Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.1.25 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.1.25. Source highlight: 
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- Fixed an issue where requests would hang after being repeated several times
- Fixed issue where `ollama serve` wouldn't immediately quit when receiving a termination signal
- Fixed issues with prompt templating for the `/api/chat` endpoint, such as where Ollama would omit the second system prompt in a series of messages
- Fixed issue where providing an empty list of messages would return a non-empty response instead of loading the model
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/download/v0.1.25/OllamaSetup.exe)
## Windows Preview
Ollama is now available on Windows in preview. Download it [here](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/download/v0.1.25/OllamaSetup.exe). Ollama on Windows makes it possible to pull, run and create large language models in a new native Windows experience. It includes built-in GPU acceleration, access to the full [model library](https://ollama.com/library), and the Ollama API including [OpenAI compatibility](https://ollama.com/blog/openai-compatibility).
## What's Changed
* Ollama on Windows is now available in preview.
* Fixed an issue where requests would hang after being repeated several times
* Ollama will now correctly error when provided an unsupported image format
* Fixed issue where `ollama serve` wouldn't immediately quit when receiving a termination signal
* Fixed issues with prompt templating for the `/api/chat` endpoint, such as where Ollama would omit the second system prompt in a series of messages
* Fixed issue where providing an empty list of messages would return a non-empty response instead of loading the model
* Setting a negative `keep_alive` value (e.g. `-1`) will now correctly keep the model loaded indefinitely
## New Contributors
* @lebrunel made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2477
* @bnorick made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2480
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.1.24...v0.1.25