What's New in Oracle APEX 26.1

Enjoy a more refined and productive App Builder experience with workspace search, a refreshed Builder UI, and richer diff views that make it easier to navigate applications, review changes, and work efficiently throughout the development lifecycle.

• Refined Builder Experience
  Work with a cleaner, more modern Builder UI featuring updates across Page Designer, shared components, navigation, dialogs, and other Builder pages.
• Workspace Search
  Quickly find workspaces from the sign-in and workspace selection screen, and sort by recent login to surface the workspaces you use most.
• Context-Rich Diff Views
  Review changes with more context in Working Copy diff views, including component names and types, plus APEXlang syntax highlighting to make edits easier to understand at a glance

Oracle APEX message-based app translations simplify localization by moving translatable application text into reusable Text Messages. This makes it easier to manage multiple languages in a single application, exchange translation content in standard formats, and keep translated text in sync as the application evolves.

• Seed Translatable Text
  Convert application text into reusable Text Messages so labels and other user-facing strings can be managed in one place.
• Standard Translation Formats
  Export and import translated text messages using CSV, XLIFF, or ZIP files to support manual translation workflows and external localization services.

Build more flexible and scalable workflows with support for parallel execution, enhanced workflow APIs, and tenant-aware workflow behavior for multi-tenant applications. Workflow instance titles can also include richer contextual information, making workflows easier to identify and manage at runtime.

• Parallel Flow Support
  Model independent workstreams that run in parallel and converge when all required activities are complete.
• Workflow APIs
  Simplify workflow administration with APIs for deleting instances, resuming suspended workflows after upgrades, setting task due dates, refreshing admin roles, and exporting workflows.
• Multi-Tenancy Awareness
  Support stronger data isolation in multi-tenant applications with tenant IDs tracked automatically across workflow and human task operations.

Universal Theme 26.1 introduces the new Iris style, delivering an updated Oracle-branded look alongside accessibility improvements and Font APEX 2.5. Template Component enhancements add client-side partials, template directives, and autocomplete support, while broader Template Directive enhancements extend support across item, region, list, and page templates and improve the authoring experience for developers.

• Universal Theme 26.1
  Introduce the new Iris style with an updated Oracle-branded look, accessibility improvements, and expanded icon support through Font APEX 2.5.
• Richer Template Components
  Build richer and more flexible user interfaces with client-side partials, template directives, autocomplete support, and improved template component capabilities.
• More Powerful Template Directives
  Extend template directive support across item, region, list, and page templates while improving the overall authoring experience for developers.

Strengthen application security and enterprise readiness with enhanced Content Security Policy (CSP) support, Fusion Extensions security improvements, and workspace-level SMTP credentials that give teams more control over authentication and email delivery.

• CSP Enhancements
  Move closer to full Content Security Policy compliance by removing the remaining reliance on unsafe-hashes and replacing inline display behavior with safer, class-based rendering.
• Fusion Extensions Security Improvements
  Support secure Fusion mashup applications by aligning APEX extension security with Fusion roles and policies, helping control access to both Fusion data and custom APEX data.
• Workspace-level SMTP
  Configure workspace-specific SMTP credentials using Web Credentials while continuing to use the instance-level email server configuration for declarative email delivery.

Build richer and more scalable map-based applications with new Map Region enhancements, including support for vector tile layers, advanced background maps, and improved JavaScript control. These updates make it easier to display large datasets efficiently while delivering more modern and customizable mapping experiences.

• Vector Tile Layer Support
  Use vector tile layers to render large geospatial datasets more efficiently with smoother interaction and improved scalability.
• Advanced Background Maps
  Configure custom background maps using raster tiles, vector tiles, and OGC map services for more flexible map presentation.
• JavaScript Map Control
  Use new JavaScript APIs to control map behavior, styling, and interaction more precisely in custom applications.

Build richer and more productive application experiences with enhancements across reports and buttons, Dynamic Actions, REST Data Sources, data entry components, and search capabilities. These updates improve usability, expand declarative functionality, and make it easier to work with larger data sets and more dynamic user interactions.

• More Powerful Interactive Reports
  Interactive Reports have been enhanced with row selection capability and improved filtering support for template component columns.
• Declarative Menu Buttons
  Add menus directly to buttons from Page Designer to create cleaner action menus and more flexible user interfaces without requiring custom JavaScript.
• Enhanced Dynamic Actions
  Extend Dynamic Actions with declarative support for buttons and menus, along with new actions such as Show Success and Show Error, and Wait Popup.
• Faster Data Entry Experiences
  Improve data entry workflows with paste-from-clipboard into Interactive Grids and infinite scrolling for LOV and autocomplete fields.