Oracle Database Monthly News – November 2025 – Quick Links

Database & Cloud Database News

Multicloud News:

• AWS Key Management Service Integration for Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@AWS: documentation

Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (ADB-S) November news:  e.g.

• Autonomous Data Guard Support for JSON and APEX workloads
• OML notebook and GitHub integration
• Data Studio Enhancements: DBMS_CATALOG REST API Functions for the Catalog Tool

Oracle Autonomous AI Database Dedicated (ADB-D) November news: e.g.

• Select AI Support for AWS
• Undelete a terminated Autonomous AI Database on Oracle Database@AWS
• New critical and informational events for Autonomous Exadata VM Cluster, Autonomous Container Database, and Autonomous AI Database

Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure and Cloud@Customer news: e.g.

• Exadata Exascale with Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
• Support for Concurrent Data Guard Operations in Multiple Standby Environments
• Enhanced Data Guard Health Insights

Others

• What’s New for Oracle Data Safe: documentation
• Oracle SQL Developer for VS Code 25.3.2 and Oracle SQLcl 25.3.2: SQLcl documentation and SQL Developer for VS Code documentation

Events

• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• DOAG Events (German)
• Ora2Know Events (German)
• Ask Tom Office Hours events
• December 2: Making the Most of DB In-memory: Best Practices and Techniques (Oracle Data Platform Masterclasses)
• December 3/17: Developer Coaching Webinars
• January 20: Exadata meets the Experts
• 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
• 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 24.1.0.6, 13.5.0.28: Overview of the Enterprise Manager Proactive Patch Program (Doc ID 822485.1)
• Exadata Storage Server 25.2.4.0.0, 25.1.11.0.0, 24.1.18.0.0: 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:
  • 19.29,19.29 (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) 25.10.0: 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 25.3.2: download
• SQLcl 25.3.2: oracle.com/sqlcl
  Oracle SQLcl Support Timeline
• ORDS 25.3.1: oracle.com/ords
  Oracle REST Data Services Support Timeline
• APEX 24.2.11: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/apex-downloads/
• Python Driver 3.4.1: python-oracledb Release Notes
• Node.js Driver 6.10: oracle.github.io/node-oracledb
• Instant Client Linux 23.26, 21.20, 19.29:
  oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
• Instant Client Windows 23.26, 21.19,19.29:
   oracle.com/de/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html