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What is coming. Every Oracle EPM deadline in one place. Every change Oracle has announced with a date, and the ones announced without one, from all the reviews on this site. 20 entries, 13 with a date. New months are added when the review lands; nothing is removed until it has happened. EPM Platform marks the changes that touch every application: EPM Automate, Smart View, Groovy, REST, security, integrations.
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The new EPM Automate password file format arrived with 26.09; both formats are readable through 26.11
EPM Platform
What to do Upgrade the EPM Automate client, then rerun the encrypt command
The card →first noted in 26.08 26.10
Production Fri, Oct 16, 2026.
Account Reconciliation renames Data Loads to Balance Loads and Invalid Mappings to Missing Profiles
Account Reconciliation
What to do Update runbooks and training material
The card →first noted in 26.08 EPM Integration Agent updated for the new password file format
EPM Platform
What to do Regenerate the agent's password file after the agent update
The card →first noted in 26.09 Data Integration pipelines run as the logged in user; another proxy user can no longer be entered
EPM Platform
What to do Reassign pipelines that ran under another user, or schedule them under a service account
The card →first noted in 26.10 Trailing Unicode whitespace is trimmed from member and alias names; snapshot import fails on reserved words and duplicate names
Planning FCC PCM Tax Reporting FreeForm
What to do Scan member and alias names before importing older snapshots
The card →first noted in 26.10 The EPM Integration Agent encrypts stored credentials with AES-GCM; credentials encrypted the old way stay readable for six months
EPM Platform
What to do Encrypt direct credentials again and refresh OAuth tokens before the six months end
The card →first noted in 26.10 26.11
Production Fri, Nov 20, 2026.
accountName.userName login format stops working for EPM Automate and the REST APIs
EPM Platform
What to do Switch scripts to the plain user name
The card →first noted in 26.08 The original PCM agent and its Performance Assistant are no longer available
PCM
What to do Move anyone still on the original PCM agent to the enhanced agent
The card →first noted in 26.08 November 2026
During November.
26.12
Production Fri, Dec 18, 2026.
Only the new password file format works; EPM Automate clients older than 26.09 stop working
EPM Platform
What to do Client upgraded and password files regenerated before year end close
The card →first noted in 26.08 Q4 2026
By end of December.
January 2027
By end of January 2027.
Generative AI features need 26.08 or later
EPM Platform
What to do Bring any environment parked below 26.08 forward before the end of January
The card →first noted in 26.10 EPM Automate on Linux and Unix: JDK 17 support is deprecated with the 27.01 update
EPM Platform
What to do Move those machines to JDK 21
The card →first noted in 26.10 Rolling
The clock starts when an environment leaves the main line.
One off patches and manual skips merge back to the main code line six months after they start
EPM Platform
What to do Plan the regression test for the return
The card →first noted in 26.09 Not announced yet
Oracle has said these are coming and has not given a date. Do the work when it is cheap.
Calculation Manager enforces its Errors and Considerations diagnostic; a Rule Status column appears on the rules list
Planning EPM Platform
What to do Clear errors before opening rule SRs with Oracle
The card →first noted in 26.05 to 26.07 ASO grids from Groovy and the REST API decide on MDX by suppressMissingRows instead of suppressMissingBlocks
Planning EPM Platform
What to do Check grids where the two suppress flags differ
The card →first noted in 26.09 Dates for 26.10 to 26.12 follow Oracle's usual pattern, test on the first Friday and production on the third. Oracle confirms each month in its update schedule; if a date moves, it moves here the same week. Every entry as data: oracle-epm-updates.json .