In Which Support Stages Will Products Receive Critical Patch Updates?
The Oracle Lifetime Support policy defines the period product releases are covered by Premier Support and Extended Support agreements. Only releases in these first two stages of support are included in the Critical Patch Update program. For most products, only the latest versions within each release receive Critical Patch Update patches. For example, Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware products release new versions as patch sets, and the policy defining the patch sets receiving Critical Patch Updates can be found in Software Error Correction Support Policy (My Oracle Support Note:209768.1). See the following questions for more details. Currently only PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products in the Premier Support stage of Oracle Lifetime Support receive Critical Patch Updates. For more information about the Lifetime Support Policy, see http://www.oracle.com/support/premier/lifetime-support-policy.html Specific to Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manage