Disclaimer: This is a working document, please revisit this page closer to the actual 26.07 release for possible updates.

Introduction

Building on the power of AI that we already have in OIC is still a big focus for this release.

Disclaimer: This is a working document, please revisit this page closer to the actual 26.07 release for possible updates.

AI Features Released in 26.07

AI Assistant

This release brings several meaningful improvements to the AI Assistant, focused on simplifying integration development, improving performance, and expanding availability.

The features released include the following:

Leveraging OIC Design Best Practices

With the 26.07 release, developers can use the assistant to validate whether they are adhering to OIC design best practices. If they are not, the assistant will deliver the relevant guidelines. In some cases, the assistant will offer the option to directly apply its recommendation(s).

Some examples include:

  • Use OAuth Instead of Basic Auth for Triggers
  • Missing Global Fault Handler
  • Endpoints with No Security Policy
  • Use Bulk Record Operations Instead of Large Loops
  • …and many more!

This is a HUGE value-added feature that will save customers time and money, as well as stress.

AI Assistant Available in Chat Mode

This feature allows for more targeted and ad-hoc interaction with the assistant. Developers will love this capability.

Agentic AI

This release brings several meaningful improvements to the OIC Agentic AI ecosystem. These include:

  • Agent-to-agent connectivity (A2A) with the first of our native actions for the Oracle Agentic AI ecosystem:
    • 26.07 sees the introduction of the native action for Fusion AI Agent Studio, enabling us to easily invoke Fusion agents.
  • New Agent patterns for 26.07.

Now, on to the other 26.07 new features:

OIC Core 26.07 New Features

Observability

With this release, we audit user viewing of the activity stream of integration flows. This feature, naturally, also applies to the OIC for Healthcare edition, where it is required for HIPAA compliance.

OIC CI/CD

This release adds end-to-end OIC CI/CD capabilities for managing project artifacts, Terraform configuration, deployment execution, and post-deployment updates. It supports initial seeding, project upgrades, credential rotation, lookup changes, rollback, version tracking, retry logic, and async status monitoring. The release also includes artifact registry integration, pipeline automation. This feature will be behind a Feature Flag.

Connectivity

New Adapters

  • OCI Cache Adapter – New adapter providing connectivity to OCI Cache clusters with support for string and list operations, TTL-based caching, key existence checks, private endpoint connectivity, and key prefix strategies.
  • Azure Synapse Database – Microsoft SQL Server Adapter certified to integrate with Azure Synapse.

New Native Actions

  • Data Translate – Translate Native Payload (XML) to Stringified JSON and vice versa.

AI Infused Workflow Enhancements

  • Oracle Autonomous AI Transaction Processing (ATP) Adapter – Adds support for hybrid index operations, enabling document ingestion, hybrid index creation, intelligent search, and ingestion status tracking.
  • AI Agent Native Action – Adds a callback agent operation for asynchronous tool responses and adds agent run status in the Get Agent Activity Stream response.
  • OCI Document Understanding
    • Support for cross region and non-commercial regions
    • Support for a confidence score for custom models
    • Support for multiple pages in a custom model
  • OpenAI adapter – Supports the file delete operation

Enhancements to Existing Adapters

  • Adobe Sign Adapter – Adds inbound operation support for event-driven integrations.
  • REST Adapter –
    • Controlled HTTP 504 retry in the wizard
    • Support for dynamic JSON request and responses.
  • ActiveMQ Adapter – Adds XSD document support and dynamic address and queue mapping for invoke connections.
  • Security and Authentication Enhancements – Modernizes authorization standards and connectivity across key ecosystem adapters:
    • Microsoft SharePoint: Added support for OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code credentials and PKCE, along with SharePoint site search functionality to help locate sites that do not appear in the configuration wizard.
    • Salesforce: Updated to support External Client Apps with ROPC and Basic Auth migration paths.
    • Snowflake: Added Key Pair Authentication and single-use refresh token rotation.
    • Slack: Enabled private endpoint (PE) support for secure, isolated OCI VCN connectivity.
    • Jira: Added PKCE support with the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Credentials security policy.

Human in the Loop

Human in the Loop (HITL) is the deliberate placement of human oversight at key decision points within an otherwise autonomous workflow. HITL provides much-needed governance that ensures humans remain meaningfully in control of agentic AI systems — not to micromanage their every step, but to provide oversight where the cost of an AI error exceeds the cost of human intervention.

With this release, we have included the following new features:

  • IF/Else Gateway: Allows for branching in approval flow paths. > e.g. tiered approval. If Level1 approves, then go to Level2.
  • Parallel Gateway: Gives us the ability to assign approval tasks to multiple users/ groups.
  • Notification Support: HITL can now send on Assign and reminder task notifications.
  • Log Analytics Integration: HITL can now emit logs to OCI Log Analytics. This allows for long term persistence and search, as well as a dashboard view over tasks/ workflows.

This release augments the current recipe for Human Approval (HITL – Simple Approval Workflow), with HITL – Parallel Approval Workflow).

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

The 26.07 release includes support for local testing within the canvas. Pre 26.07, testing each change was time-consuming; each change necessitated the three steps – save, activate, and run. Further editing required deactivation. You can now test directly from the designer.

OIC for Healthcare

The 26.07 release includes the following new features:

The ability to export/import HL7 Schemas and Messages

With 26.07, you will be able to:

  • Import and Export via the OIC UI
  • Import and export via the OIC Factory API

Audit Enhancements for HIPAA compliance

With this release, viewing the activity stream is also audited. We also include the business identifiers in the audit trail. This is required for HIPAA compliance.

Summa Summarum

Release 26.07 brings a host of new features and capabilities to Oracle Integration. Remember, most of these are customer-driven. Visit the app integration page on oracle.com for more general information about Oracle Integration.