Changes in This Release

This is a summary of important changes in Developer's Guide to the Oracle Precompilers.

Deprecated Feature

The following feature is deprecated in Oracle AI Database Developer's Guide to the Oracle Precompilers for Oracle AI Database Release 26ai.

Deprecation of FIPS parameters

Starting with Oracle AI Database 26ai, several parameters associated with FIPS_140 are deprecated.

FIPS_140 in FIPS.ORA can be used to enable FIPS for all features starting with Oracle AI Database 26ai. The following FIPS parameters are deprecated:

  • SQLNET.ORA: FIPS_140 to enable FIPS for native network encryption
  • FIPS.ORA: SSLFIPS_140 to enable FIPS for TLS
  • Initialization parameter: DBFIPS_140 to enable FIPS for TDE and DBMS_CRYPTO