What’s New in This Release?

2 What’s New in This Release?

This chapter describes the features and improvements in Oracle Traffic Director. The following topics introduce the new and changed features of Oracle Traffic Director and other significant changes in the guides, and provides pointers to additional information.

Note:

As of 12.2.1.4.0, Oracle Traffic Director is deprecated. In the future, use Oracle HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS Web Server, or Apache HTTP Server plug-ins, or a native Kubernetes load balancer, such as Traefik for equivalent functionality.

Topics

New Features

The following are the new features in Oracle Traffic Director 12.2.1.x.0. See Oracle Traffic Director Administrator's Guide.

Oracle Traffic Director supports sending notifications to one or more HTTP endpoints for the following two events:
- Origin server status change event
- Request limit exceeded event
See Events Notifications.
Support for enabling FTP configuration for TCP proxies, see Managing TCP Proxies.
Support for configuring dedicated Status Listeners to monitor status of Oracle Traffic Director instances, see Configuring Status Listener.
Support for configuring active-active high availability, see Configuring Oracle Traffic Director for High Availability.
New chghost utility

A new tool, chghost is now available. The chghost utility allows the user to update the following information in the Fusion Middleware Configuration Files.
- domain host name change
- database host change
- cloning
See About the chghost Utility in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Oracle Traffic Director 12.2.1.4.0 installation includes an update to the database client software installed with Fusion Middleware. The database patch set included is 12.1.0.2.190716. If you execute the command opatch lsinventory, the patch identification number for this update will appear as 29494060 on Linux/Unix and 30220086 on Microsoft Windows.
You can use Oracle Traffic Director through Oracle VM templates. There are two VM templates for Oracle Traffic Director 12.2.1.4.0:
- Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1.4.0) Traffic Director (Standalone)
- Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1.4.0) Traffic Director (Collocated)
To use Oracle Traffic Director through Oracle VM templates, you must download either of the templates from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud, import it into Oracle VM Manager, and then deploy the template as a virtual machine. These templates provide a pre-installed Oracle Home with Oracle Traffic Director (and Oracle WebLogic Server in case of collocated template). These template do not include a domain. You can use these templates to create and configure standalone or collocated domains by following the instructions described in Setting up an Administration Domain in Administering Oracle Traffic Director.

For more information about Oracle VM templates, see Oracle VM Virtual Appliances.

Deprecated Features

The following functionality and components are deprecated in Oracle Traffic Director 12.2.1.4.0:

TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 are disabled by default. These protocols are now deprecated.
The following ciphers are disabled by default and are now deprecated:
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
- SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA

Removed Features

The following features deprecated in previous versions of Oracle Traffic Director are removed from Oracle Traffic Director 12.2.1.3.0. See Oracle Traffic Director Administrator's Guide.

SSLv3 is no longer supported.
The following RC4 ciphers are no longer supported:
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
- SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
The Oracle T2P utility is no longer supported.

The Oracle Fusion Middleware T2P utility allows you to move an Oracle Fusion Middleware environment from test to production (T2P) with customization specific to the production environment.