Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.1.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.1.2. Source highlight: Zephyr A fine-tuned 7B version of mistral that was trained on a mix of publicly available, synthetic datasets and performs as well as Llama 2 70B in many benchmarks
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⚡ Performance & Enhancements (2)
- Zephyr A fine-tuned 7B version of mistral that was trained on a mix of publicly available, synthetic datasets and performs as well as Llama 2 70B in many benchmarks
- Download speeds for `ollama pull` have been significantly improved, from 60MB/s to over 1.5GB/s (25x faster) on fast network connections
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (3)
- Fixed `token too long` error when generating a response
- Fix `not found error` showing when running `ollama pull`
- Improved video memory allocation on Linux to fix errors when using Nvidia GPUs
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## New Models
* [Zephyr](https://ollama.ai/library/zephyr) A fine-tuned 7B version of mistral that was trained on a mix of publicly available, synthetic datasets and performs as well as Llama 2 70B in many benchmarks
* [Mistral OpenOrca](https://ollama.ai/library/mistral-openorca) a 7 billion parameter model fine-tuned on top of the Mistral 7B model using the OpenOrca dataset
## Examples
Ollama's [examples](https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/tree/main/examples) have been updated with some new examples:
* [Ask the mentors](https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/tree/main/examples/typescript-mentors): a TypesScript, multi-user conversation app
* [TypeScript LangChain](https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/tree/main/examples/langchain-typescript-simple): a simple example of using Ollama with LangChainJS and TypeScript.
## What's Changed
* Download speeds for `ollama pull` have been significantly improved, from 60MB/s to over 1.5GB/s (25x faster) on fast network connections
* The API now supports non-streaming responses. Set the `stream` parameter to `false` and endpoints will return data in one single response:
```
curl -X POST http://localhost:11434/api/generate -d '{
"model": "llama2",
"prompt": "Why is the sky blue?",
"stream": false
}'
```
* Ollama can now be used with http proxies (using `HTTP_PROXY=http://<proxy>`) and https proxies (using `HTTPS_PROXY=https://<proxy>`)
* Fixed `token too long` error when generating a response
* `q8_0`, `q5_0`, `q5_1`, and `f32` models will now use GPU on Linux
* Revise help text in `ollama run` to be easier to read
* Rename runner subprocess to `ollama-runner`
* `ollama create` will now show feedback when reading model metadata
* Fix `not found error` showing when running `ollama pull`
* Improved video memory allocation on Linux to fix errors when using Nvidia GPUs
## New Contributors
* @xyproto made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/705
* @konsalex made their first contribution in https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/741
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/compare/v0.1.1...v0.1.2