I noticed, via the new ADF based My Oracle Support portal, that Siebel 8.1.1.7 was released this week.

Downloading the readme, I can see some additional work that has gone into the BI Publisher integration:

• Bug 13528720: The Duration field is missing from the Report business component.
• Bug 13570979: Custom Name appears twice in the Report Output applet.
• Bug 13603930: The My BI Publisher Reports menu label was incorrectly changed.
• Bug 13528628: Unnecessary fields display in the Template applet.
• Bug 13604628: The Schedule Report menu item was incorrectly changed

You’ll also find some specific ACRs documented further down the file, one of which strikes me as being of particular interest:

ACR 719B provides the following enhancements:

• Improved upload functionality for multilingual reports
• Mobile client synchronization of report templates
• Ability to schedule parameterized reports
• Allows the UI applet sort order to be preserved in report output
• Report business service enhancements
• Parameterized reporting enhancements

Not very specific I know – I’d like some detail around how the ‘Report business service’ has been ‘enhanced’ – but I guess there’s only one way to find out.

Expect a further update once I’ve downloaded and applied.