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Ollama v0.40.8stable Released Oct 21, 2026
Impact Score: 5/10

Ollama v0.40.8 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Ollama v0.40.8. Source highlight: Flint brings Recursive's coding model to Ollama. It is designed for the work coding agents do across a repository: understanding unfamiliar code, tracing bugs, implementing features, and adding tests. Reasoning, multi-turn tool use, and a 262K-token context window support longer tasks across files a

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<p align="center"><img width="160" alt="flint-logo" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3c1741a5-710c-4bde-8ac7-096e40b495bb" /></p> ## Recursive Flint [Flint](https://ollama.com/library/flint) brings Recursive's coding model to Ollama. It is designed for the work coding agents do across a repository: understanding unfamiliar code, tracing bugs, implementing features, and adding tests. Reasoning, multi-turn tool use, and a 262K-token context window support longer tasks across files and tool interactions. Flint is an Apache 2.0-licensed, 40B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with approximately 2.5B parameters active per token. In its [release evaluations](https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint#evaluation), Recursive reports 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified. ```sh ollama run flint ``` Note: Flint is supported on MacOS. Other GPU support will be enabled in a subsequent release. **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.40.7...v0.40.8
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