new API endpoint /api/embed
for embedding generation:
curl http://localhost:11434/api/embed -d '{
"model": "all-minilm",
"input": ["Why is the sky blue?", "Why is the grass green?"]
}'
This API endpoint supports new features:
- Batches: generate embeddings for several documents in one request
- Normalized embeddings: embeddings are now normalized, improving similarity results
- Truncation: a new
truncate
parameter that will error if set tofalse
- Metrics: responses include
load_duration
,total_duration
andprompt_eval_count
metrics
See the API documentation for more details and examples.
What's Changed
- Fixed initial slow download speeds on Windows
- NUMA support will now be autodetected by Ollama to improve performance
- Fixed issue where the
/api/embed
would sometimes return embedding results out of order
New Contributors
- @av made their first contribution in #6147
- @sryu1 made their first contribution in #6151
- @rick-github made their first contribution in #6154
Full Changelog: v0.3.3...v0.3.4
v0.3.3
What's Changed
- The
/api/embed
endpoint now returns statistics:total_duration
,load_duration
, andprompt_eval_count
- Added usage metrics to the
/v1/embeddings
OpenAI compatibility API - Fixed issue where
/api/generate
would respond with an empty string if provided acontext
- Fixed issue where
/api/generate
would return an incorrect value forcontext
/show modefile
will now renderMESSAGE
commands correctly
New Contributors
Full Changelog: v0.3.2...v0.3.3
v0.3.2
What's Changed
- Fixed issue where
ollama pull
would not resume download progress - Fixed issue where
phi3
would report an error on older versions
New Contributors
- @longseespace made their first contribution in #6096
Full Changelog: v0.3.1...v0.3.2
v0.3.1
Google's Gemma 2 has a new 2B parameter small model!
ollama run gemma2:2b
New models
- Gemma 2 2B: A new 2B parameter model by Google DeepMind
What's Changed
- Added support for
min_p
sampling option ollama create
will now autodetect required stop parameters when importing certain models- Ollama on Windows will now show better error messages if required files are missing
- Fixed issue where
/save
would cause parameters to be saved incorrectly - OpenAI-compatible API will now return a
finish_reason
oftool_calls
if a tool call occured. - Performance and reliability improvements when downloading models using
ollama pull
- Ollama's Linux install script will now return a better error on unsupported CUDA versions
New Contributors
Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.3.1
v0.3.0
Tool support
Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to answer a given prompt using tool(s) it knows about, making it possible for models to perform more complex tasks or interact with the outside world.
Example tools include:
- Functions and APIs
- Web browsing
- Code interpreter
- much more!
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To use tools, provide the tools
field when using Ollama's Chat API:
import ollama
response = ollama.chat(
model='llama3.1',
messages=[{'role': 'user', 'content': 'What is the weather in Toronto?'}],
# provide a weather checking tool to the model
tools=[{
'type': 'function',
'function': {
'name': 'get_current_weather',
'description': 'Get the current weather for a city',
'parameters': {
'type': 'object',
'properties': {
'city': {
'type': 'string',
'description': 'The name of the city',
},
},
'required': ['city'],
},
},
},
],
)
print(response['message']['tool_calls'])
More information:
New models
- Llama 3.1: a new state-of-the-art model from Meta available in 8B, 70B and 405B parameter sizes with support for tool calling.
- Mistral Large 2: Mistral's new 123B flagship model that is significantly more capable in code generation, tool calling, mathematics, and reasoning with 128k context window and support for dozens of languages.
- Firefunction v2: An open weights function calling model based on Llama 3, competitive with GPT-4o function calling capabilities.
- Llama-3-Groq-Tool-Use: A series of models from Groq that represent a significant advancement in open-source AI capabilities for tool use/function calling.
What's Changed
- Fixed duplicate error message when running
ollama create
New Contributors
- @lreed-mdsol made their first contribution in #5757
- @ajhai made their first contribution in #5799
Full Changelog: v0.2.8...v0.3.0