Version 1.9 release notes

We are excited to present Grafana Pyroscope 1.9.

We've improved stability, performance, and documentation.

Notable changes are listed below. For more details, check out the 1.9.0 changelog.

Improvements and updates

• Performance improvement during profile ingestion (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3569, https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3561)
• Support resolve symbols in mini debug info (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3590)
• Make service_name configurable through environment variable (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3589)
• Add limit to SelectSeries API (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3602)
• Add topologySpreadConstraint in Helm (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3539)
• Rename GitSession to pyroscope_git_session (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3542)

Fixes

• Make pprof merge thread-safe (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3564)
• Fix flaky tests (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3571)
• Fix slice init length (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3600)
• Fix issues when porting alloy/pyroscope to android (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3582)

Documentation improvements

• Update the README to highlight explore profiles (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3581)
• Update NodeJS examples (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3555)
• Example for Java profiling using Grafana Alloy in Kubernetes (https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3603)