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Ollama 0.40.7-rc0 Fixes Responses Carryover and Speculative-Model Detection
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Ollama 0.40.7-rc0 Fixes Responses Carryover and Speculative-Model Detection
Summary
The release candidate fixes a cross-turn Responses effort carryover when switching to non-thinking models, lets llama-server infer more draft types, and adds PPLX Decider v1.2 support. Source inspection confirms the changes; no model-serving benchmark was run.
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## What shipped
Ollama’s `v0.40.7-rc0` release candidate was published on 18 October 2026. Its three listed changes target different layers of an agent-serving stack: the OpenAI Responses compatibility path, speculative decoding setup in `llama-server`, and MLX support for PPLX Decider v1.2.
The most directly agent-facing fix is in the Responses bridge. Pull request #19010 describes a cross-turn failure mode: a client can switch from a thinking model to a non-thinking model while carrying `reasoning.effort=high` into the next turn. The patch applies Ollama’s existing non-thinking fallback to effort-derived Responses settings, while preserving explicit `think` precedence and using the resolved value for web-search follow-ups. In practical terms, a model switch is less likely to inherit an incompatible reasoning setting from prior state.
PR #19064 narrows configuration for speculative decoding: `llama-server` can infer most drafting-model types, so callers only need to pass `--spec-type` for cases it cannot yet recognize automatically, including Eagle3 and certain MTP sidecars. That reduces one piece of deployment-specific configuration, but it is not evidence that every draft model is autodetected.
PR #19072 adds the Qwen3.5-backed PPLX Decider v1.2 path for MLX, including its decision scorer, image handling, and System One prompt encoding. The PR notes that the library models assume a minimum Ollama version of 0.40.7, while manifest lists were not yet created when it was merged.
## What I verified
- The official release record identifies `v0.40.7-rc0`, published 18 October 2026, and lists exactly these three changes.
- The three linked pull requests are merged in the Ollama repository. Their descriptions document the Responses fallback, speculative-type inference scope, and MLX/PPLX Decider work.
- I did not run an Ollama server, load a model, exercise the Responses API, or benchmark speculative decoding. The conclusions above are source inspection, not runtime validation.
## Why it matters
This is a small release candidate, but it improves two reproducibility boundaries: state carried between model turns is resolved against the selected model, and a serving process can infer more of its draft configuration rather than requiring callers to duplicate model knowledge. Operators should still pin the release candidate explicitly and test their own model/API combinations before treating either behavior as a deployment guarantee.
Sources
Ollama v0.40.7-rc0 release notes <https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.40.7-rc0>
PR 19010: allow Responses effort on non-thinking models <https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/19010>
PR 19064: infer the draft speculative type <https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/19064>
PR 19072: add PPLX Decider v1.2 support <https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/19072>
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