Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.1.10 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.1.10. Source highlight: OpenChat: An open-source chat model trained on a wide variety of data, surpassing ChatGPT on various benchmarks.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Added FAQ entry for proxy support on Linux
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Fixed crashes on Intel Macs
- Fixed issue where `ollama pull` progress would reverse when re-trying a failed connection
- Fixed issue where `ollama show --modelfile` would show an incorrect `FROM` command
- Fixed issue where word wrap wouldn't work when piping in data to `ollama run` via standard input
- Fix permission denied issues when running `ollama create` on Linux
- Fixed installer error on Debian 12
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## New models
- [OpenChat](https://ollama.ai/library/openchat): An open-source chat model trained on a wide variety of data, surpassing ChatGPT on various benchmarks.
- [Neural-chat](https://ollama.ai/library/neural-chat): New chat model by Intel
- [Goliath](https://ollama.ai/library/goliath): A large chat model created by combining two fine-tuned versions of Llama 2 70B
## What's Changed
* JSON mode can now be used with `ollama run`:
* Pass `--format json` flag or
* Use `/set format json` to change the current chat session to use JSON mode
* Prompts can now be passed in via standard input to `ollama run`. For example: `head -30 README.md | ollama run codellama "how do I install Ollama on Linux?"`
* `ollama create` now works with `OLLAMA_HOST` to build models using Ollama running on a remote machine
* Fixed crashes on Intel Macs
* Fixed issue where `ollama pull` progress would reverse when re-trying a failed connection
* Fixed issue where `ollama show --modelfile` would show an incorrect `FROM` command
* Fixed issue where word wrap wouldn't work when piping in data to `ollama run` via standard input
* Fix permission denied issues when running `ollama create` on Linux
* Added FAQ [entry](https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/blob/main/docs/faq.md) for proxy support on Linux
* Fixed installer error on Debian 12
* Fixed issue where `ollama push` would result in a 405 error
* `ollama push` will now return a better error when trying to push to a namespace the current user does not have access to
## New Contributors
* @dhiltgen made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/1075
* @dansreis made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/1055
* @breitburg made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/1106
* @enricoros made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/1078
* @huynle made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/1115
* @bnodnarb made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/1098
* @danemadsen made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/1120
* @pieroit made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/1124
* @yanndegat made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/1151
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/compare/v0.1.9...v0.1.10