Ollama v0.30.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Ollama v0.30.2. Source highlight: `ollama launch` now supports Qwen Code and can guide users through installing the Cline CLI when it is missing.
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Ollama v0.30.2. Source highlight: `ollama launch` now supports Qwen Code and can guide users through installing the Cline CLI when it is missing.
Ollama v0.24.0. Source highlight: Ollama 0.24 includes support for the Codex App, OpenAI's desktop experience for working on Codex threads in parallel with built-in worktree support and git functionality.
Ollama v0.23.4. Source highlight: `ollama launch opencode` now supports vision models with image inputs
Ollama v0.30.0. Source highlight: Ollama 0.30 is now available, with improved compatibility and performance using llama.cpp. This augments the MLX engine on Apple Silicon, bringing support to a wider range of hardware.
Ollama v0.23.3. Source highlight: mlx: refined model push behavior
Ollama v0.23.2. Source highlight: `ollama launch` no longer includes Claude Desktop due to the third-party integration being limited to Anthropic models.
Ollama v0.23.1. Source highlight: Gemma 4 MTP (Multi-token Processing) for the MLX runner
Ollama v0.23.0. Source highlight: Claude Desktop is now supported with Ollama Launch.
Ollama v0.22.1. Source highlight: Updated the **Gemma 4** renderer for thinking and tool calling improvements
Ollama v0.22.0. Source highlight: NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Omni
Ollama v0.21.2. Source highlight: Improved reliability of the OpenClaw onboarding flow in `ollama launch`
Ollama v0.21.1. Source highlight: You can now install and run the Kimi CLI through Ollama.
Ollama v0.21.0. Source highlight: ollama launch hermes
Ollama v0.20.7. Source highlight: Fix quality of gemma:e2b and gemma:e4b when thinking is disabled
Ollama v0.20.6. Source highlight: Gemma 4 tool calling ability is improved and updated to use Google's latest post-launch fixes
Ollama v0.20.5. Source highlight: OpenClaw channel setup with `ollama launch`
Ollama v0.20.4. Source highlight: mlx: Improve M5 performance with NAX
Ollama v0.20.3. Source highlight: Gemma 4 Tool Calling improvements
Ollama v0.20.2. Source highlight: app: default app home view to new chat instead of launch
Ollama v0.20.0. Source highlight: <img width="3748" height="1290" alt="Gemma 4" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c4727579-47b1-4c7b-8aa2-28eda15b71f5" />
Ollama v0.19.0. Source highlight: <img width="480" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1b5ca980-b9d5-490e-99b9-f0f7b9af2c32" />
Ollama v0.18.3. Source highlight: Microsoft Visual Studio Code now directly integrates with Ollama via GitHub Copilot.
Ollama v0.18.2. Source highlight: Add extra check to ensure `npm` and `git` are installed before installing OpenClaw
Ollama v0.18.1. Source highlight: Web Search and Fetch in OpenClaw
Ollama v0.18.0. Source highlight: Ollama 0.18 includes improved performance for OpenClaw and Ollama’s cloud models, including the new Nemotron-3-Super model by NVIDIA designed for high-performance agentic reasoning tasks.
Ollama v0.17.7. Source highlight: Allow thinking levels such as `"medium"` to correctly interpreted in Ollama's API for all thinking models
Ollama v0.17.6. Source highlight: Fixed issue where GLM-OCR would not work due to incorrect prompt rendering
Ollama v0.17.5. Source highlight: Qwen3.5: the small Qwen 3.5 model series is now available in 0.8B, 2B, 4B and 9B parameter sizes.
Ollama v0.17.4. Source highlight: Qwen 3.5: a family of open-source multimodal models that delivers exceptional utility and performance.
Ollama v0.17.3. Source highlight: Fixed issue where tool calls in the Qwen 3 and Qwen 3.5 model families would not be parsed correctly if emitted during thinking
Ollama v0.17.2. Source highlight: Fixed issue where Ollama's app on Windows would crash when a new update has been downloaded
Ollama v0.17.1. Source highlight: Nemotron architecture support in Ollama's engine
Ollama v0.17.0. Source highlight: OpenClaw can now be installed and configured automatically via Ollama, making it the easiest way to get up and running with OpenClaw with open models like Kimi-K2.5, GLM-5, and Minimax-M2.5.
Ollama v0.16.3. Source highlight: New `ollama launch cline` added for the Cline CLI
Ollama v0.16.2. Source highlight: `ollama launch claude` now supports searching the web when using `:cloud` models
Ollama v0.16.1. Source highlight: Installing Ollama via the `curl` install script on macOS will now only prompt for your password if its required
Ollama v0.16.0. Source highlight: GLM-5: A strong reasoning and agentic model from Z.ai with 744B total parameters (40B active), built for complex systems engineering and long-horizon tasks.
Ollama v0.15.6. Source highlight: Fixed context limits when running `ollama launch droid`
Ollama v0.15.5. Source highlight: Qwen3-Coder-Next: a coding-focused language model from Alibaba's Qwen team, optimized for agentic coding workflows and local development.
Ollama v0.15.4. Source highlight: `ollama launch openclaw` will now enter the standard OpenClaw onboarding flow if this has not yet been completed.
Ollama v0.15.3. Source highlight: Renamed `ollama launch clawdbot` to `ollama launch openclaw` to reflect the project's new name
Ollama v0.15.2. Source highlight: <img width="1916" height="976" alt="Ollama screenshot 2026-01-26 at 17 53 40@2x (1)" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7937e607-e16e-46f5-a280-5cf9ce088a68" />
Ollama v0.15.1. Source highlight: GLM-4.7-Flash performance and correctness improvements, fixing repetitive answers and tool calling quality