The 25.11 Stumble: Navigating Oracle’s Latest EPM Update Glitch

As an Oracle EPM consultant who has worn the CFO hat and navigated the trenches of closing books for Yahoo and AOL, I know that trust is our currency. When we architect a solution, we are selling certainty. Unfortunately, the recent Oracle EPM Cloud update 25.11 has introduced a level of uncertainty that is testing both implementation partners and customers alike.

The most glaring issue we’ve encountered firsthand involves the file upload of trial balances into Financial Consolidation and Close (FCC). Standard functionality—and basic accounting logic—dictates that when you load data, the system summarizes the lines for a specific target account. It’s fundamental.

With update 25.11, that summarization logic broke. Instead of aggregating the data, the system began picking up only the first line it encountered for the target account and ignoring the rest. For those of us in the middle of deployments or remediation projects, this wasn't just a glitch; it was a heart-stopping moment where the numbers simply didn't add up.

I have to give credit where it’s due: Oracle made the prudent decision to halt the rollout of this update to Production environments until release 26.02 (February 2026). It’s the right move to protect live financial data.

However, this leaves us in a precarious position. The faulty 25.11 update remains active in Test environments. For System Integrators (SIs) and customers currently developing or validating applications, this is a nightmare. We are effectively building on quicksand. When we are forced to engineer workarounds for core functionality that has suddenly changed behavior, it inevitably raises question marks about the implementor's expertise. "Why isn't this working?" "Did you configure it correctly?" These are questions a new client shouldn't have to ask, and they can be damaging to fledgling relationships.

Beyond the data load issues, we’ve also experienced uncharacteristic instability when deploying new FCC applications on this version, costing us hours of troubleshooting errors that shouldn't exist.

To add complexity to the mix, the environment cloning feature—which was already spotty for two weeks a month due to version mismatches between Test and Prod—is now effectively suspended until at least February 20, 2026.

If you have EPM Automate scripts or scheduled jobs relying on cloneEnvironment, do yourself a huge favor: pause them now. They will fail, and you don't need the noise in your logs.

For the next few months, we are going back to basics. Migration will need to be handled via the standard Lifecycle Management (LCM) migration tools. It’s more manual, yes, but it is the only reliable path forward until the environments are synced again.

No one wins in this situation. Oracle needs to protect its SIs by ensuring that the tools we advocate for don't make our jobs harder than they need to be. While glitches happen in software, leaving a known-faulty version in Test environments for months places an undue burden on the partner ecosystem to explain away vendor errors.

For now, stay vigilant, check your data loads manually, and keep your clients informed. We will get through this close, just like every other one.

If your implementation is stalling due to these updates, or your remediation project feels like it's going in circles, you need a steady hand who knows the terrain. I specialize in turning troubled projects into success stories and navigating the complexities of Oracle Tax Reporting and Account Reconciliation.

Don’t let a glitch derail your financial close. Contact me directly at nadia@lodroman.com for specialized, hands-on support. Let’s get your environment back on track.

For the official announcement regarding the update halt, you can read Oracle's proactive support post here: Monthly Updates will not be applied on all EPM Cloud environments in 25.12 and 26.01.