Database Releases ^new^ — Oracle

Here is your practical guide to the current Oracle Database release landscape—what is active, what is dying, and what you should deploy today. Since 2018, Oracle has maintained two distinct release families:

Oracle has fundamentally changed its release and support model. With the introduction of (formerly 23c), Oracle is signaling that "long term stable" and "cutting edge AI" can now coexist. oracle database releases

21c was an innovation release that very few customers adopted. Its key features (native blockchain tables, JSON data type improvements, in-database JavaScript) were absorbed into 23c/23ai. Here is your practical guide to the current