Introducing autoscaling support for OpenShift Container Platform on OCI. This new capability helps OpenShift clusters automatically adjust worker capacity as application demand changes, so teams can run dynamic workloads without manually resizing worker pools. With autoscaling, customers can enable elastic worker capacity when creating a new OpenShift cluster on OCI, or add autoscaling to an exist…
New hardware unit shapes are available for hosting select Cohere and Meta models on dedicated AI clusters in OCI Generative AI. The new unit shape names begin with a Cohere_ or Meta_ prefix and identify the underlying hardware and number of required hardware units. Cohere models Cohere Command A (cohere.command-a-03-2025) Cohere Command A Reasoning (cohere.command-a-reasoning) Cohere Command A Vis…
The OCI Responses API now supports background mode for requests that might take longer than an application wants to keep the original connection open. Background mode continues processing the response asynchronously and lets the application retrieve its status and result by using the response ID. Asynchronous execution Set background to true when creating a response. The request can continue runni…
You can now use the Oracle Interconnect for AWS. For more information, see Interconnect for AWS.
Use Oracle Select AI Agent framework's DBMS_CLOUD_AI_AGENT package APIs to discover and call tools, discover agent teams, check team run state, call tools from agent-direct sessions, and configure memory depth. These capabilities support both database applications and external integration layers. Autonomous AI Database integrates Select AI Agent framework with the managed MCP Server and Agent2Agen…
Select AI supports the Supervisor Agent pattern for multi-agent orchestration. A supervisor agent dynamically selects and coordinates specialized worker agents at runtime based on user requests and intermediate results, enabling flexible workflows without a predefined run sequence. Supervisor-led teams process worker subtasks sequentially and return a single coordinated response. See the following…
Introducing the Database Developer Portal for the Database Tools service, a centralized workspace for database developers in OCI. From a single interface, developers can provision new database services, create and manage database connections, launch supported development tools, and quickly access frequently used databases and connections. See Database Developer Portal
Console AI is a new conversational experience in the OCI Console that helps you work faster using natural language. It supports a wide range of use cases, including exploring resources, creating and managing supported OCI resources, troubleshooting issues, understanding billing and usage, and learning how to complete common OCI tasks. Console AI operates within your current existing OCI Identity a…
OCI Search with OpenSearch now supports Availability Domain (AD) and Fault Domain (FD) aware shard placement to improve cluster resilience and availability. Search with OpenSearch automatically distributes shard primary and replicas across nodes in different ADs and FDs. This helps reduce the risk of correlated failures by keeping multiple copies of the same shard separated across OCI infrastructu…
GoldenGate adds support for the following connection types: AI Models Google Managed Service for Apache Kafka Oracle Exadata Exascale Oracle Database@Azure - Exadata Exascale Oracle Database@Google Cloud - Exadata Exascale Learn more about what's new in this release.
You can now use the Export to CSV option to export data from dashboard widgets that display Sunburst or Treemap visualizations. This enables you to analyze data from widgets that use these visualizations outside the console. For more information, see Create a Custom Dashboard.
You can now use Compare Period ADDM in Database Management to compare database performance between two time periods using options such as Same time yesterday and Same time last week. The Compare Period ADDM report includes an overview, findings, resource usage, and configuration comparison details, and can be downloaded in HTML or XML format. Compare Period ADDM is currently in preview mode and is…
You can now use demo mode in Database Management to explore monitoring and analysis capabilities without having to configure a monitored environment. Demo mode provides curated demo data in a read-only environment. For more information, see Explore Database Management Using Demo Mode.
OCI Database with PostgreSQL is now available in Oracle US Government Cloud and US Defense Cloud. For more information about Oracle US Government Cloud, see: For All US Government Cloud Customers Oracle US Government Cloud Oracle US Defense Cloud
OCI Database with PostgreSQL is now available in Oracle US Government Cloud and US Defense Cloud. For more information about Oracle US Government Cloud, see: For All US Government Cloud Customers Oracle US Government Cloud Oracle US Defense Cloud
You can change the availability domain of an existing Autonomous AI Database instance using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console. Changing the availability domain allows you to place Autonomous AI Database instances and related Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources, such as compute VMs, in the same availability domain to minimize network latency. Similarly, you can also select an availability d…
Zero Trust Packet Routing (ZPR) security attributes can now be added to Network Firewall. For more information, see Managing a Network Firewall's Security Attributes. Security attributes are labels that ZPR policy references. These attributes enable client endpoints with specific security attributes to access other endpoints that also have these attributes. ZPR enforces this policy at the network…
Java Management supports the following releases that are part of the Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) January 2026 for Oracle Java SE. 26.0.2: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/26-0-2-relnotes.html 25.0.4: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/25-0-4-relnotes.html 21.0.12: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/21-0-12-relnotes.html 17.0.20: https://www.oracle.co…
OCI Generative AI hosted application endpoints now support OCI IAM authentication. When you create an application, you can select OCI IAM as the authentication type for requests to the application’s hosted deployment endpoint. With OCI IAM authentication, requests are signed using standard OCI request-signature authentication and authorized through OCI IAM policies. This option is available in add…
H100 multi-node serving is now available for imported models in OCI Generative AI. You can now deploy deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro and zai-org/GLM-5.2-FP8 using the H100_X16 shape. This shape provides 16 H100 GPUs across two nodes, with 8 GPUs per node. For available hardware and deployment steps, see Dedicated AI Cluster Unit Sizes for Imported Models. For the complete list of models compatible fo…
On-demand model availability has expanded in OCI Generative AI. Cohere Embed 4 Cohere Embed 4 is now available on-demand in the following regions: Germany Central (Frankfurt, FRA) Brazil East (São Paulo, GRU) India South (Hyderabad, HYD) UK South (London, LHR) Meta Llama 4 Scout Meta Llama 4 Scout is now available on-demand in the following regions: UK South (London, LHR) Brazil East (São Paulo, G…
We've launched a major update to the Oracle Cloud Console for Speech. The new experience includes intuitive designs across the Console to enhance usability and consistency, with significant updates to resource list pages, resource details pages, and resource creation workflows. Learn more about the new Console experience.
Console AI is a new conversational experience in the OCI Console that helps you work faster using natural language. It supports a wide range of use cases, including exploring resources, creating and managing supported OCI resources, troubleshooting issues, understanding billing and usage, and learning how to complete common OCI tasks. Console AI operates within your existing OCI Identity and Acces…
Autonomous AI Database uses Oracle APEX Release 26.1, which includes new features and enhancements for developing and running enterprise applications. See Create Applications with Oracle APEX in Autonomous AI Database for more information.
You can now use the CSI driver SMB add-on to enable cluster workloads to use SMB/CIFS file shares as persistent storage. The CSI driver SMB add-on mounts SMB shares as Kubernetes PersistentVolumes, allowing pods to access shared network file storage through PersistentVolumeClaims. The storage can be used to provide workloads with reusable, shared storage backed by SMB-compatible file servers, supp…
You can now use the NVIDIA Network Operator add-on to automate deployment and configuration of NVIDIA networking components for high-performance networking. The NVIDIA Network Operator add-on manages components such as Multus CNI, CNI plugins, NVIDIA IPAM, SR-IOV Network Operator, SR-IOV/RDMA CNI components, and VF configuration resources depending on the selected add-on version and VF creation mo…
You can now use the NVIDIA GPU Operator add-on to automate the management of NVIDIA software components required to provision GPU nodes. The NVIDIA GPU Operator add-on manages components such as the NVIDIA device plugin, NVIDIA Container Toolkit, MIG Manager, DCGM and DCGM Exporter to enable GPU workloads, monitoring, and GPU sharing capabilities in Kubernetes clusters. For more information, see O…
You can now use the Node Feature Discovery add-on to detect hardware features and system configuration on cluster nodes. The Node Feature Discovery add-on advertises those capabilities as Kubernetes node labels. The labels can be used to schedule workloads onto nodes with specific CPU, device, kernel, OS, GPU or other discovered capabilities. For more information, see Overview of Cluster Add-ons a…
Cookie protection helps prevent unauthorized access to user sessions by binding session cookies to the client's IP address. Cookie protection adds IP-based detection for session cookies used by protected applications. When the system detects that a session cookie is used from a different IP address, it can require the user to reauthenticate and, when session management is enabled, revoke the assoc…
Inbound replication now supports multi-source replication. A replica DB system can connect to up to 18 MySQL sources by using one replication channel for each source. For more information, see Inbound Replication.