5 Behavior Changes, Deprecated, and Desupported Platforms and Features
Review information about Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall changes, deprecations, and desupported features.
In addition to new features, Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall release updates can modify, deprecate, or desupport features and introduce upgrade behavior changes.
- Deprecated features are no longer being enhanced but are still supported for the current release update (RU) of Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. A deprecated feature can be desupported in the next release update of Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall.
- Desupported features are no longer supported by fixing bugs related to that feature. Often, Oracle can choose to remove the code required to use the feature.
5.1 Behavior Changes, Deprecation, and Desupport Notices in Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 20.13
- Traditional auditing is desupported in Oracle Database 23ai. Oracle recommends that you use unified auditing. However, if you upgrade an existing Oracle Database registered with Oracle AVDF to 23ai, any existing traditional audit policies will continue to work, but creating new or enabling previously disabled traditional audit policies is not allowed. For more information see Handling the Desupport of Traditional Auditing in the Oracle Database Security Guide and Traditional Auditing Desupported in the Oracle Database Upgrade Guide.
5.2 Behavior Changes, Deprecation, and Desupport Notices in Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 20.12
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 was deprecated in Oracle AVDF 20.12, and it will be desupported in one of the future releases.
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Microsoft Windows 2012 was deprecated in Oracle AVDF 20.12, and it will be desupported in one of the future releases.
5.3 Behavior Changes, Deprecation, and Desupport Notices in Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 20.11
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OpenSSL 1.1.1 and earlier on Windows platforms was deprecated in Oracle AVDF 20.11, and it will be desupported in one of the future releases. To prevent issues, you should move to OpenSSL 3.0.13 or later.
5.4 Behavior Changes, Deprecation, and Desupport Notices in Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 20.10
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Oracle Linux 6 was deprecated in Oracle AVDF 20.10, and it will be desupported in one of the future releases.
5.5 Behavior Changes, Deprecation, and Desupport Notices in Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 20.9
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Solaris - x86-64 was deprecated in Oracle AVDF 20.9, and it will be desupported in one of the future releases.
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HP-UX on Itanium was deprecated in Oracle AVDF 20.9, and it will be desupported in one of the future releases.
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Java SE Requirement Java 8 was deprecated in Oracle AVDF 20.9, and it will be desupported in one of the future releases.
5.6 Behavior Changes, Deprecation, and Desupport Notices in Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 20.8
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Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) or Oracle Advanced Cluster File System was desupported in Oracle AVDF release 20.8
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Sybase SQL Anywhere was desupported in Oracle AVDF release 20.8
5.7 Behavior Changes, Deprecation, and Desupport Notices in Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 20.7
- Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) or Oracle Advanced Cluster File System was deprecated in Oracle AVDF release 20.7
- Sybase SQL Anywhere was deprecated in Oracle AVDF release 20.7
5.8 Behavior Changes, Deprecation, and Desupport Notices in Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 20.6
- Audit Vault Server console does not support Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (and prior), starting with Oracle AVDF release 20.6.
5.9 Behavior Changes, Deprecation, and Desupport Notices in Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 20.1
- The Database Firewall In-line Bridge deployment mode is desupported in Oracle AVDF release 20.1
- The Activity Overview Report captures information about all monitored and audited events is deprecated in Oracle AVDF release 20.1