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@github-actions github-actions released this 04 Sep 12:44
v0.2.0
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Buildprof records every process a build starts and every file it opens, and shows the whole build on an interactive timeline in your browser.

Changes

Added

  • buildprof.version and buildprof.trace_format trace attributes, visible
    in Trace Processor's metadata table, so the UI can tell which recorder
    wrote a trace.
  • SSH sessions print the ssh -L port forward to run from your own machine
    instead of trying to launch a browser on the build host.
  • --wait <SECONDS> bounds how long Buildprof waits for a browser to fetch a
    trace (default 600; 0 waits forever).
  • buildprof examples and buildprof open --example <NAME> open recordings
    hosted next to the UI.
  • Clear messages when ptrace or seccomp is unavailable (Docker without
    SYS_PTRACE, Yama ptrace_scope 3, gVisor), when the command cannot be
    executed, and when port 9001 is already taken.
  • Prebuilt binaries on GitHub Releases for x86_64 and aarch64 Linux (glibc
    2.28 or newer, plus static musl builds) and for macOS, with a shell
    installer, a Homebrew tap, .deb and .rpm packages, and mise support.
  • Every released UI is deployed permanently under
    https://buildprof.lalitm.com/v<version>/; the CLI opens the UI matching
    its own version and the UI links to the matching version when a trace was
    recorded by a different release.

Changed

  • Traces are now written as a single zstd stream, typically 9 to 20 times
    smaller than before. The UI detects the compression from the file's magic
    bytes and the .buildprof extension is unchanged. Querying a trace directly
    needs a Trace Processor build from July 2026 or later; the perfetto Python
    package's bundled build is older, so pass
    TraceProcessorConfig(fetch_latest_trace_processor=True) for now.
  • Building from source now requires Rust 1.91.

Install

Recording requires Linux; the macOS build only opens traces. Use whichever of
these you already have:

Shell script

curl -fsSL https://buildprof.lalitm.com/install.sh | sh

Homebrew

brew install lalitmaganti/tap/buildprof

mise

mise use -g github:LalitMaganti/buildprof

Downloads

File Platform Checksum
buildprof-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz Apple Silicon macOS checksum
buildprof-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz Intel macOS checksum
buildprof-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz ARM64 Linux checksum
buildprof-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz x64 Linux checksum
buildprof-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz ARM64 MUSL Linux checksum
buildprof-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz x64 MUSL Linux checksum
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