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ROCm version notes

  • Oct 12, 2026 · snapshot

    Consumer stacks — Qwen3.6 daily driver, Flash agent, calculator

    North star is now the two stacks from our test rig. llama.cpp Vulkan daily driver; Strata for Flash; /calculator and /stacks are first-class pages.

  • Oct 12, 2026 · snapshot

    ROCm 10.1.0 notes, CLI v0.2.0, error paste, version matrix

    10.1.0 lists R9700 as gfx1201 and Radeon Ubuntu 26.04.1 / 24.04.5 / 22.04.5. Published ROCm CLI is v0.2.0, not a 1.0.0 tag. New pages for search, errors, backends, quants, RSS.

  • Sep 22, 2026

    vLLM ROCm Docker try-tag v0.30.0

    Dated snapshot. AMD-validated vLLM 0.27 / ROCm 10.0.0 unchanged. Community image moved to vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v0.30.0. Named Qwen defaults from that week were later withdrawn.

  • Sep 21, 2026

    Weekly refresh — vLLM 0.27 reliability (dated)

    Dated snapshot. ROCm 10.0.0 unchanged for gfx1201. Reliability serve is AMD-aligned vLLM 0.27. vLLM 0.29 ROCm Docker remains the community cutting-edge pin (no newer stable that week). Named Qwen defaults from that week were later withdrawn. R9700 training KIs documented.

  • Sep 9, 2026

    vLLM 0.29.0 ROCm extras

    Upstream vLLM 0.29 ships ROCm wheels and Docker. Extra index like wheels.vllm.ai/rocm/0.29.0/rocm723; image vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v0.29.0. Plain pip install vllm is CUDA. AMD 10.0 docs still documented 0.27.

  • Sep 2, 2026

    ROCm 7.14.1 patch line

    2 Sep 2026 patch on the 7.14 TheRock line. Still a valid pin if your wheel/image was built against it. Not a reason to install Ubuntu archive 7.1.

  • Aug 26, 2026

    ROCm Core SDK 10.0.0

    Production TheRock line. R9700 / gfx1201 first-class. amdrocm-* packages, one gfx family, scoped /opt/rocm prefix. AMD’s notes pair PyTorch 2.13 and vLLM 0.27 — that is the supported combo, not a forever pin.

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