Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.3.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.3.1. Source highlight: Google's Gemma 2 has a new 2B parameter small model!
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Added support for `min_p` sampling option
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Performance and reliability improvements when downloading models using `ollama pull`
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- Fixed issue where `/save` would cause parameters to be saved incorrectly
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
Google's Gemma 2 has a new 2B parameter small model!
```
ollama run gemma2:2b
```
## New models
- [Gemma 2 2B](https://ollama.com/library/gemma2:2b): A new 2B parameter model by Google DeepMind
## What's Changed
* Added support for `min_p` sampling option
* `ollama create` will now autodetect required stop parameters when importing certain models
* Ollama on Windows will now show better error messages if required files are missing
* Fixed issue where `/save` would cause parameters to be saved incorrectly
* OpenAI-compatible API will now return a `finish_reason` of `tool_calls` if a tool call occured.
* Performance and reliability improvements when downloading models using `ollama pull`
* Ollama's Linux install script will now return a better error on unsupported CUDA versions
## New Contributors
* @Robitx made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/1825
* @hellerve made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/6041
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.3.0...v0.3.1