Update Feb 24, 2026 tracked by Updatify

v0.17.1

What’s Changed

  • 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

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.17.0…v0.17.1