Ollama v0.1.39stable Released May 22, 2024
Impact Score: 5/10

Ollama v0.1.39 โ€” Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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โšก Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Ollama v0.1.39. Source highlight: Cohere Aya 23: A new state-of-the-art, multilingual LLM covering 23 different languages.

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๐Ÿ’ป Software Engineers & Devs

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๐Ÿ“Š Product & Engineering Leads

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โš™๏ธ DevOps & Security

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โœจ New Features & Capabilities (2)

  • Added new `OLLAMA_NOHISTORY=1` environment variable that can be set to disable history when using `ollama run`
  • Added a `Ctrl+W` shortcut to `ollama run`

โšก Performance & Enhancements (1)

  • New experimental `OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1` flag for `ollama serve` that improves token generation speed on Apple Silicon Macs and NVIDIA graphics cards

๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (3)

  • Fixed issues where wide characters such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian languages.
  • Fixed error that would occur on Windows running `ollama create -f Modelfile`
  • Fixed `EOF` errors when resuming downloads via `ollama pull`
๐Ÿ“„ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## New models - [Cohere Aya 23](https://ollama.com/library/aya): A new state-of-the-art, multilingual LLM covering 23 different languages. - [Mistral 7B 0.3](https://ollama.com/library/mistral:v0.3): A new version of Mistral 7B with initial support for function calling. - [Phi-3 Medium](https://ollama.com/library/phi3:medium): a 14B parameters, lightweight, state-of-the-art open model by Microsoft. - [Phi-3 Mini 128K](https://ollama.com/library/phi3:mini-128k) and [Phi-3 Medium 128K](https://ollama.com/library/phi3:medium-128k): versions of the Phi-3 models that support a context window size of 128K - [Granite code](https://ollama.com/library/granite-code): A family of open foundation models by IBM for Code Intelligence ## Llama 3 import It is now possible to import and quantize Llama 3 and its finetunes from Safetensors format to Ollama. First, clone a Hugging Face repo with a Safetensors model: ``` git clone https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct cd Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct ``` Next, create a `Modelfile`: ``` FROM . TEMPLATE """{{ if .System }}<|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> {{ .System }}<|eot_id|>{{ end }}{{ if .Prompt }}<|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> {{ .Prompt }}<|eot_id|>{{ end }}<|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {{ .Response }}<|eot_id|>""" PARAMETER stop <|start_header_id|> PARAMETER stop <|end_header_id|> PARAMETER stop <|eot_id|> ``` Then, create and quantize a model: ``` ollama create --quantize q4_0 -f Modelfile my-llama3 ollama run my-llama3 ``` ## What's Changed * Fixed issues where wide characters such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian languages. * Added new `OLLAMA_NOHISTORY=1` environment variable that can be set to disable history when using `ollama run` * New experimental `OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1` flag for `ollama serve` that improves token generation speed on Apple Silicon Macs and NVIDIA graphics cards * Fixed error that would occur on Windows running `ollama create -f Modelfile` * `ollama create` can now create models from I-Quant GGUF files * Fixed `EOF` errors when resuming downloads via `ollama pull` * Added a `Ctrl+W` shortcut to `ollama run` ## New Contributors * @rapmd73 made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/4467 * @sammcj made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/4120 * @likejazz made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/4535 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.1.38...v0.1.39