# Ollama v0.2.8 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Ollama (https://ollama.com)
- **Version:** v0.2.8
- **Released:** Jul 21, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/ollama/updates/v0.2.8/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.2.8. Source highlight: Mistral Nemo: A state-of-the-art 12B model with 128k context length, built by Mistral AI in collaboration with NVIDIA.

## Improvements
- Improved OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint image handling

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue where a final `assistant` message would not be considered for continuing a response
- Fix error when old versions of ROCm 5 would be detected