Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2025 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle October 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c, 21c and the corresponding Spatial Patch Bundle for Oracle Database version 19c. We recommend upgrading to the October 2025 RU as it includes 6 new security patches for Oracle database products. For additional details, refer to Oracle release notes. The Spatial Patch Bundle update delivers important fixes for Oracle Spatial and Graph functionality to provide reliable and optimal performance for spatial operations.

You can apply the October 2025 Release Update with just a few clicks from the Amazon RDS Management Console, or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. To automatically apply updates to your database instance during your maintenance window, enable Automatic Minor Version Upgrade. You can apply the Spatial Patch Bundle update for new database instances, or upgrade existing instances to engine version '19.0.0.0.ru-2025-10.spb-1.r1' by selecting the "Spatial Patch Bundle Engine Versions" checkbox in the AWS Console.

Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide.