Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2026 Release Update (RU) and Spatial Patch Bundle (SPB) in China Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c, 21c and the corresponding Spatial 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. The updates are available for RDS Oracle Standard Edition 2 and Enterprise Edition. Review the Oracle release notes for January RU for details. The SPB update delivers important fixes for Oracle Spatial and Graph functionality, helping ensure reliable and optimal performance for your spatial operations.
We recommend upgrading to this RU as it includes security fixes. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the Amazon SDK or CLI. To implement the latest Spatial and Graph patches, you can create new DB instances or upgrade existing ones to engine version '19.0.0.0.ru-2026-01.spb-1.r1', which you can select in the Amazon Web Services Console by using the "Spatial Patch Bundle Engine Versions" checkbox in the engine version selector. You can also enable auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) to automatically upgrade your database instances.
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.