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

src/llama-context.cpp

@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ llama_context::llama_context(
 
     const auto & hparams = model.hparams;
 
-    cparams.n_seq_max        = std::max(1u, params.n_seq_max);
+    cparams.n_seq_max = std::max(1u, params.n_seq_max);
+    if (cparams.n_seq_max > LLAMA_MAX_PARALLEL_SEQUENCES) {
+        throw std::runtime_error("n_seq_max must be <= " + std::to_string(LLAMA_MAX_PARALLEL_SEQUENCES));
+    }
+
     cparams.n_threads        = params.n_threads;
     cparams.n_threads_batch  = params.n_threads_batch;
     cparams.yarn_ext_factor  = params.yarn_ext_factor;