# Ollama v0.33.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Ollama (https://ollama.com)
- **Version:** v0.33.0
- **Released:** Aug 21, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/ollama/updates/v0.33.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.33.0. Source highlight: Developers can now easily configure Claude Desktop to seamlessly work with Ollama as a third-party gateway provider.

## Improvements
- Prefill restore points are now trustworthy by construction: a cancelled prefill keeps every restore point it crossed, so retries resume where they stopped instead of restarting from scratch
- Resumed prefills no longer record restore points that fail to cover what they claim; on models with recurrent layers this previously forced a request matching 46k of 47k tokens to reprocess from zero
- Disabled Claude Code's "tokens left" token-countdown system message, which Ollama moved to the front of the prompt and broke the KV cache on every request
- DeepSeek Harness launcher now falls back to `npx` when the global npm install fails, with Windows command-shim support
- MLX dependency update (#17886)

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed a hang where agent clients that cancel long prefills
- Fixed broken default packaging caused by macOS-specific assumptions affecting Linux/Windows builds