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Helping teams to collaborate on creating, shipping and operating great apps is a core Heroku value. People collaborating on Heroku apps are not all alike: Some spend all day in the terminal, others prefer using Heroku from a browser. That’s why we’ve built both a powerful CLI and a great Dashboard.

Today, we’re adding beta support for Dropbox Sync to complement Git-based deployments. By adding Dropbox as a way to sync changes, we’re making …

Of the many Platform-as-a-Service innovations Heroku has contributed in its seven year existence, perhaps the most iconic is git push heroku master. Today we’re announcing a significant upgrade to Heroku’s Git implementation: Beta support for Git’s HTTP transport.

HTTP Git has some notable advantages over traditional SSH Git. Instead of relying on port 22 (often blocked by firewalls) HTTP Git runs on port 443, the same port used for secure web requests.

Also, HTTP Git …

We’re excited to announce that the Cedar-14 – the new version of the Celedon Cedar stack – is ready for general availability and is now the default stack on Heroku. Cedar-14 is based on the latest Ubuntu LTS Linux version and comes with a modern set of libraries and system dependencies that will stay current and updated for a long time to come.

Since we announced the public beta of Cedar-14 three months ago, we …

As an SRE (Service Reliability Engineer) at Heroku, one of the things I’m exposed to is how much work happens behind the scenes in order to create what we call “non-events” for you, our users. A non-event is turning something that would typically create work for an application hosted on traditional infrastructure into something that the user won’t even notice. This is something we put a lot of energy into because we believe in letting …

As part of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, Salesforce is hosting its second major hackathon on October 10-12 in San Francisco. The format for this year’s hackathon has been expanded to include specific categories for not just Heroku, but also some of our favorite open source projects. With over ten prizes of more than $10,000 each, this is a great opportunity to build something cool, take advantage of some of the latest Heroku features, and …

Two-factor authentication is a powerful and simple way to greatly enhance security for your Heroku account. It prevents an attacker from accessing your account using a stolen password. After a 4 month beta period, we are now happy to make two-factor authentication generally available.

Turning on two-factor authentication

You can enable and disable two-factor authentication for your Heroku account in the Manage Account section of Dashboard.

Before you turn it on, please read on here …

One of our core beliefs at Heroku is that developers do their best work when the development process is as simple, elegant, and conducive to focus and flow as possible. We are grateful for how well many of our contributions to that cause have been received, and today we are making generally available a new set of features that have been inspired by those values.

Collectively, we call these new features Heroku DX—the next evolution …