Monday, September 16, 2013

Oracle Application Express 4.2.3 now available

Just in time for Oracle OpenWorld 2013, Oracle Application Express 4.2.3 is now released and available for download.  If you wish to download the full release of Oracle Application Express 4.2.3, you can get it from the Downloads page on OTN.  If you have Oracle Application Express 4.2, 4.2.1 or 4.2.2 already installed, then you need to download the APEX 4.2.3 patch set from My Oracle Support.  Look up patch number 17347169.

As is stated in the patch set note that accompanies the Oracle Application Express 4.2.3 patch set:
  • If you have Oracle Application Express release 4.2, 4.2.1 or 4.2.2 installed, download the Oracle Application Express 4.2.3 patch set from My Oracle Support and apply it.  Remember - patch number 17347169.
  • If you have Oracle Application Express release 4.1.1 or earlier installed (including Oracle HTML DB release 1.5), download and install the entire Oracle Application Express 4.2.3 release from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).
  • If you do not have Oracle Application Express installed, download and install the entire Oracle Application Express 4.2.3 release from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

As usual, there are a large number of issues corrected in the Application Express 4.2.3 patch set.  You can see the full list in the patch set note.

Some changes in the the Oracle Application Express 4.2.3 patch set:
  1. This is the first patch set that can be applied directly to APEX in Oracle Multitenant in Oracle Database 12c.
  2. Two new packaged applications - Data Reporter and Opportunity Tracker
  3. Some new APIs in the APEX_LANG package, to support translation updates outside of the Web interface of Application Express
  4. Bundling of Twitter Bootstrap 3.0 (even though it's not being exploited in a native theme, yet)
  5. Numerous bug fixes