July 2016

July 2016 – Proactive BPs and PSUs are available

Last night the July 2016 patches got released

Not all of them actually. In case you miss AIX, Intel Solaris and zLinux versions those should be available by Friday, July 22, 2016.

See the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory July 2016 for further details, and especially the Database announcement on MOS.

What’s new, what’s important?

First of all the renaming of DBIM and Exadata Bundle Patches into PROACTIVE BUNDLE PATCHES is now settled in more MOS notes.

2.1 Database patch for Engineered Systems and Database In-Memory 12.1.0.2 renamed to “Proactive Bundle Patch 12.1.0.2”

Starting from Apr2016 onwards the prior

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