Ollama – v0.18.0-rc1
🚨 Ollama v0.18.0-rc1 is here — and it’s packing some serious upgrades! 🚨
🔥 Anthropic Model Fixes
- Fixed parsing of `close_thinking` blocks before `tool_use`, especially when no intermediate text is present — critical for clean tool invocations in Claude-style models.
🛠️ Tool Use & Function Calling
- Major improvements for structured outputs and function calling — think smoother integrations with `claude-3.5-sonnet` and similar models.
⚡ Performance & Stability Boosts
- Optimized context handling & reduced memory footprint.
- Fixed bugs in multi-turn tool-based conversations — fewer hiccups, more reliability.
💻 Platform Love
- Updated CUDA & Metal backends for faster inference.
- Better Apple Silicon (M-series) support — and improved WSL2 & native Windows performance.
CLI/API Tweaks 🛠️
- New flags for `ollama run` & `ollama chat`, including fine-grained streaming control.
- Cleaner error messages when models fail to load (no more cryptic dead ends!).
This RC is a solid preview of what’s coming — especially if you’re relying on tool use, local Claude-style models, or pushing Ollama hard on macOS/Windows. 🧪 Try it out and let us know what you think!
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