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What's New
The most recent changes will be highlighted with a "New" or "Updated" icon to help you quickly identify the modifications. (For a history of modifications, see the Change Record Table at the bottom of the document.)
- Oracle 21c End of PS has been changed to 2025
- Oracle Database 23c Planned Release Dates Announced
- Restricted Upgrade Support has been added for 2024 through Customer Success Services (aka ACS)
Oracle Database Release Roadmap
There are two types of Oracle Database releases: Long Term Release and Innovation Release.
- Long Term Release:
Oracle Database Long Term releases are ideal for use cases that benefit from less frequent upgrades to newer releases. Long Term Releases offer the highest level of stability and the longest length of error correction support. These releases have at least 5 years of Premier Support followed by 3 years of Extended Support. As necessary, Oracle may extend the Premier Support period or waive the Extended Support fee. When combined with Extended Support, customers typically have 4 or more years to upgrade from one Long Term release to the next Long Term release.
- Innovation Release:
In between Oracle Database Long Term releases, Oracle delivers Oracle Database Innovation releases that include many enhancements and new capabilities which will also be included in the next Long Term release. Innovation releases are designed to enable customers to continuously use leading-edge technologies to rapidly develop or deploy new applications or augment existing applications. Support for Innovation releases includes at least 2 years of Premier Support and there will be no Extended Support or exceptions. Production workloads can be deployed on Innovation releases if upgrading to the next database release within one year after the next database release ships is factored into the deployment plan.
To help you plan ahead, below is a visual roadmap that captures Oracle Database Releases from 11.2 onward, showing the lifetime support stages (Premier, Extended, etc.) and the Error Correction windows for each release. Note, not all releases are eligible for Extended Support (i.e. 12.2.0.1, 18c).
Figure 1 - Database Release Roadmap
Oracle is mindful of the unprecedented economic and business disruption our customers faced in 2020. We decided to not promote our Database 20c Preview version to General Availability. Instead, we incorporated all of the 20c functionality into the 21c release and made 21c available initially in our Autonomous Database Free Tier so that all can test drive the new features and enhancements for free.
- For details on the Database Suite Lifetime Support Policy (incl. Premier, Extended, Sustaining), see Lifetime Support Policy - Oracle Technology Products.
- For details on the Database Suite Error Correction Policy (incl. Patching end dates and grace periods), see Database, FMW, EM Grid Control, and OCS Software Error Correction Support Policy (Doc ID 209768.1).
- For details on Global Database Extended Support (ES) Fee Waivers, and Limited Error Correction, see Oracle Software Technical Support Policies Section 3 "Lifetime Support" subtitle "Exceptions".
Table 1 - Patching End Dates for Roadmap
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Notes and Exceptions | |
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23c Long Term Release |
April 2032 |
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21c Innovation Release |
April 30, 2025 |
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19c Long Term Release |
April 30, 2026 with no ES/ULA April 30, 2027 with ES/ULA |
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18c Innovation Release
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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12.2.0.1 |
March 31, 2022 Restricted Upgrade Support Jan 1, 2024- Dec 31, 2024 Contact CSS for details |
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12.1.0.2 Terminal Release |
Jul 31, 2022 with paid ES, ULA, or EBS waiver Upgrade Support (restricted/custom) through Dec 31, 2024 - contact CSS for details |
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12.1.0.1 |
Aug 31, 2016 |
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11.2.0.4 Terminal Release for 11.2 |
Dec 31, 2020 (with paid Extended Support or ULA Extended Support or EBS Waiver) Upgrade Support (restricted/custom) through Dec 31, 2024 - contact CSS for details Dec 31, 2021 for the OpenVMS platform
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Recommended Upgrade Path
Oracle recommends the following upgrade options:
- For product longevity and patching, Oracle strongly recommends upgrading to 19c which is the Long Term release with a support end date of April 30, 2027 (or April 30, 2026 if you choose not to pay Extended Support fees or purchase a ULA).
- If you are currently running 11.2.x/12.1.x you will need to upgrade to the terminal release (i.e. 11.2.0.4/12.1.0.2) for the DB Release you are running and then continue the upgrade process to 19c.
- 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2 are in Sustaining Support with Upgrade Support available for limited platforms. Contact CSS for details. Note: ACS has been renamed to Customer Success Services.
- If you are currently running 12.2.0.1 or 18c, you should upgrade to 19c without delay. 18c and 12.2 are in Sustaining Support.
- The next Long Term release will be 23c. To upgrade to 23c, you must be on 19c or later.
For questions related to certification combinations and Lifetime Support agreements with other Oracle products like Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Oracle Siebel, please contact your Oracle Account Representative.
Oracle Database Release Schedule
These are server releases unless otherwise specified. Server releases always include the native word size client (e.g. 64-bit). Where the platform supports it, a 32-bit and 64-bit client is also part of the release.
Table 2 - Database Release Schedule
Legend:
- Qn CYyyyy: Date falls within the Calendar Year specified.
- 1H or 2H CYyyyy: Date falls within the 1st half (six months) or 2nd half of Calendar Year. For example 1H CY2009 means "some time within the first six months of 2009".
- TBA = Schedule To Be Announced
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Change History (2020-2024)
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? |
| 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 |
23c 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 clien from TBA to Not Planned for 23c |
| 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 23c 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. |
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In this Document
| Details |
| What's New |
| Oracle Database Release Roadmap |
| Recommended Upgrade Path |
| Oracle Database Release Schedule |
| Oracle Public Cloud Releases |
| On-Premises Engineered Systems |
| On-Premises Server Releases (includes client) |
| Instant Client-Only Releases |
| Actions |
| Contacts |
| Change History (2020-2024) |
| Actions |
| Contacts |
| References |