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:

March 2023

Feature or Change Description
New maintenance features

You can now schedule upgrades, subscribe to upgrade notifications, snooze upgrade notifications, and rollback upgrades. Learn more.

You can also review the different builds available to learn what's included in each release. See OCI GoldenGate versions.

You must upgrade to version _703 or above to use the maintenance features.

GoldenGate API updates To support the features released, additions were made to the GoldenGate API.
New GoldenGate version available New GoldenGate versions for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Big Data are now available. Ensure that you upgrade your deployments as soon as you can. See OCI GoldenGate versions.

February 2023

Feature or Change Description
Manage master encryption key wallets

You can now manage master encryption key wallets in OCI GoldenGate. You can use master encryption keys to encrypt trail files distributed to other GoldenGate deployments. Learn more.

You must upgrade to version _687 or above to use the master encryption key wallet features.

GoldenGate API updates To support the features released, additions were made to the GoldenGate API.
New quickstarts added New quickstarts were added:
New GoldenGate version available New GoldenGate versions for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Big Data are now available. Ensure that you upgrade your deployments as soon as you can. See OCI GoldenGate versions.

December 2022

Feature or Change Description
New deployment type added OCI GoldenGate now supports PostgreSQL as a deployment type. Learn more.
New connection types added New connection types were added for PostgreSQL and Big Data. See what's supported.
New quickstarts added New quickstarts were added to showcase the new connection types:
Collect diagnostics You can now collect diagnostics to analyze or share information about your OCI GoldenGate deployment. The information collected can be shared with My Oracle Support, should you encounter any issues. Learn more.
GoldenGate API To support the features released, additions were made to the Deployments API.
Admin Client You can now launch the Admin Client directly from the Deployment details page. Learn more about Admin Client.
New GoldenGate version available A new GoldenGate version for Big Data is now available. Ensure that you upgrade your deployments as soon as you can.

November 2022

Feature or Change Description
Connections and deployment types You can use connections and deployment types all regions where GoldenGate is available. Learn more about deployment types and supported connections.
New GoldenGate version A new GoldenGate version for Oracle is now available. Ensure that you upgrade your deployments as soon as you can.

October 2022

Feature or Change Description
Connections and deployment types You can use connections and deployment types all regions where GoldenGate is available except:
  • US West (Phoenix)
  • US East (Ashburn)
  • Australia East (Sydney)
  • Germany Central (Frankfurt)

Learn more about deployment types and supported connections.

September 2022

Feature or Change Description
Connections and deployment types The following deployment types are now available in the US West (San Jose) and France Central (Paris) regions:
  • Oracle Database
  • Big Data
  • MySQL

Learn more about these deployment types and support connections.

View Trail files You can now view Trail files for deployments upgraded to GoldenGate version 21.6 or higher on the Deployment details page, under Resources. Trail files build up over time, which directly impacts the Storage utilization calculation you see under Deployment information. Use this information to manage trail files.

August 2022

Feature or Change Description
New metrics added Several new metrics were added to the deployment details page so that you can observe the health of GoldenGate processes within the Oracle Cloud console. Learn more:
Admin client support in Cloud Shell Cloud Shell now supports GoldenGate Admin client. Admin client enables you to create and manage OCI GoldenGate resources from the command line utility. Learn more.
New GoldenGate version available A new GoldenGate version is now available. Upgrade your OCI GoldenGate as soon as possible to stay within the current support window. To upgrade, click the Upgrade link on your deployment details page. Learn more.

June 2022

Feature or Change Description
Connections A new OCI GoldenGate resource type was introduced and replaces Database Registrations for users in the San Jose region only. Explore connections.
Connections API A catalog of REST APIs was introduced to support new Connections resource type for users in the San Jose region only.
Supported technologies You can now use MySQL databases and Big Data technologies with OCI GoldenGate for users in the San Jose region only. Learn what's supported.
New quickstarts For users in the San Jose region, get started with newly supported databases and technologies with the following quickstarts:
New troubleshooting topic added Learn to troubleshoot memory consumption issues and configure CacheMgr.

March 2022

Feature or Change Description
Storage utilization Each deployment has a soft limit of 250 GB storage per OCPU. You can see how much storage space your deployment uses on the deployment details page. When the storage limit is reached, a message displays on the deployment details page advising you to take action to free up space. Learn to purge unused trail files.
GoldenGate API To support the features released, additions were made to the Deployments API.
GoldenGate Events A new Deployment event type was added for Storage Utillization. Learn more.
New quickstart Learn to configure bidirectional replication.

December 2021

Feature or Change Description
Support for RAC databases Database Registrations now support RAC databases. See Registering a Database.
GoldenGate API To support the features released, additions were made to the DatabaseRegistration APIs.

November 2021

Feature or Change Description
New details for Deployment Backups Deployment backup size and start and end times were added to the Deployment Backup Details page. See Viewing Backup Details.
GoldenGate API To support the features released, additions were made to the DeploymentBackup APIs.
Policy examples updated With the recent release of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM and the introduction of identity domains, updates were made to OCI GoldenGate Policy examples. See:
Quickstarts updated Send Data from an On-premises Oracle GoldenGate to OCI GoldenGate and Send Data from OCI GoldenGate to an On-premises Oracle GoldenGate quickstarts were updated to reflect changes to the root certificate.
Managing Deployment Backups Reasons that a backup process fails were added to Managing Deployment Backups.

October 2021

Feature or Change Description
Upgrade History You can now view a list of past upgrades on the Deployment Details page. The Upgrade History displays the Oracle GoldenGate version applied, the date and time the upgrade started and finished, and the completion status. See Upgrading Oracle GoldenGate.
DeploymentUpgrade API A set of API operations was added to support the Upgrade History feature. See DeploymentUpgrade Reference.
Root certificate change For OCI GoldenGate users who send data between OCI GoldenGate and on-premises Oracle GoldenGate instances or other non-OCI GoldenGate deployments, OCI GoldenGate's root certificate was recently updated and directly impacts any distribution and receiver paths between these source and targets. After upgrading your deployment, complete the following steps to successfully restart any distribution and receiver paths between OCI GoldenGate and on-premises Oracle GoldenGate instances or other non-OCI GoldenGate deployments:
Managing Trail Files Learn about Trail file management in Managing Trail Files.
New quickstarts The following quickstarts were added:
Quickstart updated Replicating Data Between Two Cloud Databases now includes steps to instantiate a target database using Oracle Data Pump.
New Policy examples Policy examples for securing network resources were added. See Policy Examples for Securing Network Resources.