Version 1.8 release notes

We are excited to present Grafana Pyroscope 1.8.

We've improved stability, performance, and documentation.

Notable changes are listed below. For more details, check out the 1.8.0 changelog.

Improvements and updates

Version 1.8 includes the following improvements and updates:

• Add ready command to profilecli (#3497)

Fixes

Version 1.8 includes the following fixes:

• Handle context correctly in selectTree during queries on store-gateway with deduplication (#3504)
• Bring back update-contributors but in go (#3512)
• FlameQL: allow dots in tag name (#3479)
• Fix pprof grouping for samples with span_id (#3450)

Documentation improvements

Version 1.8 includes the following documentation updates:

• Fix broken links from doc 404 report (#3489)
• Clarify which URL to use with profilecli (#3526)
• Add notice about heap profiling (#3494)
• Remove old GF_FEATURE_TOGGLES_ENABLE=flameGraph (#3446)