Heroku Postgres is the Cloud database (DBaaS) service for Heroku based on PostgreSQL. Heroku Postgres provides features like continuous protection, rollback, and high availability; also forks, followers, and data clips.
| Release | Released | Provisionable | Forced upgrades |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 3 weeks and 5 days ago (04 Aug 2026) |
Yes | Yes |
| 17 | 1 year and 3 months ago (28 May 2025) |
Yes | Yes |
| 16 | 2 years and 4 months ago (29 Apr 2024) |
Yes | Yes |
| 15 | 3 years and 5 months ago (09 Mar 2023) |
Ends
in 2 months and 1 week (11 Nov 2026)
|
Ends
in 6 months (28 Feb 2027)
|
| 14 | 4 years ago (23 Mar 2022) |
Ended
1 year ago (28 Aug 2025)
|
Ended
9 months ago (28 Nov 2025)
|
| 13 | 5 years and 7 months ago (03 Feb 2021) |
Ended
2 years ago (29 Jul 2024)
|
Ended
1 year and 10 months ago (29 Oct 2024)
|
| 12 | 6 years ago (04 Feb 2020) |
Ended
2 years and 6 months ago (29 Feb 2024)
|
Ended
2 years and 3 months ago (30 May 2024)
|
| 11 | 7 years ago (21 Mar 2019) |
Ended
2 years and 9 months ago (10 Nov 2023)
|
Ended
2 years and 7 months ago (10 Jan 2024)
|
On February 6, 2026, Heroku published a blog post announcing a transition to a “sustaining engineering model”. Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers. Existing Enterprise subscriptions and support contracts will continue to be fully honored and may renew as usual.
The PostgreSQL project releases new major releases yearly. Heroku Postgres supports each major release after testing for compatibility with its platform. Major releases are supported for three years.
When a new major release is out, Heroku deprecates the third major release before it.
- On the deprecation date, Heroku notifies customers via email about the deprecation process for their affected databases.
- Three months after the deprecation date, Heroku prevents provisioning new databases on the deprecated release. Creating forks and followers of existing databases is still allowed.
- Five months after the deprecation date, Heroku schedules forced upgrades for databases that still run a deprecated release.
- Six months after the deprecation date, the release becomes end-of-life.
Minor versions are released shortly after they’re available on Postgres. Users can’t update the minor versions themselves. If a new minor version is available and the database is on an older minor version, Heroku automatically updates the minor version after each database maintenance.
More information is available on the Heroku Postgres website.
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