Release 4.4

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Changelog
 
-## [4.3]
+## [4.4]
+
+### Features
+
+ - #1553: Differential Flame Graphs
+
+### Improvements
+
+ - #1705: `memlimit` option to limit size of the call trace storage
+ - #1706: Extend syntax of `-j` option to truncate deep stacks
+ - #1720: FlameGraph: Dark mode toggle
+ - #1672: FlameGraph: Use Ctrl+Click in addition to Alt+Click to remove stacks
+ - #1684: Unwind ARM64 generated stubs on JDK 26+
+ - #1676: Make `dwarf` stack walking mode an alias for `vm`
+ - #1671: An option to select TLAB based AllocTracer engine with JDK 11+
+ - #1670: Move converter Main class to the one.convert package
+ - #1660: Provide non-aggregated samples in OTLP converter
+ - #1701, #1682: Speed-up stack walking
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+ - #1673: Permanently remove `check` command
+ - #1675: Remove unsafe AsyncGetCallTrace recovery tricks along with `safemode` option
+ - #1677: Remove `cstack=lbr` option
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+ - #1716: Wall-clock Heatmap does not count samples correctly
+ - #1715: Fix Zing crash when profiling cpu+wall together
+ - #1708: Another fix for correct vDSO unwinding on ARM64
+ - #1707: Workaround for JFR shutdown race
+ - #1699: Allow negative keys in JFR constant pool
+ - #1697: Ensure remaining buffer is sufficient for event data in JfrReader
+ - #1654: Prefer perf-events engine when record-cpu or target-cpu are selected
+ - #1585: Scale perf counters in case of multiplexing
+ - #1528: Add a hard-coded limit on the maximum number of jmethodIDs
+ - Do not walk past virtual thread continuation barriers
+
+## [4.3] - 2026-01-20
 
 ### Features
 

Makefile

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-PROFILER_VERSION ?= 4.3
+PROFILER_VERSION ?= 4.4
 
 ifeq ($(COMMIT_TAG),true)
   PROFILER_VERSION := $(PROFILER_VERSION)-$(shell git rev-parse --short=8 HEAD)

pom-converter.xml

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     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>tools.profiler</groupId>
     <artifactId>jfr-converter</artifactId>
-    <version>4.3</version>
+    <version>4.4</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>async-profiler</name>

pom.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>tools.profiler</groupId>
     <artifactId>async-profiler</artifactId>
-    <version>4.3</version>
+    <version>4.4</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>async-profiler</name>