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Each major release of PostgreSQL brings lots of great new functionality. The recent release of PostgreSQL 9.4 includes an exciting new JSON data type, improvements to window functions, materialized views, and a host of other performance improvements and enhancements. We’ll go into more depth on what’s new and exciting in this release below, but first, we want you to know that Postgres 9.4 is available in beta right now on Heroku:

$ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql…

Last week, a security fix was released for Git. The fix patches a bug in the Git client that is exploitable on operating systems with case insensitive file systems such as Windows and OS X.

Heroku has updated the Git installer that we ship with Toolbelt for Windows. We have also removed an old Git version from the OS X installer (it was not generally used).

In addition, we’ve added a Git version warning in …

Today we’re happy to announce that the HTTP Git beta is over and that HTTP Git is fully ready for production.

The beta was launched less than a month ago and we are already handling thousands of HTTP Git builds per day. In addition, HTTP Git powers the Dropbox Sync beta, making sure that Dropbox folders and Heroku repos are up-to-date.

Over the past month, we have seen great adoption from partners, and Travis CI …

Working with our support team, I often see customers having timeout problems. Typically, their applications will start throwing H12 errors.

The decision to timeout requests quickly wasn’t made to avoid having long-running requests on our router, nor to only have fast apps on our platform, but because standard web servers do not handle these types of requests particularly well.

Since day one, developers from all over the world have been deploying apps on Heroku, and we’re extremely proud of the strong global community we’ve built. Our European customers in particular have asked for the ability to deploy applications geographically close to their European customer base so they can offer a better user experience with more responsive apps. In 2013 we launched 1X and 2X dynos in Europe to meet this demand. Today we’re pleased …

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 …

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