Changes In Previous Releases

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 26.8 Release Notes Summary

AHF 26.8 completes migration from JKS to PKCS12 certificates and introduces customer CA-signed certificate support, trusted self-signed upload-server certificates, and synchronization requiring bidirectional TCP access on ports 5000–5005 between cluster nodes. SSH host keys are recorded on first contact and validated thereafter, while Base Database Cloud@Customer support adds diagnostic collection and OCI Monitoring integration. The release also delivers more than 50 reliability, performance, and security fixes.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 26.5 Release Notes Summary

AHF 26.5 strengthens Exachk SSH host-key validation for Exadata cells and switches, automatically runs TFA self-diagnostics after failed collections, and adds cluster-wide diagnostic flood control to reduce redundant bundles and storage use. Orachk and Exachk also introduce checks for enabled Exadata cryptographic policies and critical issues DB56 and DB57.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 26.3 Release Notes Summary

AHF 26.3 disables Lucene metadata indexing by default on new installations to reduce resource usage, modernizes Windows operations with PowerShell and CIM while retaining WMIC fallback, and extends generated certificate validity to 365 days. Exachk gains a System Overview and adaptive load-aware scheduling, administrators can manage switch configurations securely through the CLI and wallet, and Orachk/Exachk add RMAN destination storage-option validation.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 26.2 Release Notes Summary

AHF 26.2 adds Exadata Live Update status to Exachk HTML and JSON reports, deriving patching state from image history and grouping nodes by update and reboot requirements. The release also adds the Exadata critical-issue DB55 best-practice check.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 26.1 Release Notes Summary

AHF 26.1 is the final release supporting HP-UX and adds a RAC netperf profile for measuring interconnect bandwidth. Orachk and Exachk incorporate DBSAT 4.1 security guidance, support configuration updates across multiple base versions, expose per-check execution timings, and automatically select the best configured switch account on KVM Dom0 for data collection.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.11 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.11 adds the HugePagesNotUtilized diagnostic signature, selective Exachk output-format generation, structured activity logging with rotation and retention, and activity-specific chronological Alert History analysis. Orachk and Exachk also add checks confirming that ASM and RDBMS DIAGNOSTIC_DEST locations use local filesystems.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.10 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.10 is a stabilization release featuring JRE 11.0.29, lower memory usage, critical security updates, and more than 180 fixes. Collections now capture selected administrative command history, Insights detects additional eviction and performance problems with recommended resolutions, and Orachk/Exachk add core-dump configuration, invalid-object, and EX93 checks.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.9 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.9 updates Orachk and Exachk with DBSAT 4.0 guidance, simplifies compliance-report retrieval, improves Exadata DomU alert and response-file collection, makes scan-file monitoring configuration-driven, and records OneView collection and upload durations. It also improves OneView database validation and ZIP handling and adds kernel- and user-space core-dump checks.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.8 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.8 centralizes excluded compliance-check management, allows multi-node collections to continue when individual repositories are unavailable, expands ODA diagnostics with RMAN logs, and enables PDB collection through the DBTEXTINSTALL SRDC. Platinum users can verify Fleet Insights configuration, Health Check Collections Manager is distributed separately, and Orachk adds standby DB_BLOCK_CHECKING validation.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.7 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.7 enhances Data Guard Insights with database properties, detailed readiness information, log-switch analysis, and transport-network utilization. Diagnostic collections improve large-file handling, Exachk JSON inclusion, rotated-log inventory, and OneView partial-success reporting; DNFS and ORA-1555 diagnostics become more targeted, collection searches gain filters, Orachk adds private-memory comparison, Python clients gain an AHF-IPC library, and new standby protection checks are included.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.6 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.6 introduces an interactive command-line Insights explorer, hourly CHM Inline Analysis that reduces storage while extending OS-metric retention, and resource-limited processing to minimize system impact. Standalone non-root Linux deployments can collect SHM data and generate OS Insights reports, although users must manually manage SHM with sysmonctl and receive reduced metric coverage compared with root installations.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.5 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.5 moves upgrade configuration to the newer ahf configuration CLI, reduces Fleet Insights upload payloads, audits cloud TFA opt-in changes, and adds process-count spike detection. Insights and Orachk provide richer process CPU and start-time data plus name-prefix memory grouping, while Orachk adds ASM Filter Driver configuration validation.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.4 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.4 delivers the April JRE security update, lower memory usage, and broad reliability fixes. Insights detects increasing process memory usage and recommends resolutions, OneView supports partial ExaDB-C@C and ExaDB-D collections, SRDCs can run on the incident node, and Orachk/Exachk add core-dump, invalid-object, and EX93 best-practice checks.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.3 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.3 provides per-node ASM disk-group status, identifies automatic-collection trigger events in the Insights timeline, warns about deprecated CLI usage, and enforces a 15-minute minimum collection window. New diagnostics cover InfiniBand RDS degradation and low-memory differences, while Orachk adds voting-disk-integrity validation.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.2 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.2 is a maintenance release with no new features, concentrating on bug fixes and improvements to overall framework reliability and stability.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 25.1 Release Notes Summary

AHF 25.1 adds Insights analysis for NIC flow-control, memory-growth, RDS/IB, archiver, and redo-log problems with recommended resolutions. The unified CLI can securely manage SSH keys and passwords in the AHF wallet, update configuration is moving from ahfctl to ahf configuration, Oracle Linux 9 supports cgroups v1 and v2 limits, Exadata X11M and System Software 25.1 are supported, and Exachk adds EX92.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.11 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.11 adds a limit-db-changes option to AHF Balance so CPU_COUNT recommendations can be applied gradually at fleet, cluster, or database scope. The feature supports controlled phased tuning and requires Impact analysis connection details; Orachk also adds systemd-udevd CPU-usage validation.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.10 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.10 expands Insights problem detection to I/O errors and UDP-buffer misconfiguration, adds timeline-linked log viewing and in-product feedback, and introduces Orachk checks for tainted kernels and third-party security modules. Exachk adds Live Update validation and critical-issue checks EX89, EX90, and EX91.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.9 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.9 embeds PerfHub, AWR, and AWR Compare reports in Insights and adds detection of CPU-steal, network-buffer, and recovery-block performance problems. Data Guard readiness analysis now covers roles, lag, apply rate, and configuration symmetry; Oracle Database 19c and later can be monitored with configured credentials instead of OS-authenticated SYSDBA; DBSAT 3.1 guidance and several SYS, SYSTEM, profile, and PUBLIC privilege checks are added.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.8 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.8 enables shareable Problem Summaries and adds automated detection for several eviction, slowdown, and database-blocking conditions. Insights gains millisecond timelines, tooltips, zooming, improved OS analysis, expanded Data Guard readiness and wait-event views, embedded performance reports, and a faster Virtual DOM interface, while AHF Balance accounts for standby promotion during disaster recovery and Exachk adds DB54.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.7 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.7 allows Exadata Dom0, storage-server, and switch credentials to be stored in the AHF wallet for more complete compliance analysis and Platinum automation. SQL Agent connection pooling improves checks with SQL*Plus fallback, JRE patches can be managed independently, HAMI traces can be managed through tfactl, and Insights adds remediation guidance for storage shortages, MTU errors, and failed network interfaces.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.6 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.6 expands Insights detection for HugePages, process-memory, startup, multipath, archiving, and target_pdbs issues, with richer evidence and configuration context in Problem Summaries. It adds first-failure metrics for standalone databases, installer preservation for downgrade, component-based event grouping, default SHM integration for single-instance systems, and Exachk checks EX88 and DB53.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.5 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.5 adds fleet-level AHF Balance reports for Enterprise Manager groups, optional size-based trace filtering for smaller collections, and comprehensive Data Guard Health Reports. It introduces configurable first-failure system metrics, automatic Dom0 discovery, a dedicated report Security section, and checks for patch metadata, Data Guard lag, and failover or switchover readiness.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.4 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.4 integrates with Oracle AI Database 26ai, detects HugePages-related node evictions, supports downgrade to a recent prior release while preserving configuration and event data, and automatically collects diagnostics for selected database hangs. Insights generation is faster and more accessible, Oracle provides ORA-04030 Fix Flow guidance, and Orachk/Exachk add obsolete-patch and Unified Audit Trail tablespace checks.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.3 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.3 adds Fix Flow guidance for ORA-04031 and ORA-07445, extends GoldenGate compliance checks to Microservices Architecture, and improves Insights accessibility. The unified CLI gains tag, upload, repository, Fleet Insights, and JSON-output capabilities; new checks cover orphaned ASM files, grid-inventory nodes, EX85, and GoldenGate-related configurations.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.2 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.2 expands tfactl purge cleanup options, supports single-archive collections, broadens the unified ahf CLI with data operations, and extends diagnostics to Exadata Netdiag and Audit Vault Server. Collections now include Insights reports by default and support single-instance Linux, while the release adds ORA-00600 and TFA collection recovery guidance and updates dependencies to address CVEs.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.1 Release Notes Summary

AHF 24.1 adds ASR client-log collection, JSON collection reporting, improved Orachk/Exachk comparison, RAC Extended Cluster compliance, richer Insights event and disk-space analysis, and terminal-release notices for older operating systems. It deprecates manual mask_strings.xml masking in favor of ACR, updates security dependencies, and adds loopback-MTU plus Exachk EX83 and EX84 checks.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.11 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.11 upgrades Java to 11.0.21, introduces tfactl param, and adds the Database Anomalies Advisor. It supports Oracle Linux 9 on x86_64 and Arm, provides visual diagnostic-space analytics, displays ExaWatcher metrics in Insights, and enhances timelines with patch events, database filtering, standardized metric precision, and improved node sorting.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.10 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.10 enables Exadata cell-metric collection for guest VMs, custom upload ports, additive compliance profiles, and Insights analysis windows up to 12 hours with adaptive sampling. OS Issues analysis, GoldenGate time-range collection, and platform lifecycle guidance are improved, while Exachk adds startup, inactive-patch, EX80–EX82, and DB52 checks.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.9 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.9 improves compliance-scheduler control, audit-dump cleanup, automatic-update configuration, and Insights-enabled collection efficiency. CVU reports are collected explicitly and by default with CRS and database collections, while new Orachk checks cover ODA, ADVM, and printk settings and Exachk checks RoCE cabling, cluster limits, and unsupported DSA authentication.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.8 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.8 integrates Orachk and Exachk compliance results into Insights with scoring, search, and filtering, while improving usability, anomaly visualization, and restricted-environment operation. Insights reports can be uploaded or scheduled, AHF Balance analyzes CPU overcommitment without requiring a GI home, and new checks cover dictionary health, auditing, GridDisk caching, and kernel taint.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.7 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.7 adds patch inventories and timelines to Insights, improves mobile presentation, simplifies Exadata Dom0 upgrades and data-directory defaults, and accelerates ACR redaction through configurable CPU limits and process counts. Orachk also adds validation for inactive patches in Grid Infrastructure and database homes.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.6 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.6 introduces aggregated NIC and cross-host process views, supports uncached Insights refreshes, adds Exadata X10M and ARM support, and allows the AHF data directory to be moved without reinstallation. Orachk also validates inactive database-home patches.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.5 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.5 enhances Insights with anomaly annotations, system and cluster-wide resource views, and configuration summaries while reducing report size and rendering time. It adds queued-collection visibility, nested ZIP content inspection, and size-based compliance-result cleanup.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.4 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.4 extends Insights to ODA and generic RAC, adds JSON-capable system-change tracking and collection-status filtering, and supports JSON Orachk email attachments. The unified CLI gains MRP, fleet-analysis, and refresh functions, while new best-practice checks cover AHF Balance resource contention, listener and Clusterware configuration, KMS encryption, and instance naming.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.3 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.3 allows Platinum users to run approved database SRDCs without database DBA-group membership, adds unified CLI commands for viewing and comparing Monthly Recommended Patch levels, and introduces Orachk checks for long-term-release bug fixes. Exachk adds validation for cloud-registration links, TDE wallets, and SYS-based TNS configuration and connectivity.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.2 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.2 renames Intelligent Workload Advisor to AHF Balance while retaining its resource-contention and noisy-neighbor analysis capabilities. Exachk adds long-term-release bug-fix validation and the EX78 critical-issue check.

Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 23.1 Release Notes Summary

AHF 23.1 introduces an Undetermined status for checks that cannot run reliably, preventing misleading failures, and adds compliance comparisons highlighting unique, different, and common values. AHFCTL gains JSON output, SQL Agent uses connection pooling to reduce overhead and audit activity, and new checks address Enterprise Manager status, long-term-release fixes, password-file sharing, CPU oversubscription, VM configuration, cloud filesystems, and DB service agents.
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