Oracle APEX 26.2 - knowledge base
A collection of links to useful resources about the new version
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Oracle APEX 26.2 was released yesterday. As usual Oracle provided a lot of documents, videos and hands-on materials to help us get started. And since those resources are shared via different channels - social media, YouTube, forums, official documentation - I have decided to try and save them all in one place so it's easier for me (an you) to reach the ones that I need. I'm also adding short descriptions of what each document contains and how it could be useful to you or your AI coding agents. I'll try to order them by importance (according to my understanding). Enjoy!
Announcements and official documents
The official "What's New" page of Oracle APEX - all the new features listed with a brief description.
💡 APEX 26.2 Official Announcement Blog Post (by Mike Hichwa)
The usual blog post from the APEX team, announcing the latest release. Includes some description of the new features and link to useful resources.
Includes information such as the List of new features, Changed behavior, ideas from the ideas app that have been implemented, deprecated features, bugs being fixed, any open bugs and known issues and so on.
💡 APEX 26.2 Javascript API Reference
💡 APEX 26.2 APEXLang Reference
The latest references to different APEX components, such as the PL/SQL API, JavaScript API and APEXLang.
💡 Universal Theme Reference App
The Universal Team Reference App containing all the new features added to it, including the Iris Theme style update.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM-1GlVpqxI&list=PLG-hbsXmOpMs
What's new in Oracle APEX 26.2 - a playlist with some of the new features can be found at the official Oracle APEX YouTube channel
Features
APEXLang single file imports
💡 File-Level Import with APEXLang in Oracle APEX 26.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2kS71-FWb0
Responses API and Reasoning effort
💡 Working with Generative AI Provider APIs and Reasoning Effort
Interactive Report improvements
💡 What’s New in Interactive Reports and AI Interactive Reports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Ct7wmvyhc
Access to OCI Services with Managed Identities
💡 Using DBMS_CLOUD Credentials with Resource Principal and DBTools Identity
Deep Data Security
💡 Oracle Deep Data Security Guide
Deep Data Security is enforcing access directly at the database level, so unauthorised sensitive data never gets to the front end.
Other resources
This library has bundled most of the Universal Theme utility CSS classes (and variables) that APEX has built-in. It explains what they do and how they should be used. And you can even visually see what they'd render on page.
With this library in available, your AI Agent will generate better UI - just point them to this reference when you need a frontend task done in your APEX app. The native way!
💡 APEX Diff (including 26.2 changes)
APEX Diff makes it easy to compare APEX views and PL/SQL APIs across releases and see what’s changed. Select both 26.1.0 and 26.2.0 to find out what's new in this release.
APEX Office Hours
The traditional "What's new" series about the new release of APEX kick off today - October 8th. Register via the link above to see in-depth review of the most important new features in 26.2
