Gemma 4 template warning: 26B MoE performance drop and broken reasoning tags (1.117)

[perdimanoklboliyezeevich-sketch]

Hi everyone, I'm getting a recurring warning in the console when running Gemma 4 models (using the built-in Gemma 4 Instruct presets) on the recent KoboldCPP versions: "common_chat_try_specialized_template: detected an outdated gemma4 chat template, applying compatibility workarounds. Consider updating to the official template." While the dense 31B model handles this workaround fine (chugging along stably at a heavy but consistent pace), my experience with the 26B MoE version degraded significantly:
Massive Performance Drop: The generation speed on my hardware (GTX 1660 Super with partial CPU offloading) dropped nearly by half — from a smooth ~17 t/s on older versions down to 8-10 t/s now. It feels like the compatibility workaround breaks the optimized dynamic MoE expert offloading, forcing the backend to push execution entirely to the CPU.
Broken Thinking Blocks: The model frequently fails to hide its reasoning process. The tags and internal English drafts either leak directly into the visible response or the reasoning phase gets completely skipped/disabled by the backend to save context.
It looks like the llama.cpp core under the hood expects the new official Gemma 4 token/channel formatting, but Kobold's built-in UI presets are lagging behind, triggering this fallback mode that hits MoE routing hard.
Could we get the built-in Gemma 4 template configurations updated to match the latest official layout natively?
Thanks for all your hard work on the project!