v0.1.28

New models

• StarCoder2: the next generation of transparently trained open code LLMs that comes in three sizes: 3B, 7B and 15B parameters.
• DolphinCoder: a chat model based on StarCoder2 15B that excels at writing code.

What's Changed

• Vision models such as llava should now respond better to text prompts
• Improved support for llava 1.6 models
• Fixed issue where switching between models repeatedly would cause Ollama to hang
• Installing Ollama on Windows no longer requires a minimum of 4GB disk space
• Ollama on macOS will now more reliably determine available VRAM
• Fixed issue where running Ollama in podman would not detect Nvidia GPUs
• Ollama will correctly return an empty embedding when calling /api/embeddings with an empty prompt instead of hanging

New Contributors

• @Bin-Huang made their first contribution in #1706
• @elthommy made their first contribution in #2737
• @peanut256 made their first contribution in #2354
• @tylinux made their first contribution in #2827
• @fred-bf made their first contribution in #2780
• @bmwiedemann made their first contribution in #2836

Full Changelog: v0.1.27...v0.1.28