Valkey 7 on Heroku Key-Value Store deprecation

Change effective on 19 August 2026

Heroku is deprecating support for Valkey 7 on Heroku Key-Value Store. This deprecation is part of our documented version support policy. The end-of-life date is December 19, 2026.

Our schedule for deprecating all Valkey 7 instances is as follows:

  • August 19, 2026: We send a deprecation notification to users on Valkey 7 KVS instances.
  • October 19, 2026: You can’t create Valkey 7 KVS instances after this date.
  • November 19, 2026: Forced upgrades on deprecated Valkey 7 KVS instances start.
  • December 19, 2026: We start restricting access and deleting Valkey 7 KVS instances after this end-of-life date.

We urge you to upgrade your instance to the latest version as soon as possible.