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Everything Ollama shipped in August 2026, collected from official Ollama sources. Each entry is dated and links to the page it came from.
August 2026 was Ollama's busiest month of the 12 months to then: 14 releases, about 4.7× its monthly average of 3. That was 13 releases more than July 2026. Most were Developer Tools (8), followed by Model (4) and Product (2).
Releases
14
+13 vs July 2026
Rank of 12 months
1st
Average 3 a month
Most shipped
Developer Tools
8 releases
Adds Qwen 3.8 27B model with enhanced coding, research, and agentic tasks support. Optimized for Apple Silicon with mlx version.
Source: Ollama GitHub ReleasesIntroduces NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters for always-on agents, plus parser improvements.
Source: Ollama GitHub ReleasesNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B parameter open model with 3B active parameters, now available on Ollama for local agentic tasks, tool calling, and multi-step workflows.
Source: Ollama Blog FeedNewest first. Each entry links to the official page it came from.
Ollama introduces transparent per-token pricing for Pro, Max, and Team plans, including monthly usage credits. Free plan now offers starter models with pay-as-you-go options. No hidden fees, zero data retention, and dedicated US/Europe compute.
Ollama v0.33.2 includes dark mode restoration, macOS app improvements, and Claude Desktop proxy fixes.
Ollama v0.33.1: MLX Qwen3.8 Flash Next support, cmake updates, structured output in mlxrunner, and GPU timeout fixes. New contributor @pd95.
Claude Desktop can now use Ollama as a third-party gateway to access open models, both local and cloud-based, with privacy protections and seamless switching between models.
v0.33.0 release includes Claude Desktop integration, improved caching with prefill reliability, and various bug fixes.
v0.32.15 includes a new desktop onboarding flow, improved TTFT via metadata caching, bug fixes, Qwen 3.8 system message normalization, and dependency updates
Updated LLM to transcode WebP images for llama-server and improved Qwen renderers to handle non-leading system messages.
Support for developer instructions in qwen3.8.
Adds Qwen 3.8 27B model with enhanced coding, research, and agentic tasks support. Optimized for Apple Silicon with mlx version.
Added DeepSeek Harness support, Muse Code integration, web search in OpenAI API, and Glimmer template updates
Introduces NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters for always-on agents, plus parser improvements.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B parameter open model with 3B active parameters, now available on Ollama for local agentic tasks, tool calling, and multi-step workflows.
Muse Glimmer model support expanded to NVIDIA, AMD, and additional platforms with enhanced performance on Apple Silicon via MLX engine.
Meta's 30B multimodal Muse Glimmer model now available via Ollama with MLX engine support for coding agents and image processing.
Ollama releases per month, for August 2026 and the 11 months before it. A taller bar means more releases that month; the dated entries for each month are on its own page.
20 of the companies we track shipped in August 2026; Ollama ranks 3rd by number of releases.
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