IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

UPGRADE TO ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT

As part of Oracle's efforts to enhance the technology and capabilities for Fusion Applications, Identity and Access Management (IAM) for your Fusion environment(s) will be upgraded to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (OCI IAM) in the coming months, if the environment isn't already on OCI IAM. 

The new OCI IAM experience in Oracle Cloud Console provides enhanced capabilities for managing sign-on policy, single sign-on (SSO), and multi-factor authentication (MFA). All existing user attributes (user names, emails, login credentials, Federated SSO configuration) will be migrated during the upgrade, allowing you to leverage OCI IAM capabilities.

For more information regarding this change, refer to Identity Upgrade Overview.

NEW ODA PLATFORM FEATURES AND THEIR AVAILABILITY in SAAS SKILLS

When new features are added to the Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) platform, product development needs to uptake them to add to the certified skill platform version. For example, the installed FADigitalAssistant 22.07.61 version is certified for the new features added in the 22.02 platform version.

  • The features added in the 22.02 platform version won't be available in the FADigitalAssistant 22.04.60 version certified for the 21.12 platform version. That’s because the 21.12 platform version is lower than 22.02, and isn't backward compatible. You must upgrade to the latest FADA skill version and incorporate the new features into the skills while upgrading. For more information, see Upgrade Digital Assistant and Add a Skill to a Digital Assistant.
  • See this table for the latest ODA skill platform version and the corresponding FADA skill release version.
    Certified ODA Skill Platform Version New Feature Skills Supporting New Feature Certified FADA Skill Release Version
    22.12 None

    N/A

    23.04.19

In the FADA version number, the first four digits correspond to the application release and the last two digits show the FADigitalAssistant version within the release. For example, in the 22.07.48 version, 22 corresponds to the year 2022, and 07 corresponds to the quarterly release (01 = A, 04 = B, 07 = C, 10 = D) of the application version. The last two digits, 48, show the FADigitalAssistant version within the 22.07 release. The platform version is displayed in a four-digit format, the first two digits show the year, and the next two digits show the month. For example, in the 22.02 platform version, 22 corresponds to the year 2022, and 02 corresponds to February.

DEPRECATION OF OLDER DIGITAL ASSISTANT SKILL VERSIONS

The Digital Assistant and its skills continuously receive updates as they get smarter and provide enhanced conversational experiences. In every release, check for updated versions in the Skill Store. When you access a skill that is based on a deprecated platform version, a warning message displays. You can click the Tell me more option to view more information on the platform versions. Versions stop working when the underlying platform version becomes inactive, at the longest 2 years after release.

  • The Expenses skill built using Oracle Digital Assistant platform version 20.08 is deprecated and may become obsolete soon. Ensure that you've deployed the appropriate Expenses skill version to align with the quarterly update of Fusion Cloud Applications.

  • The Candidate Experience skill built using Oracle Digital Assistant platform version 22.08 is deprecated and may become obsolete soon. Ensure that you've deployed the appropriate Candidate Experience V2 skill version to align with the quarterly update of Fusion Cloud Applications.

  • The Internal Candidate Experience skill version 1 built using Oracle Digital Assistant platform version 23.06 is deprecated and may become obsolete soon. Ensure that you've deployed the appropriate Internal Candidate Experience V2 skill version to align with the quarterly update of Fusion Cloud Applications.

  • The HCM Knowledge skill is decommissioned in the release 25A. The Classic HR help desk customers are recommended to use the Search Knowledge Article intent within the Helpdesk skill.

It’s recommended to align the delivered SaaS skill version with your Fusion Cloud Applications version. This allows your skill within FADigitalAssistant to be compatible with the new APIs & URLs along with the latest updated ML models.

MICROSOFT ENDS SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 10 ON OCTOBER 14, 2025

On Oct 14, 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10. If you’re using any Oracle products that run on Windows 10, you must upgrade to Windows 11 to continue receiving support for those products.

MICROSOFT ENDS SUPPORT FOR OFFICE 2016 AND 2019 ON OCTOBER 14, 2025

On Oct 14, 2025, Microsoft will end support for Office 2016 and 2019. If you’re using any Oracle products that use Office 2016 or 2019, you must upgrade to a supported version of Office, such as Microsoft Office 2021 or Microsoft 365 (previously known as Office 365).

DEPRECATION OF BI MARKETING SEGMENTATION AND ORACLE STRATEGY SCORECARD MANAGEMENT

The Marketing Segmentation and Scorecard Management features are deprecated and planned for removal in 25D.

NEW HOME AND GLOBAL NAVIGATION EXPERIENCE

Starting from 25D, you have the option to use Home with Ask Oracle, which is a new home and global navigation experience. You use it to search for tasks, applications, and information. It's also how you navigate when you want to go from one area to another. Our vision is that you can simply ask for what you want or scan a list of intelligent suggestions. Home with Ask Oracle will remember where you've been recently and where you frequently go. 

If enabled, Home with Ask Oracle will replace both the global header and the home page that are used in the news feed home. You would set Home with Ask Oracle as the home page layout using the Appearance work area.

NEW APPEARANCE EDITOR

In 25D, the Appearance work area will have a new look and feel. Redwood themes will be available on the Appearance Themes page, and you can use your previously saved classic themes editor. The predefined classic themes will be deprecated.

DEPRECATION OF DOWNLOAD LOGS IN THE HELP MENU FOR ORACLE BI CLOUD CONNECTOR

The Download Logs feature under the Help menu is deprecated in 25C. To review the extraction details, click the Download Logs link in the Status column for each extract job in the Manage Job Schedules dialog box.

DEPRECATED AND NEW BI VIEW OBJECTS IN ORACLE BI CLOUD CONNECTOR 

Business Intelligence View Objects (BIVOs) that are deprecated are no longer available for extraction using BI Cloud Connector (BICC). 

If you use BICC to extract data from Oracle Fusion Applications Cloud, review the Deprecated and New UI View Objects spreadsheets to identify deprecated, inactive, and new BIVOs so that you can revise your BICC tasks to omit deprecated BIVOs and include new ones as appropriate.

You can use this information to omit deprecated and inactive BIVOs from your BICC tasks and add new ones as appropriate.