Ollama v0.40.9 expands Flint support and improves AI request handling
AI summary
Ollama v0.40.9 adds support for running Flint on Linux and Windows, joining its existing macOS availability. The release also improves streaming error reporting for OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages, passes cloud-model context lengths and capabilities to coding tools, and applies supported thinking settings to follow-up Anthropic-compatible web searches.
In-depth insight
The update broadens Flint’s platform availability and addresses configuration and failure-reporting issues in Ollama’s AI model and coding-tool integrations.
Flint on Linux and Windows
Flint now runs on Linux and Windows as well as macOS.
Other improvements
- Streaming OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages requests now report generation failures instead of ending silently after partial output.
ollama launchnow passes cloud models' context lengths and capabilities to coding tools, fixing incorrect context and compaction settings.- Anthropic-compatible web search now uses the model's supported thinking setting in follow-up requests, preventing avoidable failures.
Full Changelog: v0.40.8...v0.40.9