Oracle Cloud’s 25B release is coming: Here’s how it will affect your testing strategy

Oracle recently published the release notes for Oracle Cloud’s 25B release, which will be available in late April. That means you only have a few weeks to get your test plan in place to ensure new features don’t impact your existing customizations or integrations.

This release introduces significant updates across various modules, including Finance, SCM, Service, and more. Key highlights include new functionality for project cost distribution in Oracle Financials and new ways to manage roles in custom OAuth client applications. Below, we’ve summarized some of the features that have the highest potential impact on the quality of your existing Oracle landscape, and which should be prioritized for testing.

New budgetary control options

In Oracle Cloud’s 25B release, a “perform funds check” feature on funding patterns allows users to use the control budget to verify available funds before distributing costs. This feature ensures that spending within a project or task stays within the allocated budget. If this feature is enabled, two additional options become available:

• Treat advisory as absolute: Treating advisory as absolute allows for spend that is specific to an award and funding source to continue in an advisory manner, while ensuring that when the funding pattern is used to distribute a cost, it will treat advisory as if it was an absolute control level and apply the next distribution set in the funding pattern.
• Prorate across distribution sets: Prorate across distribution sets will consume as much money as is available in the control budget and distribute the remaining amount to the subsequent distribution set or sets, allowing for all the budgeted funds to be consumed in each set.

Custom roles in OAuth

The Application Extensions page of Security Console displays Platform Applications that are provisioned by default in an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Identity and Access Management (IAM) identity domain environment. This page also displays Custom OAuth Client Applications (custom applications) that are created in the OCI IAM identity domain.
In Platform Applications, you can add or remove users to roles only in the OCI IAM identity domain environments. In the Custom OAuth Client Applications, you can add or remove roles to custom applications.

You’ll want to be sure you have a comprehensive testing plan in place in advance to ensure that the release doesn’t impact your existing Oracle functionality and, so your internal teams have access to these new features as soon as they are available. See the full list of new features in Oracle’s release notes here.

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