What's New in This Guide

This section introduces the documentation updates for release 25.2.1xx.

Release 25.2.100 - G39134-01, November 2025

• Feature Updates:
  • New Features:
    • maxSurge and maxUnavailable Configuration in all Policy Services

      Added Support for Optimized POD Management Using maxSurge and maxUnavailable During Policy Upgrade to describe maxSurge and maxUnavailable configuration in all Policy services for optimizing Pod management during Policy upgrade.

    • Disabling Audit on Controlled Shutdown

      • Updated Controlled Shutdown of an Instance section with the imapct of disabling audit service during controlled shutdown.

      • Updated Audit Service Metrics section with the following metrics:
        • audit_schedule_current_status
        • occnp_audit_schedule_status_total
    • TLS 1.3 Support for Kubernetes API Server
      • Added TLS 1.3 Support for Kubernetes API Server section to describe TLS 1.3 support for the Kubernetes API server.
    • CnPCF-3GPP-USER-LOC-INFO: NCGI Format Compliancy with 3GPP Rel18:
      • Added Support for Encoding of NCGI in 3GPP-User-Location-Info to describe encoding of 5GS TAI And NCGI field in 3GPP-User-Location-Info AVP as per 3GPP TS 129.061 - Rel18 standards.
      • Added ENABLE_REL18_ENCODING_FOR_NCGI Advanced Settings key to Diameter Connector, which is used to configure encoding of NCGI and 5GS TAI And NCGI fields in 3GPP-User-Location-Info AVP as per 3GPP TS 38.413 standards.
    • Optimizing N7 Session Lookup for AAR messages in Rx Call flows:
      • Added Optimizing N7 Session Lookup for AAR messages in Rx Callflows to describe Policy support for optimizing N7 session lookup for AAR messages in Rx call flows.
      • Added ENABLE_N7_SESSION_LOOKUP_COOKIE Advanced Settings key to PCF Session Management.
      • Added ENABLE_N7_SESSION_LOOKUP_COOKIE Advanced Settings key to Settings.
      • Added occnp_optimized_smpolicyAssociation_lookup_query_totalmetric to SM Service Metrics.
    • Conflict Resolution for URSP Rules N1N2 transfer to UE:
      • Added Conflict Resolution for URSP Rules N1N2 transfer to UE section with the details of detection and resolution of conflicts in URSP rules during N1N2 transfers.
      • Updated PCF UE Policy Service section with the following fields:
        • Rule
        • Conflict Resolution Strategy
      • Updated UE Service Metrics section with the details of Added "ue_n1_policy_rule_conflict_total" metric.
    • Support for Immediate Report Handling for AM-Data and UE-Policy-Set on N36 Interface
      • Added Support for Immediate Report Handling for AM-Data and UE-Policy-Set on N36 Interface section with details of immediate report handing for AM-Data and UE-Policy-Set on N36 Interface.
      • Updated PCF User Connector section with the following fields:
        • Enable Immediate Report on Subscription
        • Enable Data Retrieval Fallback for Immediate Report
      • Updated PCF User Connector section with IMM_REP_CAPABILITY_CHECK advanced setting key.
      • Updated User Service Metrics section with the following metrics:
        • occnp_immrep_request_total
        • occnp_immrep_response_total
        • occnp_immrep_skipped_total
      • Updated PCF Alerts section with the following alerts:
        • UDR_AM_IMMREP_RESPONSE_MISSING_DATA_MINOR
        • UDR_AM_IMMREP_RESPONSE_MISSING_DATA_MAJOR
        • UDR_AM_IMMREP_RESPONSE_MISSING_DATA_CRITICAL
        • UDR_AM_IMMREP_FEATURE_NEGOTIATION_FAILED_MINOR
        • UDR_AM_IMMREP_FEATURE_NEGOTIATION_FAILED_MAJOR
        • UDR_AM_IMMREP_FEATURE_NEGOTIATION_FAILED_CRITICAL
        • UDR_UE_IMMREP_RESPONSE_MISSING_DATA_MINOR
        • UDR_UE_IMMREP_RESPONSE_MISSING_DATA_MAJOR
        • UDR_UE_IMMREP_RESPONSE_MISSING_DATA_CRITICAL
        • UDR_UE_IMMREP_FEATURE_NEGOTIATION_FAILED_MINOR
        • UDR_UE_IMMREP_FEATURE_NEGOTIATION_FAILED_MAJOR
        • UDR_UE_IMMREP_FEATURE_NEGOTIATION_FAILED_CRITICAL
  • Enhancements:
    • Enhanced logging (at WARN level) for microservices involved in PCRF & Diameter

      Updated Logging Support for Error Response to describe support for logging at WARN level.

    • Burst rate limit modification and customization for WARN logs for all Policy microservices

      Updated Logging Support for Error Response to describe support for burst rate limit modification and customization for logs.

    • Stale Session Enhancement - replace PUT with GET UDR

      • Updated Handling Stale Data in PDS to describe usage of PUT or GET operation for subscriber data revalidation from UDR depending on the parameters in reqParam or headers in the request from PDS to UDR Connector.
      • Added the following advanced settings keys to PDS Settings that are used to configure usage of PUT or GET operation for subscriber data revalidation from UDR:
        • ENABLE_ERROR_HANDLING_FOR_REVALIDATION
        • PDS_ERROR_HANDLER_ENABLED
        • REVALIDATE_GET_SUBSCRIPTION_SMPOLICYDATA_ENABLED
        • REVALIDATE_GET_SUBSCRIPTION_OPERATORSPECIFICDATA_ENABLED
        • REVALIDATE_GET_SUBSCRIPTION_AMPOLICYDATA_ENABLED
        • REVALIDATE_GET_SUBSCRIPTION_UEPOLICYSET_ENABLED
      • Added Error Configurations for PDS Service to Error Configurations.
      • Updated the following metrics in User Service Metrics:
        • ocpm_udr_tracking_response_total
        • ocpm_udr_tracking_request_total
        • ocpm_udr_tracking_request_timeout_total
      • Added the following alerts to List of Alerts:
        • UDR_GET_REVALIDATION_FAILURE_ABOVE_CRITICAL_PERCENT
        • UDR_GET_REVALIDATION_FAILURE_ABOVE_MAJOR_PERCENT
        • UDR_GET_REVALIDATION_FAILURE_ABOVE_MINOR_PERCENT
        • UDR_GET_REVALIDATION_404_FAILURE_ABOVE_CRITICAL_PERCENT
        • UDR_GET_REVALIDATION_404_FAILURE_ABOVE_MAJOR_PERCENT
        • UDR_GET_REVALIDATION_404_FAILURE_ABOVE_MINOR_PERCENT
    • Enhance support for Policy Authorization Service - Sponsored Data Connectivity (Chargeable Party)-Create Subscription for Usage Report:
      • Added Support for Sponsored Data Connectivity When AF/NEF Provides the Support Over Policy Authorization Service to describe enhancements to Policy Authorization service to support Sponsored Data Connectivity feature.
      • Added SYSTEM.SEND_UMC_DATA_WHEN_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_SMF Advanced Setting key to PCF Session Management.
      • Added the following Advanced Settings keys to PCF Policy Authorization:
        • SYSTEM.ACCEPT_CREATE_WHEN_MISSING_SPONSORED_CONNECTIVITY_DATA
        • SYSTEM.ENABLE_ONLINE_ATTRIBUTE_IN_CHARGING_DATA
• General Updates:
  • Added the following metrics to PRE Metrics:
    • occnp_policy_project_state_change_total
    • occnp_policy_project_current_state
  • Added POD_PROTECTION_BY_RATELIMIT_REJECTED_REQUEST_EGW alert in PCF Alerts.
  • Updated PDS Settings section with "Enable Configurable Timeout" field.
• Updated Alerts to add reference to:
  • Configuring Alerts section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide with details on how to configure Policy alerts.
  • Configuring SNMP Notifier section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide with details on how to configure SNMP Notifier.