# Ollama v0.40.9 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Ollama (https://ollama.com)
- **Version:** v0.40.9
- **Released:** Oct 22, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/ollama/updates/v0.40.9/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ollama v0.40.9. Source highlight: Flint on Linux and Windows

## Improvements
- Streaming OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages requests now report generation failures instead of ending silently after partial output.
- `ollama launch` now passes cloud models' context lengths and capabilities to coding tools, fixing incorrect context and compaction settings.
- Anthropic-compatible web search now uses the model's supported thinking setting in follow-up requests, preventing avoidable failures.