Java runtime upgrades now available

Change effective on 25 September 2014

Heroku’s Java support now provides two new Java Virtual Machine runtimes. The upgraded versions are 1.7.0_55 and 1.8.0_20, while 1.6.0_27 remains the default. To use these runtimes, create a system.properties file in your Java project with the following contents:

java.runtime.version=1.7

Or specify 1.8 for the JDK8. The new runtime will be installed during your next deployment.

See the Dev Center for more information on Heroku Java Support.