Ollama v0.0.18stable Released Sep 06, 2023
Impact Score: 5/10

Ollama v0.0.18 โ€” Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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โšก Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Ollama v0.0.18. Source highlight: New `ollama show` command for viewing details about a model:

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๐Ÿ’ป Software Engineers & Devs

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๐Ÿ“Š Product & Engineering Leads

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โš™๏ธ DevOps & Security

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โœจ New Features & Capabilities (1)

  • Added missing options params to the embeddings docs

โšก Performance & Enhancements (2)

  • Minor improvements to model loading and generation time
  • Minor performance improvements to model loading and generation

๐Ÿ”ง 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
๐Ÿ“„ 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