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5.0.0

Loads of improvements to the HTML renderer!

- Timeline mode - see and zoom into an interactive linear timeline!

![timeline mode](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4d234f10-da4e-4bcd-aee1-922999bcf804)
- HTML mode now has interactive options, rather than needing to set the upfront.
- Streamlined the design of the HTML page header.
- HTML Call stack view supports arrow key navigation.
- The way ‘library’ code is detected has been changed. Previously, if the string ‘/lib/’ occurred in the file path, that was considered library code (and collapsed by default). Now, pyinstrument captures the paths of the Python install and any active virtualenv/conda env at profile time. Files that are stored there are considered library. That should give fewer false positives.
- Calls to profiler.start() can now pass a target_description parameter, which is displayed in the profile readout.

Check my [blog post](https://joerick.me/posts/2024/10/3/pyinstrument-5/) for more info on the new features.

4.7.3

- Fix a bug introduced in 4.7.0 which would cause the profiler to crash when profiling code with unusual locals, notably some pytest extensions (332)
- Fix a bug that causes pyinstrument to fail to import packages like `glom` on Python 3.12 or later, which mutate the locals() dict. (336)
- Fix a bug that caused a `UnicodeDecodeError` on some platforms (330)
- Fix a DivideByZero error that occurs in some situations (335)
- The IPython integration takes greater step to ensure a clean profile output, by ensuring internal frames are trimmed before printing. (321)

4.7.2

- Add CPython 3.13 wheels
- Fix a bug that caused the HTML output to fail to render in some browser contexts (328)

4.7.0

- Adds a new, convenient API for [profiling chunks of Python code](https://pyinstrument.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide.html#profile-a-specific-chunk-of-code)! You can now profile simply using a `with` block, or a function/method decorator. This will profile the code and print a short readout into the terminal. (327)
- Adds new, lower overhead timing options. Pyinstrument calls timers on every Python function call, which is fine on systems with fast timing available, but it adds significant overhead on systems that require a syscall for each, such as some Docker environments. Pyinstrument will now detect slow timers present a warning with two choices. You can enable a 'timing thread', which offloads the timing workload from the profiled thread, or, if you're happy with lower resolution, you can opt to use a 'coarse' timer, which is provided on some Linux systems. (273)
- Alt-click rows in the HTML output to collapse/expand the whole tree (325)
- Adds a `flat` argument to the console output, to present a flat list of functions (294)
- Adds a Litestar example config and docs (284)
- Preliminary Python 3.13 support (322)

4.6.0

- Adds a feature `-c`, which allows profiling code directly from the command line, like `python -c`. (271)
- Adds a convenience method [`Profiler.write_html`](https://pyinstrument.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#pyinstrument.Profiler.write_html), for writing HTML output to a file directly. (266)

4.5.3

- Fix a problem in the packaging process that prevented upload to PyPI

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