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Ollama v0.40.4-rc0 Released: What the MLX Version Upgrade Means
Ollama releases pre-release v0.40.4-rc0, with the core change being an MLX and MLX-C version upgrade. This article analyzes the impact on Apple Silicon local inference performance and whether it's worth upgrading.

Ollama v0.40.0 Released: MLX Acceleration Enabled by Default on Apple Silicon
Ollama v0.40.0 enables MLX runtime by default on Apple Silicon, supporting qwen3, gemma4, and decision models for better local LLM inference performance on Mac.

Ollama v0.40.0-rc4 Released: Key Changes in the MLX Upgrade
Ollama v0.40.0-rc4 is out with a core MLX framework version bump for Apple Silicon and unit test memory optimizations. Here's what it means for developers.

Ollama v0.40.0-rc1 Released: MLX Tokenizer Aligned with Publisher Semantics
Ollama v0.40.0-rc1 aligns the MLX backend tokenizer with publisher semantics, covering BPE merges, Unicode boundaries, and pretokenization order for consistent Apple Silicon inference.

Ollama v0.35.0-rc1 Released: MLX Pull Retry Optimization
Ollama v0.35.0-rc1 is out, featuring improved MLX backend pull retry logic with bounded retries and a watchdog mechanism to prevent stalled model downloads on Apple Silicon.