diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 913e63e1cb..e5ad64104a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ on:
       - .github/workflows/release.yml
       - justfile
       - Cargo.toml # For release build settings
+      - linkerd2-proxy/* # For top-level binary changes
   push:
     tags:
       - "release/*"
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b4b26c4d1f..6a5ddf7b78 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -794,26 +794,6 @@ version = "1.0.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "453ad9f582a441959e5f0d088b02ce04cfe8d51a8eaf077f12ac6d3e94164ca6"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "jemalloc-sys"
-version = "0.5.3+5.3.0-patched"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f9bd5d616ea7ed58b571b2e209a65759664d7fb021a0819d7a790afc67e47ca1"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "libc",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "jemallocator"
-version = "0.5.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "16c2514137880c52b0b4822b563fadd38257c1f380858addb74a400889696ea6"
-dependencies = [
- "jemalloc-sys",
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "jobserver"
 version = "0.1.26"
@@ -1943,11 +1923,11 @@ name = "linkerd2-proxy"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "futures",
- "jemallocator",
  "linkerd-app",
  "linkerd-meshtls",
  "linkerd-signal",
  "num_cpus",
+ "tikv-jemallocator",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
 ]
@@ -2727,6 +2707,26 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tikv-jemalloc-sys"
+version = "0.5.4+5.3.0-patched"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9402443cb8fd499b6f327e40565234ff34dbda27460c5b47db0db77443dd85d1"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tikv-jemallocator"
+version = "0.5.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "965fe0c26be5c56c94e38ba547249074803efd52adfb66de62107d95aab3eaca"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "tikv-jemalloc-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "time"
 version = "0.3.30"
diff --git a/linkerd2-proxy/Cargo.toml b/linkerd2-proxy/Cargo.toml
index 3197f20ae4..df191fed70 100644
--- a/linkerd2-proxy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/linkerd2-proxy/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ linkerd-signal = { path = "../linkerd/signal" }
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt", "time", "net"] }
 tracing = "0.1"
 
-[target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.dependencies]
-jemallocator = { version = "0.5" }
+[target.'cfg(not(target_env = "msvc"))'.dependencies]
+tikv-jemallocator = "0.5"
diff --git a/linkerd2-proxy/src/main.rs b/linkerd2-proxy/src/main.rs
index 2a2a0c7aa2..8adfe70d13 100644
--- a/linkerd2-proxy/src/main.rs
+++ b/linkerd2-proxy/src/main.rs
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ use linkerd_signal as signal;
 use tokio::{sync::mpsc, time};
 pub use tracing::{debug, error, info, warn};
 
-#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64", target_env = "gnu"))]
+#[cfg(not(target_env = "msvc"))]
 #[global_allocator]
-static GLOBAL: jemallocator::Jemalloc = jemallocator::Jemalloc;
+static GLOBAL: tikv_jemallocator::Jemalloc = tikv_jemallocator::Jemalloc;
 
 mod rt;