Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Patches in Fleet Application Management

Use the Object Storage bucket  to upload the Oracle WebLogic Server and JDK patches after downloading them from the Oracle security alerts page.

Note

Ensure you can access the Oracle support site to download the required patches. See Getting Help and Contacting Support.
  1. Go to Critical Patch Updates, Security Alerts and Bulletins for all Oracle products.
    You can find the date-wise critical patch updates. As a best practice, verify the latest updates bimonthly so that you download the latest patches whenever they're available.
  2. Click a latest patch update, for example, "Critical Patch Update - July 2024."
  3. Search for "Fusion Middleware."
    You can find a table listing products and corresponding versions for Fusion Middleware. From the list of products, you can download the following:
    • Oracle WebLogic Server, versions 12.2.1.4.0, 14.1.1.0.0
    • Oracle Coherence, versions 12.2.1.4.0, 14.1.1.0.0 (if already installed)
  4. Download Oracle WebLogic Server patches.
  5. Download JDK patches.
  6. Package all patches.
  7. Upload the <patch_ID>.zip file to a bucket in Object Storage. See Uploading an Object Storage Object to a Bucket.
  8. Add the Object Storage bucket name to the platform-specific property, Patch Bucket Name (Platform Config). To add the bucket name:
    1. Open the navigation menu and click Observability & Management. Under Fleet Application Management, click Administration.
    2. On the Properties tab, click the Actions menu (Actions Menu) to the right of the Patch Bucket Name (Platform Config) property name and then select Edit. Add the bucket name.
      See Metadata Properties in Fleet Application Management.

Downloading Oracle WebLogic Server Patches

Download Oracle WebLogic Server, versions 12.2.1.4.0, 14.1.1.0.0 from My Oracle Support.

Ensure you have already signed in to My Oracle Support and navigated to your account.
  1. From the list of products, click the Fusion Middleware link corresponding to Oracle WebLogic Server, versions 12.2.1.4.0, 14.1.1.0.0.
    You can view the Fusion Middleware critical patch update page from My Oracle Support.
  2. From the left side pane, select Oracle Weblogic Server 14.1.1.0.
    You can select a required Oracle WebLogic Server version, as applicable.
    A table opens that lists information about Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0 patch bundle with a <patch number>.
  3. Under Patch Advisor, select Click here.
    The critical patch update patch advisor for the Oracle Fusion Middleware page appears.
  4. On the Introduction tab, review information about all security patches.
  5. (Optional) Under Final CPU Information, find the support information for a specific Oracle WebLogic Server. For example, Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.4 has the final critical patch update support till October 2027. After this date, no patches are available for Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.4.
  6. Click the FMW Infrastructure/Weblogic Server tab.
    1. To download all Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0 patches, click the patch link under Option 2.
      Note

      You don't need to download Stack Patch Bundle (SPB) files under Option 1.
    2. To download all FMW Infrastructure files, on the left side pane, click each of the supported FMW Infrastructure versions and download all of them.

Downloading JDK Patches

Download the latest patches of Java 7, Java 8, and Java 11 files from My Oracle Support.

Ensure you have already signed in to My Oracle Support and navigated to your account.
  1. Go to Critical Patch Updates, Security Alerts and Bulletins for all Oracle products.
  2. For the latest JDK patch update, search for Java SE.
  3. From the list of products, click the Java SE link corresponding to Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition, versions 20.3.12, 21.3.8, 22.3.4.
    You can view the Oracle Java SE critical patch update page from My Oracle Support.
  4. Under Patch Availability, search and download patches for JDK 7, JDK 8, and JDK 11.
    Note

    To download the JDK patches, select only the patches that support Linux x86 64 platform. You don't need to download JRE patches.
  5. After downloading patches for JDK 7, JDK 8, and JDK 11, unzip each of these.
You can find a tar.gz file created for JDK 7, JDK 8, and JDK 11 and save these files.

Packaging all Patches

Create a folder that contains Oracle WebLogic Server and JDK patches.

  1. Create a folder and name it as the patch ID of the Oracle WebLogic Server bundle, for example, 36124787.
  2. Create subfolders such as JDK and WLS and add the JDK and Oracle WebLogic Server patches in the following format: 
    36124787
├── JDK
│   └── x86_64
│       ├── jdk-11.0.22_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz
│       ├── jdk-7u411-linux-x64.tar.gz
│       └── jdk-8u401-linux-x64.tar.gz
└── WLS
    └── 14.1.1.0
        ├── p28186730_1394214_Generic.zip
        ├── p32720458_141100_Generic.zip
        ├── p35922283_141100_Generic.zip
        ├── p35965633_141100_Linux-x86-64.zip
        ├── p36068072_141100_Generic.zip
        └── p36124787_141100_Generic.zip
  3. Compress the folder contents into a zip file and the zip folder name can be, "<patch_ID>.zip," for example, 36124787.zip.