Oracle Database Monthly News – May 2025 – Quick Links

Database & Cloud Database News

• Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure (ADB-D) May news such as  
  • Transport Layer Security 1.3 (TLS 1.3) certificate-based authentication: documentation
  • New database metric for Session Utilization: documentation
  • Custom kerberos service name for Kerberos authentication: documentation
• Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) May news such as
  • Select AI Enhancements
  • Data Transforms Updates
  • Use In-database Transformer Model with Select AI RAG: Example
• Disaster recovery with multi-region standby on Oracle Database@Azure: reference architecture
• Oracle and Google expand multicloud offering: news
• Backup and Restore from a Standby Database in a Data Guard Environment in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: documentation
• Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: documentation
• Configure Exadata Cloud Infrastructure Migration Automation Utility for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: tutorial
• Oracle Datenbank Free Version 23.8 now available: download
• MLE/JavaScript support in SQLDeveloper for VSCode: blog post

Upcoming Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• Monthly events from Oracle and the APEX Community 
• June 5: Migration to Oracle Autonomous Database – Part 3: Execution (Virtual Classroom Series Upgrade to Oracle Database 23ai)
• June 11: Explore Generative AI Agents Tools (Free Developer Coaching Events)
• June 18: How to chat with data using DB 23ai (Free Developer Coaching Events)
• June 17: Oracle DatabaseWorld: Multicloud AI Edition
• July 1-4: Cloud Native Festival – Heidepark Soltau
• October 13-16: Oracle Cloud World – Las Vegas
• November 18-21: DOAG 2025 Conference + Exhibition – Nuremberg (CFP June 3)
• November 18-19: DOAG Low-Code Creator – Nuremberg (CFP June 6)
• November 19-20: KI Navigator – Nuremberg 
• December 8-12: IT Tage – Frankfurt am Main

Release & Patch Updates (*) Changes in bold
Notes: Upgrade Support has been extended through Dec 31, 2026
            The support for 32-bit Oracle Clients (both Full and Instant Client) has been discontinued since 23ai.

• 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, 19.27.0.0.250415: Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates (Doc ID 888.1)

• Enterprise Manager 24.1.0.0, 13.5.0.25: 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), Exadata System Software Updates – May 2025

• Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.26: 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: AutoUpgrade Tool (Doc ID 2485457.1)

• OPatch 12.2.0.1.46: Patch 6880880

• Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 25.4.0: 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: oracle.com/ords

  • Oracle REST Data Services Support Timeline

• APEX 24.2.5: 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 23.7, 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

• RMAN speaks a bit more to you since 19.25 (Mike Dietrich)

• Oracle Database for Free? (Anders Swanson)

• A Coffee with Ludo – Use the Data Guard Broker! (YouTube)

• Juan Loaiza, Oracle | theCUBE + NYSE Wired M.O.E Series (YouTube)

• How to Patch Oracle Net Listener (Daniel Overby Hansen)

• Why you should consider using Oracle Flashback Time Travel (Gregg Christman)

• New Automatic Storage Compression Capability with Oracle Database 23ai (Gregg Christman)

• Oracle Information Lifecycle Management Setup With OEM (Alaa Famy)

• Exadata : Giving Customers more Value and Convenience – Simplified Management of Third-party Software (Natarajan Shankar)

• Increasing Data Protection with Flex Disk Groups on Exadata (Alex Blyth)

• What’s new for Developers in Oracle Database 23.5 (Gerald Venzl)

• Benchmarks results stored to the database (Dominic Giles)

• 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