Platform Updates
- News
- Last Updated: September 04, 2025
- Lauren Groccia
The AI revolution presents a critical challenge: moving from experimentation to production. This year, Heroku has evolved beyond a traditional PaaS to become an AI PaaS, a fully managed platform designed to solve this problem and accelerate the delivery of AI-powered apps. With new capabilities like AppLink, Managed Inference and Agents, and MCP on Heroku, Heroku now provides a fully managed platform designed for the AI era.
This evolution accelerates the delivery of AI-powered apps and intelligent agents, bringing a new level of speed and simplicity to your development process. Dreamforce 2025 is your chance to see firsthand how the Heroku AI PaaS is delivering business value faster and with less complexity.
- News
- Last Updated: June 26, 2025
- Betty Junod
Today, we are pleased to announce the evolution of Heroku to an AI Platform as a Service (AI PaaS). GenAI has changed how we build software (vibe coding), the kind of technology we use (Cursor, LLMs), the type of software we make (agents), and redefined what it means to be a developer in this new world.
In a recent Salesforce study, 84% of developers with AI say it helps their teams complete their projects faster. AI-powered, natural language development tools make it possible for anyone to create software by typing instructions in English. This increase in new apps is …
- News
- Last Updated: May 29, 2025
- Jonathan Brown
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Heroku Postgres version 17, packed with new features and enhancements to your database performance. And that’s not all – we’re also introducing a game-changing feature that streamlines your upgrade experience. This new method of version upgrade is now the default, so you can try it to upgrade to Postgres 17!
Postgres 17: Powering your applications with enhanced performance and security
Before we dive into the simplicity of the new upgrade process, let’s talk about what makes PostgreSQL 17 a must-have. This release brings significant improvements that directly translate to better …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 29, 2025
- Kavya Premkumar, Nila Muthu
If you’ve ever deployed an app on Heroku, chances are you’ve used Heroku Postgres — our fully managed, reliable, and scalable Postgres database service. It’s the backbone for millions of applications, from weekend side projects to enterprise-grade systems running in production.
But Postgres, like all software, continues to evolve. With new versions released each year, you gain access to performance enhancements, critical security updates, and powerful new features. Keeping your database up to date isn’t just good practice — it’s essential for long-term stability and success.
That’s why we’re thrilled to share that Postgres 17 is now available on Heroku…
- Ecosystem
- Last Updated: September 30, 2024
- Felix Rieseberg
As maintainers of the open source framework Electron, we try to be diligent about the work we take on. Apps like Visual Studio Code, Slack, Notion, or 1Password are built on top of Electron and make use of our unique mix of native code and web technologies to make their users happy. That requires focus: There’s always more work to be done than we have time and resources for. In practice, that means that we don’t want to spend time thinking about the server infrastructure for the project — and we’re grateful for the support we receive from Heroku, …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 09, 2024
- David Murray
One of our most important goals at Heroku is to be boring. Don’t get us wrong, we certainly hope that you’re excited about the Heroku developer experience — as heavy users of Heroku ourselves, we certainly are! But, even more so, we hope that you don’t have to spend all that much time thinking about Heroku. We want you to be able to spend your time thinking about the awesome, mission-critical things you’re building with Heroku, rather than worrying about the security, reliability, or performance of the underlying infrastructure they run on.
Keeping Heroku “boring” enough to be trusted …
- News
- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Deb Robbins
2024 is going to be an exciting year at Heroku. Before we jump into 2024, let’s take a look back at 2023 and show you how we’re empowering developers to deliver amazing apps. First of all, we want to take a moment to thank you, our customers, partners, employees, and extended communities. Your passion for Heroku and the developer community makes our work possible.
Our teams continued to grow to meet the demands of our many existing and new customers in 2023. Customers who do things like make safer cars, bring us live music, deliver last-minute items to …
- News
- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Ethan Limchayseng
In May 2023, we announced our limited release of two new Heroku Private Spaces regions: India (Mumbai) and Canada (Montreal). This month, we’re announcing the full general availability of those two regions, along with new Heroku Private Spaces regions for the United Kingdom (London) and Singapore. This expansion enables customers to maintain greater control over where their data is stored and processed. These four new regions fully support Heroku Private Spaces, Heroku Shield Private Spaces, Heroku Postgres, Apache Kafka on Heroku, Heroku Data for Redis, Heroku Connect, and most Heroku Add-ons.
Private Spaces …
- News
- Last Updated: April 03, 2024
- Tim Lawrence
We re-enabled payments to Heroku in India! At the start of August, we resumed accepting credit and debit cards issued by Indian financial institutions.
From the engagement on our public roadmap, we know that there are many developers in India eager to get back on the platform. We want to address the work done to re-enable this functionality, and why Heroku stopped accepting payments from India in the first place.
We started by enabling 3D Secure (3DS) on our platform. 3D Secure is a protocol that prompts a user to use a dynamic authentication methods such as biometrics or …
We have a saying around the Heroku team thanks to our awesome engineering leader Gail Frederick. She reminds us of this often: “Feedback is a gift”. These are words we try to live by both internally and with our customers.
Feedback: What is Heroku investing in? What has shipped?
We had a very busy 2022! We just published the product retrospective for last year here.
You’ve given us really positive feedback on the openness of our public roadmap, and many customers have told us they love it. Our top voted ideas around more fine grained security features, GitHub …
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