Releasesby GlyphUpdated payment method experience for Heroku billing
Heroku updated its billing system to process new or modified payment methods via a secure Stripe-hosted interface starting November 3, 2026.
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[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL stable REST API version 2026-10-01
The Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server REST API version 2026-10-01 is now generally available, introducing new capabilities for maintenance, immutable backups, and encryption.
Analytics API (Public preview): report on the health of the data behind your agents, from your AI tool
The Monte Carlo Analytics API is now in public preview, allowing users to query data health, alert status, and cost metrics directly from AI tools via the Monte Carlo MCP server.
Twice the included embedding tokens through December 31
Pinecone is doubling the included monthly embedding tokens for Starter and Builder organizations through December 31, 2026.
Gemini Enterprise: Switch between teams in the mobile app
The Gemini Enterprise mobile app now supports switching between multiple teams without re-authentication, and allows renaming or removing teams from the list.
Compare AI agent changes with Online Experiments in Agent Observability
Datadog Online Experiments allows engineers to test AI agent changes against production traffic. It enables comparison of response quality, cost, latency, and error rates.
Postmortems End of Life Completed
The Postmortems feature has been retired in favor of the upgraded Post-Incident Reviews in the PagerDuty web UI.
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Ruby apps now default to Node version 26.13.0
Applications using the heroku/ruby buildpack that do not have Node installed by another buildpack will now default to Node version 26.13.0.
JRuby version 10.1.3.0 is now available
JRuby version 10.1.3.0 is now available on Heroku. Users can specify this version by adding the engine configuration directive to their Gemfile.
JRuby version 10.0.8.0 is now available
JRuby version 10.0.8.0 is now available on Heroku. Applications can run on this version by configuring the ruby directive in their Gemfile.
Node.js default version is now 26.x
Heroku has updated the default Node.js version for builds to 26.x following Node.js 26.x reaching Active LTS status. Builds that explicitly specify a Node.js version remain unaffected.
Python buildpacks updated to Pipenv 2026.10.4 and uv 0.13.6
We have updated the package managers used during the build of Python apps as follows: uv updated from 0.13.4 to 0.13.6 ( changelog ) And for Cedar-generation Python apps only: Pipenv updated from 2026.10.2 to 2026.10.4 ( changelog )
Unified login for Sendgrid add-on
Heroku Sendgrid add-on customers must now create a Sendgrid account to access the service.
PHP updates - Late October 2026
Heroku updated PHP extensions including ext-blackfire, ext-grpc, and ext-newrelic, and added support for Composer 2.2.31 and 2.11.0.
Node.js 26.13.0 and 24.22.2 now available
Heroku added support for Node.js versions 26.13.0 and 24.22.2 for application builds.