Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.12.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.12.2. Source highlight: <img width="512" alt="ollama_web_search" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fc49a8bc-7a3f-462c-901c-5a9625c082c3" />
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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- Fixed issue where built-in tools for gpt-oss were not being rendered correctly
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Web search
<img width="512" alt="ollama_web_search" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fc49a8bc-7a3f-462c-901c-5a9625c082c3" />
[A new web search API](https://ollama.com/blog/web-search) is now available in Ollama. Ollama provides a generous free tier of web searches for individuals to use, and higher rate limits are available via [Ollama’s cloud](https://ollama.com/cloud). This web search capability can augment models with the latest information from the web to reduce hallucinations and improve accuracy.
## What's Changed
* Models with Qwen3's architecture including MoE now run in Ollama's new engine
* Fixed issue where built-in tools for gpt-oss were not being rendered correctly
* Support multi-regex pretokenizers in Ollama's new engine
* Ollama's new engine can now load tensors by matching a prefix or suffix
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.12.1...v0.12.2