ggml: Releases and Overview

September 18, 2026

Tensor library underlying llama.cpp and whisper.cpp. The GGUF format and quantization kernels live here.

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At a Glance

Item Value
Repository ggml-org/ggml
License MIT
Main language C++
GitHub stars 15,363 (as of 2026-09-17)
Latest release v0.24.0 (2026-09-14)
Install / docs official documentation

The project describes itself as: “Tensor library for machine learning”

Release History

Compiled by Local Model Watch from the project’s GitHub releases. Pre-releases are omitted. Where we wrote an article about a release, it is linked in the last column; smaller releases are tracked here only.

Version Released Release notes Our article
v0.24.0 2026-09-14 GitHub ggml v0.24.0 Released with Backend Improvements and API Updates
v0.23.0 2026-09-04 GitHub
v0.22.0 2026-08-25 GitHub
v0.21.0 2026-08-21 GitHub
v0.20.2 2026-08-18 GitHub
v0.20.1 2026-08-17 GitHub
v0.20.0 2026-08-15 GitHub
v0.19.0 2026-08-07 GitHub
v0.18.1 2026-08-04 GitHub
v0.18.0 2026-07-30 GitHub
v0.17.0 2026-07-17 GitHub
v0.16.0 2026-07-10 GitHub
v0.15.3 2026-06-26 GitHub
v0.15.2 2026-06-19 GitHub
v0.15.1 2026-06-12 GitHub
v0.15.0 2026-06-12 GitHub
v0.14.0 2026-06-08 GitHub
v0.13.1 2026-05-29 GitHub
v0.12.1 2026-05-26 GitHub
v0.13.0 2026-05-26 GitHub
v0.12.0 2026-05-16 GitHub
v0.11.1 2026-05-11 GitHub
v0.11.0 2026-05-05 GitHub
v0.10.2 2026-05-02 GitHub
v0.10.1 2026-04-30 GitHub
v0.10.0 2026-04-21 GitHub
v0.9.11 2026-04-02 GitHub
v0.9.10 2026-04-02 GitHub
v0.9.9 2026-03-31 GitHub
v0.9.8 2026-03-17 GitHub
v0.9.7 2026-02-16 GitHub
v0.9.6 2026-02-07 GitHub
v0.9.5 2026-01-01 GitHub
v0.9.4 2025-09-30 GitHub
v0.9.3 2025-09-25 GitHub
v0.9.1 2025-09-20 GitHub

Articles on Local Model Watch

Last updated 2026-09-18 (JST). Facts above come from the GitHub API; the one-paragraph summary is written by the site’s editors.