Releasesby GlyphUse xAI Grok 4.7 in OCI Generative AI
xAI Grok 4.7 is now available on demand in OCI Generative AI. The reasoning model is designed for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. It supports long-running coding tasks, document and presentation creation, and workflows that require checking intermediate results.
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Tags for dashboards, notebooks, Databricks apps, and Genie Agents are now generally available
You can now apply tags to dashboards, notebooks, Databricks apps, and Genie Agents to organize and categorize your workspace assets. This capability is now generally available. Both governed and ungoverned key-value tags are supported. See Apply tags to Unity Catalog securable objects .
Default Enablement of Copilot Features for Copilot Business and Enterprise
We’re introducing a new global default policy for generally available GitHub Copilot features and supported client capabilities in enterprise and organization Copilot settings. For the next 28 days, you can configure this policy, but it won’t affect feature access for your users yet.
CLI v0.8.1 | CLI
CLI v0.8.1 Continue local work in the cloud: Use cr code handoff --summary to start a new cloud Coding Agent task with your session summary, an optional plan, and an automatically discovered transcript when available. Clearer handoff results: See transfer progress, the branch and commit, transferred filenames, and a direct link to the cloud task.
Free VMs without an account, tracing, OpenCode on Cloud Agents
Your next project can start with an SSH command. This week, we're opening up free VMs with no account required, introducing tracing in Priority Boarding, and bringing OpenCode to Cloud Agents. Let's get into it!
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure HorizonDB supports PostgreSQL 18
Azure HorizonDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, cloud-native database service designed for scalable, high-performance workloads.Azure HorizonDB, now in public preview, includes PostgreSQL 18 support.Learn more.
Private saved views for repository issues and “Relates to” issue relationship is generally available
Private saved views for repository issues Repository issues pages now support private saved views, making it easier to create and save personalized views of your issues. “Relates to” issue relationship The “Relates to” issue relationship now works across the REST API, GraphQL API, webhooks, timeline events, issues search, and projects search.
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HeatWave: Automatic Storage Expansion Enhanced
Automatic storage expansion now increases the DB system storage when the remaining available storage is 10% or less of the currently allocated storage. The new storage size is calculated based on the current allocation, and the expanded size cannot exceed the configured maximum storage size.
Code-only deployment for OCI Functions is now available
OCI Functions now supports code-only deployment for Go, Java, Node.js, and Python managed runtimes. You can package function code and dependencies as a ZIP archive, or as an uber JAR for eligible Java functions, and deploy without building or managing a container image.
Import Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash into OCI Generative AI
You can now import the zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash model into OCI Generative AI, create endpoints for it, and use it in the Generative AI service. In OCI Generative AI, use the following details for this model: Model capability: IMAGE_TEXT_TO_TEXT Minimum dedicated AI cluster unit shapes: H100_X8 and H200_X4 For the complete list of models that you can import...
Changes to OTP Messages for Spain Phone Numbers
Starting September 15, 2026, OTP messages sent to Spain phone numbers with the country code +34 no longer include customer-friendly names. Date Announced: September 28 2026 Date in Effect: September 15, 2026 Details: Beginning September 15, 2026, OTP messages sent to phone numbers in Spain ( +34 ) no longer include customer-friendly names.
Bring Your Own Reservations for Data Science
You can use existing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute capacity reservations with supported Data Science resources, including notebook sessions, single-node jobs and job runs, and model deployments. Bring Your Own Reservations (BYOR) uses Compute capacity that's reserved in your tenancy without transferring the reservation to Data Science.
Route on-demand inference requests across regions with smart model router
OCI Generative AI now supports smart model router for cross-region routing of on-demand inference requests within a user-selected regional scope. Create a routing profile that specifies an on-demand model and select regions within the same realm where that model is available. Then reference the routing profile in a Chat API or Responses API request.
Import DeepSeek V4.1 Flash into OCI Generative AI
You can now import the deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model into OCI Generative AI, create endpoints for it, and use it in the Generative AI service. The model supports text, image, and combined image and text inputs and generates text.
Import Google Gemma 4 26B A4B IT into OCI Generative AI
You can now import the google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it model into OCI Generative AI, create endpoints for it, and use it in the Generative AI service. The model supports text, image, and combined image and text inputs and generates text.