# Ollama v0.13.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Ollama (https://ollama.com)
- **Version:** v0.13.0
- **Released:** Nov 19, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/ollama/updates/v0.13.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.13.0. Source highlight: DeepSeek-OCR: DeepSeek-OCR uses optical 2D mapping to compress long contexts, achieving high OCR precision with reduced vision tokens and demonstrating practical value in document processing.

## Improvements
- Improved CPU and memory detection while in containers/cgroups
- Improved VRAM information detection for AMD GPUs
- Improved KV cache performance to no longer require defragmentation

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed performance issues that arose in Ollama 0.12.11 on CUDA
- Fixed issue where Linux install packages were missing required Vulkan libraries