We’ve previously provided advice on the general priorities for applying EBS updates and creating a comprehensive maintenance strategy.   

Here are our latest upgrade recommendations for E-Business Suite updates and technology stack components.  These quarterly recommendations are based upon the latest updates to Oracle’s product strategies, latest support timelines, and newly-certified releases. 

You can research these yourself using this Note:

Upgrade Recommendations for November 2015

  1. EBS 11i users should upgrade to 12.1.3 or 12.2.  Before upgrading, 11i users should be on the minimum 11i patching baseline.
     
  2. EBS 12.0 users should upgrade to 12.1.3 or 12.2.  Before upgrading, 12.0 users should be on the minimum 12.0 patching baseline.
     
  3. EBS 12.1 users should upgrade to 12.1.3 RPC4 or 12.2.  Before upgrading, 12.1 users should be on the minimum minimum 12.1 patching baseline.
     
  4. EBS 12.2 users should upgrade to EBS 12.2.5, Database 11.2.0.4 or 12.1.0.2, the October 2015 AD/TXK tools, StartCD 50, and FMW 11.1.1.9.
     
  5. Users staying on EBS 11i and 12.1 should upgrade to Database 11.2.0.4 or 12.1.0.2.
     
  6. EBS 11i and 12 users of Oracle Single Sign-On 10g users should migrate to OAM 11gR2 Patchset 3 11.1.2.3.0.
     
  7. Oracle Internet Directory users should upgrade to Oracle Internet Directory 11g 11.1.1.9.
     
  8. Oracle Discoverer users should migrate to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA), or Discoverer 11g 11.1.1.7.
     
  9. Oracle Portal 10g users should migrate to Oracle WebCenter 11g 11.1.1.9 or upgrade to Portal 11g 11.1.1.6.
     
  10. All Windows desktop users should migrate from older Java releases (including JInitiator) to JRE 1.6.0_105 or later 1.6 updates or JRE 1.7.0_91 or later 1.7 updates or JRE 1.8.0_65 or later 1.8 updates.
     
  11. All EBS 11i, 12.0, 12.1, and 12.2 users must sign their environment’s JAR files now.
     
  12. All Firefox users should upgrade to Firefox Extended Support Release 38.

  13. All EBS 11i, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2 users should apply the October 2015 Critical Patch Update.
     
  14. Windows XP and Office 2003 users should upgrade to later versions.

  15. All EBS customers on Exalogic and Exadata should follow the latest recommendations.
     
  16. All EBS customers should switch from Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to Transport Layer Security (TLS).
     
  17. EBS 12.1 users should switch their PKI certificates to SHA-2.

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