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October 2026 Update: Heroku Innovations and New Features

Heroku’s continuous platform innovation keeps operational overhead out of your path while delivering our industry-best developer experience. We handle everything below your code, from the core infrastructure and OS maintenance to runtimes and dependencies, so developers can stay focused on building.

You can see that ongoing innovation across our latest releases in managed data services, platform access controls, and Salesforce connectivity.

A New Era for Managed Databases: Announcing Heroku Postgres Advanced

At Heroku, we’ve built a platform that allows developers to focus on their apps, not managing their infrastructure. Heroku Postgres Advanced carries forward that philosophy as our next-generation database offering, available today.

Introducing Team Authorizations

Team Authorizations let you create and manage API tokens and OAuth authorizations at the team and team’s resources level instead of tying them to one person’s account.

Until now, every API token belonged to an individual. When that person left the team, changed roles, or lost access, any integration, CI/CD pipeline, or automation built on their token could break without warning, and nobody else could easily see what was at risk. Team Authorizations fixes that. Your integrations keep running no matter who's on the team.

6 Lesser-Known Heroku CLI Commands You Probably Aren’t Using

Improving developer experience in the command line relies on minimizing context switches. While most engineers use the Heroku CLI strictly for basic tasks like pushing code, it contains a powerful suite of command line tools built to optimize your workflow. If you want to keep your focus locked on writing code, these six Heroku CLI commands will instantly upgrade your daily productivity.

Fine-Grained Access Control Now Available for All Heroku Customers

Fine-Grained Access Controls is now available to all Heroku customers. Heroku’s legacy system gave you predefined roles like admin, member, or collaborator, each with a fixed bundle of permissions. It replaces that system with fine-grained roles like view, deploy, operate, and manage, with specific capability sets. Access control is managed at an app-specific layer, giving your team the capability to tune individual access for each of your apps.

How To Set Up a Staging Environment on Heroku in 3 Easy Steps

Moving fast should not mean breaking things for your users. While testing on localhost is a good start, you need a near identical replica of production to catch any bugs before your code goes live. That is where a staging environment comes in. Heroku pipelines handle the infrastructure layout for you, keeping your deployment workflow clean and automated.

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