What's new in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GoldenGate

Learn about new features and enhancements recently added to improve your OCI GoldenGate experience.

When new and updated features are available for OCI GoldenGate, instances are upgraded in the data centers where Oracle Cloud services are hosted. Changes to the Oracle Cloud Console take affect automatically, but OCI GoldenGate deployments must be manually upgraded to stay within the support window.

To understand the full scope of each release, ensure that you also review the following resources:

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August 2025

Feature or Change	Description
Licenses	OCI GoldenGate now supports OCPU limits to control the number of OCPUs covered by Bring your own license (BYOL). This applies to all deployment types: Data replication, Stream analytics, and Data transforms. The new option appears when you create or edit a deployment.
New connections	OCI GoldenGate now supports Oracle Database@AWS - Autonomous Database.
Connection changes	Two additional fields were added to the Amazon Kinesis connection type: Region and Endpoint. You can now use resource principal to authenticate access to OCI Streaming. An Azure Authority Host field was added to Azure Data Lake Storage.
Quickstarts	Check out our new quickstart: Migrate MongoDB to Oracle Database with zero downtime.
Service changes	Take a look at the latest Service Change announcements and take action on any changes that affect your deployments.
REST APIs	The GoldenGate Service REST API reference was refreshed to reflect the recent feature releases and updates.
New GoldenGate versions available	New GoldenGate data replication versions for Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Db2 for z/OS, Db2 for i, and Big Data are now available. New OCI GoldenGate Data Transforms and Stream Analytics builds are also available. Ensure that you upgrade your deployments as soon as you can to leverage the newest features and security fixes. See OCI GoldenGate versions. Note: Beginning May 2026, all 21c data replication deployments will auto upgrade to 23ai. Release dates may differ between regions.

June 2025

Feature or Change	Description
New connections	OCI GoldenGate now supports the following connection types: Db2 for i Apache Iceberg Oracle API for MongoDB Google Pub/Sub
New deployment type	With the addition of the Db2 for i connection type, a new deployment type was also added. Learn more.
Connection changes	Two additional fields were added to the Amazon S3 connection type: Region and Endpoint. Amazon DocumentDB is now supported as a source. Password secrets is now the default for all connection types. If you prefer not to use password secrets, you can deselect the setting in the Advanced options on the Create connection screen. Note: Ensure you have the minimum required policies to secure Vault and secrets access.
Disaster recovery	OCI GoldenGate now supports diaster recovery using local peer deployments. Learn more: About High Availability in OCI GoldenGate Manage peer deployments Set up local disaster recovery
Quickstarts	New quickstarts were added to help you get started with new features: Set up local disaster recovery Replicate data from Db2 for i to Autonomous Data Warehouse Replicate data from Autonomous Transaction Processing to Apache Iceberg
Service changes	Take a look at the latest Service Change announcements and take action on any changes that affect your deployments.
REST APIs	The GoldenGate Service REST API reference was refreshed to reflect the recent feature releases and updates.
New GoldenGate versions available	New GoldenGate data replication versions for Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Db2 for z/OS, Db2 for i, and Big Data are now available. New OCI GoldenGate Data Transforms and Stream Analytics builds are also available. Ensure that you upgrade your deployments as soon as you can to leverage the newest features and security fixes. See OCI GoldenGate versions. Note: Beginning May 2026, all 21c data replication deployments will auto upgrade to 23ai. Release dates may differ between regions.

April 2025

Feature or Change	Description
Pipelines	Build ZeroETL Mirror pipelines in OCI GoldenGate. Pipelines is a new resource that lets you create data replication solutions from preconfigured use cases. One such use case is ZeroETL Mirror. Choose an article to learn how to get started: Mirror data with ZeroETL pipelines quickstart About pipelines Create pipeline resources
Schedule backups	You can now schedule manual backups to run at your preferred day, time, and frequency when you create or edit a data replication deployment. Learn more.
Connection assignments	If you create or unassign a connection with a Dedicated endpoint and it remains unassigned for seven consecutive days, the service converts the endpoint to Shared.
Service changes	Take a look at the latest Service Change announcements and take action on any changes that affect your deployments.
REST APIs	The GoldenGate Service REST API reference was refreshed to reflect the recent feature releases and updates.
New GoldenGate versions available	New GoldenGate data replication versions for Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Db2 for z/OS, and Big Data are now available. New OCI GoldenGate Data Transforms and Stream Analytics builds are also available. Ensure that you upgrade your deployments as soon as you can to leverage the newest features and security fixes. See OCI GoldenGate versions.

February 2025

Feature or Change	Description
New connection types	OCI GoldenGate now supports the following Connection types: Oracle Database@Azure - Autonomous Database Oracle Database@Google Cloud - Autonomous Database Oracle Database@Google Cloud - Exadata Oracle Database@AWS - Exadata Oracle Database@Azure - Exadata Oracle JSON Collection Amazon DocumentDB (target only) Databricks (target only) Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse (target only) Microsoft Fabric Mirror (target only) Google AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
New Quickstarts	The following Quickstarts were added: Replicate Data from Autonomous Transaction Processing to Databricks Replicate Data from Autonomous Transaction Processing to Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse Replicate Data from Autonomous Transaction Processing to Microsoft Fabric Mirror Replicate data from PostgreSQL to Snowflake using Streaming Handler
Service changes	Take a look at the latest Service Change announcements and take action on any changes that affect your deployments.
REST APIs	The GoldenGate Service REST API reference was refreshed to reflect the recent feature releases and updates.
New GoldenGate versions available	New GoldenGate data replication versions for Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Db2 for z/OS, and Big Data are now available. New OCI GoldenGate Data Transforms and Stream Analytics builds are also available. Ensure that you upgrade your deployments as soon as you can to leverage the newest features and security fixes. See OCI GoldenGate versions.

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