Oracle Cloud Applications

Fusion Applications Update Policy - Quick Reference Guide

The Oracle Cloud Applications Service periodically provides software and Planned Outages
hardware updates. These updates are applied automatically to your • Planned outage times
environments on a predefined schedule. Updates are applied after typical are defined to minimize
office hours of the region during which your environments are updated. disruption to your
business
For full Update Policy details, see My Oracle Support document #1966109.1.
• We’ll send you advance
Update Types notification with outage
details, including
The following updates are mandatory, and most will require downtime. We’ll impacted environment
send notifications with details of the update being applied. and outage start and
end times
Quarterly Updates
• Provide new and enhanced features/functions and fix reported issues
• May include Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) & Connect With Us
Oracle Fusion Middleware updates, referred to as P4FA updates
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• Provide National Language Support (NLS) updates for environments
that include languages other than English
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• Are applied to non-production environments on the first Friday of your
Quarterly Update month, and to production environments on the third
Friday of your Quarterly Update month. The exception is the Middle twitter.com/oracle
East, where the update is applied on Thursday

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• Are applied to non-production environments on the 18th of each month, Contact: 1.800.ORACLE1
and to production environments on the 25th of each month

Infrastructure Updates
• Are applied quarterly to optimize your environments

Prior to Initial Go Live

Consider requesting the Concurrent Maintenance option to keep your
production and non-production environments at the same level. For more
detail review the My Oracle Support document #1646394.1.

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