Before you check the date of the post, no it’s not 1st April, and yes Oracle has just announced the very exiting news that Oracle Database 23c Free-Developer Release is now available for Developers.

You can find out more information about Oracle Database 23c Free–Developer Release at https://www.oracle.com/database/free
And read the new features and Oracle Database 23c Free-Developer Release Documentation to learn more about the capabilities within this release.
If the above has got you excited and you want to get started, you can download the Oracle Database 23c Free-Developer Release using any of the methods below:
Following this announcement expect to see some new content on Containerisation and paricular Oracle on Kubernetes, and some deep dives into Oracle dNFS and S3 support.