Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.1.28 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.1.28. Source highlight: StarCoder2: the next generation of transparently trained open code LLMs that comes in three sizes: 3B, 7B and 15B parameters.
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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⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Improved support for `llava` 1.6 models
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- Fixed issue where switching between models repeatedly would cause Ollama to hang
- Fixed issue where running Ollama in `podman` would not detect Nvidia GPUs
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## New models
* [StarCoder2](https://ollama.com/library/starcoder2): the next generation of transparently trained open code LLMs that comes in three sizes: 3B, 7B and 15B parameters.
* [DolphinCoder](https://ollama.com/library/dolphincoder): a chat model based on StarCoder2 15B that excels at writing code.
## What's Changed
* Vision models such as `llava` should now respond better to text prompts
* Improved support for `llava` 1.6 models
* Fixed issue where switching between models repeatedly would cause Ollama to hang
* Installing Ollama on Windows no longer requires a minimum of 4GB disk space
* Ollama on macOS will now more reliably determine available VRAM
* Fixed issue where running Ollama in `podman` would not detect Nvidia GPUs
* Ollama will correctly return an empty embedding when calling `/api/embeddings` with an empty `prompt` instead of hanging
## New Contributors
* @Bin-Huang made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/1706
* @elthommy made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2737
* @peanut256 made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2354
* @tylinux made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2827
* @fred-bf made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2780
* @bmwiedemann made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2836
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.1.27...v0.1.28