Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.17.5 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.17.5. Source highlight: Qwen3.5: the small Qwen 3.5 model series is now available in 0.8B, 2B, 4B and 9B parameter sizes.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- Fixed crash in Qwen 3.5 models when split over GPU & CPU
- Fixed issue where Qwen 3.5 models would repeat themselves due to no presence penalty (note: you may have to redownload the `qwen3.5` models: `ollama pull qwen3.5:35b` for example)
- Fixed memory issues and crashes in MLX runner
- Fixed issue where Ollama would not be able to run models imported from Qwen3.5 GGUF files
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## New models
- [Qwen3.5](https://ollama.com/library/qwen3.5): the small Qwen 3.5 model series is now available in 0.8B, 2B, 4B and 9B parameter sizes.
## What's Changed
* Fixed crash in Qwen 3.5 models when split over GPU & CPU
* Fixed issue where Qwen 3.5 models would repeat themselves due to no presence penalty (note: you may have to redownload the `qwen3.5` models: `ollama pull qwen3.5:35b` for example)
* `ollama run --verbose` will now show peak memory usage when using Ollama's MLX engine
* Fixed memory issues and crashes in MLX runner
* Fixed issue where Ollama would not be able to run models imported from Qwen3.5 GGUF files
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.17.4...v0.17.5