Gemma 4 shows noticeable improvement

With the official PR merged, tool calls and dialog compliance have improved. If you're using Gemma 4, switching to the new Jinja chat template gives more stable results.

llama.cpp users report that downloading the official chat_template.jinja and specifying it with --chat-template-file applies it immediately, and if the GGUF has already been redistributed with the new template, it works without needing a separate re-download.

The noticeable improvements are as follows.

• Tool call formatting comes out more stably
• Instruction compliance has improved
• Cases of interleaved reasoning working properly have been reported
• The previously seen premature termination, looping, and editing function glitches have been partially alleviated

However, not every environment is fully resolved, and some note that exceptions still remain in clients like OpenWebUI where reasoning handling and MCP integration aren't clean. In other words, separate from the model's own improvements, client and template compatibility also needs to be considered.