v26.3: DB 23.26.2.0

What's Changed

(since first 26.2 release)

Migration guide

• DB 23.26.1.0 → 23.26.2.0 (DB files are compatible — the database upgrades in place, no dump/restore needed)
• ORDS 26.1.0 → 26.1.2
• New scripts
  • install.sh: one-shot installer that runs setup.sh, pulls images, brings the stack up, waits for the DB and ORDS to be ready, bakes in the ORDS gateway-mode config (and restarts ORDS), and runs after-first-db-start.sh non-interactively — only relevant for fresh installs, not for in-place migrations.
  • upgrade-apex.sh: dedicated script to upgrade the APEX version (split out of after-first-db-start.sh); verifies the apex-images layout and hardens the image copy step.
• Enhanced scripts
  • after-first-db-start.sh: pre-checks for required commands (sql, docker, unzip, curl/wget) and reports any that are missing before continuing; reuses ORACLE_PASSWORD for the APEX Internal ADMIN password setup.
  • upgrade-apex.sh: disables the strong-admin-password rule so the generated alphanumeric password is accepted.
  • APEX download now works with either curl or wget (#30).
  • Non-interactive SQLcl calls are forced to a dumb terminal, fixing output/behavior over SSH and in CI.
  • Prefer the docker compose (v2 plugin) over the deprecated standalone docker-compose (v1) when both are present.
• Bug fixes
  • Removing a user / dropping all objects no longer errors when the user has no APEX workspace.
  • Fixed the call to the password-change script and added error handling (#28).
  • Hardened user_exists_in_db so the count is parsed correctly and defaults to 0.
  • Added an apex-path to prevent an error during a clean install, and made the APEX installation exit cleanly when finished.
• Tooling
  • New manually-triggered CI workflow (test-db-upgrade.yml) that installs the current version, seeds a comprehensive schema, upgrades on the same datafiles, and asserts nothing was lost or invalidated (including APEX-schema integrity). This is what validates that the DB bump in this release is datafile-compatible.
  • New CI workflow (test-clean-install.yml) that exercises install.sh on a fresh environment.
• Documentation
  • Expanded Windows setup instructions (WSL2) and various doc/typo fixes.

• command pre-check included in after-first-db-starth.sh file for sql,d… by @suniltandan in #32
• Removing without exceptions by @alexnuijten in #33

New Contributors

• @suniltandan made their first contribution in #32

Full Changelog: v26.2...v26.3