Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.1.29 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.1.29. Source highlight: Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features are now accelerated by AMD graphics cards, and support is included by default in Ollama for Linux, Windows and Docker.
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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- Fixed issue where generating embeddings with `nomic-embed-text`, `all-minilm` or other embedding models would hang on Linux
- Fixed issues where Ollama would hang when using JSON mode.
- Fixed issue where `ollama run` would error when piping output to `tee` and other tools
- Fixed an issue where memory would not be released when running vision models
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## AMD Preview
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features are now accelerated by AMD graphics cards, and support is included by default in Ollama for [Linux](https://ollama.com/download/linux), [Windows](https://ollama.com/download/windows) and [Docker](https://hub.docker.com/r/ollama/ollama).
### Supported cards and accelerators
| Family | Supported cards and accelerators |
| -------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| AMD Radeon RX | `7900 XTX` `7900 XT` `7900 GRE` `7800 XT` `7700 XT` `7600 XT` `7600` <br>`6950 XT` `6900 XTX` `6900XT` `6800 XT` `6800`<br>`Vega 64` `Vega 56` |
| AMD Radeon PRO | `W7900` `W7800` `W7700` `W7600` `W7500` <br>`W6900X` `W6800X Duo` `W6800X` `W6800`<br>`V620` `V420` `V340` `V320`<br>`Vega II Duo` `Vega II` `VII` `SSG` |
| AMD Instinct | `MI300X` `MI300A` `MI300`<br>`MI250X` `MI250` `MI210` `MI200`<br>`MI100` `MI60` `MI50` |
## What's Changed
* `ollama <command> -h` will now show documentation for supported environment variables
* Fixed issue where generating embeddings with `nomic-embed-text`, `all-minilm` or other embedding models would hang on Linux
* Experimental support for importing Safetensors models using the `FROM <directory with safetensors model>` command in the Modelfile
* Fixed issues where Ollama would hang when using JSON mode.
* Fixed issue where `ollama run` would error when piping output to `tee` and other tools
* Fixed an issue where memory would not be released when running vision models
* Ollama will no longer show an error message when piping to stdin on Windows
## New Contributors
* @tgraupmann made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2582
* @andersrex made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2909
* @leonid20000 made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2440
* @hishope made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2973
* @mrdjohnson made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/2759
* @mofanke made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/3077
* @racerole made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/3073
* @Chris-AS1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/3094
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.1.28...v0.1.29