Ollama v0.18.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

### Web Search and Fetch in OpenClaw Ollama now ships with web search and web fetch plugin for OpenClaw. This allows Ollama's models (local or cloud) to search the web for the latest content and news. This also allows OpenClaw with Ollama to be able to fetch the web and extract readable content for processing. This feature does not execute JavaScript. When using local models with web search in OpenClaw, ensure you are signed into Ollama with `ollama signin` ``` ollama launch openclaw ``` You can install web search directly into OpenClaw as a plugin if you already have OpenClaw configured and working: ### Ollama web search plugin ``` openclaw plugins install @ollama/openclaw-web-search ``` ### Non-interactive (headless) mode for ollama launch `ollama launch` can now run in non-interactive mode. Perfect for: - Docker/containers: spin up an integration as a pipeline step to run evals, test prompts, or validate model behavior as part of your build. Tear it down when the job ends. - CI/CD: Generate code reviews, security checks, and other tasks within your CI - Scripts/automation: Kick off automated tasks with Ollama and claude code - `--model` must be specified to run in headless mode - `--yes` flag will auto-pull the model and skip any selectors Try with: `ollama launch claude --model kimi-k2.5:cloud --yes -- -p "how does this repository work?"` ### Use non-interactive mode in OpenClaw You can ask your OpenClaw to run tasks using claude with subagents: ``` ollama launch claude --model kimi-k2.5:cloud --yes -- -p "how does this repository work?" using a subagent ``` ## What's Changed * `ollama launch openclaw` will now use the official Ollama auth and model provider for OpenClaw * Improvements to Ollama's benchmarking tool in `./cmd/bench` * `ollama launch openclaw` will now skip `--install-daemon` when systemd is unavailable **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.18.0...v0.18.1