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)


