Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.4.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.4.0. Source highlight: Ollama 0.4 adds support for Llama 3.2 Vision. After upgrading or downloading Ollama, run:
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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (3)
- Fixed issues where stop sequences would not be detected correctly
- Fixed issue where redirecting output to a file on Windows would cause invalid characters to be written
- Fixed issue where invalid model data would cause Ollama to error
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## Llama 3.2 Vision
Ollama 0.4 adds support for [Llama 3.2 Vision](https://ollama.com/library/llama3.2-vision). After upgrading or downloading Ollama, run:
```
ollama run llama3.2-vision
```
For the larger, 90B version of the model, run:
```
ollama run llama3.2-vision:90b
```
## What's changed
* Support for Llama 3.2 Vision (i.e. Mllama) architecture
* Sending follow on requests to vision models will now be much faster
* Fixed issues where stop sequences would not be detected correctly
* Ollama can now import models from Safetensors without a Modelfile when running `ollama create my-model`
* Fixed issue where redirecting output to a file on Windows would cause invalid characters to be written
* Fixed issue where invalid model data would cause Ollama to error
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.3.14...v0.4.0