diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b5de8576..b9bd7363 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1856,12 +1856,23 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "minijinja"
-version = "1.0.12"
-source = "git+https://github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja.git?rev=5cd4efb#5cd4efb9e2639247df275fe6e22a5dbe0ce71b28"
+version = "2.0.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e136ef580d7955019ab0a407b68d77c292a9976907e217900f3f76bc8f6dc1a4"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "minijinja-contrib"
+version = "2.0.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "15ee37078c98d31e510d6a7af488031a2c3ccacdb76c5c4fc98ddfe6d0e9da07"
+dependencies = [
+ "minijinja",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "minimal-lexical"
 version = "0.2.1"
@@ -3604,6 +3615,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "metrics",
  "metrics-exporter-prometheus",
  "minijinja",
+ "minijinja-contrib",
  "ngrok",
  "nohash-hasher",
  "once_cell",
diff --git a/router/Cargo.toml b/router/Cargo.toml
index 2e6264be..3262e7e6 100644
--- a/router/Cargo.toml
+++ b/router/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ utoipa = { version = "4.2.0", features = ["axum_extras"] }
 utoipa-swagger-ui = { version = "6.0.0", features = ["axum"] }
 ngrok = { version = "0.13.1", features = ["axum"], optional = true }
 init-tracing-opentelemetry = { version = "0.14.1", features = ["opentelemetry-otlp"] }
-minijinja = { git = "https://github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja.git", rev = "5cd4efb" }
+minijinja = { version = "2.0.2" }
+minijinja-contrib = { version = "2.0.2", features = ["pycompat"] }
 futures-util = "0.3.30"
 regex = "1.10.3"
 once_cell = "1.19.0"
diff --git a/router/src/infer/mod.rs b/router/src/infer/mod.rs
index 20630c1b..07c334a3 100644
--- a/router/src/infer/mod.rs
+++ b/router/src/infer/mod.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ use crate::{
 use crate::{FunctionRef, FunctionsMap, GrammarType, Properties, Tool, ToolType, Tools};
 use futures::future::try_join_all;
 use minijinja::{Environment, ErrorKind, Template};
+use minijinja_contrib::pycompat;
+
 use serde_json::{json, Map, Value};
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::sync::Arc;
@@ -62,14 +64,7 @@ impl Infer {
                     .find(|t| t.name == "default")
                     .map(|t| t.template),
             })
-            .map(|t| {
-                // .strip() is not supported in minijinja
-                // .capitalize() is not supported in minijinja but we can use | capitalize
-                let t = t
-                    .replace(".strip()", " | trim")
-                    .replace(".capitalize()", " | capitalize");
-                ChatTemplate::new(t, tokenizer_config.bos_token, tokenizer_config.eos_token)
-            });
+            .map(|t| ChatTemplate::new(t, tokenizer_config.bos_token, tokenizer_config.eos_token));
 
         // Inference limit with a semaphore
         let semaphore = Arc::new(Semaphore::new(max_concurrent_requests));
@@ -277,6 +272,8 @@ struct ChatTemplate {
 impl ChatTemplate {
     fn new(template: String, bos_token: Option<String>, eos_token: Option<String>) -> Self {
         let mut env = Box::new(Environment::new());
+        // enable things like .strip() or .capitalize()
+        env.set_unknown_method_callback(pycompat::unknown_method_callback);
         let template_str = template.into_boxed_str();
         env.add_function("raise_exception", raise_exception);