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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. 15 entries, 8 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.
Only your product, as a calendar: Planning · FCC · PCM · Tax Reporting · EDM · FreeForm · Narrative Reporting · Account Reconciliation · EPM Platform . Each one carries its own changes and the EPM Platform ones. Google Calendar: Other calendars, From URL, then paste the address.
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Already in effect
Nothing new to plan; listed so the record is complete.
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 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.
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 .