Below are the major new updates in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Gen2 Platform.
Logging Analytics: AIX support
Oracle Logging Analytics now supports log collection through AIX (PPC64). The following six Oracle-defined log sources are available to set up the log collection:
- AIX Syslog Logs
- AIX SU Logs
- AIX HACMP Cluster Logs
- AIX Dynamic System Optimizer Logs
- AIX Cron Logs
- AIX Audit Logs
SQL Firewall in Oracle Data Safe
The SQL Firewall feature of Oracle Data Safe lets you administer and monitor SQL Firewall for your Oracle Database 23c databases. Administrators can use Data Safe to collect SQL activities of database accounts, monitor the collection progress, create SQL Firewall policies with allowlist rules (allowed contexts and allowed SQL statements) from the collected SQL activities, and enable SQL Firewall policies. For more information, see SQL Firewall in the Using Oracle Data Safe guide.
Full Stack Disaster Recovery introduces new features, API changes, and is now available in new regions
The following new features are introduced in this release:
Use Database Management for MySQL HeatWave
You can now use Database Management to monitor and obtain comprehensive performance and configuration information for MySQL DB systems in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure MySQL HeatWave service.
SQL Insights
SQL Insights provides a historical archive of detailed SQL performance data, as well as operationally useful insights derived from that data at the SQL statement, database and fleet levels. This telemetry is collected every 30 minutes and transferred into the Operations Insights warehouse where it is curated, persisted, and made available through data objects.
For more information see: SQL Insights
Media Streams now supports DASH for packaging
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Media Streams now supports just-in-time packaging with DASH-IF v3. For more information, see Media Streams.
Support for Proxy Sessions
Database Tools service now supports proxy sessions for Oracle Database connections in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
NoSQL Database Cloud : : Global Active Tables expands the reach of your application
The following new feature is now available in Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service:
- Global Active Tables: An active/active set of table replicas across a choice of cloud regions, for local read and write performance of globally distributed applications. Additionally, it offers application resiliency and continuity with seamless Disaster Recovery (DR).
GoldenGate adds support for new connection types
OCI GoldenGate added support for nine new connection types.
- Google BigQuery
- Google Cloud Storage
- Redis
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Kinesis
- Elasticsearch
- Google Cloud SQL for SQL Server
- SingleStoreDB
- SingleStoreDB Cloud
Application Dependency Management service now supports Remediation
The Application Dependency Management (ADM) service introduces remediation support. You can create recipes that when run will detect Java vulnerabilities in the dependencies of their maven projects and have recommended updates to the version in use proposed and verified in a pull request that can be reviewed and merged. This will reduce the time and effort to detect and remediate vulnerabilities.
Announcement history for related announcements
Announcements associated with the same incident can now display as part of a single chain of messages. When viewed in the Console, related announcements with the same chain ID appear under the announcement history of a single announcement.
When viewed by a tenancy administrator in email, related announcements with the same chain ID appear as part of the same email thread.
Media Flow and Media Streams documentation is now available under Media Services
Media Flow and Media Streams documentation is now available under Media Services.
Media Services is a fully managed service for processing media (video) source content. It provides scalable distribution and origination for just-in-time packaged adaptive bitrate (ABR) video content. Media Services includes two components, Media Flow and Media Streams, which can be used independently or together and operate on the content stored in Object Storage.
Virtual node support for Kubernetes security contexts
Virtual nodes now support the following Kubernetes security contexts:
- runAsNonRoot
- runAsUser
- runAsGroup
- readOnlyRootFilesystem
- allowPrivilegeEscalation=false
ZRCV – Retention Lock for Protected Database Backups
You can now enforce a lock for the backup retention period defined in a protection policy. When a retention lock is in effect, Recovery Service prohibits the modification or deletion of backups during the specified duration. The retention lock feature helps to protect your database backups from accidental or malicious damages such as ransomware.
Data Science – Storage mounts are introduced.
You can now specify File Storage service mount points or Object Storage service buckets in notebook sessions and jobs. This feature creates an automatic and secure configuration so that you can access data as if it were local to the machine without having to rewrite your applications. This simplifies the process of working with data store in your tenancy.
ZRCV – Create a Protected Database in a Dry-Run Mode
You can perform a dry run of the CreateProtectedDatabase API to verify that you meet all the prerequisites before creating a protected database. A dry run request returns error messages identifying the missing requirements and also indicates the recommended action to fulfill each requirement.
Accelerated Data Science 2.8.11 is released
The following changes were made in ADS 2.8.11:
- Added support to mount file systems in Data Science notebook sessions and jobs.
- Added support to cancel all job runs in the ADS
api and opctl commands.
- Updated
ads.set_auth() to use both config and signer when provided.
- Fixed a bug when initializing distributed training artifacts with the “Ray” framework.
Delayed Deletion of Protected Database Resources and Database Backups
Protected databases now have a new lifecycle state called Delete Scheduled.
A protected database resource enters the Delete Scheduled state after you terminate the source database or if you disable its automatic backups. Recovery Service delays the deletion of the protected database resource and the database backups for 72 hours, or until the backup retention period ends. This feature provides you an opportunity to recover data even after you terminate a database.
New Release of Network Firewall
This release includes the following enhancements:
- Increased limits for policy components: Policy components were previously configured as attributes of the policy. The new version refactors policy components as separate objects with their own names. This allows for a large increase in the number of components you can have in each associated policy, and the ability to move components between lists within the policy.
- Higher bandwidth for firewalls on demand: You can request an increase from 4Gbps to 25Gbps by opening a support request.
- Regional High Availability: Choose whether to deploy your firewalls regionally or to a specific availability domain to optimize performance.
- Operational improvements: Updating a firewall no longer causes a connection reset.
- Bulk import policy components: You can now bulk import policy components using a .
json file. You can import the maximum allowed components in one file. The Network Firewall service provides a .json template for each component type that you can download and use to construct an import file.
- Easily reorder security and decryption rules: When you create or edit a rule, you can specify its position of the rule in relation to other rules in the policy. You can reorder rules during creation, when editing a rule, or you can reorder rules within the list shown in the policy details page.
- Search for components: Because components are now independent objects, you can use the Search function to find them by name.
- Easy migration: Use the provided upgrade workflow to quickly and easily upgrade your policies to the new version. When you upgrade your policies, any associated firewalls are also upgraded.
Database Migration introduces GoldenGate Service Integration for replication
For online migrations, now you do not need to create a GoldenGate Marketplace stack in your tenancy.
Just select the “Use online replication” option when creating a migration and the Database Migration service will seamlessly create and set up a service-managed GoldenGate instance for your online migration without any additional setup or cost.
Cache with Redis is now available
OCI Cache with Redis is a managed service that enables you to build and manage Redis clusters. Cache with Redis handles the management and operations of your clusters, including operations such as security updates. Learn more about Cache with Redis.
Operational metrics are now available in the Unified Monitoring Agent
The Logging service’s Unified Monitoring Agent now includes the option to enable several new operational metrics when creating or editing an agent configuration. You can use these metrics to help monitor and identify potential problems with the agent.
After any metrics are enabled, use the Metrics Explorer page to create a query to retrieve agent operational metrics from the Monitoring service, or create a Console Dashboard with the selected operational metrics. For more information, see Creating an Agent Configuration and this blog post.
New Release of OS Management Hub
This release includes the following enhancements:
- Added software sources for Oracle Cloud Native Environment 1.7 and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager 4.4 and 4.3.
- Added support for Terraform.
- Enhanced unregistration process to remove the unregistered instance from the service. See Unregister an Instance.
- Updated job history reclamation policies. See Retention Policy.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Ksplice updates from running. See Using Ksplice.
- Fixed an issue with duplicate jobs appearing for management stations.
- Fixed an issue with some packages showing as both available and installed.
- Fixed an issue that prevented management station mirrors from displaying.
- Fixed an issue where some update jobs failed to run due to dependency resolution.
OCI Vision now has Face Detection
Vision now has face detection. It identifies faces in images and their locations using bounding boxes. For each face it shows left eye, right eye, nose tip, left edge of mouth, and right edge of mouth. It also gives each face a visual quality score. Those with a high score are suitable for biometrics.
Base Database: Enhancements to Pluggable Database (PDB) management
You can now restore, relocate, and refresh Pluggable Databases in base database service from OCI Service console.
New release for Data Integration
You can now:
- Export and import projects and their contents, and individual folders, tasks, data flows, and pipelines.
- Export and import function libraries and their user-defined functions, and individual functions.
- Customize and parameterize the allocated number of OCPUs and amount of memory when you use a flexible driver and executor shape in an OCI Data Flow task.
- Disable simultaneous running of a task when the task run is initiated manually or by a task schedule. This feature is available in the graphical user interface only.
- View all task run statistics on the monitoring workspace page.
- Use the OCI Logging Search page to search Data Integration logs for integration, data loader, REST, SQL, and pipeline task runs.
Publisher is now available
With the introduction of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Publisher, you can manage artifacts, listings and terms in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Marketplace. For more information, see Overview of Publisher.
Marketplace now supports work requests and exporting artifacts
You can now export container images and helm charts into your tenancy. The image will be available in the OCI Registry to launch it. Marketplace now offers information on each operation via work requests. See Work Requests.
New Release of VCN Flow Logs
You can now use capture filters to generate flow logs only for traffic you specify:
- Enable flow logs for all VNICs in a VCN or subnet, or target specific instances, network load balancers, or resource VNICs as enablement points.
- Specify the percentage of network flows to capture (sampling rate).
- Create up to 10 rules to include or exclude traffic based on criteria you specify. For example, you can include or exclude traffic based on source or destination IP address or CIDR block, IP protocol, or whether it is part of ingress or egress traffic.
Set Up Alarm Definitions in Database Management
You can now set up alarm definitions in Database Management to simplify the process of creating and managing alarms.
Using the Alarm definitions feature, you can:
- Use the preconfigured set of rules and thresholds to quickly create Oracle-recommended alarms for common operational scenarios for your databases. If you want to use the complete set of options available to create an alarm, you can navigate to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring service and create a custom alarm.
- Edit the previously configured alarm values to customize the alarm to meet specific requirements.
- Clone alarms to standardize monitoring settings across multiple databases.
Operations Insights Full Autonomous Database Support
Operations Insights Full Features collection is now available for all Autonomous Database (ADB) Types. Full Features collection includes SQL Explorer and ADDM Spotlight for all ADB Serverless (access anywhere, private endpoint, and ACL restricted), and ADB Dedicated databases.
MySQL HeatWave: Read Replicas with different Shapes, Configurations, and Versions
You now have enhanced flexibility using read replicas in MySQL HeatWave with different shapes, configurations, and versions. There are several uses and advantages for this feature:
- Use specific configurations to tailor read replicas for read-only operations, so you can optimize performance and resource utilization. Additionally, before implementing significant changes, use distinct replicas to validate configurations. This proactive approach not only ensures business continuity but also strengthens operational reliability.
- Change the shape of read replicas individually to select appropriate compute resources for your workload and to enable broader elasticity for read operations.
- First, update the MySQL version on replicas, validate, and then upgrade other instances. This practice improves upgrade strategy, change management, and risk mitigation.
To start using customized read replicas, navigate to Resources > Read Replicas in the Console and find new options when creating or editing a Read Replica.
OKE – Support for Kubernetes volume clones
The CSI volume plugin now supports the use of Kubernetes volume clones (provisioned by block volume clones in the Block Volume service) to provision new persistent volumes.
A Kubernetes clone is an exact duplicate of an existing persistent volume on a storage system. You can clone an existing persistent volume to provision a new persistent volume claim. The new persistent volume contains a copy of the data from the source persistent volume, but is independent of the source persistent volume. Volume clones can be used to rapidly test configuration changes without impacting the production environment.
Data Science Service – Private endpoint to access notebook sessions
You can now configure a private endpoint in your tenancy. Use a private endpoint to access one or more notebook sessions for additional internet security.
GoldenGate now supports IAM with Identity Domains
GoldenGate now supports Identity Access Management (IAM) with Identity Domains. Ensure that you add the appropriate policies and create a Vault before you create new OCI GoldenGate deployments.
Big Data Service 3.0.25 has added additional features
Updated Working with Big Data Service Component help
- Using Apache Oozie
- Using Apache Spark
- Using Apache Hue
- Using HBase
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