Version 1.16 release notes

Version 1.16.2 release notes

Maintenance release to update Go version and address security vulnerability.

Changes

• Update golang version to 1.24.11 (#4708)
• Patch golang.org/x/crypto/ssh vulnerability (#4708)

Version 1.16.1 release notes

Maintenance release to address a security issue.

Changes

• Fix: mask COS provider secret_key config CVE-2025-41118 (#4700)

Version 1.16.0 release notes

The Pyroscope team is excited to present Grafana Pyroscope 1.16.0

This release contains enhancements, fixes, improves stability & performance.

Notable changes are listed below. For more details, check out the 1.16.0 changelog.

Enhancements

• Add OTLP HTTP/json and HTTP/protobuf ingestion (#4495)
• Add a basic metric for metastore DLQ recovery (#4563)
• Improve metastore observability (#4580)
• Add option to add annotations to headless service (#4451)
• Add admin pages for inspecting v2 blocks (#4480, #4543, #4555, #4560)
• Performance: Cancel artificial delay on async ingest (#4261)
• Add sanitized_label_names_total counter metric (#4501)
• Add pyroscope-monitoring helm chart (#4525)
• Implement utf8 label name client capability and use in UI/profilecli (#4442, #4490, #4493)
• Add OTLP canary query (#4488)
• Performance: add health check/warmup to segmentwriter to reduce first-write latency (#4453)
• Update golang version to 1.24.9 (#4596)

Fixes

• Fix distributor sampling rule processing priority (#4491)
• Fix panic in ad-hoc profile upload (#4556)
• Add ingest limits to connect push requests (#4586)
• Add profile_name label to Speedscope profile ingestion (#4588)
• Add stricter validation for metrics from profiles fields (#4522)
• Ensure to build the same architecture image, as the current machine (#4552)
• Fix go get in update-examples-cron.yml (#4547)
• Handle Speedscope sample types in ingestion (#4568)
• Handle utf-8 matchers correctly (#4496)
• Fix Helm release only supports one changed chart at a time (#4583)
• Fix OTLP: Guard against profiles with no lines (#4517)
• Redirect to admin pages when no query API available (#4553)
• Replace nop logger used in label validation (#4531)
• Skip duplicated label name filtering in some cases (#4502)
• Update deprecated GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS env var (#4554)
• Avoid flushing empty tenant settings (quick win) (#4458)
• Fix create fallback symbols for mappings without BuildIDs (#4527)
• Fix go version for update-contributors (#4582)
• Fix golang-push examples test (#4558)
• Fix incorrect multitenancy header handling in new HTTP OTLP endpoint (#4559)
• Fix not missing recording rules symbols by relaxing ObserveSymbols condition (#4545)
• Fix opentelemetry-collector otlphttp exporter compatibility: gzip compression (#4579)
• Fix panic when handling unsafe tenant name (#4519)
• Use github app to update-make-docs workflow (#4548)
• Don't 500 on bad profile types (#4537)
• Fix flaky admin test (#4528)
• Pin node to v23 in examples until latest (v25) is supported (#4561)

Documentation

• Update make docs procedure (#4551)
• Generate API docs for connect-go API (#4408)