according to the docs https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.View.html

The following assigns are reserved, and cannot be set directly:

• @view_module - The view module being rendered
• @view_template - The @view_module 's template being rendered

but when I serve a template mytemp.html from a controller Mycont @view_template does not contain mytemp but only root.html @view_modules contain LayoutView

previously in 1.4.6 we had @view_template mytemp.html and view_module MycontView

so how od you get the name of the template being rendered in @inner_view ? which should be mytemp.html ?

Btw, it is not that the meaning changed, they are the same for app.html.eex, but root.html.eex has a different interpretation of those.