Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.0.18 โ Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Component: ollama ยท Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.0.18. Source highlight: New `ollama show` command for viewing details about a model:
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
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โจ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Added missing options params to the embeddings docs
โก Performance & Enhancements (2)
- Minor improvements to model loading and generation time
- Minor performance improvements to model loading and generation
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Fixed an issue where large prompts would cause `codellama` and similar models to show an error
- Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 11 Big Sur
- Fixed an issue where characters would be escaped in prompts causing escaped characters like `&` in the output
- Fixed several issues with building from source on Windows and Linux
- Fixed `num_keep` parameter not working properly
- Fixed issue where `Modelfile` parameters would not be honored at runtime
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## What's Changed
* New `ollama show` command for viewing details about a model:
* See a system prompt for a model: `ollama show --system orca-mini`
* View a model's parameters: `ollama show --parameters codellama`
* View a model's default prompt template: `ollama show --template llama2`
* View a Modelfile for a model: `ollama show --modelfile llama2`
* Minor improvements to model loading and generation time
* Fixed an issue where large prompts would cause `codellama` and similar models to show an error
* Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 11 Big Sur
* Fixed an issue where characters would be escaped in prompts causing escaped characters like `&` in the output
* Fixed several issues with building from source on Windows and Linux
* Minor performance improvements to model loading and generation
* New sentiments example by @technovangelist
* Fixed `num_keep` parameter not working properly
* Fixed issue where `Modelfile` parameters would not be honored at runtime
* Added missing options params to the embeddings docs by @herrjemand
* Fixed issue where `ollama list` would error when there were no models to show
When building from source, Ollama will require running `go generate` to generate dependencies:
```
git clone https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama
cd ollama
go generate ./...
go build .
```
Note: `cmake` is required to build dependencies. On macOS it can be installed with `brew install cmake`, and on other platforms via the [installer](https://cmake.org/install/) or well-known package managers.
## New Contributors
* @callmephilip made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/448
* @herrjemand made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/472
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/compare/v0.0.17...v0.0.18