Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.1.40 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.1.40. Source highlight: Codestral: Codestral is Mistral AI’s first-ever code model designed for code generation tasks.
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 (2)
- Fixed out of memory and incorrect token issues when running Codestral on 16GB Macs
- Fixed issue where full-width characters (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Russian) were deleted at end of the line when using `ollama run`
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## New models
* [Codestral](https://ollama.com/library/codestral): Codestral is Mistral AI’s first-ever code model designed for code generation tasks.
* [IBM Granite Code](https://ollama.com/library/granite-code): now in [3B](https://ollama.com/library/granite-code:3b) and [8B](https://ollama.com/library/granite-code:8b) parameter sizes.
* [Deepseek V2](https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-v2): A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model
## What's Changed
* Fixed out of memory and incorrect token issues when running Codestral on 16GB Macs
* Fixed issue where full-width characters (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Russian) were deleted at end of the line when using `ollama run`
## New Examples
* [Use open-source models as coding assistant with Continue](https://ollama.com/blog/continue-code-assistant)
## New Contributors
* @zhewang1-intc made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/3278
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.1.39...v0.1.40