Merge commit 'e121edc4324a640be11b7e567edd39b721b0f8e4' into concedo_experimental

# Conflicts:
#	.github/workflows/release.yml
#	common/CMakeLists.txt
#	docs/function-calling.md
#	ggml/src/ggml-sycl/binbcast.cpp
#	models/templates/README.md
#	scripts/tool_bench.py
#	src/llama-kv-cache.cpp
#	tests/CMakeLists.txt
#	tests/test-chat.cpp
#	tools/mtmd/clip.h
#	tools/rpc/rpc-server.cpp
#	tools/server/README.md

include/llama.h

@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ extern "C" {
     LLAMA_API int64_t llama_time_us(void);
 
     LLAMA_API size_t llama_max_devices(void);
+    LLAMA_API size_t llama_max_parallel_sequences(void);
 
     LLAMA_API bool llama_supports_mmap       (void);
     LLAMA_API bool llama_supports_mlock      (void);