Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.1.45 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.1.45. Source highlight: DeepSeek-Coder-V2: A 16B & 236B open-source Mixture-of-Experts code language model that achieves performance comparable to GPT4-Turbo in code-specific tasks.
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Introduced a workaround for AMD Vega RX 56 SDMA support on Linux
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (2)
- DeepSeek-Coder-V2: A 16B & 236B open-source Mixture-of-Experts code language model that achieves performance comparable to GPT4-Turbo in code-specific tasks.
- Enhanced GPU discovery and multi-gpu support with concurrency
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- Fix memory prediction for `deepseek-v2` and `deepseek-coder-v2` models
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## New models
* [DeepSeek-Coder-V2](https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-coder-v2): A 16B & 236B open-source Mixture-of-Experts code language model that achieves performance comparable to GPT4-Turbo in code-specific tasks.
## `ollama show`
`ollama show` will now show model details such as context length, parameters, embedding size, license and more:
```
% ollama show llama3
Model
arch llama
parameters 8.0B
quantization Q4_0
context length 8192
embedding length 4096
Parameters
num_keep 24
stop "<|start_header_id|>"
stop "<|end_header_id|>"
stop "<|eot_id|>"
License
META LLAMA 3 COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT
Meta Llama 3 Version Release Date: April 18, 2024
```
## What's Changed
* `ollama show <model>` will now show model information such as context window size
* Model loading on Windows with CUDA GPUs is now faster
* Setting `seed` in the `/v1/chat/completions` OpenAI compatibility endpoint no longer changes `temperature`
* Enhanced GPU discovery and multi-gpu support with concurrency
* The Linux install script will now skip searching for network devices
* Introduced a workaround for AMD Vega RX 56 SDMA support on Linux
* Fix memory prediction for `deepseek-v2` and `deepseek-coder-v2` models
* `api/show` endpoint returns extensive model metadata
* GPU configuration variables are now reported in `ollama serve`
* Update Linux ROCm to v6.1.1
## New Contributors
* @jayson-cloude made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/4972
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.1.44...v0.1.45