diff --git a/.github/actions/linux-setup-openvino/action.yml b/.github/actions/linux-setup-openvino/action.yml
index 46a659a827c4..fd2824f26371 100644
--- a/.github/actions/linux-setup-openvino/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/linux-setup-openvino/action.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ inputs:
   version_full:
     description: "OpenVINO full version (e.g., 2025.3.0.19807.44526285f24)"
     required: true
+  ubuntu_version:
+    description: "Ubuntu variant for the toolkit package (ubuntu22 or ubuntu24)"
+    required: false
+    default: "ubuntu22"
 
 runs:
   using: "composite"
@@ -18,7 +22,7 @@ runs:
       id: setup
       uses: ./.github/actions/unarchive-tar
       with:
-        url: https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/repositories/openvino/packages/${{ inputs.version_major }}/linux/openvino_toolkit_ubuntu24_${{ inputs.version_full }}_x86_64.tgz
+        url: https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/repositories/openvino/packages/${{ inputs.version_major }}/linux/openvino_toolkit_${{ inputs.ubuntu_version }}_${{ inputs.version_full }}_x86_64.tgz
         path: ${{ inputs.path }}
         type: z
         strip: 1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 4358af17c9d2..6492e41db58d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -441,6 +441,146 @@ jobs:
           path: llama-ubuntu-cuda-${{ matrix.sm }}-arm64.tar.xz
           name: llama-ubuntu-cuda-${{ matrix.sm }}-arm64.tar.xz
 
+  ubuntu-22-openvino:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+
+    env:
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.0"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.0.0.20965.c6d6a13a886"
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          repository: 'ggml-org/llama.cpp'
+
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+        with:
+          key: ubuntu-openvino
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+
+      - name: Dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake ninja-build patchelf \
+            python3-pip libtbb12 \
+            ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers opencl-clhpp-headers intel-opencl-icd
+
+      - name: Setup OpenVINO
+        uses: lemonade-sdk/llama.cpp/.github/actions/linux-setup-openvino@lemonade
+        with:
+          path: ${{ github.workspace }}/openvino
+          version_major: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR }}
+          version_full: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}
+
+      - name: Install OpenVINO dependencies
+        run: |
+          chmod +x ${{ github.workspace }}/openvino/install_dependencies/install_openvino_dependencies.sh
+          echo "Y" | sudo -E ${{ github.workspace }}/openvino/install_dependencies/install_openvino_dependencies.sh
+
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          source ${{ github.workspace }}/openvino/setupvars.sh
+          cmake -B build -S . \
+            -DGGML_OPENVINO=ON \
+            -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
+            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
+            -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON \
+            -DGGML_OPENMP=OFF \
+            -DGGML_STATIC=OFF \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+            ${{ env.CMAKE_ARGS }}
+          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
+
+      - name: Bundle OpenVINO runtime libraries
+        run: |
+          OV_LIBDIR="${{ github.workspace }}/openvino/runtime/lib/intel64"
+
+          # Core runtime and all plugins
+          cp -av "$OV_LIBDIR"/libopenvino*.so* build/bin/
+
+          # TBB threading library bundled with OpenVINO (skip libtbbbind — needs libhwloc)
+          TBB_DIR="${{ github.workspace }}/openvino/runtime/3rdparty/tbb/lib"
+          if [ -d "$TBB_DIR" ]; then
+            cp -av "$TBB_DIR"/libtbb.so* build/bin/
+            cp -av "$TBB_DIR"/libtbbmalloc.so* build/bin/
+          fi
+
+      - name: Set RPATH for portable distribution
+        run: |
+          for f in build/bin/*; do
+            [ -f "$f" ] && ! [ -L "$f" ] || continue
+            if file "$f" | grep -q 'ELF'; then
+              patchelf --set-rpath '$ORIGIN' "$f"
+            fi
+          done
+
+      - name: Validate OpenVINO package contents
+        run: |
+          shopt -s nullglob
+
+          required_libs=(libopenvino.so)
+          for lib in "${required_libs[@]}"; do
+            matches=(build/bin/${lib}*)
+            if [ ${#matches[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+              echo "::error::Missing required OpenVINO runtime library matching ${lib}*"
+              exit 1
+            fi
+          done
+
+          smoke_bin=""
+          if [ -x build/bin/llama-server ]; then
+            smoke_bin=build/bin/llama-server
+          else
+            smoke_bin=$(find build/bin -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'llama-*' -perm -111 | head -n 1)
+          fi
+          if [ -z "$smoke_bin" ]; then
+            echo "::error::No llama executable found for smoke testing"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          "$smoke_bin" --version >/dev/null
+
+          for f in build/bin/*; do
+            [ -f "$f" ] && ! [ -L "$f" ] || continue
+            if ! file "$f" | grep -q 'ELF'; then
+              continue
+            fi
+
+            rpath=$(patchelf --print-rpath "$f")
+            if [ "$rpath" != '$ORIGIN' ]; then
+              echo "::error::Unexpected RPATH '$rpath' for $f"
+              exit 1
+            fi
+
+            # libOpenCL is optional (Intel GPU acceleration); skip it
+            missing=$(ldd "$f" | awk '/=> not found/ && $1 != "libOpenCL.so.1" { print }')
+            if [ -n "$missing" ]; then
+              echo "::error::Unresolved runtime dependencies for $f"
+              echo "$missing"
+              exit 1
+            fi
+          done
+
+      - name: Determine tag name
+        id: tag
+        uses: lemonade-sdk/llama.cpp/.github/actions/get-tag-name@lemonade
+
+      - name: Pack artifacts
+        run: |
+          cp LICENSE ./build/bin/
+          tar -czvf llama-bin-ubuntu-openvino-${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR }}-x64.tar.gz \
+            --transform "s,./,llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/," \
+            -C ./build/bin .
+
+      - name: Upload artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          path: llama-bin-ubuntu-openvino-${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR }}-x64.tar.gz
+          name: llama-bin-ubuntu-openvino-${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR }}-x64.tar.gz
+
   windows-cpu:
     runs-on: windows-2025
 
@@ -759,6 +899,7 @@ jobs:
       - ubuntu-22-rocm
       - ubuntu-22-cuda
       - ubuntu-22-cuda-arm64
+      - ubuntu-22-openvino
 
     steps:
       - name: Clone
@@ -892,6 +1033,7 @@ jobs:
                 `- [Ubuntu x64 (ROCm 7.13)](https://github.com/${owner}/${repo}/releases/download/${tag}/llama-${tag}-bin-ubuntu-rocm-7.13-x64.tar.gz)`,
                 '- Ubuntu x64 (CUDA): `llama-' + tag + '-ubuntu-cuda-sm_XX-x64.tar.xz` (replace XX with your GPU compute capability)',
                 '- Ubuntu arm64 (CUDA): `llama-' + tag + '-ubuntu-cuda-sm_XX-arm64.tar.xz` (replace XX with your GPU compute capability)',
+                `- [Ubuntu x64 (OpenVINO 2026.0)](https://github.com/${owner}/${repo}/releases/download/${tag}/llama-${tag}-bin-ubuntu-openvino-2026.0-x64.tar.gz)`,
                 '',
                 '**Windows:**',
                 `- [Windows x64 (ROCm 7.13)](https://github.com/${owner}/${repo}/releases/download/${tag}/llama-${tag}-bin-win-rocm-7.13-x64.zip)`,