Oracle Database Monthly News – January 2025 – Quick Links

Database & Cloud Database News

• Exadata X11M
  • press release
  • Introducing Exadata X11M: Next Generation Intelligent Data Architecture (posting)
  • Introducing Exadata X11M for Exadata Database Service and Autonomous Database (posting)
  • Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer X11M (data sheet)
  • Oracle Exadata Database Machine X11M (data sheet)
• Oracle APEX
  • What’s new in Oracle APEX 24.2 (website)
  • Now it’s even easier to build AI into your apps with low code: Announcing Oracle APEX 24.2 General Availability (posting)
• Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-D) January News e.g. 
  • X11M systems available for Autonomous Database on Oracle Public Cloud and Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer deployments (documentation)
  • Documentation update: Vulnerability Assessment and Security Testing Policies (documentation)
• Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) January News e.g.
  • Disconnect a Peer Database (documentation)
  • Change Patch Level After Provisioning (documentation)
  • External Tables with ORC, Parquet, and Avro Provide an Option to Set Size of String Columns: documentation
• Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Multiple Standby Databases (documentation)
• Oracle NoSQL Database: 24.4 is available (New Features App)
• ExaDB-XS: Scale ECPUs enabled per VM to zero(new features)

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community 
• February 4: Monoliths and Microservices: Building hybrid Java applications with WebLogic on Kubernetes and Helidon Microservices (Oracle Tech Lounge)
• February 18: Mastering JSON Data in Oracle Database (Oracle Tech Lounge)
• February 26: Oracle Vector Search using Oracle Database 23ai enabling AI use cases at Deutsche Bank (Customer Webcasts: Autonomous in Action)
• Oracle CloudWorld Tour 2025 (world-wide)
• May 13-15: APEX Connect (Europa-Park, Rust)

Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold

• Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1, Oracle Database Release Roadmap
  Changes: Added 22-Jul-2024 release dates for 23ai on Compute Cloud@Customer and Private Cloud Appliance

• Database Release 23.7.0.25.01, 21.17.0.0.250121, 19.26.0.0.250121: Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (Doc ID 888.1)

• Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.24: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata Storage server 25.1.1.0.0, 24.1.8.0.0, 23.1.22.0.0, 22.1.31.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.25: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

• MiniCluster 1.6.1.3: Oracle MiniCluster S7-2: Software Download Center (Doc ID 2153282.1)

• Data Pump Bundle Patch 

  • 19.26,19.25 (Win only) Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)

  • 23.7: Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 23ai (Doc ID 3056856.1)

• AutoUpgrade 24.8.241119: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• OPatch 12.2.0.1.43: Patch 6880880

• AHF 25.1: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAchk (Doc ID 2550798.1)

• DBSAT 3.1.0: Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool(DBSAT)(Doc ID 2138254.1)

• SQL Developer 24.3.1: oracle.com/sqldev 

• SQLcl 24.3.2: oracle.com/sqlcl

  • Oracle SQLcl Support Timeline

• ORDS 24.4: oracle.com/ords

  • Oracle REST Data Services Support Timeline

• APEX 24.2: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/

• Python Driver 2.5.1: python-oracledb Release Notes

• Node.js Driver 6.7: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb

• Instant Client Linux 23.6, 21.16, 19.25: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 23.6, 21.15, 19.25: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• Now it’s even easier to build AI into your apps with low code: Announcing Oracle APEX 24.2 General Availability (Simon Hunt)

• Getting up to speed with Oracle Application Express (Niels De Bruijn)

• Oracle Connection Manager 23ai – what needs to be considered (not only on kubernetes) (Marcel Boermann Pfeifer)

• Running Oracle REST data services (ORDS) on Kubernetes (Marcel Boermann Pfeifer)

• Provisioning analytic environments easily – like Oracle Graph (Marcel Boermann Pfeifer)

• GenAI onPrem: three free test and runtime environments from Oracle (Marcel Boermann Pfeifer)

• Announcing vector support for in-database machine learning algorithms (Mark Hornick)

• Hybrid Vector Index – a combination of AI Vector Search with Text Search (Ulrike Schwinn)

• New Features and Release Updates (Ulrike Schwinn)

• News and updates in opatch 12.2.0.1.45 (Jan 2025) (Mike Dietrich)

• Patch Me If You Can (Daniel Overby Hansen)

• DataPump – niche fix (Connor McDonald)

• Compiled 23ai links on Github
• Oracle Database 23ai playlist (YouTube)

General 

• Oracle Technology Products (Oracle Lifetime Support Policy)
• Client / Server Interoperability Support Matrix for Different Oracle Versions (Doc ID 207303.1)
• OCI Status for all Services
• Cloud Services Quick Reference

What’s New

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes – Database
• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure
• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer
• What’s New in Oracle Base Database Service
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
• What’s New for Oracle Data Safe