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Oracle Essbase Patch Update 21.8.0.0: What’s New in December 2025
Look at Oracle’s latest patch release – Essbase 21.8.0.0.0 – December 2025 – Independent Deployment. As mentioned in my previous Essbase 21c version release post, Oracle has introduced enhancements that bolster performance, scalability, and usability. This is a significant update that addresses critical functionality improvements and introduces new features to enhance the user experience across finance, IT, and operations teams. In this post, we will explore what defects have been fixed in the version:
Patches to download for Essbase 21.8.0.0.0
| Oracle Essbase Product Version | Latest Patch Set, Patch Set Update or Maintenance Release | Patch Release Date |
|---|---|---|
Essbase 21.8.0.0.0 | PATCH 37163584 Binaries PATCH 37181513 Scripts | December 2025 |
Note:
New Features, Enhancements, and Issues
Improved Web Interface
The updated Essbase web interface is the default (and only) Web UI, offering many new features, such as faster navigation and improved productivity. For highlights, refer to:
MDX Export Improvements
You can run dataless (metadata-only) MDX exports, and you can optimize data exports by using the SKIPZERO directive. Refer to: MDX Export.
38452573 –> WLS STACK PATCH BUNDLE 12.2.1.4.250919 (INTERIM PATCH 38452575)
After installing above latest WLS STACK PATCH BUNDLE, check to see whether patch 33735326 was included. If it is not present, it needs to be applied.
- 35965629 — ADR FOR WEBLOGIC SERVER 12.2.1.4.0 – SIZE OPTIMIZED FOR JAN 2024
- 38412437 — WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.2.1.4.250910
- 36426672 — WEBLOGIC SAMPLES SPU 12.2.1.4.240416
- 38409281 — Coherence 12.2.1.4 Cumulative Patch 27 (12.2.1.4.27)
- 36789759 — FMW PLATFORM BUNDLE PATCH 12.2.1.4.240812
- 38405729 — FMW Thirdparty Bundle Patch 12.2.1.4.250909
- 28186730 — OPATCH 13.9.4.2.21 FOR EM 13.5 AND FMW/WLS 12.2.1.4.0, 14.1.1.0.0, 14.1.2.0.0
- 37925688 — JDBC19.27 BUNDLE PATCH 12.2.1.4.250514
- 38199225 — RDA release 25.4-20251021 for FMW 12.2.1.4.0
- 38379810 — OSS 19C BUNDLE PATCH 12.2.1.4.250902
- 37056593 — OCT 2024 CLONING SPU FOR FMW 12.2.1.4.0
- 31676526 – RCU Patches for Autonomous AI Database (optional)
- 30540494 – RCU Patches for Autonomous AI Database (optional)
- 30754186 – RCU Patches for Autonomous AI Database (optional)
- 38015786 – ADF Bundle Patch 12.2.1.4.250530 README
- 36316422 – Oracle OPSS Bundle Patch 12.2.1.4.240220
- 33735326 – Fix for Bug 33735326, log4j (2.17.1) patch
- 34809489 – PS4 : CVE-2021-42575 IN ADF.ORACLE.DOMAIN.WEBAPP.WAR (JDEV patch)
- 37163584 – Release Update: Oracle Essbase 21.8.0.0.0
Patch Conflict with Essbase 21.8 and October 2025 CPU Patches
While applying 38452573 –> WLS STACK PATCH BUNDLE 12.2.1.4.250919 (INTERIM PATCH 38452575), OPatch warns of a conflict if Essbase 21.7.0.0.0 Patch (36675325), Essbase 21.7.1.0.0 Patch (37418271), Essbase 21.7.2.0.0 Patch (37623775), or Essbase 21.7.3.0.0 Patch (38090939) has already been applied.
The solution is to first apply the Essbase 21.8 Patch, and then the Fusion Middleware October 2025 CPU Patch.
If any of the following patches have been applied,
- Oracle Essbase 21.7.0.0.0 (Patch ID: 36675325)
- Oracle Essbase 21.7.1.0.0 (Patch ID: 37418271)
- Oracle Essbase 21.7.2.0.0 (Patch ID: 37623775)
- Oracle Essbase 21.7.3.0.0 (Patch ID: 38090939)
you need to complete the following steps to apply the October 2025 CPU Patch:
- Roll back the patch. For more information, see Patch and Roll Back.
- Apply Oracle Essbase 21.8.0.0.0 Patch (Patch ID: 37163584).
- Apply the Fusion Middleware October 2025 CPU Patch. Refer to Release 21.8.0.0.0 – December 2025 – Independent Deployment.
Defects Fixed - The Full List
| Defect Number | Defect Fixed |
| 38251996 | WHEN ADDED PARENT MEMBER ON THE COLUMN, ESSBASE RETRIEVE DATA FAILED AS MISSING |
| 37173007 | ONPREM: VARIABLES NOT VISIBLE WHEN THE APLLICATION/CUBE NAMES STARTS WITH “01_XXX” |
| 36217180 | SEVERE OUTLINE MANAGEMENT ISSUES ESSBASE 21.5.3 |
| 37566547 | ZOOM IN WITH XREF SLOW SINCE GOING TO ESSBASE 21C |
| 37762717 | ONPREM ESSBASE 21.7.1: UNABLE TO IMPORT ALIAS TABLES. |
| 37756697 | ESSBASE 21C / EPM 11.2.15+: REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CSS LOGIN CALLS MADE WHEN RUNNING AN OAS/FR/SMART VIEW REQUEST |
| 37771757 | PBCS – ESSBASE APPLICATION APPEARS TO BE DOWN |
| 34038398 | MP : ESSBASE ATTRIBUTE DIMENSION ISSUE IN JET UI |
| 37692770 | REVENUE TOTAL VARIES BY CHILDREN ON GRID |
| 37197687 | ESSBASE 11.1.2.4.516B533 PERFORMANCE IS 10 TIME SLOWER THAN ESSBASE 11.1.2.4.049B118 |
| 36842084 | ADD CONNECTIONPOOLSIZE DESCRIPTION TO PRODUCT DOC CONFIGURATION REFERENCE |
| 37924022 | MP-ESSBASE : IN REDWOOD WEB INTERFACE ,IN SECURITY MENU THE COLUMNS WITH SLIDE BARS NOT AVALIABLE |
| 37878210 | ESSBASE 21C: CASE SENSITIVITY ON SECURITY SCREEN IN WEB UI |
| 37718760 | ONPREM:ESSBASE 21C- ESSBASE JET – COPYING MEMBERS BETWEEN OTLS GIVES ERRORS (WORKS FINE ON-PREM 11.1.2, BUT NOT 21C OCI) |
| 37863226 | ONPREM: ESSBASE 21C: HOW TO CHANGE APPLICATION OWNER WITHOUT EXPORT/IMPORT |
| 36936534 | ONPREM: ESSBASE 21C JET UI : UNABLE TO PERFORM MEMBER COPY AND PASTE AS SIBLING AND AS CHILD |
| 38275144 | WHEN ADDED 2 ATTRIBUTE MEMBERS ON ROW, ESSBASE RUNS FOREVER, NEVER RETURN. |
| 38294557 | ESSBASE CRASHES WHEN HAVE A FORMULA ROW WITH ATTRIBUTE DIMENSION |
| 37811449 | THERE ARE 2 MEMBERS ON THE COLUMN, WHEN CHANGED ONE MEMBER ON COLUMN, CAUSED ANOTHER DATA CHANGED |
| 36230813 | MP: ESSBASE 21.5X LOAD RULE REPLACEMENT NOT WORKING CORRECTLY |
| 35828171 | MP ESSBASE – PAGES UNRESPONSIVE ERROR WHEN VERIFYING LOAD RULE |
| 36825528 | MP-ESSBASE: ONCE THE STACK IS CREATED ITS UNABLE TO CREATE SCHEMA IN THE DATABASE. |
| 37090273 | ONPREM: ERROR WHEN COPYING AND PASTING MEMBER AS CHILD IN ASO APPLICATION USING REDWOOD UI IN ESSBASE21.6 |
| 23055163 | ESSBASE C API ESSGETCALCLIST NOT WORKING |
| 37549370 | ESSBASE OUTLINE EDITOR IN REDWOOD UI DOESN’T WORK BUT WORKS IN JET UI |
| 37888772 | ESSBASE REDWOOD UI NOT SHOWING IMAGES WHEN NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET |
| 33512048 | WEBUI: PARTITIONING EDIT SCREEN FOR EACH DEFINITION DOESN’T SHOW THE WHOLE SCREEN |
| 35280408 | REQUEST COLUMN SORTING IS NOT FUNCTIONAL |
| 35181994 | ONPREM: PARTITION DISAPPEARS FROM WEB UI IF CREDENTIALS ARE CHANGED |
| 37125085 | ON PREM EPM 11.2.17/ESSBASE 21.5.3 MDX SCRIPTS ARE FAILING WITH NETWORK ERROR |
| 37044035 | EPRCS – ERROR MESSAGE: “FAILED TO EXECUTE REPORT DUE TO AN UNEXPECTED FAILURE |
| 38177194 | ONPREM: EPM 11.2.21 / ESSBASE 21.7.1: USING __QPDF_SIMU 4096 WITH ASODYNHIERASAGG ON DOES NOT RETURN ALL THE CORRECT VALUES. |
| 38011064 | ONPREM: ESSBASE 21C HSGETVALUE WITH ATTRIBUTE DIMENSION PERFORMANCE ENABLEMEANINGLESS SETTING IS NOT WORKING |
| 37551163 | ONPREM: DIFFERENCE IN BEHAVIOR FROM 11G TO 21C WHEN MAXL USING ERROR FILE W UNC DURING BUILD/ LOAD |
| 37109716 | ESSBASE 21C :USERS WITH PASSWORD CONTAINING FRENCH CHARACTERS (É È Ê Ç À) AND £ SYMBOL UNABLE LOG IN TO ESSBASE JET UI |
| 37175135 | WHEN ADDED ATTRIBUTE MEMBER ON ROW, ESSBASE RUNS FOREVER, NEVER RETURN |
| 37246590 | ESSSVR HIGH MEMORY CONSUMPTION AFTER DIMBUILD/RESTRUCT ON AARCH64/ARM64 (NO DATACONTROL USAGE) [NEED LIBTCMALLOC.SO.4] |
| 37004681 | ESSSVR HIGH MEMORY ON [GETSELECTEDMBRINFO] BECAUSE DATACONTROL DOES NOT ENFORCE MEMBER SELECTION LIMIT [ON STORED MDX SLICER] |
| 37757011 | EXECUTE CALCULATION MXL STATMENT WITH 0XD CHARCATER HANGS ESSBASE |
| 37378544 | ONPREM: EPM 11.2.18 / ESSBASE 21: CANNOT DRILL DOWN FROM CALC MANAGER TO ESSBASE APPS – CANNOT GET OLAP USER. JAVA.LANG.INTEGER CANNOT BE CAST TO JAVA.LANG.SHORT |
| 36245375 | MP ESSBASE 21C : SETTING “COMPRESSION RATIO” IS MISSING UNDER THE DATABASE STATISTICS IN THE MP-ESSBASE. |
| 33823725 | ESSBASE DATA LOAD RULE IS TRUNCATING FORMULA ON MEMBER |
| 35180475 | LCMEXPORT — ALLOW MULTIPLE FILE TYPES TO BE SELECTED OR EXCLUDED |
| 37503522 | MP: ESSBASE 21.7 LOAD RULE PREVIEW DATA DISPLAYS INCORRECTLY |
| 37429712 | TRY NEW REDWOOD WEB POP-UP SHOULD BE DISABLE |
| 33412229 | JOHN DEERE: IMPORT AND EXPORT PARTITIONS IN THE WEB UI |
| 37943316 | ERROR ADDING TARGETTIMESERIESOPT CONFIG SETTING ‘FAILED TO UPDATE CONFIGURATION – NULL’ |
| 35809581 | ESSBASE 21C “THE TARGET PARTITION CAN BE UPDATED” CHECK BOX MISSING IN JET UI |
| 36917476 | ESSBASE 21.5.3: DATABASE RUNTIME STATISTICS NOT SHOWING FOR CUBE IN ESSBASE UI |
| 37157699 | ELRT | PUBLISH | ACTIVE USER SESSION IS NOT GETTING TERMINATED (PROPOGATE LOGOUTALL FAILURE) |
| 37972771 | OCI FLOW FIX FOR 37945181 – REPORTING USERS AGAINST ESSBASE CUBES THAT RESULT IN 65000 PLUS CHARACTERS SECURITY FILTER VALUE HIT ERRORS IN FRS, SMARTVIEW, ALLOCATION, INQUIRE UI |
| 37945181 | REPORTING USERS AGAINST ESSBASE CUBES THAT RESULT IN 65000 PLUS CHARACTERS SECURITY FILTER VALUE HIT ERRORS IN FRS, SMARTVIEW, ALLOCATION, INQUIRE UI |
| 38122283 | EPM 11.2.21/ESSBASE 21.7.1: AUDITTRAIL LOGS: LOGIN EVENT IS NOT CAPTURED WITH CSS SECURITYY TO CHECK LAST LOGIN DETAILS |
| 37559843 | ORA-00904: “CALC_SPEC”: INVALID IDENTIFIER ERROR DURING START OF APP |
| 37259191 | DATE MEASURE EXPORT/IMPORT TO NEW CUBE RETRIEVES INCORRECT VALUE |
| 38603218 | PORT TO ESSBASE_21_8: BUG 38524228 – CALCULATION TIME INCREASED 4 TIMES AFTER UPGRADE FROM 516 TO 21C BOTTOM COMMENTS TOP BUG TREE |
| 38128671 | ON-PREM: ERROR WITH RULE FILE WITH SSL CONNECTION STRING: [[ORACLE DATADIRECT][ODBC SQL SERVER WIRE PROTOCOL DRIVER]CANNOT LOAD TRUST STORE.] |
| 36606655 | SMARTVIEW RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE SLOW IN ESSBASE 21.5.2 |
| 37850094 | 21C UNABLE TO COPY MEMBER IN JET UI |
| 37288358 | EPM 11.2.19 : ESSBASE 21.5.6 PARTITION VALIDATION IS FAILING AFTER OAM INTEGRATION |
| 38604239 | MERGE TO ESSBASE_21_8: 38419874 – ONPREM: EPM 11.2.19/ESSBASE 21.6: MAXL IMPORT DATABASE “ERROR – 1040224 – BAD REQUEST FOR THE REST DATA SOURCE” INTERMITTENT |
| 36773061 | MAXL SYNTAX NOT WORKING ON ESSBASE 21C WITH UNC PATH |
| 37738171 | ASO APPLICATIONS AND DB ARE NOT STARTING EVEN IF WE SET THE SETTING “START APPLICATION WHEN ESSBASE SERVER STARTS”. |
| 37715687 | ESSBASE ONPREM: ASO DATABASE IS NOT HAVING OPTION “START DATABASE WHEN APPLICATION STARTS” ALSO THE DATABASE IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY STARTED ON REDWOOD WEB INTERFACE |
| 38403268 | ONPREM ESSBASE 21.7.1: MDX QUERY RAN FROM SMARTVIEW CRASHES THE CUBE. [MDX + LRO + CELL_STATUS] |
| 37028159 | ESSBASE 21.6: DATADIRECT DB2 JDBC DRIVERS DO NOT CONTAIN THE BINDING FILES NEEDED TO CONNECT TO DB2 DATABASES |
| 37845973 | LOCATION ALIAS IN WEB UI SHOULD SHOW USERNAME SIMILAR TO EAS LOCATION ALIAS |
| 36851763 | WHEN ADDED APR TO COLUMN, CAUSED MAY HAS DIFFERENT DATA RESULT THEN WITHOUT APR. |
| 37686878 | MP: ESSBASE 21.6 MDX EXPORT INTO FILE HAS INCORRECT DELIMITER WHEN USING PROPERTIES AND COLUMNDELIMITER |
| 29869475 | CUSTOM CALC SPECIFIY 0 FOR ROUNDDIGITS IS NOT WORKING |
| 37522977 | ESSBASE SMART VIEW: ERROR 1042003 FAILED TO RETRIEVE NAME INFORMATION WHEN CONNECTING TO ESSBASE SMART VIEW PROVIDER ON EPM 11.2.18/ESSBASE 21.5.6 VERSION |
| 38159552 | APPLICATION CRASHED WHEN ADDING MEMBER FORMULA |
| 37248707 | ESSBASE 21.6 DIMENSION BUILD RULE ERROR “NETWORK ERROR: TIMED OUT BEFORE RECEIVING ALL DATA” |
| 38101155 | ONPREM: EPM 11.2.18: FAILED TO VALIDATE FILTER :FILTER NAMES CONTAINS AN INVALID SPECIAL CHARACTERS” |
| 36622951 | CRASH ON A GRID WITH ATTRIBUTE |
| 37396191 | CUSTOMER APPLICATION ENCOUNTER MANY NAN CELLS CAUSE UPPER LEVEL BECAME NAN |
| 36894036 | ONPREM: ESSBASE 21C SHADOW CUBE CREATE, PROMOTE PROCESS PERIODICALLY CREATES A BAD DIRECTORY IN THE LOG DIRECTORY WITH INVALID CHARACTERS |
| 37311508 | ESSBASE 21.6 REDWOOD UI CANNOT REMOVE GROUP FROM ROLES ONCE ADDED |
| 36757924 | PBCS – CALC PERFORMANCE DETERIORATED WHEN UPGRADED FROM 11.1.2.4.516.514 TO 11.1.2.4.516.524 |
| 37227830 | MP:APPLICATION PERMISSIONS RESET TO DATABASE ACCESS ON GRANTING FILTER TO USER GROUP |
| 35950901 | ENH 35453655 – ESSBASE 21C JET UI (REDWOOD): NEED OPTION TO DIRECTLY CHOOSE LOAD FILE FROM FILE SYSTEM |
| 37851970 | JDK 1.8.0_451 DOES NOT WORK WITH EAS 11.1.2.4.049, 21.6, 21.7 ERRORS WITH “THIS APPLICATION WOULD LIKE TO USE A VERSION OF JAVA (1.6+) THAT IS NOT INSTALLED ON YOUR SYSTEM” |
| 35972625 | ONPREM ESSBASE: ESSBASE USER AND GROUP NAME OR DESCRIPTIONS LOST |
| 37714363 | ESSSVR CRASH WHILE FEDPART CREATION (CREATE FORMULA) |
| 37697630 | MDX “EXPORT INTO FILE” QUERY CAUSE TO ESSBASE AGENT TO STUCK |
| 37697553 | MDX “EXPORT INTO FILE” QUERY CRASH ESSSVR WITH “MEMORY ALLOCATION FAILED” |
For more information on this release (such as known issues with 21.8.0.0.0), you can log onto https://support.oracle.com and search for the following KB Article:
Essbase 21.8.0.0 Defects Fixed and Known Issues (KB 856269)
For more information on previous patches Essbase 21c releases please visit this KB article:
Available Patch Sets and Patch Set Updates for Oracle Essbase 21c (KB 107077)
I would anticipate this release may come to the Hyperion side either April 2026 or July 2026 (FYI – Hyperion’s latest 11.2.24.0 release w/ Essbase21c is using version 21.7.3.0, so pending if the interim 21.7.3.1 patch is required to go to 21.8.0 or support decides to patch to 21.8.0 directly).
