Ollama v0.40.2-rc0 Released with GGUF Compatibility Improvements.

Core summary

One sentence to understand this update

Ollama released v0.40.2-rc0, improving handling of legacy GGUF files by enabling lazy on-disk conversion for llama.cpp compatibility and supporting downgrades.

Impact & opportunity

What this could mean

Builders can now more flexibly manage GGUF model versions in Ollama, simplifying legacy model migration and downgrade operations.