Dear All,
In this post i am going to share the oracle change History summary.
Change History (2020-2025)
Only significant changes to content (such as new or changed dates, new releases, or clarifications) beginning Jan 1, 2020 are listed below. Minor wording or formatting changes are not recorded.
| Date | What Changed? |
Dec 4, 2025 | Marked Supercluster N/A for 26ai |
Dec 3 2025 | Added Linux x86-64 estimated release Jan 2026 |
Oct 14, 2025 | Replaced Oracle Database 23ai with Oracle AI Database 26ai |
May 16, 2025 | Upgrade Support has been extended through Dec 31, 2026 |
May 6, 2025 | Added: The support for 32-bit Oracle Clients (both Full and Instant Client) has been discontinued since 23ai; i.e., there will be no 32-bit Instant Client releases with 23ai and beyond. |
28-Mar-2025 10-April-2025 | Linked 3068039.1 as an important reference document |
| 19-Mar-2025 | Added comment *3 for Private Cloud Appliance |
| 16-Jan-2025 | Added 22-Jul-2024 release dates for 23ai on Compute Cloud@Customer and Private Cloud Appliance |
| 27-Nov-2024 | No major changes. Only formatting updates. |
| 25-Nov-2024 | Extended the Premier Support end date for 23ai Database to Dec 31, 2031, set Extended Support to TBD |
| 21-Nov-2024 | Removed 19c Upgrade Support. After Premier and Extended Support dates changed were extended, there is no need for Upgrade Support. |
| 19-Nov-2024 | Updated 19c LSP dates and Roadmap visual |
| 06-Nov-2024 | Sync'd Roadmap visual and Upgrade Support End dates for 11.2, 12.1, and 12.2 |
| 01-Nov-2024 | Updated Roadmap and LSP dates for 23ai, 21c, and 19c. |
| 06-Aug-2024 | Upgrade Support announced for 11.2, 12.1, and 12.2 for customers upgrading their Databases to 19c |
| 22-Jul-2024 | Updated Oracle Database Appliance and Exadata release dates to 22-Jul-2024. Also, updated release date for Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure because it released on 28-Jun-2024. |
| 26-Jun-2024 | Added link to Linux x86-64 Full Client download |
| 25-Jun-2024 | Added Instant Client link for Linux x86-64 and MS Windows 64 bit, added macOS ARM Instant Client details |
| 20-Jun-2024 | Added new release dates for Oracle Autonomous Database - Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer, ODA, Exadata and Linux-x86 64 |
| 04-Jun-2024 | Corrected Windows 32bit client dates for all releases. |
| 02-May-2024 | Oracle Database 23ai released to cloud. Changed name from Oracle Database 23c to Oracle Database 23ai. |
| 04-Jan-2024 | Clarified that Upgrade Support is required if a customer needs to provision or run 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.1 on Exadata Database Service, Base Database Service or Exadata Cloud@Customer |
| 08-Dec-2023 | 21c End Date was extended 1 year and is now April 30, 2025 |
| 17-Nov-2023 | Clarified description for Table 2, Footnote 1 |
| 12-Oct-2023 | Modified name of Upgrade Support from Restricted Upgrade Support to Upgrade Support (restricted/custom) |
| 20-Sep-2023 | 23ai Estimated Release Dates announced |
| 10-Aug-2023 | ACS has been renamed to Customer Success Services. They are offering very limited support for 11.2, 12.1 and 12.2 in 2024. Contact CSS for details. |
| 07-Aug-2023 | Second year of 19c EXS fees have been waived, Updated Oracle Recommendations section |
| 28-Jul-2023 | Changed Windows 32bit client from TBA to Not Planned for 23ai |
| 29-Jun-2023 | Oracle Database 19c released on Linux on ARM (28-June-2023) |
| 07-Jun-2022 | Market Driven Support expired on Dec 31, 2022. For information on Upgrade Support |
| 24-Oct-2022 | Exadata Cloud and Database Cloud names now reflect the new names; added Exadata Database Service on Cloud at Customer |
| 18-Oct-2022 | 1) RUR is transitioning to MRP. See 19c section above. 2) Date ranges for 23ai availability are provided for planning purposes only. |
| 11-Oct-2022 | First year of 19c EXS fees have been waived, Updated Oracle Recommendations section |
| 15-Aug-2022 | Added: 21c is not available with Exadata Database Service to Table 1 |
| 01-Aug-2022 | Database Release 12.1.0.2 has moved to Sustaining Support. |
| 27-Jun-2022 | No significant changes to content |
| 13-Jun-2022 | Added additional information around 12.2 move to Sustaining. |
| 11-Nov-2021 | Wording for Cloud services modified to say: These services will not be covered under Sustaining Support and Oracle makes no commitment that any cloud service instances will continue to run after the end of their support life (Premier, extended, error correction, or MDS). |
| 20-Oct-2021 | Added release dates for 21c on ODA, HP, Windows |
| 13-Aug-2021 | Oracle Database 21.3 released on Linux with a patching end date of April 30, 2024 |
| 08-Jun-2021 | Oracle will use best effort to support the Oracle 12.1.0.2 Database on Microsoft Windows until July 2022. See Table 1 above. |
| 03-Jun-2021 | Added Market Driven Support is not available for PSM-based OCI DBCS, in 11.2.0.4 |
| 05-May-2021 | Oracle Instant Client 19.10 released on Linux on ARM |
| 04-May-2021 | Oracle is not planning to release 21c on IBM AIX Power Systems and IBM Linux on System Z (Added link to Doc ID 2766930.1 05/06/2021) |
| 16-Dec-2020 | Updated Table 1 11.2.0.4 Market Driven Support bullet for Database Cloud Services |
| 08-Dec-2020 | Updated Roadmap, Added 21c information |
| 23-Nov-2020 | Changed end date for 18c from June 08, 2021 to June 30, 2021 to match contract date requirements. |
| 12-Oct-2020 | Added OpenVMS Itanium Support dates that will extend their support until Dec 31, 2021. See Table 1 - 11.2.0.4 section above. |
| 02-Sep-2020 | Added additional information around 11.2.0.4 DBCS and Market Driven Support. See Table 1- 11.2.0.4 section above. |
| 03-Aug-2020 | Because 12.2.0.1 LEC applies to all on-prem and DB cloud services, removed the following from 12.2.0.1 bullet points: 'Limited Error Correction applies to Gen 1 ExaCC, OCC DBCS, and ODA (UPDATED)'. Added a comment that MDS does not apply to DBCS (This comment was removed 02-Sep-2020) Amended 12.1.0.2 EXS extension to specifically call out the Windows exception end date is the 'Patching/Error Correction end date'. In certify, the EXS date for Windows platforms will still show as July 31, 2022 due to a tool limitation but patching (including bundles) will stop July 31, 2021. |
| 10-Jun-2020 | Added Long Term and Innovation release definitions, added updated Premier and Extended Support dates for 19c, added terminal release for the Solaris x86-64 bit platform, clarified the 12.2.0.1 additional 3 months of support for Gen 1 ExaCC, OCC DBCS, and ODA has been absorbed into Limited Error Correction window. |
| 15-Apr-2020 | Added Limited Error Correction for 12.2.0.1 from Dec 1, 2020- until March 31, 2022 |
| 23-Mar-2020 | Gen 1 ExaCC, OCC DBCS, and ODA will have 3 additional months of support life. The end of life dates for databases on these platforms is:
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| Jan 28, 2020 | Restructured original document, removed older releases that are no longer covered under Premier or Extended Support, removed unnecessary information contained in other documents, Added estimated release dates for annual release 20c. |
