Heroku Postgres

Heroku Postgres

Service

Heroku Postgres 18 is the newest actively maintained release. 4 of 8 tracked cycles remain supported. The next cycle scheduled to reach end-of-life is 15, on February 28, 2027.

Latest version

18

Actively maintained cycles

4

of 8 tracked

Total cycles tracked

8

since Mar 21, 2019

Support pattern

How Heroku Postgres has behaved across the cycles tracked here, rather than what its policy documents state. Useful for judging how much runway a version is likely to have before you commit to it.

Typical support window

48 mo (~4 years)

median of 5 completed cycles

New cycle roughly every

13 months

median gap between releases

Compared with service

+3 mo

longer than the service median

Next end of life

172 days

Heroku Postgres 15

Computed from release and end-of-life dates tracked for Heroku Postgres. Medians are used rather than averages so one unusually short or long release does not skew the figure. Cycles with no recorded end-of-life date are excluded from the support window.

Release lifecycle

Actively maintainedSecurity support onlyEnd of life
Today
18Latest
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EOL Nov 28, 2025
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EOL Oct 29, 2024
12
EOL May 30, 2024
11
EOL Jan 10, 2024
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