Jinja change broke my sideloaded models

[UserHub1973]

So out of 12 models that are regularly used by me.

None of them work as of the last update. They all worked wonderfully under 3.4.2 and all are broke under 3.5.1.

Is every non Nomic Model being rendered useless and inoperable, going to be addressed as a FLAW or is it a new feature that I am to be happy and joyous over at all times?

Basically, is there a plan to go back to some kind of 'jinja' based 'default prompt' that just works with any side loaded models? Lawyer talk and nanny gas lighting aside the expected real-world behavior was side loaded models just worked once put into the model folder. Very compatible with many many models of any quant we wanted from 4 to 16 any quant you wanted almost any model. Thousands in fact.

That was the functionality up until 3.5 AFTER ALL. Truth be told. 99% of all Hugging face models just worked out of the box and with very little or NO fiddling, upside, will all those THOUSAND OF LLM models on HUGGINGFACE that made your product popular because they side loaded EASILY, have to stop advertising as working with your product?

TheBloke Models are not compatible with software all the sudden?

[TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-GGUF] (This is purely a random example among 1000's of others broke by your UPDATES) (https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-GGUF)
Ran script ... Won't just find and install the correct template?

Nope. This is a lot of lost productivity.

The Bloke and folks like him ... MADE YOU ...

Those 'side loaded' models are why many folks use you. We ourselves, only use this because it gave us the EASE and FREEDOM to use any model WE CHOSE on our machine under OUR TERMS. 99/100 AI models in 5 or 6 Archs used to work perfectly with the default out of the box.

If that goes: Your software gets uninstalled. I don't use your curated ones at all daily so them working or not matters not to me in the least. My freedom to use the model I want like I could last week, does.

[manyoso]

Here is our plan:

1. New release today with three PRs one of which will help communicate to users that models downloaded via huggingface from within GPT4All are not guaranteed to work - aka some mild setting of expectations and making things clear

2. New PR for our documentation on chat templates that includes known list of templates that work with different families of models including the Mistral ones that a lot of people are having problems with

3. Communication to our users about this documentation and roadmap where we'll have a heuristic that detects bad templates and swaps them with known good ones

4. Opening up lines of communication with jinja2cpp authors about the bugs we're encountering to hopefully make this dependency handle a broader swath of the chat templates encountered in the wild

5. Making it clear with new features that are released that they are direct result of the new chat templates

[manyoso]

Almost all the problems encountered so far are a result of bugs or missing features in a new third party dependency - jinja2cpp.

The change to chat templates and trying to work with the chat templates that are included in the gguf in theory should result in GPT4All working with more models that are sideloaded or downloaded from huggingface. Unfortunately, because of a few problems in jinja2cpp that isn't the case, but we're working to fix and mitigate. The intention here was not to break sideloaded models but to actually make them more likely to work out of the box.