Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.13.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.13.2. Source highlight: Qwen3-Next: The first installment in the Qwen3-Next series with strong performance in terms of both parameter efficiency and inference speed.
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⚡ Performance & Enhancements (2)
- Qwen3-Next: The first installment in the Qwen3-Next series with strong performance in terms of both parameter efficiency and inference speed.
- Flash attention is now enabled by default for vision models such as `mistral-3`, `gemma3`, `qwen3-vl` and more. This improves memory utilization and performance when providing images as input.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- Fixed GPU detection on multi-GPU CUDA machines
- Fixed issue where `deepseek-v3.1` would always think even with thinking is disabled in Ollama's app
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## New models
- [Qwen3-Next](https://ollama.com/library/qwen3-next): The first installment in the Qwen3-Next series with strong performance in terms of both parameter efficiency and inference speed.
## What's Changed
* Flash attention is now enabled by default for vision models such as `mistral-3`, `gemma3`, `qwen3-vl` and more. This improves memory utilization and performance when providing images as input.
* Fixed GPU detection on multi-GPU CUDA machines
* Fixed issue where `deepseek-v3.1` would always think even with thinking is disabled in Ollama's app
## New Contributors
* @chengcheng84 made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/13265
* @nathan-hook made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/13256
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.13.1...v0.13.2