# Ollama v0.40.8 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Ollama (https://ollama.com)
- **Version:** v0.40.8
- **Released:** Oct 21, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/ollama/updates/v0.40.8/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
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