{"id":1238,"date":"2026-09-17T16:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/engine-llama-cpp-en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:58:11","slug":"engine-llama-cpp-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/engine-llama-cpp-en\/","title":{"rendered":"llama.cpp: Releases and Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"

LLM inference engine written in C\/C++. Runs GGUF models on CPU and GPU (CUDA \/ Metal \/ Vulkan \/ ROCm) and underpins much of the local-LLM ecosystem, including Ollama, LM Studio and KoboldCpp.<\/p>\n

Category: Inference engines and runtimes. Part of our engine and tool tracker<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

At a Glance<\/h2>\n
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Item<\/th>\nValue<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Repository<\/td>\nggml-org\/llama.cpp<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
License<\/td>\nMIT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Main language<\/td>\nC++<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GitHub stars<\/td>\n128,500 (as of 2026-09-17)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Latest release<\/td>\nv0.4.1<\/a> (2026-09-15)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Install \/ docs<\/td>\nofficial documentation<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The project describes itself as: \u201cLLM inference in C\/C++\u201d<\/p>\n

Release History<\/h2>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Version<\/th>\nReleased<\/th>\nRelease notes<\/th>\nOur article<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
v0.4.1<\/td>\n2026-09-15<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v0.4.0<\/td>\n2026-09-05<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v0.3.0<\/td>\n2026-08-25<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Articles on Local Model Watch<\/h2>\n

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Last updated 2026-09-18 (JST). Facts above come from the GitHub API; the one-paragraph summary is written by the site’s editors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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