Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.12.5 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.12.5. Source highlight: Thinking models now support structured outputs when using the `/api/chat` API
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- Fixed issue where `"think": false` would show an error instead of being silently ignored
- Fixed `deepseek-r1` output issues
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## What's Changed
* Thinking models now support structured outputs when using the `/api/chat` API
* Ollama's app will now wait until Ollama is running to allow for a conversation to be started
* Fixed issue where `"think": false` would show an error instead of being silently ignored
* Fixed `deepseek-r1` output issues
* macOS 12 Monterey and macOS 13 Ventura are no longer supported
* 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
* @shengxinjing made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/12415
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.12.4...v0.12.5-rc0