Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.35.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.35.1. Source highlight: Clef decision models
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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⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Models using web search can now perform up to ten searches per response, up from three
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Clef decision models
Ollama now supports [Clef](https://ollama.com/library/clef) and [Clef Flash](https://ollama.com/library/clef), Cloudflare's new open-source decision models, through `/v1/systemone`.
Clef (27B) and Clef Flash (9B) are multimodal: requests can now include images alongside the text state, shared by all questions and scored jointly with it.
```sh
curl http://localhost:11434/v1/systemone -d '{
"model": "clef-flash",
"state": "The user took this screenshot.",
"images": ["<base64-encoded image>"],
"questions": {
"has_ollama": {"type": "noul", "instructions": "Does this image contain Ollama?"}
}
}'
```
```
{
"model": "clef-flash",
"answers": {
"has_ollama": {
"type": "noul",
"noul": 0.958
}
},
"usage": {
"input_tokens": 548,
"output_tokens": 0
}
}
```
## What's Changed
* Models using web search can now perform up to ten searches per response, up from three
* Modelfiles now support `CAPABILITY` declarations, so model creators can explicitly declare what a model can do. Declarations are preserved when creating from GGUF or safetensors, through model inheritance, and on Modelfile export
* `ollama show` and the model list now report only `decision` as the capability for decision models, so clients no longer offer them for general chat, tools, or thinking
* Updated llama.cpp and the MLX engine
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.35.0...v0.35.1