Update to Heroku Postgres 14 deprecation for Essential-tier customers
Change effective on 04 November 2025
As previously announced, we started forced upgrades on Heroku Postgres 14 databases on October 28, 2025 to prepare for end-of-life on November 28, 2025. For Essential-tier customers who received an email with a scheduled date for the forced upgrade, please disregard as the date is incorrect. We’ll email customers when the database upgrade starts and finishes.
Essential-tier customers can also upgrade the database version on their own with pg:upgrade:run:
$ heroku pg:upgrade:run DATABASE --app example-app
Forced upgrades on Standard-tier and higher databases on Postgres 14 will continue as planned.
If you have questions, open a ticket with Heroku Support.