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title: "03.27.2025 span view improvements"
description: Available in Phoenix 8.20+
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<Update label="03.27.2025">

## Span View Improvements

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You can now toggle the option to treat orphan spans as root when viewing your spans. Additionally, we've enhanced the UI with an icon view in span details for better visibility in smaller displays. Learn more in our [tracing documentation](/docs/phoenix/tracing/how-to-tracing/setup-tracing).

<Card title="Release arize-phoenix: v8.20.0 · Arize-ai/phoenix" icon="github" href="https://github.com/Arize-ai/phoenix/releases/tag/arize-phoenix-v8.20.0" horizontal>
  GitHub
</Card>

### Improvements and Bug Fixes 🐛

* [**Performance**](https://github.com/Arize-ai/phoenix/issues/6936): Disable streaming when a dialog is open
* [**Playground**](https://github.com/Arize-ai/phoenix/issues/6914): Removed unpredictable playground transformations
</Update>


