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Ollama fixes OpenCode v2 launch, llama.cpp rewrites CPU concat as one kernel

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A day of plumbing and kernel work: Ollama repaired how it hands its runtime to OpenCode v2, llama.cpp collapsed four concat kernels into one, and mlx added a runtime config module modeled on jax.config.

cmd/launch: fix OpenCode v2 launch and config parsing ollama/ollama

by hoyyeva

OpenCode v2 rejects --model on the bare command and its shared service could keep the global default instead of the model picked by ollama launch, so detected v2 clients now get --standalone and the backend inherits the per-launch configuration. Version detection gets five seconds, and on failure or an unknown version neither version-specific flag is passed; v2's debug config array is now parse...

ggml-cpu : rewrite concat as one row kernel for all types ggml-org/llama.cpp

by ServeurpersoCom

The i8/f16/f32/any CPU concat variants are replaced by a single kernel where a dense source row is one memcpy, quantized types included. Work now splits across all destination rows rather than i2 alone, which the author notes is often 1 and left one thread copying the whole tensor.

mlx: add DFlash2 support ollama/ollama

by dhiltgen

DFlash2 extends the DFlash block draft with block-local dynamic convolutions and a candidate selector that walks a chain through each row's top-k proposals, conditioning each pick on its predecessor. As in the reference implementation, the draft samples with the request's temperature only, while top_k, top_p, min_p and history penalties apply to the target during verification.

Add "config" module ml-explore/mlx

by zcbenz

The new mx.config module overrides configuration options at runtime as an alternative to environment variables, so you can toggle something like MLX_ENABLE_TF32 for a single op: mx.config.update("MLX_ENABLE_TF32", 0), then flip it back. A mx.config.scoped_update context manager covers the scoped case.

[KV Offload] Expose the processed prefix at request finalization vllm-project/vllm

by mkhazraee

Otherwise: vllm exposes num_computed_tokens, num_in_flight_tokens, num_prompt_tokens and num_tokens as read-only ReqContext properties so KV offload can tell a processed prefix from an untouched suffix when a request terminates early, sglang lets a plain target server capture aux hidden states without loading a speculative draft, and mlx's strided_scan no longer reads or writes out of bounds wh...

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What shipped in Local LLMs on October 27, 2026?
A day of plumbing and kernel work: Ollama repaired how it hands its runtime to OpenCode v2, llama.cpp collapsed four concat kernels into one, and mlx added a runtime config module modeled on jax.config. In total, 143 commits, 143 pull requests, and 11 releases landed.
Who contributed to Local LLMs on October 27, 2026?
16 developers shipped this update, including hoyyeva, dhiltgen, jberg5, ggerganov, ServeurpersoCom, virajwad, Titaniumtown, and soodoshll, and 8 more.
What were the notable Local LLMs updates?
cmd/launch: fix OpenCode v2 launch and config parsing, ggml-cpu : rewrite concat as one row kernel for all types, and mlx: add DFlash2 support.