Oracle Discoverer releases and desupport dates

Oracle Discoverer guru Michael Armstrong-Smith has published this great list of Oracle Discoverer releases and de-support dates:

• Discoverer 3.x - This release of Discoverer is completely desupported. The terminal release was 3.1.36 for Administrator and Desktop and 3.3.62 for Plus and Viewer. If you are using this release of Discoverer you should migrate to Discoverer 10g Release 2 (10.1.2.2 or 10.1.2.3) as soon as you can. Note that there is no direct migration path from Discoverer 3.1 to Discoverer 10g Release 2, as you must migrate via 4.1.48.08. The obsolescence desupport notice on MOSC is document 162402.1.
  
• Discoverer 4.x (stand-alone, not as part of E-Business Suite) - completely desupported. The terminal release was 4.1.48.08. If you are using this release of Discoverer you should migrate to Discoverer 10g Release 2 (10.1.2.2 or 10.1.2.3) as soon as you can. The obsolescence desupport notice on MOSC is document 231072.1.
  
• Discoverer 4.x (with E-Business Suite) - desupported as of October 31, 2006. According to Oracle "since Discoverer 10g (10.1.2.0.2 - now 10.1.2.2 or 10.1.2.3) is fully certified, we HIGHLY recommend implementing or migrating to this release". Extended Support (ES) will continue until October 31, 2015. If you are using this release of Discoverer you are advised to migrate to Discoverer 10g Release 2 as soon as possible. The obsolesence desupport notice for Discoverer 4i against E-Business Suite is MOSC document 337576.1.
  
• Discoverer 9iAS (9.0.2) - completely desupported as of July 1, 2015. The terminal release was 9.0.2.54.10. If you are using this release of Discoverer you need to to upgrade to Discoverer 10g Release 2 (10.1.2.2 or 10.1.2.3) as soon as you can. The obsolescence desupport notice for Discoverer 9iAS is MOSC document 162403.1.
  
• Discoverer 10g Release 1 (9.0.4) - ECS support was withdrawn December 31, 2006. The recommended release is 9.0.4.46.00 (Application Server 9.0.4.3). Extended Support will continue until December 31, 2015, however you should upgrade to Discoverer 10g Release 2 as soon as you can. The obsolescence desupport notice for Discoverer 10g Release 1 (9.0.4) is MOSC document 295948.1.
  
• Discoverer 10g Release 2 initial (10.1.2.0.0) - The terminal release is 10.1.2.45.46c. You can upgrade to 10.1.2.48.18 by applying the 10.1.2.1 patchset which will bring you to the 10.1.2.0.2 code level (see below). No ECS or ES dates have been announced for 10.1.2.0.0. The support notice for Discoverer 10g Release 2 is MOSC document 329361.1.
  
• Discoverer 10g Release 2 production (10.1.2.0.2) - This is the current and most up-to-date release and the one you should be on if you can. Out of the box the base version you will get is 10.1.2.48.18. Having installed the base release you need to upgrade to either 10.1.2.2 (10.1.2.54.25) or 10.1.2.3 (10.1.2.55.26) and then apply the most recent cumulative patch. No ECS or ES dates have been announced for this release. The support notice for Discoverer 10g Release 2 is MOSC document 329361.1.

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