Version 1.4 release notes

We are excited to present Grafana Pyroscope 1.4.

This release includes several new features which are precursors to larger projects like:

• Adhoc profiling
• Time series scoped to a flame graph function
• Traces to profiles tooling

Additionally, numerous other changes improve stability, performance, and documentation.

Notable changes are listed below. For more details, check out the 1.4.0 changelog.

Features and enhancements

Features and enhancements for version 1.4 include:

• Adhoc profiles API (#2963)
• Add query-tracer to profilecli (#2966)
• Add ServiceMonitor support to Helm chart (#2944, #2929, #2967)
• Scope time series to flame graph node API (#2961)

Improvements and updates

Version 1.4 includes the following improvements and updates:

• Improve release workflows and documentation (#2954, #2989, #2948, #2952, #2960, #2975)
• Improve block grouping in admin block viewer (#2947)
• Remove tenant settings from microservices deploy (#2962)
• Add test ids (#2957)
• Bump chart app version (#2940)
• Bump godeltaprof and jfr-parser dependencies (#2955)
• Update default image tag in chart (#2941)
• Per target configuration with labels (#2977)
• Async profile row iterator (#2953)
• Disable Go names decoration (#2976)

Fixes

Version 1.4 includes the following fixes:

• Add missing module dependencies (#2969)
• Fix missing icon assets (#2985)
• Store-gateway: Handle index read error properly (#2959)
• Use correct field in mappingsKey (#2964)
• Bump golang.org/x/net (#2986)
• Fix elf base for unaligned PT_LOAD offset, make build id error not fatal (#2983)

Documentation improvements

Version 1.4 includes the following documentation updates:

• Add 1.3 release notes for docs (#2949)
• Add span profiles documentation (#2982)
• Update eBPF and Java documentation (#2972, #2973)