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What is python-oracledb?
python-oracledb is a Python extension module that enables access to Oracle Database for Python and conforms to the Python database API 2.0
specifications with a number of enhancements. This module replaces
cx_Oracle.
Where do I get it?
https://pypi.org/project/oracledb/26.0.0/
The easiest method to install/upgrade python-oracledb is via pip as in
python -m pip install oracledb --upgrade
What's new?
This release has the following highlights:
- the major version number will now be the two digit year in which that
version was first released.
- support for Python 3.14 templates
- support for centralized configuration providers for GCP and AWS
- support for setting transaction priority (Oracle AI Database 26ai
feature)
- support for Oracle AI Database 26ai Deep Data Security using asyncio
- support for external authentication using TLS in thin mode
- support for operation and round trip callbacks
- improvements to Apache Arrow support
- support for Python 3.15, support for Python 3.9 dropped
See the full release notes for all of the details:
https://python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes.html#oracledb-26-0-0-september-2026
Please provide any feedback via GitHub issues:
https://github.com/oracle/ python-oracledb/issues or discussions:
https://github.com/oracle/python- oracledb/discussions
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