Ollama v0.12.4stable Released Oct 03, 2025
Impact Score: 5/10

Ollama v0.12.4 โ€” Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

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โšก Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Ollama v0.12.4. Source highlight: Flash attention is now enabled by default for Qwen 3 and Qwen 3 Coder

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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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๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (5)

  • Fixed minor memory estimation issues when scheduling models on NVIDIA GPUs
  • Fixed an issue where `keep_alive` in the API would accept different values for the `/api/chat` and `/api/generate` endpoints
  • Fixed tool calling rendering with `qwen3-coder`
  • Fixed crash where templates were not correctly defined
  • Fix memory calculations on NVIDIA iGPUs
๐Ÿ“„ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## What's Changed * Flash attention is now enabled by default for Qwen 3 and Qwen 3 Coder * Fixed minor memory estimation issues when scheduling models on NVIDIA GPUs * Fixed an issue where `keep_alive` in the API would accept different values for the `/api/chat` and `/api/generate` endpoints * Fixed tool calling rendering with `qwen3-coder` * More reliable and accurate VRAM detection * `OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION` can now be overridden to `0` for models that have flash attention enabled by default * macOS 12 Monterey and macOS 13 Ventura are no longer supported * Fixed crash where templates were not correctly defined * Fix memory calculations on NVIDIA iGPUs * AMD gfx900 and gfx906 (MI50, MI60, etc) GPUs are no longer supported via ROCm. We're working to support these GPUs via Vulkan in a future release. ## New Contributors * @Fachep made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/12412 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.12.3...v0.12.4-rc3