Service Change Announcements

Service Change: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Anomaly Detection service is deprecated.

Date Announced: March 7, 2024

Date in Effect: March 6, 2025

Details: Effective March 6, 2025, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Anomaly Detection service reaches end of life (EOL). Before the EOL date, we recommend that you migrate to using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science service to detect anomalies.

Does this impact me? The Anomaly Detection service will no longer be available for use after March 6, 2025. Previously created models will continue to operate in your tenancy though you must migrate immediately to avoid service disruption.

What do I need to do? You can use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science service Accelerated Data Science Operator to detect anomalies. It supports both univariate and multivariate anomaly detection.

Service Change: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway service support for certain legacy ciphers is deprecated.

Date Announced: March, 2024

Date in Effect: April 1, 2025

Details: Effective April 1, 2025, the API Gateway service no longer supports the following legacy ciphers:

• ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
• ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384
• DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256
• DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256

Does this impact me? After April 1, 2025, an API gateway will no longer include the legacy ciphers in the list of supported ciphers when establishing a connection with an API client or with a back-end service. An API client or a back-end service that only supports legacy ciphers will no longer be able to connect to an API gateway.

What do I need to do? Make sure that API clients and back-end services connecting to API gateways support one or more of the ciphers that continue to be supported by the API Gateway service (see Supported TLS Versions and Ciphers).

Service Change: The required subnetId attribute from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's CreateRecoveryServiceSubnet API is deprecated.

The CreateRecoveryServiceSubnet API can instead use the optional Subnets attribute, which later changes to become a required attribute.

Date Announced: May 2023.

Date in Effect: May 2024.

Details: Prior to this service change, the subnetId attribute can be used to specify only a single subnet to be associated with a Recovery Service subnet. After this service change, the subnetId attribute is ignored and subnets will be required attribute. The subnets attribute can be used to specify multiple subnets to be associated with a Recovery Service subnet.

Does this impact me? If you have custom scripts or Terraform scripts that are referencing the CreateRecoveryServiceSubnet API and are explicitly using the subnetId attribute, you might want to modify the scripts to remove this attribute and use subnets instead.

What do I need to do? When using OCI SDKs and command line tools, you must choose to update your custom scripts to use the subnets attribute. After May 2024, the subnets attribute is a required field.

Service Change: On January 31, 2023, the agreement between Oracle and Cloudera expires. As a result, starting on January 31, Oracle Big Data Service will no longer support using the Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) to launch new clusters or add nodes or cores to existing clusters beyond a set limit. This change doesn't impact ongoing support of existing Big Data Service CDH clusters.

This change is applicable only to Big Data Service CDH. This change does not impact customers who use on-premises Oracle Big Data Appliance (BDA) or Big Data Service with Oracle Distribution of Hadoop (ODH).

Date Announced: December 13, 2022

Date in Effect: January 31, 2023

Details: On January 31, 2023, the limit for Big Data Service CDH expansion of the number of compute cores (OCPUs) freezes. The number of compute cores in a customer's tenancy on January 31 becomes the maximum number of cores allowed for that tenancy, and no further expansion will be allowed.

Does this impact me? This change is only applicable to Big Data Service with CDH. Big Data Service with Oracle Distribution of Hadoop (ODH) is not impacted in any way.

For example, on January 31, 2023 if a tenancy has 2 BDS CDH clusters with 15 nodes each with a total of 120 OCPUs, then after January 31, 2023 the maximum limit for OCPUs will be set to 120 and cannot be increased beyond 120 after that date. For support issues such as replacing failed nodes, new nodes may be added up to that limit. Users can also decrease the number of cores and increase back to the same limit (for example, 120).

Next steps: Oracle recommends planning and implementing any required Big Data Service CDH cluster expansions before January 31, 2023. For customers who want to avoid this expansion constraint after that date, we recommend migrating to Big Data Service ODH.

About Big Data Service with ODH: In 2022, Oracle released Big Data Service ODH, which we developed as a cloud native service for our big data customers. Oracle provides continuous investment and support for ODH, with no licensing requirements from Cloudera. ODH has key enterprise-focused features, including autoscaling, Kerberos, Active Directory integration, HDFS connector for Object Storage, and Bootstrap scripts. And it's one of the most cost-efficient big data products in the market.

Big Data Service ODH has multiple versions with the latest and previous versions of Hadoop components for compatibility with newer and older application stacks. It's also verified with WANdisco Data Migrator for easier migrations at scale and uses Oracle Cloud Lift services to work with Oracle engineers for migrations. For information about migrating to Big Data Service ODH, see the documentation.

Service Change: Oracle defined backup policies no longer include full volume backups.

Date Announced: November 3, 2020

Date in Effect: November 3, 2021

Details: Starting November 3, 2021, Oracle defined backup policies no longer include full volume backups. All volume backups generated from Oracle defined policies are now incremental backups. This change applies to existing volume backup policy assignments and new volume backup policy assignments. This change does not impact user defined policies, which remain unchanged.

Does this impact me? If you have assigned an Oracle defined policy to boot volumes or block volumes for scheduled backups, full backups are no longer generated after November 3, 2021.

What do I need to do? Incremental backups are functionally the same as full backups for data recovery purposes, for more information, see Volume Backup types. No action is needed for data recovery scenarios. Some compliance scenarios may require scheduled full backups. For these compliance scenarios, change the backup policy assignment to a user defined backup policy prior to November 1, 2021. You can create a new user defined policy from an existing backup policy, see Duplicating Existing Backup Policies.

Service Change: End-of-life for OCI Classic Migration Service effective March 31, 2024.

Date Announced: March 04, 2024

Date in Effect: March 31, 2024

Details: Oracle announces the end-of-distribution and end-of-life updates for OCI Classic Migration Service effective March 31, 2024.

Classic Migration Service (formerly known as Application Migration Service) simplifies the migration of applications from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Classic Migration Service migrates applications such as Oracle Java Cloud Service, SOA Cloud Service, and Integration Classic applications, from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic and Oracle Cloud@Customer to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Does this impact me? There should be no impact to existing customers. Application versions that were supported by Classic Migrations have been obsolete for a number of years and customers are already running on more recent versions.

What do I need to do? No expected actions from customers. If you do find that you have a Classic application that needs to be migrated out then please contact the associated Cloud Application service.

Service Change: The PCI-NIC fault class for Compute bare metal instance health monitoring is deprecated.

Date Announced: June 21, 2022

Date in Effect: June 21, 2023

Details: The PCI-NIC fault class provides information about a hardware issue with your bare metal instances, specifically when a fault in the instance network interface card (NIC) has been detected. The PCI-NIC fault class will no longer be emitted.

Does this impact me? When support ends, you will no longer receive health monitoring notifications for the PCI-NIC fault class. Infrastructure health metrics will no longer be emitted for the PCI-NIC fault class.

What do I need to do? Migrate to the PCI fault class for similar functionality. For more information, see Compute Health Monitoring for Bare Metal Instances and Infrastructure Health Metrics.

Service Change: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Labeling service is to be deprecated.

Date Announced: August 30, 2024

Date in Effect: August 30, 2025

Details: Effective August 30, 2025, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Labeling service reaches end of life (EOL). Before the EOL date, we recommend that you migrate to using the open source labeling tools available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Marketplace to label data.

Does this impact me? The Data Labeling service is no longer available for use after August 30, 2025. You can continue to use labels created before, but you must migrate immediately to avoid service disruption.

What do I need to do? You can use the open source labeling tools available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Marketplace to create labels. We recommend that you use Open source alternatives for most of Data Labeling's functionality.

For Vision custom models, Data Labeling is planned to be replaced by Label Studio, with no impact to existing models. For future custom models creation, label the data using Label Studio.

For Document Understanding, the document labeling functionality from Data Labeling is being integrated into it. Users can still access this feature in Document Understanding by navigating to the custom model training workflow.

Service Change: OCI Java SDK version 2 is being deprecated.

Date Announced: April 6, 2023

Date in Effect: June 30, 2023

Details: Oracle has recently released Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Java SDK version 3. OCI Java SDK version 3 is a major SDK release, and we recommend that you upgrade to this latest version. We will continue to fully support OCI Java SDK version 2 until the end of June 2023. During this time, both OCI Java SDK versions 2 and 3 will receive regular updates to add support for new service APIs, critical bug fixes and security patches, and documentation modifications.

Does this impact me? After June 30, 2023, OCI Java SDK version 2 will no longer receive updates to add support for new regions, new services, or features in existing services, unless otherwise specified. For older versions of the OCI Java SDK version 2 that are less than 12 months old, upon request, OCI will backport critical bug fixes and security issues only.

What do I need to do? Upgrade to OCI Java SDK version 3.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Autonomous Data Warehouse APIs were deprecated on Feb. 15, 2019.

Important! Support for these Autonomous Database for Analytics and Data Warehousing APIs will end on Jul. 1, 2020. Oracle recommends that you migrate your database workloads to the replacement APIs as soon as possible.

Service Change: The default value of the isMTLSConnectionRequired attribute will change from true to false on July 1, 2023 in the following APIs:

• CreateAutonomousDatabase
• GetAutonomousDatabase
• UpdateAutonomousDatabase

Date Announced: February 7, 2023.

Date in Effect: July 1, 2023.

Details: Prior to this service change, the isMTLSConnectionRequired attribute default value was true. This is applicable for Autonomous Database Serverless.

Does this impact me? If you have custom scripts or Terraform scripts that are referencing the CreateAutonomousDatabase, GetAutonomousDatabase, or UpdateAutonomousDatabase APIs, you might want to modify the scripts to account for the changed default value of this attribute. However, should you choose not to make any changes to your scripts, the API calls containing this attribute will continue to work except that the default value will switch from "true" to "false".

What do I need to do? When using OCI SDKs and command line tools, you might choose to update your custom scripts to explicitly set the isMTLSConnectionRequired attribute to "true".

Service Change: The following APIs have changes where the API or certain API fields are deprecated.

Date Announced: May 17, 2023.

Date in Effect: May 17, 2024.

Details: Prior to this service change, these APIs included the APIs or the API fields mentioned. After this service change, the mentioned APIs or APIs fields will be removed. This is applicable for Autonomous Database Serverless.

Support for these Autonomous Database API Fields will end on May 2, 2024. Oracle recommends that you migrate your scripts to discontinue the use of these Fields as soon as possible. Where provided, switch to use the replacement field or API.

Does this impact me?: If you have custom scripts or Terraform scripts that are referencing these APIs, or the mentioned fields, you should modify the scripts to account for these changes.

What do I need to do?: When using OCI SDKs and command line tools, you update your custom scripts to either remove use of the deprecated APIs or fields or use the replacements.

Service Change: The return values for certain APIs changes, where return the value of 409 Incorrect State in some cases, as appropriate, is changed to 409 Conflict.

Date Announced: October 2023.

Date in Effect: October 2024.

Details: Prior to this service change, certain API calls fail with 409 Incorrect State error code. After this service change, in certain cases as appropriate, the API calls will fail with error code 409 Conflict.

Before this change, many APIs return 409 Incorrect State when the Autonomous Database is Stopped or is Unavailable. For these states, according to the API guidelines the correct return is 409 Conflict. For other Autonomous Database states, such as Starting, Stopping, and Provisioning, the current return of 409 Incorrect State is correct and this will not change after this update.

The 409 Incorrect State return should be used to indicate that retries are OK and that the resource will eventually reach the correct state, and the return 409 Conflict indicates that the resource will not reach the correct state on its own and that retries should not be performed. This service change changes the error code value in these APIs for the cases where 409 Conflict is representative of the known Autonomous Database state.

This service change applies to the following APIs:

• UpdateAutonomousDatabase
• DeleteAutonomousDatabase
• ChangeDisasterRecoveryConfiguration
• RotateAutonomousDatabaseEncryptionKey
• StartAutonomousDatabase
• RestartAutonomousDatabase
• ShrinkAutonomousDatabase
• StopAutonomousDatabase
• ConfigureAutonomousDatabaseVaultKey
• AutonomousDatabaseManualRefresh
• FailOverAutonomousDatabase
• SwitchoverAutonomousDatabase
• ChangeAutonomousDatabaseCompartment
• RegisterAutonomousDatabaseDataSafe
• DeregisterAutonomousDatabaseDataSafe
• EnableAutonomousDatabaseOperationsInsights
• DisableAutonomousDatabaseOperationsInsights

Does this impact me?: If you have custom scripts or Terraform scripts that are handling the 409 Incorrect State return from these APIs, you might want to modify the scripts to handle the 409 Conflict return, as appropriate.

What do I need to do?: When using OCI SDKs and command line tools, you might choose to update your custom scripts.

Service Change: On Autonomous Database Serverless the ability to take manual backups, which aren't long-term backups, is being deprecated.

Autonomous Database Serverless automatically backs up the database up to 60 days. Due to this change, on February 15, 2025 when you call the CreateAutonomousDatabaseBackupDetails API with the isLongTermBackup attribute, the value must be set to true. The default value of the isLongTermBackup attribute will also change to true.

Date Announced: February 15, 2024.

Date in Effect: February 15, 2025.

Details: Prior to this service change, the attribute isLongTermBackup default value was false. After this service change, the only valid value for the isLongTermBackup attribute is true. This change is applicable for Autonomous Database Serverless.

Does this impact me?: If you have custom scripts or Terraform scripts that are referencing the CreateAutonomousDatabaseBackupDetails API, you might want to modify the scripts to account for the changed default value of this attribute. However, if you choose not to make any changes to your scripts, the API calls containing this attribute will continue to work except that the default value will switch from false to true.

What do I need to do?: When using OCI SDKs and command line tools, update your custom scripts to explicitly set the isLongTermBackup attribute to true.

Service Change: The isShared parameter from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's ListAutonomousDatabaseCharacterSets is deprecated.

Date Announced: October 2023.

Date in Effect: October 2024.

Details: Prior to this service change, the optional isShared parameter can be used. This change introduces the optional isDedicated parameter, and the isShared parameter will be removed after October 2024.

Does this impact me?: If you have custom scripts or Terraform scripts that are referencing the ListAutonomousDatabaseCharacterSets API using the isShared parameter with the value TRUE, modify the scripts to replace this parameter with the isDedicated parameter with the value FALSE, and if you are referencing the ListAutonomousDatabaseCharacterSets API using the isShared parameter with the value FALSE, modify the scripts to replace this parameter with the isDedicated attribute with the value TRUE.

What do I need to do?: When using OCI SDKs and command line tools, update your custom scripts to replace the isShared parameter with the isDedicated parameter.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Exadata DB system APIs were deprecated on November 15, 2020.

Important!: No new systems can be provisioned with the old DB system resource model/APIs after May 15th, 2021. Support for the old DB system resource model/APIs on existing systems will end on November 15th, 2021. Oracle recommends that you migrate your Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure instances to the new resource model APIs as soon as possible. Converting to the new resource model does not involve any system downtime.

Service Change: The optional dbWorkload attribute from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's CreateDatabase API is deprecated.

Date Announced: November 2022.

Date in Effect: November 2023.

Details: Prior to this service change, the dbWorkload attribute can be used to choose between either the OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) or the Data Warehouse (Analytic) workload, and is used internally to determine memory settings based on the database workload. After this service change, the dbWorkload attribute is treated as a "no-op" (no operation), which means that while API calls containing the deprecated attribute will not fail, the passed value will be ignored and the system will instead use a default value internally. This is applicable for Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer, and Base Database Service.

Does this impact me? If you have custom scripts or Terraform scripts that are referencing the CreateDatabase API and are explicitly using the dbWorkload attribute, you might want to modify the scripts to remove this attribute. However, should you choose not to make any changes to your scripts, the API calls containing this attribute will continue to work except that the value passed for the dbWorkload attribute will not be considered.

What do I need to do? When using OCI SDKs and command line tools, you might choose to update your custom scripts to exclude the dbWorkload attribute. After November 2023, if you pass a value to the dbWorkload attribute, it will be ignored.

Service Change: Oracle Machine Learning Notebooks Classic on Autonomous Database Serverless, which is the original notebook environment and replaced by an enhanced notebook interface, is deprecated.

The new OML Notebooks interface provides a new look and feel, along with new features: faster notebook loading and access; rich data visualizations, paragraph comments and runtime dependencies; Zeppelin and Jupyter layouts; on-page notebook versioning, history viewing, and version comparison; GPU support for Python paragraphs; along with the ability to use third-party R and Python packages via conda environments.

Date Announced: June 11, 2024, in the Oracle Machine Learning Notebooks home page "Importance changes" banner.

Date in Effect: December 31, 2024.

Details: Aligned with the banner notice and prior to feature removal, the following incremental changes will be rolled out:

Phase 2 - October 29, 2024

• On the Notebook Classic listing page, users will no longer be able to create Classic notebooks, save them as templates, or select them for job scheduling.
• Existing Classic notebooks can be opened in read-only mode.
• Users can convert Classic notebooks to the new format using the "Copy to OML Notebooks" button on the listing page.

Phase 3 - December 31, 2024

• Classic notebooks will no longer be available to users.
• The ADMIN user can access Classic notebooks in read-only mode and convert them to the new format.
• Jobs that still use Classic notebooks will be disabled with a status shown as “Disabled”. Any associated job logs will not be accessible. Users will be able to delete jobs using Classic notebooks only.

Phase 4 -June 4, 2025

• The ADMIN user will no longer have access to Classic notebooks.
• Any remaining Classic notebooks will be deleted.

Does this impact me? This affects only users who have Classic notebooks, Classic template notebooks, or jobs that specify Classic notebooks. Per the schedule above, users will lose access to these notebooks and existing jobs using Classic notebooks will produce an error if they are run or are scheduled on a recurring schedule.

What do I need to do? If you have Classic notebooks or Classic template notebooks (personal or shared) that you wish to keep, you must convert these to the new format. If you have jobs that rely on Classic notebooks, these jobs must either be updated with a new notebook or recreated with a new notebook.

Service Change: Data Integration Platform Cloud End of Life

Date Announced: August 29, 2024

Date in Effect: December 12, 2024

Details: Effective December 12, 2024, Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud (DIPC) will reach End of Life, and you will no longer be able to create new instances or receive support.

Does this impact me? Yes.

Service Change: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Database Migration API version 201210929 is deprecated from June 21, 2024 onwards.

Date Announced: July 2, 2024

Date in Effect: June 21, 2024

Details:

Starting from June 21, 2024, the older version of Database Migration API, version 201210929 is deprecated. From June 21, 2025, onwards, the deprecated API is no longer available and it's replaced with a new API version 20230518 that provides enhanced features and support for future releases.

What do I need to do?

If you're using an older version of the SDK or the Terraform provider, you must plan to upgrade it to the new SDK or Terraform provider at the earliest.

List of deprecated and replacement APIs

Service Change: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's DevOps APIs (two APIs) of version 20210630 were deprecated on March 29, 2022.

Date Announced: March 29, 2022

Date in Effect: March 29, 2023

Details: Starting March 29, 2022, two DevOps APIs of version 20210630 were deprecated. From March 29, 2023, onwards the deprecated APIs will be unavailable.

Service Change: The Event Hub service is deprecated.

Date Announced: April 29, 2022

Date in Effect: May 31, 2023

Details: Effective May 31, 2023, the Oracle Event Hub service will reach end of life (EOL). Prior to the EOL date, we recommend that you migrate your data streams from Event Hub to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Streaming.

Does this impact me? If you use Event Hub service to create Kafka Clusters and/or Event Hub topics, you will no longer be able to after May 31, 2023. Previously created clusters will continue to operate in your tenancy without changes.

What do I need to do? All Event Hub customers can now use Streaming to move data using its tight integrations with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Database, GoldenGate, and Integration Cloud. The service uses a Kafka Connect harness to provide out-of-the-box integrations for hundreds of third-party products across categories such as DevOps, databases, big data, and SaaS applications.

Service Change: A maximum of 100 file systems may be attached to any particular snapshot policy.

Date Announced: August 5, 2023

Date in Effect: August 7, 2023

Details: Starting August 7, 2023, a new service limit will be introduced to limit the total number of file systems attached to a snapshot policy. This change will allow up to 100 file systems to be attached per snapshot policy per tenant per availability domain.

Does this impact me? If you're planning to attach more than 100 file systems to any particular snapshot policy, then you won't be able to do so after August 7, 2023. Any existing tenants who have more than 100 file systems attached per snapshot policy before August 7, 2023 will be given an exception. No exceptions will be given after August 7, 2023.

What do I need to do? If you need to attach more than 100 file systems to a snapshot policy, then create a second snapshot policy or use any other existing snapshot policy. You can create 100 snapshot policy per tenant per availability domain. You can still generate policy-based snapshots for file systems, but you might have to use more than one snapshot policy.

Service Change: File Storage file systems using customer-managed encryption keys need new IAM policies.

Date Announced: May 29, 2024

Date in Effect: May 29, 2024

Details: On May 29, 2024, File Storage introduces a new method for granting file systems permission to use custom encryption keys. Before this change, policies to grant file systems permissions to use custom encryption keys used the File Storage service user. For example:

Allow service <file_storage_service_user> to use keys

After this change, File Storage resources are granted permission to use custom keys. For more information, see Encrypting a File System.

Does this impact me? Before May 29, 2024, File Storage file systems using customer-managed Vault encryption keys instead of Oracle-managed keys used the File Storage service user in required IAM policies.

The service user won't have access to customer-managed keys in the future.

What do I need to do? Create new IAM policies that lets File Storage encrypt and decrypt file systems using resource principals. Ensure file systems use resource principal policies instead of service principal policies.

For more information, see Encrypting a File System and Verifying Resource Principal Access to Encryption Keys.

Service Change: The COMPUTE_INSTANCE member type in DrProtectionGroupMemberType is getting deprecated and will no longer be supported.

Date Announced: October 31, 2023

Date in Effect: October 31, 2024.

Migrate to one of the new instance types before the effective deprecation date.

Does this impact me? If you use the COMPUTE_INSTANCE member type in your DR configuration, this change affects you. Make sure that you migrate to one of the new instance types before the effective deprecation date.

What do I need to do? To migrate from an existing COMPUTE_INSTANCE to one of the new instance types, follow these instructions.

Service Change: Fn Project CLI version 0.5.x (and earlier) will no longer be supported.

Date Announced: June 29, 2021

Date in Effect: August 1, 2021

Details: Starting August 1, 2021, Fn Project CLI version 0.5.x (and earlier) will no longer work with OCI Functions.

Does this impact me? If you are currently using Fn Project CLI version 0.5.x (or earlier), you will need to upgrade to Fn Project CLI version 0.6.x (or later).

What do I need to do? Upgrade to Fn Project CLI version 0.6.x (or later), by following the instructions in Upgrading the Fn Project CLI.

Service Change: From December 15, 2021, the Fn Project Function Development Kits (FDKs) build-time and runtime base images, with the exception of the FDK for Python 3.7, are built on top of the Oracle Linux 8 slim distribution. The Alpine/Debian FDK base images are deprecated.

Date Announced: November 15, 2021

Date in Effect: December 15, 2021

Details: Starting December 15, 2021, most of the Fn Project Function Development Kits (FDKs) build-time and runtime base images for the different supported languages are built on top of the Oracle Linux 8 slim distribution (instead of the Alpine and Debian Linux distributions). New functions you deploy will use these Oracle Linux 8 FDK base images. The only exceptions are the FDK build-time and runtime base images for Python 3.7, which continue to be built on top of the Debian Linux distribution.

The Alpine/Debian Linux distributions and the Oracle Linux 8 slim distribution have different package managers. After the transition to the Oracle Linux 8 FDK base images, the temporary Dockerfile created by OCI Functions when deploying new functions contains Oracle Linux 8 package manager commands.

Does this impact me?

For existing functions already deployed to OCI Functions:

• If OCI Functions uses the settings in a function's func.yaml file to create a temporary Dockerfile containing the instructions from which to build the function's Docker image, the function will build and deploy without errors. The temporary Dockerfile includes the correct Oracle Linux 8 package manager commands.
• If you have created a custom Dockerfile for a function (for example, by modifying the Dockerfile that OCI Functions creates, and setting runtime: docker in the function's func.yaml file), the function might now build and deploy with errors such as missing apt-get .... The errors occur if the custom Dockerfile includes Alpine/Debian package manager commands.

What do I need to do? If you have created custom Dockerfiles that contain Alpine/Debian package manager commands, replace those commands with Oracle Linux 8 package manager commands.

If you cannot immediately start using the Oracle Linux 8 FDK base images because you have functions that still require the Alpine or Debian Linux distributions, there is a temporary workaround. Until December 15, 2022, the Alpine/Debian FDK base images remain available but with modified image tags. You can update custom Dockerfiles to use the deprecated Alpine/Debian FDK base images instead of the Oracle Linux 8 base images by explicitly specifying the modified image tags. See My functions still require the Alpine and Debian Linux distributions. Is there a temporary workaround?.

Service Change: When you create a Fusion Applications Environment or a Fusion Applications Environment administrator, the administrator password will not be required. Also, the Reset Fusion Environment Administrator Password API will be deprecated; to reset the password via API, you will need to use the appropriate Fusion Applications API instead.

Date Announced: August 27, 2024

Date in Effect: August 27, 2025

Details:Starting August 27, 2025, You will no longer be able to create or reset the Fusion Applications Administrator password using Fusion Applications Environment Management APIs. Impacted APIs are:

Does this impact me? If you are using the Fusion Applications Environment Management API to reset the Fusion Applications Administrator password, you will need to use the appropriate Fusion Applications API instead.

If you are using the API to create the Fusion Applications Administrator, the password will no longer be accepted. Instead, the Administrator user will enter their own password after receiving a welcome email.

The Console workflow is not impacted.

What do I need to do?

If you are calling the ResetFusionEnvironmentPassword, you must update your scripts to use the Fusion Applications API Update a User.

If you are calling CreateFusionEnvironment or CreateFusionEnvironmentAdminUser, do not pass the password parameter. The user will be prompted to add their password via the welcome email.

Service change: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's GoldenGate APIs for DatabaseRegistrations are deprecated as of November 01, 2022.

Date announced: November 01, 2022

Date in effect: November 01, 2023

Details: Starting November 01, 2022, DatabaseRegistrations APIs are deprecated and replaced by Connections APIs. From November 01, 2023, the deprecated APIs will be unavailable.

Does this impact me? Yes. DatabaseRegistrations APIs worked for Oracle Database connections, whereas the new, extensible Connections APIs let you connect to many other types of data technologies.

What do I need to do? Use the Connections APIs instead of the DatabaseRegistrations APIs to connect to the source and target technologies.

Service change: The timeUpgradeRequired property of the Deployment and DeploymentSummary APIs are deprecated as of March 14, 2023.

Date announced: March 14, 2023

Date in effect: March 14, 2024

Details: With the new Maintenance features rolled out on March 14 2023, the timeUpgradeRequired property of the Deployment and DeploymentSummary APIs are deprecated.

Does this impact me? The read-only timeUpgradeRequired property was used to help you determine how long you had to manually upgrade to a new deployment version, but the service didn't automatically upgrade your deployment when the deadline passed. The new Maintenance feature schedules one or more upgrades and automatically upgrades your deployment on the given date. You can find these dates on your deployment details page.

What do I need to do? You can adjust the scheduled upgrades as needed when you create the deployment, or from the deployment details page.

Service change: The adminPassword property used in CreateOggDeploymentDetails and UpdateOggDeploymentDetails model objects of the CreateDeploymentDetails and UpdateDeploymentDetails APIs were deprecated as of August 15, 2023.

Date announced: August 15, 2023

Date in effect: August 15, 2024

Details: With the new single-sign on feature introduced on August 15, 2023, the adminPassword property used in CreateOggDeploymentDetails and UpdateOggDeploymentDetails model objects of the CreateDeploymentDetails and UpdateDeploymentDetails APIs are now deprecated.

Does this impact me? Yes.

What do I need to do? New deployments created from August 15, 2023, require you to select a Credential store (OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM) or GoldenGate) in tenancies where OCI IAM with Identity Domains is enabled. If you select OCI IAM, you can log in to the deployment console using your Oracle Cloud account, whereas GoldenGate requires you to create a Vault and add a secret in which to store your password, that you'll use to log in to the deployment console with.

Service change: End of Life for GoldenGate Cloud Service Classic effective April 11, 2024.

Date announced: March 22, 2024

Date in effect: April 11, 2024

Does this impact me? Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service Classic runs on Oracle Cloud Classic Gen 1, which has been deprecated in favor of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen 2 Cloud. If you are an Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service Classic user, you can migrate your workloads off Oracle Cloud Classic Gen 1 to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GoldenGate.

If you are currently an OCI GoldenGate user, this service change announcement doesn't apply to you.

What do I need to do? Migrate Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GoldenGate, which offers similar functionality. See Migrating to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GoldenGate for the detailed migration steps.

Service Change: The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management Audit Events APIs and some reports templates for the Reports APIs, which you can use with IAM identity domains, will be deprecated.

Date Announced: May 15, 2023

Date in Effect: December 15, 2024

Details: Starting December 15, 2024, the IAM APIs for AuditEvents and certain reports templates in the Reports APIs no longer work with IAM.

Does this impact me? If you're currently using IAM APIs for AuditEvents, and the APIs for Reports which are based on AuditEvents, you will need to use the OCI Audit service APIs instead.

What do I need to do? You can now use OCI Audit APIs. To find out more about retrieving data from OCI Audit, see:

• Implement multi cloud security using OCI Audit to capture events from OCI Identity and Access Management
• Generate Identity and Access Management Reports from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Audit

Service Change: Effective July 15, 2022, the CreateFleet API will require the custom log OCID in the inventoryLog property.

Date Announced: April 15, 2022

Date in Effect: July 15, 2022

Details: As of March 30, 2022, JMS uses the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging service to store inventory and operation logs. Inventory logs are custom logs that store the Java Runtime inventory and usage related information reported from the hosts by the Management Agent. With this change, the CreateFleet API includes an additional property, inventoryLog, to specify the custom log to use.

What do I need to do? Existing fleets must be migrated using the UpdateFleet API by July 15, 2022. After July 15, 2022 the inventoryLog property of CreateFleet API will be a required parameter. See the CreateFleet and UpdateFleet operations for details. Agents need to be on 220302.1455 or later.

Starting October 26, 2022, the Detect Language APIs of version 20221001 were deprecated. From October 10, 2023, onwards the deprecated APIs will be unavailable.

Starting October 26, 2022, the BatchDetect Language APIs have a new supported API version of 20221001. With the introduction of API version 20221001, the following classes have been removed and replaced with the common class, com.oracle.bmc.ailanguage.model.TextDocument.

Service Change: The DB System backup retention period has been reduced from 10,000 to 365 days.

Date Announced: September 2020

Date in Effect: October 2020

Details: The DB System backup retention period has been reduced from 10,000 to 365 days.

Does this impact me? No.

What do I need to do? Nothing.

Service Change: The default value of AutomaticBackupRetention is changed from DELETE to RETAIN.

Date Announced: January 2024

Date in Effect: January 2025

Details: Before this service change, the AutomaticBackupRetention attribute default value in DB System Deletion Policy was DELETE. With this change, the default value of AutomaticBackupRetention is changed to RETAIN. Note that this change doesn't impact the deletion policy of existing DB Systems. The change is solely applicable to DB Systems created after the date in effect.

Does this impact me? Yes, if you use defaults for deletion policy.

What do I need to do? If you prefer the default to be DELETE for AutomaticBackupRetention and are using SDK/CLI/Terraform without the value being set, you must set the preferred value explicitly.

Service Change: The OCPU shapes are deprecated from September 5, 2024 onwards.

Date Announced: September 5, 2024

Date in Effect: September 5, 2024

Details:

Starting from September 5, 2024, all HeatWave OCPU shapes for DB systems and HeatWave clusters are deprecated. However, customers can use ECPU shapes to deploy new DB systems and HeatWave clusters. The OCPU shapes will not be available to new customers while existing customers can continue to use OCPU shapes in new and existing DB systems and HeatWave clusters until September 5, 2025.

What do I need to do?

Use ECPU to deploy new DB systems and HeatWave clusters. For existing DB systems and HeatWave clusters running on OCPU shapes, you must plan an appropriate time to convert them to ECPU shapes before September 5, 2025.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Network Load Balancer ListNetworkLoadBalancerProtocol API is deprecated as of January 12, 2022. Support for ListNetworkLoadBalancerProtocol ends on March 1, 2023. See ListenerDetails for the current list of supported protocol values.

Service Change: OCI Cache is restricting the use of the Redis commands CONFIG SET and ACL in clusters managed by the service.

Date Announced: June 14, 2024

Date in Effect: July 14, 2024

Details: OCI Cache prevents the use of some Redis commands to ensure performance and stability of the service, see Unsupported Redis Commands. Starting July 14, 2024, the CONFIG SET and ACL commands will be included in the list of restricted commands for OCI Cache.

Does this impact me? If you currently use these commands, you will no longer be able to use them with your OCI Cache clusters after July 14, 2024. We also recommend that you don't use these commands prior to them being restricted as they can cause stability issues with clusters managed by OCI Cache.

Service Change: Oracle OS Management service is deprecated.

Date Announced: April 23, 2024

Date in Effect: April 23, 2025

Details: On April 23, 2025, the OS Management service (OSMS) reaches end of life (EOL). Effective now, the service is no longer available to you in regions where you are not already using OSMS, or to new users with new tenancies. The OS Management service is replaced by OS Management Hub, which provides an improved user experience with new features, including patch deployments through lifecycle stages, enhanced job scheduling, and reporting capabilities.

Does this impact me? The OS Management service will no longer be available to manage Oracle Linux or Microsoft Windows instances after April 23, 2025.

What do I need to do: Start using the OS Management Hub service to manage instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), private data centers, and supported third-party cloud environments. Before the EOL date, we recommend that you migrate your managed instances from the OS Management service to the OS Management Hub service.

Service Change: The IAM permissions for Networking resources required to create and work with OpenSearch clusters are changing from service permissions to user permissions.

Date Announced: February 20, 2024

Date in Effect: September 15, 2024

Details: To create and manage clusters in Search with OpenSearch, you must create IAM policies for your tenancy that grants permissions to specific Networking resources. Currently, the required permissions are service permissions, with policy statements such as the following snippet:

Allow service opensearch to manage <Networking_Resource>...

Search with OpenSearch is transitioning to requiring user permissions to grant access to Networking resources instead of service permissions. During the transition period your tenancy needs to have both types of policies.

Does this impact me? All tenancies where users are creating and managing OpenSearch clusters need to have new policies that specify user permissions in addition to the existing policies with service permissions for access to the required Networking resources.

Allow group SearchOpenSearchAdmins to manage vnics in compartment <NETWORK_RESOURCES_COMPARTMENT>
Allow group SearchOpenSearchAdmins to manage vcns in compartment <NETWORK_RESOURCES_COMPARTMENT>
Allow group SearchOpenSearchAdmins to use subnets in compartment <NETWORK_RESOURCES_COMPARTMENT>
Allow group SearchOpenSearchAdmins to use network-security-groups in compartment <NETWORK_RESOURCES_COMPARTMENT>
Allow group SearchOpenSearchAdmins to manage opensearch-family in compartment <CLUSTER_RESOURCES_COMPARTMENT> 

You need to keep any existing policies you have for Search with OpenSearch that include service permissions statements for Networking resources until the transition to user permissions statements has been completed. See Search with OpenSearch IAM Policies for documentation about the permissions required for Search with OpenSearch.

Service Change: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Service Mesh APIs of version 20210930 were deprecated on December 14, 2022.

Date Announced: December 14, 2022

Date in Effect: December 15, 2023

Details: Starting December 14, 2022, Service Mesh APIs of version 20210930 was deprecated. From December 15, 2023, onwards the deprecated APIs will be unavailable.

• Update/Delete/Get/List Operations on any resources created by deprecated APIs will be supported by the new APIs (version 20220615).
• OCI SDKs and command line tools that were released before December 14, 2022, are limited to the features of the deprecated resource model (version 20210930).

List of unsupported and replacement APIs

Service Change: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vision's document analysis APIs were deprecated January 30, 2023. The document analysis functionality is now offered through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Document Understanding service.

Date Announced: January 30, 2023

Date in Effect: January 31, 2024

Details:

The following APIs were deprecated January 10, 2023:

• AnalyzeDocument
• CreateDocumentJob
• GetDocumentJob
• CancelDocumentJob

Any output data stored in an Object Storage bucket that resulted from previous Document Jobs will remain accessible after Document API deprecation. From January 31, 2024 onwards, the deprecated APIs will be unavailable in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vision service.

Does this impact me? This change impacts customers using the document analysis functionality in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vision service.

What do I need to do? Customers using the document analysis functionality in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vision service should instead use the document analysis functionality offered through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Document Understanding service.