Ollama 0.40.5 is out: highlights and upgrade guide
At a glance
Ollama 0.40.5 is a patch release published on Oct 14, 2026. It follows Ollama 0.40.4 by 2 days. It includes 4 listed changes.
- Decision models are now available on cloud — use clef:cloud and clef-flash:cloud to run decision models through ollama.com cloud without pulling them locally
- Continuing an OpenAI-compatible Responses conversation that includes custom tool calls no longer fails with an error
- Clearer error messages when cloud access fails: sign-in problems, payment issues in the desktop app, and upstream access errors from the ChatGPT gateway now explain…
- Updated llama.cpp (adding Nemotron 3.5 support) and MLX
- Version
- 0.40.5
- Released
- Oct 14, 2026
- Release type
- Patch
- Previous
- 0.40.4
- Changes listed
- 4
- License
- MIT
How to upgrade to Ollama 0.40.5
This is a patch release, normally bug fixes only. It is usually safe to upgrade after your tests pass.
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | shDownload the installer from ollama.com/download
What's included in Ollama 0.40.5
Details from the official release page.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super is a vision-language model for coding, reasoning, tool use, and document understanding. It pairs a 120B-parameter hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer mixture-of-experts backbone (12B active per token) with a C-RADIO vision encoder, and supports tool calling, an on/off thinking mode, and context up to 1M tokens.
A compact sibling, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt, distills Super down to 74B parameters (9B active) tuned to fit a 24 GB NVIDIA GPU for everyday agentic tasks, with speculative decoding via its included drafter.
What's Changed
- Decision models are now available on cloud — use
clef:cloudandclef-flash:cloudto run decision models through ollama.com cloud without pulling them locally - Continuing an OpenAI-compatible Responses conversation that includes custom tool calls no longer fails with an error
- Clearer error messages when cloud access fails: sign-in problems, payment issues in the desktop app, and upstream access errors from the ChatGPT gateway now explain what went wrong
- Updated llama.cpp (adding Nemotron 3.5 support) and MLX
Ollama 0.40.5 FAQ
When was Ollama 0.40.5 released?
Ollama 0.40.5 was published on Oct 14, 2026.
Is Ollama 0.40.5 a major update?
No. It is a patch release, mainly bug fixes.
How do I upgrade to Ollama 0.40.5?
Use the commands in the “How to upgrade” section, then run your test suite.
Where are the official Ollama 0.40.5 notes?
On the project's official release page: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.40.5
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