3.6 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.5?

Oracle VM Release 3.3.5 includes separate patches for Oracle VM Manager, Oracle VM Server, and Oracle VM Agent for SPARC as follows:

  • Oracle VM Manager: patch ID 20492250.

  • Oracle VM Server: patch ID 20492240.

  • Oracle VM Agent for SPARC: patch ID 20492222.

Download the patches from My Oracle Support.

The new features and enhancements in Oracle VM Release 3.3.5 include:

Performance

Oracle VM Manager performance enhancements

  • This release enhances the performance of Oracle VM Manager by reducing the number of non-critical events that are generated and stored in Oracle VM Manager, for example, server discover scan and PortUp and PortDown events. (22894434 and 22894398)

  • Support added for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, ensuring that users can now access the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface using this browser. (22163132)

Infrastructure

  • Update to the dom0 Kernel: Updates the dom0 kernel to a newer Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 3.8.13-118.15.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm.

  • Package and library updates: The following changes apply to this release of Oracle VM:

    • The OCFS2 package is updated to ocfs2-tools-1.8.6-5.el6.x86_64.rpm.

    • The openSCAP package is updated to openscap-1.2.8-2.0.1.el6.rpm.

    • The Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) package is updated to nspr-4.11.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm.

    • The Network Security Services (NSS) package is updated to nss-3.21.3-2.0.1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm.

    • The tzdata package is updated to tzdata-2016g-2.el6.noarch.rpm.

    • The Xen package is updated to xen-4.3.0-55.el6.186.6.x86_64.rpm.

    • The VMPInfo3 package is updated to vmpinfo3-sosreport-1.0.0-11.el6.2.1.noarch.rpm.

Security

  • Oracle MySQL patch update: This release of Oracle VM includes the October 2016 Critical Patch Update for MySQL. (23087176)

  • Oracle WebLogic patch update: This release of Oracle VM includes the October 2016 Critical Patch Update for WebLogic. (23087171)

  • Oracle Java patch update: This release of Oracle VM includes the October 2016 Critical Patch Update for Java. (23087180)

Oracle VM Security Advisories

This release includes the following Oracle VM Security Advisories:

Table 3.2 Oracle VM Security Advisories

Advisory Identifier

Severity

Description

OVMSA-2016-0031

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 openssl security update

OVMSA-2016-0034

Critical

Oracle VM 3.3 nss-util security update

OVMSA-2016-0035

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 libssh2 security update

OVMSA-2016-0036

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 bind security update

OVMSA-2016-0039

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 krb5 security update

OVMSA-2016-0040

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 foomatic security update

OVMSA-2016-0042

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 nss nss-util nspr security update

OVMSA-2016-0046

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update

OVMSA-2016-0048

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 openssh security update

OVMSA-2016-0049

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 openssl security update

OVMSA-2016-0050

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 file security update

OVMSA-2016-0053

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update

OVMSA-2016-0082

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 ntp security update

OVMSA-2016-0084

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update

OVMSA-2016-0087

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 libxml2 security update

OVMSA-2016-0089

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 xen security update

OVMSA-2016-0092

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update

OVMSA-2016-0093

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 libtiff security update

OVMSA-2016-0095

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

OVMSA-2016-0098

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

OVMSA-2016-0099

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 python security update

OVMSA-2016-0103

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 xen security update

OVMSA-2016-0133

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

OVMSA-2016-0135

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 openssl security update

OVMSA-2016-0136

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 bind security update

OVMSA-2016-0139

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bugfix update

OVMSA-2016-0145

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 bind security update

OVMSA-2016-0150

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

OVMSA-2016-0151

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 ovm-consoled security update

OVMSA-2016-0152

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 bind security update

OVMSA-2016-0155

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

OVMSA-2016-0156

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 libgcrypt security update

OVMSA-2016-0157

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 policycoreutils security update

OVMSA-2016-0159

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 nss and nss-util security update

OVMSA-2016-0163

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

OVMSA-2016-0165

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 xen security update

OVMSA-2016-0168

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 expat security update

OVMSA-2016-0170

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 sudo security update

OVMSA-2016-0171

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 xen security update

OVMSA-2016-0175

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

OVMSA-2016-0177

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 xen security update