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V1.16

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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)