Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2026 Release Update and Supplemental Patch Bundle in China Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the April 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c, 21c and the corresponding Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB) for Oracle Database version 19c in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Starting this April 2026 releases, the Spatial Patch Bundle has been renamed to Supplemental Patch Bundle. The Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB) is an engine version that includes additional database patches recommended by Oracle for specific use cases, such as Oracle Spatial, Oracle Data Pump, and Oracle GoldenGate. The updates are available for RDS Oracle Standard Edition 2 and Enterprise Edition. Review the Oracle release notes for April RU for details.
You can apply the April 2026 RU from the Amazon RDS Management Console, or by using the Amazon SDK or CLI. To automatically apply updates to your database instance during your maintenance window, enable Automatic Minor Version Upgrade. You can apply the Supplemental Patch Bundle update for new database instances, or upgrade existing instances to engine version '19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.spb-1.r1' by selecting the "Supplemental Patch Bundle Engine Versions" checkbox in the Amazon Console.
You can use Amazon Organizations upgrade rollout policy to stagger automatic minor version upgrades for your Amazon RDS database instances such that automatic minor version upgrades are first applied to non-production environments, allowing you time to validate before the upgrades are applied to production environments. For additional details, refer to Amazon RDS for Oracle documentation on using Amazon Organizations upgrade rollout policy for automatic minor version upgrades.
To learn more about Oracle RUs and SPBs supported on Amazon RDS for each engine version, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. For more information about the Amazon Web Services regions, including the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, where Amazon RDS for Oracle is available, see the Amazon Web Services Region table.