diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 905245e8a..56c5ffb55 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.3.29]
+
 - feat(example): use MTMD batch encoding by @abetlen in #2301
 - feat(example): support server video inputs and Gemma text tool calls by @abetlen in #2291
 - feat: update llama.cpp to ggml-org/llama.cpp@f05cf4676
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9b2744cdc..623ab2162 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -176,6 +176,15 @@ if (LLAMA_BUILD)
         # Building llava
         add_subdirectory(vendor/llama.cpp/tools/mtmd)
 
+        # The Python package only ships mtmd as a shared library.
+        # Upstream mtmd also defines CLI compatibility wrappers, but those are
+        # not installed here and can fail to link in minimal Docker toolchains.
+        foreach(target llama-llava-cli llama-gemma3-cli llama-minicpmv-cli llama-qwen2vl-cli llama-mtmd-debug)
+            if (TARGET ${target})
+                set_target_properties(${target} PROPERTIES EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL TRUE)
+            endif()
+        endforeach()
+
         if (WIN32)
             set_target_properties(mtmd PROPERTIES CUDA_ARCHITECTURES OFF)
         endif()
diff --git a/llama_cpp/__init__.py b/llama_cpp/__init__.py
index 13668893f..42f807ef6 100644
--- a/llama_cpp/__init__.py
+++ b/llama_cpp/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 from .llama_cpp import *
 from .llama import *
 
-__version__ = "0.3.28"
+__version__ = "0.3.29"