This release includes the following features
- Enhanced security with scoped deployment to namespace
- Support for the new Oracle Database 23ai Free with the Single Instance DB (SIDB)
- Automatic deployment from the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) Console (Phase One)
- Automatic Storage Expansion for SIDB and Sharded DB
- User-Defined Sharding
- TCPS support customer provided certs
- Execute custom scripts during DB setup/startup
- Patching for SIDB Primary/Standby in Data Guard
- Long-term backup for Autonomous Databases (ADB): Moves to long-term backup and removes the deprecated mandatory backup
- Wallet expiry date for ADB: A user-friendly enhancement to display the wallet expiry date in the status of associated ADB
- Wait-for-Completion option for ADB: Supports kubectl wait command that allows user to wait for a specific condition on ADB
- New Database Observability controller (Preview - Metrics only)
- OKE workload Identify: Supports OKE workload identity authentication method. For more details, refer to Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) Prerequisites