AWS AmazonRDS documentation change
Summary
Renamed 'Spatial Patch Bundles (SPBs)' to 'Supplemental Patch Bundles (SPBs)' and expanded their scope to include patches for additional Oracle components like Data Pump and GoldenGate beyond just Spatial. Updated version examples and added explanatory note about the renaming.
Security assessment
The change primarily involves terminology updates and expanded patch coverage description without referencing any specific security vulnerabilities, weaknesses, or incident resolutions. While SPBs contain security fixes (as part of standard RUs), the documentation change itself doesn't address or reference any new security issues.
Diff
diff --git a/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_UpgradeDBInstance.Oracle.Minor.md b/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_UpgradeDBInstance.Oracle.Minor.md index e3c8ab8ab..32441165e 100644 --- a//AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_UpgradeDBInstance.Oracle.Minor.md +++ b//AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_UpgradeDBInstance.Oracle.Minor.md @@ -7 +7 @@ -Release Updates (RUs) and Spatial Patch Bundles (SPBs)Turning on automatic minor version upgrades for OracleAWS Organizations upgrade rollout policyNotification of automatic minor version upgradesHow Amazon RDS schedules automatic minor version upgradesManaging an automatic minor version upgrade +Release Updates (RUs) and Supplemental Patch Bundles (SPBs)Turning on automatic minor version upgrades for OracleAWS Organizations upgrade rollout policyNotification of automatic minor version upgradesHow Amazon RDS schedules automatic minor version upgradesManaging an automatic minor version upgrade @@ -11 +11 @@ Release Updates (RUs) and Spatial Patch Bundles (SPBs)Turning on automatic minor -In RDS for Oracle, a minor version upgrade is an update to a major DB engine version. In RDS, a minor engine version is either a Release Update (RU) or Spatial Patch Bundle (SPB). For example, if your DB instance runs major version Oracle Database 19c and minor version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-10.rur-2025-10.r1, you can upgrade your DB engine to minor version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-01.rur-2026-01.r1. RDS for Oracle doesn't support minor version downgrades. +In RDS for Oracle, a minor version upgrade is an update to a major DB engine version. In RDS, a minor engine version is either a Release Update (RU) or Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB). For example, if your DB instance runs major version Oracle Database 19c and minor version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-10.rur-2025-10.r1, you can upgrade your DB engine to minor version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-01.rur-2026-01.r1. RDS for Oracle doesn't support minor version downgrades. @@ -23 +23 @@ Make sure that you thoroughly test any upgrade to verify that your applications - * Release Updates (RUs) and Spatial Patch Bundles (SPBs) + * Release Updates (RUs) and Supplemental Patch Bundles (SPBs) @@ -38 +38 @@ Make sure that you thoroughly test any upgrade to verify that your applications -## Release Updates (RUs) and Spatial Patch Bundles (SPBs) +## Release Updates (RUs) and Supplemental Patch Bundles (SPBs) @@ -40 +40 @@ Make sure that you thoroughly test any upgrade to verify that your applications -In RDS, a release update (RU) is a quarterly minor engine version that includes security fixes, bug fixes, and new features for Oracle Database. A Spatial Patch Bundle (SPB) is an RU engine version that includes patches designed for the Oracle Spatial option. For example, the SPB named 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.spb-1.r1 includes all patches in the corresponding RU 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.rur-2025-01.r1 plus patches specific to Spatial. SPBs are supported only for Oracle Database 19c. +In RDS, a release update (RU) is a quarterly minor engine version that includes security fixes, bug fixes, and new features for Oracle Database. A Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB) is an RU engine version that includes additional database patches recommended by Oracle for specific use cases, such as Oracle Spatial, Oracle Data Pump, and Oracle GoldenGate. For example, the SPB named 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.spb-1.r1 includes all patches in the corresponding RU 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.rur-2026-04.r1 plus supplemental patches. SPBs are supported only for Oracle Database 19c. @@ -51 +51 @@ Standard RU upgrade path | SPB upgrade path -If your DB instance is configured for automatic upgrades, your instance is on the upgrade path corresponding to your current version. For example, if your DB instance runs version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.rur-2025-01.r1, then when 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-04.rur-2025-04.r1 is released, your instance automatically upgrades to this RU. Similarly, if your DB instance runs 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.spb-1.r1, then when 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-04.spb-1.r1 is released, your instance automatically upgrades to this SPB. An instance running 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.rur-2025-01.r1, which is an RU, won't automatically upgrade to 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-04.spb-1.r1, which is an SPB on a separate upgrade path. +If your DB instance is configured for automatic upgrades, your instance is on the upgrade path corresponding to your current version. For example, if your DB instance runs version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.rur-2026-04.r1, then when 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-07.rur-2026-07.r1 is released, your instance automatically upgrades to this RU. Similarly, if your DB instance runs 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.spb-1.r1, then when 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-07.spb-1.r1 is released, your instance automatically upgrades to this SPB. An instance running 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.rur-2026-04.r1, which is an RU, won't automatically upgrade to 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-07.spb-1.r1, which is an SPB on a separate upgrade path. @@ -53 +53 @@ If your DB instance is configured for automatic upgrades, your instance is on th -You can upgrade your DB instance to SPBs even if your instance doesn't use Spatial, but the Spatial patches apply only to Oracle Spatial. You can upgrade manually from an RU to an SPB at the same engine version or higher. For example, you can upgrade your instance from 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.rur-2025-01.r1 to either of the following engine versions: +You can upgrade your DB instance to SPBs even if your instance doesn't currently have use cases such as Oracle Spatial, Oracle Data Pump, and Oracle GoldenGate. You can upgrade manually from an RU to an SPB at the same engine version or higher. For example, you can upgrade your instance from 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.rur-2026-04.r1 to either of the following engine versions: @@ -55 +55 @@ You can upgrade your DB instance to SPBs even if your instance doesn't use Spati - * 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.spb-1.r1 + * 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.spb-1.r1 @@ -57 +57 @@ You can upgrade your DB instance to SPBs even if your instance doesn't use Spati - * 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-04.spb-1.r1 + * 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-07.spb-1.r1 @@ -62 +62 @@ You can upgrade your DB instance to SPBs even if your instance doesn't use Spati -You can upgrade your instance from an SPB to an RU only if the RU is a higher engine version. For example, you can upgrade from SPB version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-04.spb-1.r1 to a higher RU version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-07.rur-2025-07.r1 but not to the same RU version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-04.rur-2025-04.r1. +You can upgrade your instance from an SPB to an RU only if the RU is a higher engine version. For example, you can upgrade from SPB version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.spb-1.r1 to a higher RU version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-07.rur-2026-07.r1 but not to the same RU version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.rur-2026-04.r1. @@ -64 +64 @@ You can upgrade your instance from an SPB to an RU only if the RU is a higher en -If your DB instance is configured for automatic minor version upgrades, and you manually upgrade from an RU to an SPB or from an SPB to an RU, your automatic upgrade path changes. Suppose that you manually upgrade from RU version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.rur-2025-01.r1 to SPB version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.spb-1.r1. Your next automatic minor version upgrade will be to SPB version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-04.spb-1.r1. +If your DB instance is configured for automatic minor version upgrades, and you manually upgrade from an RU to an SPB or from an SPB to an RU, your automatic upgrade path changes. Suppose that you manually upgrade from RU version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.rur-2026-04.r1 to SPB version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.spb-1.r1. Your next automatic minor version upgrade will be to SPB version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-07.spb-1.r1. @@ -71 +71 @@ Because SPBs function as RUs, the RDS APIs for upgrading your instance to RUs an - --engine-version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.rur-2025-01.r1 + --engine-version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.rur-2026-04.r1 @@ -75 +75 @@ Because SPBs function as RUs, the RDS APIs for upgrading your instance to RUs an - --engine-version 19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.spb-1.r1 + --engine-version 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.spb-1.r1 @@ -77 +77,5 @@ Because SPBs function as RUs, the RDS APIs for upgrading your instance to RUs an -For more information about the Oracle Spatial option, see [How Spatial Patch Bundles (SPBs) work](./Oracle.Options.Spatial.html#Oracle.Options.Spatial.SPBs). For supported RUs and SPBs for Oracle Database 19c, see [Amazon RDS for Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0.0)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/OracleReleaseNotes/oracle-version-19-0.html). +For more information about how SPBs work with Oracle Spatial, see [How Supplemental Patch Bundles (SPBs) work](./Oracle.Options.Spatial.html#Oracle.Options.Spatial.SPBs). For supported RUs and SPBs for Oracle Database 19c, see [Amazon RDS for Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0.0)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/OracleReleaseNotes/oracle-version-19-0.html). + +###### Note + +Spatial Patch Bundle has been renamed to Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB). SPBs now include additional bundle patches beyond Oracle Spatial such as Data Pump and GoldenGate. The abbreviation "SPB" remains unchanged. All existing SPB engine versions continue to work as before.