Oracle Database Monthly News – October 2025 – Quick Links

Database & Cloud Database News

Oracle AI World

• Oracle AI Database 26ai Powers the AI for Data Revolution (press release)
• Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse Enables Open, Interoperable Data Access Across Multi-Platform, Multicloud Environments (press release, oracle.com)
• Oracle Introduces Multicloud Universal Credits (press release)
• More announcements see link list Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

Oracle AI World – Multicloud

• Oracle Introduces Multicloud Universal Credits 
• Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse Enables Open, Interoperable Data Access Across Multi-Platform, Multicloud Environments
• Oracle Database@Google Cloud Adds New Oracle AI Database Services, Additional Regions, and Groundbreaking Partner Program
• Oracle Database@Azure Powers Cloud Migrations for Organizations
• Oracle Adds New Database Capabilities and Partner Program to Oracle Database@AWS
• Oracle Database@Google Cloud Adds New Oracle AI Database Services, Additional Regions, and Groundbreaking Partner Program (PR NewsWire)

Multicloud News:

• Oracle Database@Azure
  • Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure supports Exascale block storage or Exascale smart storage (documentation)
• Oracle Database@AWS
  • Oracle Database@AWS now natively supports Oracle Autonomous Recovery Service (documentation)
  • You can now provision Oracle Database@AWS resources using Hashicorp AWS Terraform Provider v6.15.0 or above (documentation)
• Oracle Database@Google Cloud
  • Oracle Base Database Service & Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure now available (documentation)
  • Oracle Database@Google Cloud Now Supports Google Cloud Key Management (posting)

Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) October news e.g.

• Oracle Autonomous Database becomes Oracle Autonomous AI Database (documentation)
• Automatic caching for external tables (documentation)
• TP and TPURGENT predefined database service names for Autonomous AI Lakehouse workload. (documentation)
• Select AI Translate (documentation, posting)

Oracle Autonomous Database Dedicated (ADB-D) October news such as

• Oracle Autonomous Database becomes Oracle Autonomous AI Database (documentation)
• Additional log support for OCI Logging Service (documentation)
• Oracle Exadata Database Service for Developers and Oracle Base Database Service for Developers provide Oracle Database licenses at zero cost (blog posting)

Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure and Cloud@Customer

• Exadata Database Service for Developers (documentation)
• Convert a Physical Standby Database to a Snapshot Standby Database and vice versa (documentation)
• Support for a 100Gbps NIC for the Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaDB-C@C) Backup Network (news)
• Convert a Physical Standby Database to a Snapshot Standby Database and vice versa (news)

Others

• Oracle AI Database New Features (documentation)
• Oracle FreeSQL  (https://freesql.com/)
• Oracle AI Database Free (oracle.com)

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
• November 6: Developer Coaching Webinars
• November 25: Exadata meets the Experts
• November 18-21: DOAG 2025 Conference + Exhibition – Nuremberg
• November 18-19: DOAG Low-Code Creator – Nuremberg 
• November 19-20: KI Navigator – Nuremberg 
• December 8-11: IT Tage – Frankfurt am Main
• 2026: Oracle AI World Tour

Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold

• Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – October 2025

• Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1, Doc ID 3068039.1, Doc ID 3068039.1
  Replaced Oracle Database 23ai with Oracle AI Database 26ai

• Database Release 23.26.0.0.0, 21.20.0.0.251021, 19.29.0.0.251021: Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (Doc ID 888.1)

• Enterprise Manager 24.1.0.5, 13.5.0.27: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata Storage Server 25.2.3.0.0, 25.1.10.0.0, 24.1.17.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.28: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

• Data Pump Bundle Patch 

  • 19.29,19.28 (Win only) Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)

  • 23.26: Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 23ai / 26ai (Doc ID 3056856.1)

• AutoUpgrade 25.6.20251016: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• OPatch 12.2.0.1.47: Patch 6880880

• Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 25.9.0: Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAchk (Doc ID 2550798.1)

• DBSAT 4.0.0: https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocContentDisplay?id=2138254.1

• SQL Developer 24.3.1: oracle.com/sqldev 

• Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode 25.3.0: download

• SQLcl 25.3.0: oracle.com/sqlcl

  • Oracle SQLcl Support Timeline

• ORDS 25.3.1: oracle.com/ords

  • Oracle REST Data Services Support Timeline

• APEX 24.2.10: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/

• Python Driver 3.4.0: python-oracledb Release Notes

• Node.js Driver 6.10: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb

• Instant Client Linux 23.9, 21.19, 19.28: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 23.9, 21.19, 19.28: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

Oracle AI World – General

• Main Stage Keynotes Oracle AI World 2025 (YouTube)

• Introducing Oracle AI Database 26ai: Next-Gen AI-Native Database for All Your Data (Jenny Tsai-Smith, Dominic Giles)

• Oracle AI Database 26ai replaces Oracle Database 23ai (Mike Dietrich)

• Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse Embraces Apache Iceberg to Deliver Open, Multicloud Data Access (George Lumpkin)
• Leading Analysts Highlight the Advantages of Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse (Youko Watari)

• Oracle Unveils AI Data Platform, Empowering Customers to Innovate in the AI Era

• Oracle AI Database 26ai Powers the AI for Data Revolution

• Oracle Introduces New Cloud Networking Capabilities for Any Workload

• Oracle debuts Iceberg-compatible Autonomous AI Lakehouse to boost enterprise analytics (InfoWorld)

Others

• October 2025, Edition #36 ORAWORLD (OraWorld Magazine)
• SQL Developer extension for VS Code 25.3: Charts & Diagrams (Jeff Smith)
• MCP vs Select AI in Oracle’s Ecosystem: Competition or Complement? (Cristina Varas Menadas)
• Life hack: encode a URL in a QR code using APEX (Martin Bach)
• Apply Oracle Security Alert CVE-2025-61882 for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) (Rob Duhart)

General Information  

• Oracle Multicloud Capabilities App
• Oracle Database@AWS
• Oracle Database@Azure
• Oracle Database@Google Cloud
• 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
• Oracle Autonomous Database Third-Party Applications—Validation and Compatibility

What’s New Links

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation / Release Notes
• What’s New in Oracle Base Database Service
• What’s New for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure
• Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
• What’s New in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
• What’s New for Oracle Data Safe
• New Features in Enterprise Manager by Release Update
• New Features in 19c Release Updates
• Oracle AI Database 26ai Release Updates
• What’s New for Oracle AI Vector Search