Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.13.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.13.1. Source highlight: Ministral-3: The Ministral 3 family is designed for edge deployment, capable of running on a wide range of hardware.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Added thinking and tool parsing for cogito-v2.1
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- Fixed issues with CUDA VRAM discovery
- Fixed link to docs in Ollama's app
- Fixed issue where models would be evicted on CPU-only systems
- Fixed issue where CUDA GPUs would fail to be detected with older GPUs
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## New models
- [Ministral-3](https://ollama.com/library/ministral-3): The Ministral 3 family is designed for edge deployment, capable of running on a wide range of hardware.
- [Mistral-Large-3](https://ollama.com/library/mistral-large-3): A general-purpose multimodal mixture-of-experts model for production-grade tasks and enterprise workloads.
## What's Changed
* `nomic-embed-text` will now use Ollama's engine by default
* Tool calling support for `cogito-v2.1`
* Fixed issues with CUDA VRAM discovery
* Fixed link to docs in Ollama's app
* Fixed issue where models would be evicted on CPU-only systems
* Ollama will now better render errors instead of showing `Unmarshal:` errors
* Fixed issue where CUDA GPUs would fail to be detected with older GPUs
* Added thinking and tool parsing for cogito-v2.1
## New Contributors
* @EntropyYue made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/13237
* @kokes made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/13231
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.13.0...v0.13.1