A few days ago (Friday, of course) apex.oracle.com has been upgraded to APEX 18.2. As widely know, once apex.oracle.com is upgraded the general availability of such a release is very close.

For me it is a stable enough release, to have a look what changed in terms of packages and views.

And there wasn’t a lot that has bee changed, hence this will be a very short blogpost.

Views

2 new Views:

• apex_pkg_app_available
• apex_pkg_app_installed

The names should be self explanatory. No existing views have been changed (in terms of colums, that is).

Packages

• APEX_APPLICATION
  • js_message
    + p_operation (default EQ)
• APEX_EXEC
  + open_query_context
• APEX_LANG
  • js_message
    + p_operation (default EQ)
• APEX_STRING
  + next_chunk
• APEX_WEB_SERVICE
  + g_reason_phrase
• APEX_WORKSPACE_USER
  + verify_session

That’s it. No fancy new packages. Still no APEX_IG package, maybe next year…