This page documents production updates to Cloud Profiler. You can periodically check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.
For a combined list of all release notes for the products in Google Cloud Observability, see [Consolidated release notes](https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/release-notes.md.txt).
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[Google Cloud console](https://console.cloud.google.com/release-notes),
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## October 29, 2026
Security The Cloud Profiler Java agent is updated with a new Certification Authority (CA)
certificate bundle, in response to security bulletin
[GCP-2026-071](https://docs.cloud.google.com/support/bulletins.md.txt#gcp-2026-071). Google Cloud infrastructure and
the Cloud Profiler backend service are not affected.
If you use the Cloud Profiler Java agent, take one of the following
actions:
- Upgrade the Java agent to `cloud-profiler-java-agent_20261026_RC00` ([GitHub release v0.5.0](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-profiler-java/releases/tag/v0.5.0)) or later, and then rebuild and redeploy your applications. Download the updated archive, , or, for `musl`-based Alpine Linux containers, .
- If you can't immediately upgrade or rebuild, update your host or container operating system's CA certificate store as described in [GCP-2026-071](https://docs.cloud.google.com/support/bulletins.md.txt#gcp-2026-071), and then set the `GRPC_DEFAULT_SSL_ROOTS_FILE_PATH` environment variable to point to the updated PEM bundle.
For more information about installing the agent, see
[Profiling Java applications](https://docs.cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-java.md.txt#installing-profiler).
## September 29, 2020
Feature Cloud Profiler history view is available in beta. For more information, see [Viewing historical trends](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/history-view).
## May 12, 2020
Change The Cloud Profiler Python agent is now generally available. See [Profiling Python applications](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-python) for information on configuring your Python application.
## April 20, 2020
Change The Cloud Profiler Node.js agent no longer supports release 8 of Node.js.
Change The Cloud Profiler Node.js agent is now
generally available. See
[Profiling Node.js applications](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-nodejs) for information on configuring your Node.js application.
Feature The Cloud Profiler Node.js agent now supports release 12 of Node.js. See
[Profiling Node.js applications](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-nodejs) for information on configuring your Node.js application.
## March 24, 2020
Change Integration of Stackdriver Profiler with Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls is now Generally Available. For more information, see [VPC Service Controls documentation](https://cloud.google.com/vpc-service-controls/docs/).
## December 13, 2019
Feature Strackdriver Profiler supports Istio on Google Kubernetes Engine for
[Go](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-go),
[Java](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-java),
[Python](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-python), and
[Node.js](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-nodejs)
services. This feature is now in **Beta**.
## December 10, 2019
Feature Integration of Stackdriver Profiler with Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls is now beta. For more information, see [VPC Service Controls documentation](https://cloud.google.com/vpc-service-controls/docs/).
## May 08, 2019
Feature Java 11 is now supported. For more information, see [Profiling Java](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-java).
## March 26, 2019
Feature Stackdriver Profiler is now generally available. Stackdriver Profiler
lets you analyze and understand the performance of your Go, Java, Node.js
or Python applications. For more information, see [About Stackdriver Profiler](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/about-profiler).
## March 12, 2019
Feature Python is now supported. For more
information, see [Profiling Python](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-python).
## February 28, 2019
Feature The new **Color mode** filter option lets you color the
flame graph frames by package name, by the metric consumption of the
function, or by the metric consumption of the function and its children.
For more information, see [Color mode](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/filtering-profiles#color-filter).
## December 07, 2018
Feature Go 1.11 for App Engine standard environment is now supported. For more
information, see [Profiling Go](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/profiling-go).
## August 02, 2018
Feature The new **Weight** filter lets you select and graph profiles
that consume the most of the profile's measured metric.
For more information, see [Weight filter](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/selecting-profiles#weight-filter).
## July 24, 2018
Feature The new **Compare To** option lets you compare profiles that
differ by end time, zone, or service version.
For more information, see [Comparing profiles](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/comparing-profiles).
## May 15, 2018
Feature The new **Focus** filter lets you analyze the aggregate resource consumption of a specific function and the proportion of time spent in the function by different callers. For more information, see [Using the **Focus** Filter](https://cloud.google.com/profiler/docs/filtering-profiles#focus-filter).
## March 28, 2018
Feature Stackdriver Profiler is released in Beta.