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26D: 23 former opt-ins now standard, plus HCM pages switching to Redwood26D is the current Oracle Fusion Cloud quarterly update, and it's rolling out now. Oracle updates environments by cohort: Cohort A gets 26D in November, Cohort B in December and Cohort C in January. Your own dates are in the Oracle Cloud Console. This is also the first Fusion Updates briefing sent by email. By our count, Oracle's 26D What's New documents for Financials, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, Projects and HCM list 789 features. Oracle hasn't published its 26D documents for Transportation Management, Global Trade Management or Work Life yet, so those aren't in the count, and Logistics means Warehouse Management only for now. Below are the 8 changes I'd look at first, the former opt-ins that are now standard, the HCM pages switching to Redwood, and what to check. Everything links to Oracle's own page, so you can check the details for your setup.
The former opt-in count is Oracle's own Current Opt-In Expirations list. The other two are our tally: the Fusion Updates 26D tracker follows the most relevant changes, up to 25 per module family, out of the 789 features. Data from our 9 Nov 2026 weekly refresh. | |||||
The 8 changes I'd look at firstAcross modules, in no particular order. Feature names are Oracle's. Financials
1. Payables Period Close Workspace A new workspace for the Payables close. For the selected ledger and period it brings together invoice, payment and period statuses, groups the exceptions that hold up the close, and walks your team through opening the next period, sweeping eligible unaccounted transactions and closing the current one, with Ask Oracle for questions in context. Oracle says there's nothing to enable, but users need the Payables Period Close Duty role, and the recommendations follow the close rules you configure. Decide who gets the role and review those rules before your next close. Procurement
2. Handle date changes in contract lines as inline updates in purchase agreements The Import Purchase Agreements from External Purchase Prices process now updates the existing blanket purchase agreement line when a contract line's start or end date changes. Before, it end-dated that line and created a new one. Supported changes such as price, vendor part number and description can also be applied in place. It's on automatically, so if reports, integrations or mappings expect a new agreement line for each date change, check them. Time and Labor
3. Enhancements for Absence Integration on Redwood Time Cards Removing an absence from a Redwood time card now deletes or withdraws it depending on its status, and applies your approval rules. After editing or removing a submitted or approved absence, workers can't just save the time card; they have to submit it. An absence that is part of an in-progress time card approval is read-only in Absence Management. It's on automatically, so tell workers and approvers, and test your approval rules. Payroll
4. Redwood Experience for Payroll Setup Pages Six more Payroll setup pages open in Redwood, with their profile options set to Y by default: Balance Exceptions, Balance Exceptions and Reports, Element Security Profiles, Features by Country or Territory, Organization Payment Methods and Run Types. If a custom job role gives access to Organization Payment Methods, Oracle says it must include both the Organization Payment Method Management Duty role and the Manage Organization Payment Method privilege. Check your custom roles before your payroll team needs that page. Maintenance
5. Associate a technician to multiple labor resources A technician can now be set up as more than one labor resource in an organization, for example as both a Mechanic and an Electrician. Advanced scheduling, Maintenance Supervision, My Maintenance Work and work reporting all take the extra skills into account. It's on automatically, and Oracle rates it larger scale. Agree how you'll model multi-skilled technicians before anyone sets them up, because it affects scheduling and labor costing. Manufacturing
6. Quality Assurance Workspace Quality teams get one workspace to review recent work-in-process inspection results, Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts and rule-based signals such as Nelson Rule violations, with AI-assisted root cause insights and recommended actions. It's on automatically for users whose roles already have the inspection privileges Oracle lists. Oracle notes that SPC analysis needs at least 25 data points to be useful. It appears in both the Manufacturing and the Product Lifecycle Management What's New. Warehouse Management
7. Enhanced configuration migration safeguards and lock code handling Before you import or copy configuration into a facility or company, WMS now backs up the matching destination records, and stops if the backup fails. In 3PL setups, lock codes can no longer be imported or copied into a child company, and facility-specific lock codes take the destination facility. If you ever need a backup file, Oracle says you have to raise a Service Request. Try your usual configuration migration in a test environment first. Project Management
8. Additional accounting sources for non-project labor costs Labor Distribution now offers more worker assignment attributes for Subledger Accounting rules on non-project labor costs: assignment category and location, worker type, position, job, worker category, people group and assignment descriptive flexfields. It's on automatically. The new sources only matter once your accounting rules use them, so it's worth a look if you derive the natural account for labor costs outside projects. | |||||
Former opt-ins that are now standard in 26DOracle's Current Opt-In Expirations list names 23 features whose opt-in period ends with 26D. They're now standard features. Oracle's "Now Enabled" column says Yes for 9 of them, so they're on for everyone; the other 14 need setup if you want to use them. If you already opted in and finished the setup, Oracle says there's nothing more to do. 19 of the 23 are in Financials, Projects, Procurement and Supply Chain: 14 in Supply Chain & Manufacturing (7 Manufacturing, 3 Inventory Management, 2 Maintenance, 1 Advanced Inventory Management, 1 Order Management), 3 in Projects, 1 in Procurement and 1 in Financials. 7 of these 19 are on for everyone and 12 need setup. The other 4 are 2 in Permitting and Licensing and 2 in Sales. The ones I'd look at first: Manage Global Maintenance Work Definitions (Maintenance) Redwood: Manage Global Work Definitions in an Item Master Organization (Manufacturing) Redwood: Set Up Customer Pricing (Order Management) Use Source Document as Transfer Price Basis for Orders in Back-to-Back Intercompany Transfers (Inventory Management) Redwood: Set up Supplier Registration and Profile Change Request (Procurement) | |||||
HCM: pages switching to Redwood in 26DHCM changes aren't on Oracle's opt-in expiration list, so they're not in the 23 above. Oracle announces them in its HCM What's New documents. For 26D, four announcements switch 34 pages to Redwood by default. You can still set each profile option back to No to keep the older page for now. Person pages (6) Employment pages (21) Workforce structures pages (5) Compensation (2) Other HCM changes in 26D
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Summaries are condensed from Oracle's public readiness documentation. Always confirm details on the linked Oracle page. Questions or a change we missed: hello@fusionupdates.com
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