Oracle Database Monthly News – June 2025 – Quick Links

Database & Cloud Database News

• Oracle Autonomous Database is MAA Gold Certified for Cross-Region Disaster Recovery: announcement blog post
• Announcing ProxySQL: Query Offload to Read Replica in Oracle Autonomous Database: announcement blog post
• Oracle Autonomous Database Tools and Applications – Certifications, Compatibility, and Compliance: application list
• GoldenGate for MongoDB Migrations 23ai now available: blog post
• Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X8 SKUs End-of-Life Change Notification (Doc ID 3086798.1): MOS Note
• Exadata Cloud Infrastructure Migration Utility: How-To Guide
• Oracle Data Guard Setup with Precheck Validation: documentation
• Customer-controlled updates for DBaaS tools and agents on a VM: documentation
• Integration of Oracle Key Vault (OKV) with ExaDB-D to manage TDE Keys: documentation
• Data Safe support for multi-cloud Oracle databases: documentation
• Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-D) June news such as  
  • Ability to create a cross region backup copy of an Autonomous Container Database
  • Ability to clone an Autonomous Container Database
  • MongoDB API support from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console
  • Oracle Application Express (APEX) 24.2 is now available for new Autonomous Container Databases (ACD)
• Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) June news such as
  • Table Hyperlink Network Access Checking with ACLs
  • Send Notifications to an OCI Notifications Service Topic
  • Cross-region Standby can be an Elastic Pool Member or an Elastic Pool Leader
  • Select AI Enhancements
  • Data Studio Enhancements

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community
• Developer Coaching Webinars 
• July 10: Migration to Oracle Autonomous Database – Part 4: The DBA’s life (Virtual Classroom Series Upgrade to Oracle Database 23ai)
• July 1-4: Cloud Native Festival – Heidepark Soltau
• October 13-16: Oracle Cloud World – Las Vegas
• November 18-21: DOAG 2025 Conference + Exhibition – Nuremberg 
• November 18-19: DOAG Low-Code Creator – Nuremberg 
• November 19-20: KI Navigator – Nuremberg 
• December 8-12: IT Tage – Frankfurt am Main

Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
Notes: Restricted Upgrade Support has been added for 2026 through Customer Success Services (11.2, 12.1, 12.2)

• Release Schedule of Current Database Releases: Doc ID 742060.1, Oracle Database Release Roadmap, Doc ID 3068039.1

• Database Release 23.8.0.25.04, 21.18.0.0.250415, 19.27.0.0.250617: Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (Doc ID 888.1)

• Enterprise Manager 24.1.0.2, 13.5.0.26: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)

• Exadata Storage Server 25.1.5.0.0, 24.1.12.0.0, 23.1.26.0.0, 22.1.33.0.0: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (Doc ID 888828.1)

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.27: Oracle Database Appliance Documentation

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

• Data Pump Bundle Patch 

  • 19.27,19.27 (Win only) Data Pump Recommended Proactive Patches For 19.10 and Above (Doc ID 2819284.1)

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

• AutoUpgrade 25.3.20250509: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• OPatch 12.2.0.1.46: Patch 6880880

• Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 25.5.0: 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

• Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode 25.1.1: download

• SQLcl 25.1.1: oracle.com/sqlcl

  • Oracle SQLcl Support Timeline

• ORDS 25.1.1: oracle.com/ords

  • Oracle REST Data Services Support Timeline

• APEX 24.2.6: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/

• Python Driver 3.1.1: python-oracledb Release Notes

• Node.js Driver 6.8: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb

• Instant Client Linux 23.8, 21.18, 19.27: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

• Instant Client Windows 23.8, 21.18, 19.26: oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html

Videos, Tutorials, Posting & Publications

• Exascale Storage Fundamentals (Seth Miller)

• Exadata patchmgr: Making Exadata Updates Effortless (Natarajan Shankar)

• Sharing Code w/ LiveSQL (Krise Rice)

• When A Refreshable Clone Takes Over The Service (Daniel Overby Hansen)

• Pump Your Data Pump Skills (Daniel Overby Hansen)

• Building a Local RAG Pipeline with Oracle 23ai and Ollama in Visual Studio Code (Doug Drechsel)

• XML and the Oracle Database (Fabian Neureiter)

• Bringing AI to Data: Oracle’s Vision for Unified, AI-Embedded Databases at the 2025 Analyst Summit (IDC)

• GoldenGate for MongoDB Migrations 23ai now available! (Alex Kotopoulis, Matt DeMarco)

• Announcing ProxySQL: Query Offload to Read Replica in Oracle Autonomous Database (Alexey Filanovskiy)

• Compiled 23ai links on Github

• Oracle Database 23ai playlist (YouTube)

General Information  

• 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
• 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 on Shared Exadata Infrastructure
• 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
• New Features in Enterprise Manager by Release Update
• New Features in 19c Release Updates
• New Features in 23ai Release Updates
• What’s New for Oracle AI Vector Search