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Announcement Support for this product will end on December 22, 2025. To monitor Oracle databases, we recommend that you use PATROL for Oracle Enterprise Database.

Release notes and notices


This section provides information about what is new or changed in this space, including urgent issues, documentation updates, service packs, and patches. 

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Date

Title

Summary

December 22, 2020

Released a service pack with new features and fixed issues reported in the earlier versions.

August 31, 2020

Added Oracle 19c support

December 10, 2018

Added Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 platform support

November 1, 2018

Released a fix pack to fix issues reported in the earlier versions

May 23, 2018

Released a fix pack to fix issues reported in the earlier versions

January 16, 2018

Released a fix pack with the following changes:

  • Improved Oracle Extended Tablespace Monitoring (ETSM) feature
  • Removed support for deprecated features
  • Fixed issues reported in earlier versions, see Known-and-corrected-issues

October 08, 2017

Added tolerance support for Oracle 12c R2

June 23, 2017

PATROL for Oracle Database 9.7.11 provides you the following new features:

  • Support for Windows 2016
  • Introduced a new pconfig variable.

April 6, 2017

Released a patch to fix issues reported in the earlier versions

November 24, 2016

Released a patch to fix issues reported in the earlier versions

September 20, 2016

PATROL for Oracle Database 9.7.10 provides you the following new features:

  • Oracle KM now supports a detailed events report
  • Privilege to execute SQL*Plus commands

March 14, 2016

PATROL for Oracle Database 9.7.00 provides you the following new features:

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Known-and-corrected-issues

 

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