Table of Contents

• 1.1 About These Release Notes
• 2.1 Before You Begin
  • 2.1.1 Oracle Database Requirement
  • 2.1.2 Browser Requirements
  • 2.1.3 About Release Numbering Conventions
  • 2.1.4 About Checking for the Most Current Release
  • 2.1.5 About Upgrading to the Latest Oracle APEX Release
  • 2.1.6 About Determining Your Release Version
  • 2.1.7 Important Information if Updating from a Release Prior to 21.2
  • 2.1.8 Important Information if Upgrading from Oracle Database Version 12c CDB
• 3.1 New Features
  • 3.1.1 Smart Filters
  • 3.1.2 Progressive Web Apps
  • 3.1.3 Universal Theme & UI Updates
  • 3.1.4 Faceted Search Enhancements
  • 3.1.5 Updated Alert and Confirm Dialogs
  • 3.1.6 Geocoding and Map Items
  • 3.1.7 REST Catalogs and Improvements
  • 3.1.8 Improved Report Downloads, Subscriptions, and Printing
  • 3.1.9 Improved Editors
  • 3.1.10 Environment Setup
  • 3.1.11 Email and Email Template Enhancements
  • 3.1.12 Additional Features
  • 3.1.13 JavaScript Library Upgrades
  • 3.1.14 JavaScript (jsDoc) Updates
  • 3.1.15 Data Package
  • 3.1.16 Font APEX Enhancements
  • 3.1.17 New Copyright Banner for Application Export
• 4.1 Changed Behavior
  • 4.1.1 Faceted Search Changes
  • 4.1.2 Interactive Grid Tabbing into Input Field Cell Selects Current Value
  • 4.1.3 Previously Desupported JavaScript APIs Moved to Legacy File
  • 4.1.4 Custom Positions for Page Components
  • 4.1.5 Faceted Search Region Supports Refresh DA Action
  • 4.1.6 JET Library Does Not Load when Faceted Search, Show Charts Set to No
  • 4.1.7 Change to Default Value of Zero Count Entries Attribute
  • 4.1.8 Accepted Code Size in SQL Commands Enlarged
  • 4.1.9 Translation of Runtime Messages into 31 Languages
  • 4.1.10 Interactive Report and Classic Report Changes
  • 4.1.11 Security Settings Enabled by Default
  • 4.1.12 New query parameter p_context added to POST and AJAX requests
  • 4.1.13 UI Changes
  • 4.1.14 Compatibility Mode
  • 4.1.15 Enabling Network Services in Oracle Database
    • 4.1.15.1 When and Why Network Services Must be Enabled
    • 4.1.15.2 Granting Connect Privileges in Oracle Database 12 c or Later
    • 4.1.15.3 Troubleshooting an Invalid ACL Error
• 5.1 Deprecated Features
  • 5.1.1 Deprecated Page Positions
  • 5.1.2 Deprecated Region Positions
  • 5.1.3 Custom Page Region Templates with Duplicated Positions Deprecated
  • 5.1.4 Legacy Substitution Strings Deprecated
• 6.1 Deprecated in Previous Releases
  • 6.1.1 Deprecated JavaScript Functions
  • 6.1.2 jQuery UI Deprecated
  • 6.1.3 Post Calculation for Page Items Deprecated
  • 6.1.4 Show / Hide All Page Items On Same Line attributes Deprecated
  • 6.1.5 apex.server Plug-in and Process Function Async Option Deprecated
  • 6.1.6 apex.widget.initPageItem Function Deprecated
  • 6.1.7 Popup LOV Template Deprecated
  • 6.1.8 Based On - Output of PL/SQL Code attribute Deprecated
  • 6.1.9 Date Picker (jQuery) Deprecated
  • 6.1.10 Syntax {COLUMN_NAME}_LABEL in Interactive Grid Icon and Detail Views Deprecated
• 7.1 Desupported Features
  • 7.1.1 Component View Tab Desupported
• 8.1 Fixed Bugs
• 9.1 Open Bugs and Known Issues
  • 9.1.1 Known Issue using 'Source Display' region type plug-in in previously installed Sample Apps
  • 9.1.2 Known Issue for Item and Region Plug-in Visibility During Initialization
  • 9.1.3 Known Issue with New Version Date Picker in Universal Theme 1.5 and Earlier
  • 9.1.4 Known Issue using Code Editor in Safari 13
  • 9.1.5 Known Issues for jQuery UI and jQuery Upgrade
  • 9.1.6 Interactive Grid support for REST Enabled SQL
  • 9.1.7 Group By Component Type mode prevents Default View
  • 9.1.8 Known Issues for RESTful Services and Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS)
    • 9.1.8.1 Issue when Workspace Name Differs From First Provisioned Schema Name
    • 9.1.8.2 Issue when Migrating Application Express RESTful Services with a Null URI to ORDS
    • 9.1.8.3 Issue when Using SQL Developer or SQL Scripts to Enable ORDS on an Application Express 18.1 or later Schema
• 10.1 Documentation Accessibility
• 11.1 Privacy Notice