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Australia East (Sydney) and UK West (Newport) region availability
File Storage with Lustre is now available in the Australia East (Sydney) (ap-sydney-1) and UK West (Newport) ...
Use model aliases in OCI Generative AI
OCI Generative AI now supports model aliases for applications and client code that use models in the on-demand serving mode. ...
Get notified about model retirement dates in OCI Generative AI
OCI Generative AI has added Console messages, API date parameters, and OCI notification announcements for model deprecation and retirement.
...WebLogic Management is now in available in all OC1 Regions
WebLogic Management is available in all regions in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure commercial OC1 realm. For more information, see ...
Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure on Oracle Database@AWS
Using Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure on Oracle Database@AWS, you can run Oracle Database workloads on Oracle Cloud ...
Customer-managed keys support for refreshable clones
Autonomous Database supports using customer-managed encryption keys with refreshable clones.
OCI Generative AI is available in the India South (Hyderabad) region
OCI Generative AI is now available in the India South (Hyderabad) region. For more information see Regions with Generative AI ...
Compute Cloud@Customer introduces new features
A new release of Compute Cloud@Customer is now available with the following new features:
- Updated Platform Images ...
Oracle-defined Dashboard for HeatWave and External MySQL DB Systems
You can now use the new Oracle-defined dashboard, MySQL fleet performance, to monitor the critical performance metrics for ...
OCI Generative AI now supports Cohere Embed 4
OCI Generative AI has added support for Cohere Embed 4. This model processes mixed modality inputs (text and images ...
Oracle Data Safe Has Added Support for Oracle Database@Google Cloud
Oracle Data Safe now supports the registration of Oracle Database@Google Cloud - Oracle Exadata Database Service as target databases. For ...
Generative AI is now available in LangChain4j
OCI Generative AI models are now supported in LangChain4j, the Java version of LangChain. This integration expands Java developers’ ...
Unified Monitoring Agent 0.1.39 released
A new release of the Unified Monitoring Agent (UMA) is now available with the following major updates:
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...
HeatWave: Encryption-at-rest with user-managed encryption key
HeatWave DB systems use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) block and object storage services for storing data and backups. OCI ...
Best practices for application availability during maintenance
Autonomous Database patches are applied during a scheduled maintenance window as rolling patches.
Data Science AI Quick Actions are now Supported in Government Regions
Data Science AI Quick Actions are now supported in Government regions.
For more information on enabling them, see ...
Carbon Emissions Analysis power-based calculation support
Using the Carbon Emissions Analysis page in Emissions Management, paying commercial Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers can track their ...
Oracle WebLogic Update
Stack Monitoring now supports Oracle WebLogic Node Manager, which is automatically discovered as part of the WebLogic Domain discovery. Oracle ...
Deprecated APIs in OCI Generative AI
The GenerateText and SummarizeText APIs are now deprecated. From 26th June 2026 onwards the deprecated APIs will be unavailable. ...
New experience in Oracle Cloud Console
We've launched a major update to the Oracle Cloud Console. The new experience includes intuitive designs across the Console ...
The xAI platform for OCI Generative AI is now in General Availability
The xAI platform for OCI Generative AI is in General Availability and you can now access the pretrained Grok 3 ...
MongoDB API support from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console
You can enable the MongoDB API on your Autonomous Database from the OCI console. The MongoDB API enables MongoDB-compatible ...
Kubernetes Engine support for node cycling extended to include reboot, and boot volume replacement
OCI Kubernetes Engine now enables you to resolve issues and perform maintenance tasks on the compute instances hosting worker nodes, ...
HeatWave: Support for Version 9.3.2
HeatWave now supports MySQL database 9.3.2. This is the latest Innovation release. It provides security and bug fixes in ...
Network Address Translation (NAT) Rules Now Available for Firewall Policies
Data Transforms enhancements
Data Transforms is updated with new features and changes in the following areas.
Elastic pool support for child tenancies
You can combine Organization Management with the benefits of elastic pools.
Kubernetes Engine support for credential rotation extended to include clusters with virtual nodes
OCI Kubernetes Engine now supports the rotation of credentials for clusters with virtual nodes (in addition to the existing support ...
SPA Quick Check in Database Management
In SQL Performance Watch, you can now configure SPA Quick Check to validate the potential impact of a system ...
Logging Analytics: Use of Resource Principal for authentication while ingesting logs using Service Connector
The authentication is now provided for resource principals to access resources for ingesting logs from various OCI services by creating ...
Logging Analytics: Support for separate recalls with overlapping data
In Oracle Logging Analytics storage, even if multiple individual recalls have some common log data due to overlapping time range/log ...
Logging Analytics: Lookups now available as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources
Oracle Logging Analytics lookups are now used as OCI resources. You can now implement access control on lookups using ...
Logging Analytics: Log processing errors diagnosis enhancements
You can use Processing Errors metric to detect the error and troubleshoot your log processing pipeline by identifying the type ...
Logging Analytics: Oracle-defined detection rule templates
You can use the following two new Oracle-defined templates to create detection rules for posting metrics based on specific conditions. ...
Logging Analytics: Support for Base64 decode in mapped parsing
When you map fields through a parser to extract fields from a base field, you can now select from actions ...
Oracle Application Express (APEX) 24.2 is now available for new Autonomous Container Databases (ACD)
You can use Oracle Application Express 24.2 to develop applications for an Autonomous Database. Only newly created ACDs have ...
APM Java Agent Version 1.17 Available
APM Java agent version 1.17 is available with the following updates:
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OCI Gen AI Inference Client ...
Support for Kubernetes version 1.33.1
OCI Kubernetes Engine now supports Kubernetes version 1.33.1, in addition to versions 1.32.1 and 1.31.1. Oracle recommends you upgrade your ...
WebLogic Management is now in General Availability
Use WebLogic Management to streamline the administration of WebLogic Server deployments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute instances. Enable the ...
Table Hyperlink network access checking with ACLs
You can generate a Table Hyperlink with ACL checking enabled.
Send notifications to an OCI Notifications service topic
You can send messages from Autonomous Database to an OCI Notifications service topic.
Critical and information events with event category
Critical events and Information events include an eventCategory
attribute.
Data Studio enhancements: Use SQL syntax to query remote catalogs
You can access external data by mounting catalogs and querying them using a simplified SQL syntax.
Red Hat OpenShift plugin available in OCI Console
You can provision Red Hat OpenShift clusters by directly accessing the new Red Hat OpenShift plugin from within the ...
OCI Generative AI Agents is now available in US East (Ashburn)
OCI Generative AI Agents is now available in the US East (Ashburn) region. For more information see Regions with Generative ...
Logging Analytics: Line chart visualization enhancement
The following enhancements are now available in Oracle Logging Analytics Line Chart visualization:
- Smooth scrolling tool tips: Now, you ...
Playwright support in APM Availability Monitoring
Playwright is supported when working with Scripted Browser monitor type in Availability Monitoring. You can now create and upload ...
GoldenGate adds new connection types and local disaster recovery
GoldenGate now supports new connection types and local disaster recovery. Learn more about what's new in this release. ...
Select AI enhancements
Select AI includes the following new features.
Cross-region standby can be an elastic pool member or an elastic pool leader
A cross-region standby can be added to an elastic pool or can be an elastic pool leader.
Google Drive support for database links with Oracle-managed heterogeneous connectivity
Use Autonomous Database Oracle-managed heterogeneous connectivity to create database links to Google Drive.
New Mexican and Dutch Masking Formats in Oracle Data Safe
New masking formats have been added for Mexico and the Netherlands, including Mexico Company RFC ID, CURP Code, Individual RFC ...
Oracle Data Safe Has Added Support for Multi-cloud Oracle Databases
Oracle Data Safe now supports the registration of Oracle Database@AWS - Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Database@Google Cloud - ...
Ability to create a cross region backup copy of an Autonomous Container Database
Oracle Public Cloud deployments of Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure allow you to select a secondary region for ...
Ability to clone an Autonomous Container Database
On Oracle Public Cloud deployments, Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure lets you clone an Autonomous Container Database (ACD) ...
New Features in Database Management for Heatwave and External MySQL
This release of Database Management for HeatWave and External MySQL introduces the following enhancements:
- Database Management features ...
HeatWave: Soft delete of backups reaching retention period
HeatWave now supports soft delete and it is enabled by default for both automatic and manual backups. When a ...
Built-in tools billing and default configuration changes
In the ECPU compute model, the built-in database tools that use a VM, including: OML, Graph Studio, and Data Transforms have default configuration changes and billing changes.
Elastic pool cost and usage information in cost reports
Elastic pool cost and usage details are recorded in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
cost reports and in the OCI_COST_DATA view.
Offload queries from elastic pool member: Includes queries from PL/SQL and from Oracle Scheduler Jobs
When you have heavy read workloads, where a relatively small amount of data is scanned by multiple queries, including from PL/SQL or from Oracle Scheduler Jobs, you can offload queries (reads) from either an elastic pool leader or from an elastic pool member to Refreshable Clones.
Data Studio enhancements: Use Table Hyperlinks to access data using spreadsheet add-in
You can read and access data with a Table Hyperlink in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using Oracle Autonomous Database Add-in for Excel.
Cloud Shell now provides the Toolkit for Java Download
Cloud Shell now enables you to install an Oracle Java release by using the Toolkit for Java Download. For ...
Kubernetes Engine support for resource leak protection
OCI Kubernetes Engine now helps to maintain the stability of a cluster's control plane by creating a validating admission webhook. ...
Logging Analytics: Migration of Object Collection flow from Service Principal to Resource Principal
Oracle Logging Analytics used Service Principal to access your object storage buckets when you configure an object collection rule ...
Management Agent Updates
- Bug fixes
- Performance enhancements ...
New Security Zone policies offer more security controls
Security Zones has released 19 new policies to ensure that resources in security zones comply with security best practices. ...
Cross-region Data Guard support for OCI Virtual Vault
You can now set up a cross-region Data Guard between two databases. It enables you to have the encryption ...
OCPU billing metric retirement for new Autonomous Exadata VM Clusters (AVMCs)
Starting May 28th, 2025, Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure does not allow you to create new AVMCs using ...
New database metric for Session Utilization
Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure provides a new metric called SessionUtilization to show the maximum session utilization as ...
Remove OCPU compute model option for Data Warehouse and Transaction Processing workloads
The OCPU compute model option is removed when you provision or clone a new Autonomous Database instance with Data Warehouse or Transaction Processing workloads.
Support Zstd compression in DBMS_CLOUD
DBMS_CLOUD supports loading and querying data using external tables
as well as exporting and importing of data from Autonomous Database to object
storage.
ADM service now supports reporting warnings for vulnerability audit
The Application Dependency Management (ADM) service has expanded its support for vulnerability audits to report warnings for application dependencies ...
Oracle Linux 9 is now the default OCI platform image
Starting May 27, 2025, Oracle Linux 9 is the default Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform image.
HeatWave: REST
HeatWave supports MySQL REST service starting from version 9.3.1. You must enable REST on the DB system and create ...
HeatWave: Support for Version 9.3.1
HeatWave now supports MySQL database 9.3.1. This is the latest Innovation release. It provides security and bug fixes in ...
Add ZPR security attributes to load balancers
Zero Trust Packet Routing (ZPR) security attributes can now be added to load balancers. For more information, see Managing ...
Kubernetes Engine support for ReadWriteMany access mode for PVCs backed by raw block volumes
OCI Kubernetes Engine now supports ReadWriteMany as an access mode for PVCs backed by raw block volumes.
Specify ReadWriteMany as ...
Compute Cloud@Customer introduces audit logs and upgrade notifications
You can now use the following new features on Compute Cloud@Customer:
- Audit logs: The Logging service ...
Use OCI ADK in Generative AI Agents
The OCI ADK (Agent Development Kit) is a client-side library that simplifies building agentic applications on top of OCI Generative ...
The xAI platform for OCI Generative AI is available in Beta
The xAI platform for OCI Generative AI is now available in Beta. With Beta access, you can now reach the ...
Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam) region availability
File Storage with Lustre is now available in the Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam) region (eu-amsterdam-1).
HeatWave: Network security groups
HeatWave now supports network security groups for configuring security rules that apply to the endpoints of HeatWave DB systems. ...
Support for Demand Signal
OCI Control Center now supports Demand Signal feature for allow listed customers to communicate forecasting needs by creating demand ...
Bulk PDB Enablement and Monitoring
For Oracle Cloud Databases, you can now bulk enable Diagnostics & Management for a CDB and its associated PDBs. ...
Data Science AI Quick Actions now Supports Multimodel Deployment
Data Science AI Quick Actions are now supports multimodel deployment from the CLI. This means you can deploy more ...
New Region in Batam, Indonesia
The Indonesia North (Batam) region is now available. The region identifier is ap-batam-1. The region key is HSG. ...
Secure Desktops is now available in the Indonesia North (Batam) region
Secure Desktops is now available in the Indonesia North (Batam) region.
For more information about the Secure Desktops ...
Use Meta Llama 4 in OCI Generative AI
OCI Generative AI now supports Meta Llama 4 models, Scout and Maverick, on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI service ...
Use Cohere Command A and Rerank in OCI Generative AI
OCI Generative AI now supports the following Cohere models on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI service. These powerful ...
New Features in Fleet Application Management
This release of Fleet Application Management introduces several new features and enhancements.
HeatWave: Single-AD HeatWave cluster optimization when changing the primary instance of a high availability DB system
Previously, in a high availability DB system with HeatWave cluster enabled, a change in the current placement of the ...
Specify default bind variables in Table Hyperlinks
You can specify default values for one or more bind variables in a SQL statement when
the default_bind_values parameter is included with
DBMS_DATA_ACCESS.GET_PREAUTHENTICATED_URL.
Data Transforms updates
Data Transforms is updated with new features and changes in the following areas.
Support for Kubernetes version 1.33.0 in a preview release of Kubernetes Engine
A preview release of OCI Kubernetes Engine now provides support for Kubernetes version 1.33.0 for early access testing and validation ...
Logging Analytics: Support for Eclipse Jetty Server Logs
The following support is now offered by Logging Analytics for ingesting Jetty Server logs:
- Oracle-defined sources available: New sources Eclipse ...
Logging Analytics: Support for OCI Network Firewall Tunnel Logs
The following support is now available in Oracle Logging Analytics for ingesting OCI Network Firewall Tunnel Logs:
- New Oracle-defined ...
Private DNS Logging
You can use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging service to enable logging of an OCI internet and VCN resolver associated ...
Select AI enhancements
Select AI includes the following new features.
Use in-database transformer model with Select AI RAG
You can use in-database transformers (also known as embedding models) that you imported into your Oracle Database 23ai instance with Select AI RAG to generate vector embeddings for document chunks and user prompts.
Logging Analytics: Terraform provider for enabling archive storage
Oracle Logging Analytics now offers Terraform provider resources oci_log_analytics_namespace_storage_archival_config and oci_log_analytics_namespace_storage_enable_disable_archiving to define and manage archival storage enablement as ...
Unified Monitoring Agent 0.1.38 released
A new release of the Unified Monitoring Agent (UMA) is now available with the following major updates:
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...
US Midwest (Chicago) region availability
File Storage with Lustre is now available in the US Midwest (Chicago) region (us-chicago-1).
Kubernetes Engine support for Cluster Autoscaler node group auto-discovery
OCI Kubernetes Engine now supports the capability of the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler to discover which node pool (or node pools) to ...
Management Agent Updates
- The Management Agent Plug-in for ...
APM Plug-in for Visual Studio Code Available
The APM plug-in for Visual Studio Code is now available. This new plug-in enables you to create and manage ...
Document Generator pre-built function version 25.3 now available
Document Generator pre-built function version 25.3 is available in OCI Functions.
This version includes various fixes and improvements, ...
Full Stack Disaster Recovery introduces support for adding a user-defined precheck and provides other updates
- Add a user-defined precheck to a Disaster Recovery ...
HeatWave: The default value of AutomaticBackupRetention is changed from DELETE to RETAIN
For every new DB system created using SDK/CLI/Terraform after the release date, the default value of AutomaticBackupRetention in the ...
Resource Scheduler new features
Resource Scheduler supports new features and capabilities that provides more control of schedules and resources.
- Resource Scheduler ...
Data Studio enhancements
The Data Studio is updated with new features and changes.
Logging Analytics: Support for PostgreSQL database for SQL log collection
The database instance monitoring capability of Oracle Logging Analytics is now extended to support PostgreSQL database for SQL collection. ...
Logging Analytics: New PostgreSQL Oracle-defined sources
The following new Oracle-defined log sources of the type File are available for monitoring PostgreSQL database:
- OCI PostgreSQL Service ...
Create a query-based widget for resources
You can now create a query-based widget using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resource queries to display and monitor resources. ...
Display data from multiple regions in Alarms and Resources widgets
You can now retrieve and display data from more than one region in the following Oracle-defined widgets:
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...
New Oracle-defined widget: Resources pie chart
A new Oracle-defined widget, Resources pie chart, is now available. Like the Oracle-defined Resources table widget, this widget ...
Fixed an issue with notifications
This release includes the following fixes:
- Fixed an issue with notifications not being sent when a critical ...
Data Science now Supports ML Applications
ML Applications is a self-contained representation of ML use cases in Data Science.
ML Applications is a new ...
Data Science AI Quick Actions v 1.0.7
- Multi-model deployment - Users ...
OCI Generative AI is available in the UAE East (Dubai) region
OCI Generative AI is now available in the UAE East (Dubai) region. For more information see Regions with Generative AI ...
Enhanced group flexibility
This release includes the following enhancements:
- Enhanced groups to allow member instances to apply update jobs independently ...
APM Domain and Agents Updates
A new release of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is available with the following new features and enhancements:
- Export and import ...
Patch Management in Database Management
Patch Management for Oracle Databases allows you to remediate the vulnerabilities identified through Vulnerability Detection, by using recommended security ...
Use SCSI Persistent Reservations with block volumes
SCSI Persistent Reservation (SCSI PR) is a feature of the SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) protocol that allows multiple ...
Long Pending Transaction event
The LongPendingTransaction event is generated when a transaction is
open for longer than 24 hours.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for a cross-region Autonomous Data Guard Standby
The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for cross-region Autonomous Data Guard Standby databases is lowered to less than ten (10) minutes.
Automatic Regression Detection
Automatic Regression Detection in Autonomous Database provides proactive handling of regressions and enables automated issue detection, diagnosis, and mitigation.
Logging Analytics: New storage monitoring metric
A new storage metric Recalled Storage in Active Storage Used is now available in Oracle Logging Analytics. This metric ...
Data Science AI Quick Actions v 1.0.6.d
- vLLM service managed container upgraded to version 0.8.3. The AI ...
Language display preferences in subscriptions
The Announcements service now supports choosing a language display preference for all announcement subscriptions.
Manage Customer Contacts for Autonomous Database resources
When customer contacts are set, Oracle sends announcements, operational notifications, and unplanned maintenance notifications to the specified email addresses. ...
Add AI Guardrails to OCI Generative AI Model Endpoints
You can now add AI guardrails, a suite of safety and governance features to OCI Generative AI model endpoints. Designed ...
Add Safety Modes to Cohere Models in OCI Generative AI
You can now add an optional safety mode to OCI Generative AI Cohere models during a chat session. This parameter ...
ADDM Spotlight in Database Management
ADDM Spotlight aggregates the ADDM data in the database and consolidates the findings and recommendations that need to be ...
Database Management for Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure
You can now enable and use Database Management for Oracle Databases running on Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure ...
Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) April 2025 for Oracle Java SE
Java Management supports the following releases that are part of the Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) April 2025 for ...
HeatWave: Support for Versions 9.3.0, 8.4.5, and 8.0.42
HeatWave now supports MySQL database 9.3.0, 8.4.5, and 8.0.42 versions. These versions provide security and bug fixes. New DB ...
Average Active Sessions and Session Utilization metrics
The AverageActiveSessions metric shows the average number of
sessions that are actively executing or waiting for resources.
Support for comments parameter in the CREATE_CREDENTIAL procedure
The DBMS_CLOUD.CREATE_CREDENTIAL procedure
supports comments when you use the comments parameter.