- Salesforce SVP and GM confirms Heroku is being deprioritized in an AI-first world
- Agentforce originated as an agent AI development platform
- Heroku will still receive important stability and security updates
Salesforce has announced that it will stop developing new features for Heroku, an application build and deployment platform, and move it into a “continuous engineering phase.”
The decision was announced in early February 2026 by Salesforce SVP and GM Nitin T Bhat, who confirmed that the platform will continue to receive stability, security, reliability and support updates.
In the immediate term, existing customers can continue to use Heroku and renew their subscriptions without price or service changes, but it’s unclear if Salesforce plans to phase out Heroku in the long term.
Salesforce has stopped developing Heroku
Although existing customers can continue to use Heroku, Salesforce has ended new enterprise contracts (but existing contracts and renewals will still be honored).
“There is no change for customers using Heroku today,” Bhat wrote. “Customers who pay by credit card in the Heroku dashboard – both existing and new – can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service or day-to-day usage.”
“Sustaining engineering” is a technology business that advocates no future roadmap and no further innovation, as well as the potential long-term risk of sunset.
Adobe recently announced that it would slow down Animate, before quickly reversing what it had said to put the app into “maintenance mode,” which for all intents and purposes means the same thing.
For context, Heroku hasn’t always been a Salesforce product. The company acquired Heroku in 2010 and positioned it as a key platform for building custom apps alongside its CRM. However, recent years have seen the emergence of Agentforce, a new agentic AI-centric development platform, so Heroku could be seen as a platform that does not meet today’s AI standards.
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