Impact Score: 5/10
Ollama v0.40.12 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-10-31.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.40.12. Source highlight: LFM3 is Liquid AI's new family of small models built for local agents, tool calling, and structured output, on Liquid's new tri-hybrid architecture. The family includes:
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- lfm3-vl: adds image understanding
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- Fixed tool-only assistant turns from Kimi CLI
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## Liquid AI LFM3
[LFM3](https://ollama.com/library/lfm3) is Liquid AI's new family of small models built for local agents, tool calling, and structured output, on Liquid's new tri-hybrid architecture. The family includes:
- [lfm3](https://ollama.com/library/lfm3): a 1.7B text model with a 256K-token context window
- [lfm3-vl](https://ollama.com/library/lfm3-vl): adds image understanding
- [lfm3-audio](https://ollama.com/library/lfm3-audio): speech recognition, translation, and text-to-speech in 18 languages
- [lfm3-omni](https://ollama.com/library/lfm3-omni): text, images, and audio in one model
```sh
ollama run lfm3
```
## d1 decision models
Liquid AI's d1 models now come in a 2B size, built on LFM3. [d1](https://ollama.com/library/d1) makes decisions about text and images, and [d1-omni](https://ollama.com/library/d1-omni) adds audio.
```sh
ollama run d1:2b "I was charged twice for order 4417." --ask "Is this a billing issue?"
```
Note: lfm3 and d1 2b are supported on Apple hardware in this release. Support for Linux/Windows coming soon.
## What's Changed
- Faster prompt processing on Apple silicon for Gemma 4, Flint and Laguna models
- Speculative decoding now supports DFlash2 draft models on MLX
- Gemma 4 keeps more detail in small images
- `ollama launch` now works with OpenCode v2
- Fixed tool-only assistant turns from Kimi CLI
- Updated MLX and llama.cpp
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.40.11...v0.40.12