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Heroku CI Updates: Parallel Tests, CI API, and Automated UAT

Since we introduced Heroku CI over a year ago, we've been hard at work developing features aimed at making your testing speed even faster and workflow more optimized. Today we are pleased to announce Heroku CI Parallel Test Runs and the Heroku CI API are now generally available (GA) for all Heroku customers. Parallel Test Runs allows you to split up and execute test runs on up to 16 nodes. With the Heroku CI API, …

Announcing ISO 27001, 27017, 27018 Certification and SOC2 Type I Attestation

Today we are proud to announce that Heroku has achieved several important compliance milestones that provide third party validation of our security best practices:

  • ISO 27001 Certification: Widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standard that specifies security management best practices and comprehensive security controls following ISO 27002 best practices guidance.
  • ISO 27017 Certification: A standard that provides additional guidance and implementation advice on information security aspects specific to cloud computing.
  • ISO 27018 Certification: Establishes
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Announcing General Availability of Heroku Shield Connect

Today we are pleased to announce general availability of Heroku Shield Connect, the latest addition to our lineup of Heroku Shield services.

Heroku Shield, announced last year, enabled new capabilities for Dynos, Postgres databases and Private Spaces that make Heroku suitable for high compliance environments such as those that fall under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. Heroku Shield Connect extends this offering by enabling high performance, fully automated, and bi-directional data synchronization between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres for companies that need to build HIPAA-compliant applications – all in a matter of a few clicks.

With this major enhancement to Heroku Shield, it's now easier than ever to build high compliance applications and services while seamlessly integrating with Salesforce as the system of record for customer data.

Auto Cert Management and More TLS Options for Private Spaces

Today we’re announcing two exciting TLS improvements for apps running in Private Spaces—Heroku’s runtime optimized for security-sensitive workloads that require network and tenant isolation:

  • Automated Certificate Management to automatically create, configure, and renew free TLS certificates for custom domains on Private Space apps
  • Expanded and updated cipher suite selections for TLS/SSL termination for Private Space apps

Together, ACM and greater TLS cipher suite flexibility makes building secure apps in Heroku Private Spaces simpler and …

An Update on Redis Vulnerabilities and Patching

On May 10, 2018, we received notice about two critical vulnerabilities in Redis, both embargoed until this morning.

Upon this notice, our Data Infrastructure team proceeded to patch all internal and customer databases in response to these vulnerabilities. As of today, all customer databases have been patched successfully.

At Heroku, customer trust is our most important value – and we are grateful to have your trust in keeping a globally-distributed data fleet safe from …

Announcing Heroku CLI Autocomplete for Bash and Zsh

Today we're excited to announce that Heroku CLI Autocomplete for Bash and Zsh is generally available. Heroku CLI Autocomplete makes your workflow faster and more seamless by helping you complete command and flag names when you press the tab key. Autocomplete completes all Heroku CLI commands and will automatically support new commands as they are added. You can also complete values for some flags and args—including apps, pipelines and config vars—so you won't need to …

Heroku Webhooks: Easier Accessibility, More Options

Heroku Webhooks let you create powerful real-time integrations and drive custom operations workflows whenever your Heroku app changes. Today, we're excited to announce a new user experience that makes managing and creating webhooks easier than ever. Now everyone on your team can create a webhook, update it and see deliverability, using a straightforward interface in the Heroku Dashboard. Until now, app webhooks functionality was only available through the Heroku CLI.

How to Find the Dashboard …

Open Sourcing oclif, the CLI Framework that Powers Our CLIs

Today we're excited to announce that we've open sourced oclif, a framework for building command line interfaces.

We built oclif to serve as the common foundation for both the Heroku and Salesforce CLIs and to abstract away the common struggles. The framework is now available to any developer for building CLIs large or small. oclif makes building CLIs more accessible by providing you with the patterns and tools to scaffold a working command line …

Heroku Postgres PGX: Bigger Databases, Improved Infrastructure, Same Price

Today, we’re excited to announce a major update to Heroku Postgres with a new lineup of production plans. These plans are the first component of Heroku Postgres PGX, the next generation of our managed Postgres solution.

PGX Plans introduce larger database sizes, more generous resource allocations, and a broader set of options to suit your needs and to help your applications scale more smoothly. PGX Plans are generally available as of today, and all new Postgres databases will be created on our latest generation of Postgres infrastructure. Underneath the hood, we've upgraded the CPU, memory, storage, and networking aspects to ensure your Postgres database is running smoothly at scale.

To take a look at which of your Heroku Postgres databases can take advantage of PGX Plans now and how, go to data.heroku.com.

2017 Heroku Retrospective: Advancing Developer Experience, Data, and Trust

2017 was a great year for Heroku and our users. We want to thank each of you for your feedback, beta participation, and spirit of innovation, which inspires how we think about our products and evolve the platform.

In the past year, we released a range of new features to make the developer experience even more elegant. We bolstered our existing lineup of data services while providing security controls for building high compliance applications on the platform.

With that, we’d like to take a moment and share some of the highlights from 2017. We hope you enjoy it, and we look forward to an even more exciting 2018!

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