--- title: "Heroku-22 stack is deprecated, supported through April 2027: 2027-04 | Harbyn" description: "Heroku-22 stack is deprecated, supported through April 2027, effective Apr 2027." canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/heroku/2026-10-08-heroku-22-is-deprecated" last-updated: 2026-10-08 --- # Heroku-22 stack is deprecated, supported through April 2027 Markdown version of . Deprecation - Heroku. low severity. Announced. Upcoming. The Heroku-22 stack (Ubuntu 22.04, Cedar only) is marked deprecated and is supported through April 2027. Apps on it should move to Heroku-24 or Heroku-26. About 158 days left: the deadline is Apr 2027 (the vendor named the month, not the day). ## Facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | [Heroku](https://harbyn.com/vendors/heroku.md) | | Kind | Deprecation | | Severity | low | | Status | Announced | | Announced | Oct 8, 2026 (undated by the vendor; already published when we first read the page) | | Effective | Apr 2027 (month only; the vendor gave no day) | | Added to Harbyn | Oct 8, 2026 | | Lead time | 175 days of warning | | Symbols | `Heroku-22` | | Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model | ## Find it in your code ```sh npx harbyn scan ``` This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses Heroku, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine. ## Sources Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot. - (deprecations, fetched 2026-10-08 23:25 UTC, sha256 `fcfaea8001a8b3befbe51f8afbe046dca69a3c67770a549e1d61a2aaa0e7c670`) ## Related changes ### More from Heroku - [Python buildpacks updated to Pipenv 2026.9.1 and uv 0.13.1](https://harbyn.com/changes/heroku/2026-10-14-python-buildpacks-updated-to-pipenv-2026-9-1-and-uv-0-13-1.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 14, 2026) - [Python build tools updated](https://harbyn.com/changes/heroku/2026-10-21-python-build-tools-updated.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 21, 2026) ### Changes at other vendors - [AWS Lambda: Python 3.10 runtime deprecation](https://harbyn.com/changes/aws-lambda/2026-10-08-python-3-10-runtime-deprecation.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026) - [Jira / Atlassian Cloud: Atlassian Analytics dashboard subscriptions being removed](https://harbyn.com/changes/atlassian-jira/2026-08-10-atlassian-analytics-dashboard-subscriptions-being-removed.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026) - [Google Cloud Run and Functions: .NET 8 runtime deprecation](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-cloud/2026-10-08-net-8-runtime-deprecation.md) (effective Nov 10, 2026) - [GitHub: X-GitHub-Stateless-S2S-Token header ignored from 2026-11-30](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-02-x-github-stateless-s2s-token-header-ignored-from-2026-11-30.md) (effective Nov 30, 2026) [All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)