Ollama promoted 0.40.6 to its latest stable release with signed artifacts. The release prevents orphaned runners on Windows, adds Q2_0 tensor and file types, launches Clef through Ollama Cloud and gives ask-mode questions stable identifiers.
Why it matters: The stable promotion converts a previously excluded release candidate into an adoption boundary. It can affect process cleanup, model compatibility, cloud routing and downstream automation that maps decision questions by key.
Ollama's 0.40.5 stable release adds Nemotron 3.5 Super and Bolt support, exposes Clef decision models through Ollama Cloud, fixes continuation of OpenAI-compatible Responses conversations with custom tool calls, clarifies cloud and gateway failures, and updates llama.cpp and MLX.
Why it matters: The release turns a monitored prerelease into a stable boundary and combines local runtime changes with optional cloud execution. Teams need to decide which tasks may leave the device and verify that tool-call history survives the Responses path without…