gperftools-2.17rc is out!

[Aliaksey Kandratsenka]

Hi all. gperftools 2.17rc is out!

2.17 headline changes are removal of heap leak checker and removal of legacy Perl pprof implementation. People should install and use much, much improved pprof implementation from github.com/google/pprof.

Here is a complete list of reasonably notable changes:

• [headline] heap leak checker has been amputated, as promised earlier
• [headline] we don't ship pprof anymore. People need to get modern and awesome pprof implementation from github.com/google/pprof
• we now have some basic CI infrastructure via Github Actions
• we now have basic Bazel support
• our docs have been slightly updated and converted to AsciiDoc format
• we now implement C23 free{,_aligned}_sized functions (but no libc-s offer those yet anyway)
• FreeBSD bits don't depend on procfs anymore (proc maps iterator was broken anyway; now it works)
• we don't offer mmap profiling anymore. It wasn't entirely complete for some years now, and killing it has eliminated a lot of complexity. MMap hooks are still part of ABI, but they do nothing.

Please find the list of tickets explicitly closed by this release here: https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues?q=label%3A%22fixed-in-2.17%22%20

Many thanks for the following contributions:

• Alex Faxa has contributed (partial) make install support for cmake bits
• Andrey Semashev contributed one build fix and another fix for the test failure