Dominic Giles drew our attention to the safe harbour statement. Anything can change
between now and when the new version is released.
There has been some confusion about the announcements regarding autonomous
database. This is a service on top of oracle 18c. Oracle 18c is a product.
Release Schedule
Oracle will change its release process to release annually. Hopefully this
will lead to more stable releases, as there won’t be a rush to get the new
features into the current version of the database. Changes will be
incremental, but will happen every year. There will be quarterly release
updates. These will go back to using a number rather than a date format,
These will include all fixes, not just security fixes, but performance
changes will be switched off by default.