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Outage in Heroku

Heroku Service Degradation

Resolved Minor
August 25, 2026 - Started about 2 hours ago - Lasted about 1 hour
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## Heroku Service Degradation Summary A security update for Heroku Common Runtime applications in the EU region unintentionally enforced stricter TLS certificate policies, causing TLS handshake failures that prevented clients from connecting to apps on the default `herokuapp.com` domain. The issue affected Apps components and persisted for approximately 1.2 hours before engineers identified the root cause and began remediation.

A recent security update for Common Runtime applications in the EU region may have unintentionally enforced a stricter policy for TLS certificates used for app default domain TLS termination (.herokuapp.com). This caused some clients to experience TLS handshake failures and to be unable to connect to apps.  Engineers have identified the issue and we are working on remediating.
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Heroku Apps

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UPDATE about 1 hour ago - at 08/25/2026 03:40PM

A recent security update for Common Runtime applications in the EU region may have unintentionally enforced a stricter policy for TLS certificates used for app default domain TLS termination (.herokuapp.com). This caused some clients to experience TLS handshake failures and to be unable to connect to apps.  Engineers have identified the issue and we are working on remediating.

INVESTIGATING about 2 hours ago - at 08/25/2026 03:03PM

Heroku engineers are investigating.

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