Ollama – v0.18.0-rc2
🚨 Ollama v0.18.0-rc2 is out — and it’s packing some sneaky performance upgrades! 🚨
🔥 What’s new?
- ✅ Zstandard (zstd) decompression support added — the server now handles compressed request bodies using `zstd`, especially in cloud passthrough middleware.
→ Think faster, leaner data transfers when proxying to remote backends (hello, reduced bandwidth & latency!).
- 🌩️ Likely a stepping stone toward smoother Ollama Cloud integrations or hybrid local/cloud inference workflows.
- 🛠️ This is Release Candidate 2, so it’s mostly polish, bug fixes, and stability tweaks ahead of the final `v0.18.0` drop.
💡 Pro tip: Try it out (if you’re feeling adventurous!) with:
“`bash
ollama pull ollama:rc
“`
…or keep an eye on the GitHub release page once it’s live — full changelog incoming soon! 🕵️♂️
Who’s testing first? 😎