v3.6.0

What's New

• Support for CPython 3.12

• Support for sub-interpreters.

• Dropped support for CPython 2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7.

• Improved interpreter detection and general stability on all supported platforms.

Bugfixes

• Ensure that threads are resumed by austinp when an error occurs during the sampling process.

• Propagate the termination signal to the child process when launching a command with Austin to prevent it from running indefinitely in the background.

v3.5.0

What's New

• Added support for fine-grained, column-level location information when exporting samples in binary mode.

• Improved multiprocess support.

• Dropped the alternative output format.

• Improved interpreter detection on all supported platforms.

v3.4.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug with the MOJO binary format.

v3.4.0

What's New

• Added support for Python 3.11.

• Added the more efficient MOJO binary output format via the -b/--binary option. See the Wiki for more details on the MOJO format.

• Allowed disabling logging by setting the environment variable AUSTIN_NO_LOGGING.

• Improved permission error reporting on MacOS.

• Improved MacOS support.

• Improved austinp support on fork.

• Small performance improvements.

• Renamed the austinp binary installed from the Snap Store from austin.austinp to austin.p.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug in austinp that could have caused the interpreter to stall on launch.

• Fixed a bug in austinp that could have caused segmentation faults.

• Fixed a regression in austinp that caused most of the samples to be wrongly reported as idle

New Contributors

• @Mortal made their first contribution in #121

v3.3.0

What's New

• Added the new -w\--where option to get the current frame stack from a running Python process

• Substantial performance and accuracy improvements.

• The heap allocation has been turned off by default.

• Added support for profiling child processes that might have a different Python runtime version than the parent process.

• General platform support improvements.

Bugfixes

• Fixed heap size handling.

• Fixed a potential segmentation fault issue in the austinp variant.

• Fixed a potential deadlock scenario in austinp.

• Fixed support for the py.exe launcher on Windows.

v3.3.0-rc1

Release v3.3.0-rc1

v3.3.0-dev2

Release v3.3.0-dev2

v3.3.0-dev1

Release v3.3.0-dev1

v3.2.0

What's New

• Better accuracy by improved detection of invalid samples.
• Native frame stack sampling down to the kernel level on Linux with the new austinp variant (see the README for more details).
• Python launchers on Windows are now fully supported.

Bugfixes

• Improved Python version detection on Linux
• Better support for earlier versions of glibc

New Contributors

• @hatboysam made their first contribution in #94

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v3.2.0

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