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Identity and Access Management now supports Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant (ID-JAG) token exchange, enabling identity handoff across trust domains. Developers can exchange an ID token for an ID-JAG and then exchange it for an OAuth access token independently.
OCI Kubernetes Engine now supports Kubernetes version 1.37.0 for early access testing and validation purposes. Developers should wait for the upcoming release of Kubernetes Engine that will support Kubernetes version 1.37.1 for production workloads.
Identity domains now support OAuth resource indicators, allowing clients to identify target resource servers and request permissions using the resource and scope parameters. The access token's aud claim reflects the resource application's configured audience or the resource value if no audience is configured.
You can enable automatic target registration for an Exadata Exascale deployment at the CDB level, eliminating the need to configure each PDB individually. Oracle Data Safe automatically registers all existing and future PDBs in the background and manages the required Data Safe service account and privileges.
Console AI is now available in Ashburn, Phoenix, London, Chicago, Sao Paulo, Osaka, Hyderabad, and Riyadh regions. Commercial OCI customers can subscribe to a supported region to use Console AI if it's not available in their tenancy home region.
Autonomous AI Database now uses Apache Iceberg partition information to optimize queries on Iceberg external tables, reducing object storage access and improving performance for large lakehouse tables. This allows applications to continue using regular SQL on the original table columns.
Oracle Essbase is now available as a managed tool in Autonomous AI Database Serverless, enabling multidimensional analytics, modeling, planning, forecasting, and financial reporting capabilities without separate infrastructure. You can enable Essbase for an existing Autonomous AI Database instance.
OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE) now coordinates the repair of eligible managed bare metal GPU worker nodes in response to specified hardware-related conditions. You can use the GPU Health Monitoring add-on to monitor GPU health conditions and configure GPU instance recovery.
GoldenGate Veridata now supports connections to Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL Database Server, HeatWave on OCI, PostgreSQL, and SingleStoreDB. This expands the compatibility and integration options for data verification and replication.
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG) now supports Network Address Translation (NAT) for IPv4 addresses, enabling 1:1 address translation for overlapping IP use cases. Developers can configure NAT policies directly on DRG attachments for source NAT, destination NAT, or both.
Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) now supports Kubernetes version 1.36.4, alongside versions 1.35.2 and 1.34.10. Support for Kubernetes version 1.36.1 will end on November 3, 2026, requiring upgrades to supported versions.
Oracle Data Safe introduces Data Subsetting, enabling the creation of smaller, representative datasets from production data while maintaining referential integrity. This feature supports accurate application testing and development without compromising data relationships.
OCI Cache now supports dual-stack endpoints, enabling IPv6 access while maintaining IPv4 support. To use IPv6, create new cache clusters in IPv6-capable VCNs and subnets, as existing clusters are not upgraded.
IAM now supports One-Click Sign-In for supported applications, allowing users to authenticate using enrolled FIDO passkeys without entering a username. To enable this feature, create a Service Request with the Identity team to enable the required feature flag.
Cloud Shell now supports regional launch, allowing users to specify the region for their Cloud Shell environment. This provides better control over data residency and compliance.
Oracle Data Safe now enables automatic target registration for Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D) at the CDB level, eliminating the need to configure each PDB individually. This allows Oracle Data Safe to automatically register all existing and future PDBs in the background and manage the required Data Safe service account and privileges.
The widget control panel menu now includes an All inputs option, allowing users to add all eligible widget inputs as local filters. This feature enables more flexible and comprehensive data filtering within custom dashboards.
Dashboard filters in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can now be configured as local filters for individual widgets, allowing for more granular control over data visualization. This change enables users to set filter precedence and customize dashboard behavior.
A new panel allows users to link widgets to dashboard filters more easily by selecting widgets and clicking Apply. This feature simplifies the process of managing filter-linked widgets in custom dashboards.
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Management Dashboard now highlights linked widgets and filters, enabling users to quickly identify dependencies within their dashboards. This feature is available in all regions.
MySQL 9.7 LTS replaces MySQL 8.4 LTS as the default version for new DB systems. New DB systems are now based on MySQL 9.7.2 by default.
Oracle Internet of Things adds support for credential rotation in digital twin instances, allows Flow Runtime nodes to use OCI resource OCIDs, and introduces IAM policy conditions for narrowing access to digital twin resources. Additionally, Flow Runtime nodes can read and write data in the runtime-specific database schema, and validated object schemas can make selected fields optional.
App Gateway Docker, OVA, and Patch Releases have been updated to include NGINX 1.29.5, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. This update affects Docker version 26.3.33-2608171245, OVA version 26.3.2-11.0.0, and patch version 26.3.2-10.0.2.
xAI Grok 4.7 is now available on demand in OCI Generative AI, designed for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Developers can leverage this model for long-running coding tasks, document creation, and workflows requiring intermediate result checks.
The OCI VCN-Native Pod Networking CNI plugin for Kubernetes Engine (OKE) has improved CNI resilience during pod deletion and recreation, reliability of CNI network-rule cleanup, and added configurable reverse-path filtering support for VCN-Native CNI. This update also includes security updates for Go dependencies and strengthened validation of node networking metadata.
Starting September 15, 2026, OTP messages sent to Spain phone numbers with the country code +34 will use a standardized format without customer-friendly names. No action is required to continue sending or receiving OTP messages, but update documentation to reflect the new SMS format.
You can now import the zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash model into OCI Generative AI, which supports image-to-text generation. Developers can create endpoints and use the model in their applications, with specific hardware requirements for dedicated AI cluster units.
Automatic storage expansion in HeatWave now triggers when available storage falls to 10% or less, dynamically adjusting the storage size based on current allocation. Database administrators should review and configure the maximum storage size as needed to ensure continuous operation.
OCI Functions now supports code-only deployment for Go, Java, Node.js, and Python managed runtimes. You can package function code and dependencies as a ZIP archive or an uber JAR for eligible Java functions, and deploy without building or managing a container image.
The DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model can now be imported into OCI Generative AI, supporting text, image, and combined inputs to generate text. Developers can create endpoints and use the model in their generative AI applications.
OCI Generative AI introduces model discovery, allowing users to find and review models in specific regions, including details like capabilities, input/output types, and serving options. This feature is accessible via the ListModelDiscovery API operation and the list-model-discovery CLI command.
The google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it model can now be imported into OCI Generative AI, supporting text, image, and combined inputs for text generation. Developers building generative AI models on OCI must use specific dedicated AI cluster unit shapes.
OCI Generative AI introduces smart model router for cross-region routing of on-demand inference requests within a user-defined regional scope. Developers can create routing profiles specifying models and regions, and manage them via API and Console.
Oracle IAM with identity domains now supports Client ID Metadata Documents (CIMD) for OAuth Clients, allowing clients to publish metadata at a stable HTTPS URL and use it as the client ID. This enhancement provides authorization server metadata discovery, PKCE and refresh token support, and client credentials grant with privatekeyjwt authentication.
You can use existing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute capacity reservations with supported Data Science resources, including notebook sessions, single-node jobs and job runs, and model deployments. Before using Bring Your Own Reservations, contact the Data Science team to request enablement for the tenancy and target region.
The Select AI Agent Framework now allows sharing of agent teams across database schemas, enabling workflow reuse and centralized management. To leverage this feature, grant permissions using owner-qualified team names.
Select AI for Java provides a Java SDK for using Select AI capabilities in Java applications. Use the Java-native API to work with AI profiles, credentials, conversations, vector indexes, natural-language SQL, RAG, summarization, translation, feedback, and synthetic data generation.
You can modify System Global Area (SGA%) and Database Memory per CPU (GB) of Autonomous Exadata VM Clusters for greater post-provisioning control and improved configuration options. See Create an Autonomous Exadata VM Cluster and Manage Autonomous Exadata VM Cluster Resources for more information.
The retirement date for Cohere Command A Vision and Cohere Embed 4 on-demand models in the UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) region has been extended from October 12, 2026, to October 21, 2026. After this date, on-demand inference calls to these models will no longer be supported in this region, and users should consider alternative options such as using the models in on-demand mode in another supported region or hosting them on dedicated AI clusters.
Management Agent now includes JDK21, supports Windows Server 2025, and enhances Log Analytics collector for better log warnings. System administrators managing Azure Management Agents should update their agents to take advantage of these enhancements.
FastConnect now supports traffic draining for all private virtual circuits across FastConnect partner, FastConnect direct, and Oracle Interconnects. This includes enhancements to minimum links, interface hold-timer, and Letter of Authorization (LOA) for FastConnect direct cross-connects and cross-connect groups.
You can now import the zai-org/GLM-5.3 model into OCI Generative AI in the UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) region, enabling text-to-text generation capabilities. Developers can create endpoints and use the model in the Generative AI service.
Oracle JDK 27 is now available for use in Java Management Service. Developers can access JDK 27 through the Java Download and Java Runtime Lifecycle Management pages.
Cohere Command A Vision and Cohere Embed 4 are now available in on-demand mode in the UAE East (Dubai) region, with support for dedicated AI clusters. Developers can now leverage these models for generative AI applications in the UAE East (Dubai) region.
OCI Database with PostgreSQL now supports customer-managed encryption keys, allowing for greater control over data security. This feature is available for all PostgreSQL instances running on OCI Database.
Azure Key Management Service (Azure KMS) is now integrated with Oracle Database@Azure to manage Master Encryption Keys. This integration provides enhanced security and key management for Oracle databases running on Azure.
The DBMSCLOUDAI package on Autonomous AI Database now includes three new profile attributes: objectlistmode, enforceobjectlist, and casesensitivevalues. These attributes enable automatic object metadata identification, SQL generation restrictions, and case sensitivity control for string values.
Certificate rotation for customer-managed database SSL certificates does not invalidate existing certificates immediately. A two-week buffer period allows connections using the client wallet downloaded before or after rotation.
Select AI Agent now supports configurable short-term and long-term memory lengths, along with APIs to describe and run tools, discover agent teams, and inspect team capabilities and run state. This allows for more flexible and efficient use of Select AI Agent on Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure.
The on-demand serving mode for Cohere Command A Vision and Cohere Embed 4 is deprecated in Abu Dhabi and will be retired on October 12, 2026. Developers must migrate to another region or host the models on dedicated AI clusters to continue using these models.
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