Ollama - Package Updates

[Package Updates]

[1.4.0]

• Update ollama to 0.16.1
• Full Changelog
• Installing Ollama via the curl install script on macOS will now only prompt for your password if its required
• Installing Ollama via the iem install script in Windows will now show progress
• Image generation models will now respect the OLLAMA_LOAD_TIMEOUT variable
• GLM-5: A strong reasoning and agentic model from Z.ai with 744B total parameters (40B active), built for complex systems engineering and long-horizon tasks.
• MiniMax-M2.5: a new state-of-the-art large language model designed for real-world productivity and coding tasks.
• The new ollama command makes it easy to launch your favorite apps with models using Ollama
• Launch Pi with ollama launch pi
• Improvements to Ollama's MLX runner to support GLM-4.7-Flash
• Ctrl+G will now allow for editing text prompts in a text editor when running a model

[Package Updates]

[1.4.1]

• Update ollama to 0.16.2
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• ollama launch claude now supports searching the web when using :cloud models
• Fixed rendering issue when running ollama in PowerShell
• New setting in Ollama's app makes it easier to disable cloud models for sensitive and private tasks where data cannot leave your computer. For Linux or when running ollama serve manually, set OLLAMA_NO_CLOUD=1.
• Fixed issue where experimental image generation models would not run in 0.16.0 and 0.16.1

[Package Updates]

[1.4.2]

• Update ollama to 0.16.3
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• New ollama launch cline added for the Cline CLI
• ollama launch <integration> will now always show the model picker
• Added Gemma 3, Llama and Qwen 3 architectures to MLX runner

[Package Updates]

[1.5.0]

• Update ollama to 0.17.0
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• OpenClaw can now be installed and configured automatically via Ollama, making it the easiest way to get up and running with OpenClaw with open models like Kimi-K2.5, GLM-5, and Minimax-M2.5.
• When using cloud models, websearch is enabled - allowing OpenClaw to search the internet.
• Improved tokenizer performance
• Ollama's macOS and Windows apps will now default to a context length based on available VRAM

[Package Updates]

[1.5.1]

• Update ollama to 0.17.4
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• Tool call indices will now be included in parallel tool calls
• Fixed issue where tool calls in the Qwen 3 and Qwen 3.5 model families would not be parsed correctly if emitted during thinking
• Fixed issue where Ollama's app on Windows would crash when a new update has been downloaded
• Nemotron architecture support in Ollama's engine
• MLX engine now has improved memory usage
• Ollama's app will now allow models that support tools to use web search capabilities
• Improved LFM2 and LFM2.5 models in Ollama's engine
• ollama create will no longer default to affine quantization for unquantized models when using the MLX engine
• Added configuration for disabling automatic update downloading

[Package Updates]

[1.5.2]

• Update ollama to 0.17.5
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• Qwen3.5: the small Qwen 3.5 model series is now available in 0.8B, 2B, 4B and 9B parameter sizes.
• Fixed crash in Qwen 3.5 models when split over GPU & CPU
• Fixed issue where Qwen 3.5 models would repeat themselves due to no presence penalty (note: you may have to redownload the qwen3.5 models: ollama pull qwen3.5:35b for example)
• ollama run --verbose will now show peak memory usage when using Ollama's MLX engine
• Fixed memory issues and crashes in MLX runner
• Fixed issue where Ollama would not be able to run models imported from Qwen3.5 GGUF files

[Package Updates]

[1.5.3]

• Update ollama to 0.17.6
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• Fixed issue where GLM-OCR would not work due to incorrect prompt rendering
• Fixed tool calling parsing and rendering for Qwen 3.5 models

[Package Updates]

[1.5.4]

• Update ollama to 0.17.7
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• Allow thinking levels such as "medium" to correctly interpreted in Ollama's API for all thinking models
• Add context length to support compaction when using ollama launch

[Package Updates]

[1.6.1]

• Update ollama to 0.18.1
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• Web Search and Fetch in OpenClaw
• Ollama now ships with web search and web fetch plugin for OpenClaw. This allows Ollama's models (local or cloud) to search the web for the latest content and news. This also allows OpenClaw with Ollama to be able to fetch the web and extract readable content for processing. This feature does not execute JavaScript.
• When using local models with web search in OpenClaw, ensure you are signed into Ollama with ollama signin
• You can install web search directly into OpenClaw as a plugin if you already have OpenClaw configured and working:

[Package Updates]

[1.6.2]

• Update ollama to 0.18.2
• Full Changelog
• Add extra check to ensure npm and git are installed before installing OpenClaw
• Claude Code will now be faster when run locally, due to preventing cache breakages
• Fix to correctly support ollama launch openclaw --model <model>
• Register Ollama's websearch package correctly for OpenClaw