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title: "Version 1.8 release notes | Grafana Pyroscope documentation"
description: "Release notes for Grafana Pyroscope 1.8"
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# 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](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/compare/v1.7.0...v1.8.0).

## Improvements and updates

Version 1.8 includes the following improvements and updates:

- Add ready command to profilecli ([#3497](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3497))

## Fixes

Version 1.8 includes the following fixes:

- Handle context correctly in selectTree during queries on store-gateway with deduplication ([#3504](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3504))
- Bring back update-contributors but in go ([#3512](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3512))
- FlameQL: allow dots in tag name ([#3479](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3479))
- Fix pprof grouping for samples with span\_id ([#3450](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3450))

## Documentation improvements

Version 1.8 includes the following documentation updates:

- Fix broken links from doc 404 report ([#3489](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3489))
- Clarify which URL to use with profilecli ([#3526](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3526))
- Add notice about heap profiling ([#3494](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3494))
- Remove old GF\_FEATURE\_TOGGLES\_ENABLE=flameGraph ([#3446](https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/pull/3446))