About the 25R1 Release

This page can help you understand the schedule for the coming release and the list of features included. Dates are subject to change.

Feature Information

• What’s New in 25R1 (Available March 10) provides detailed explanations of each feature.
• 25R1 Feature Enablement Details (Available March 10) includes information on how new features are enabled.

Pre-Release Information

• Pre-Release FAQ answers common questions about “pre-release”.
• Known Issues in 25R1 Pre-Release (Available March 17) lists known issues in the 25R1 pre-release. This page also lists the release notes for any maintenance releases applied to pre-release.

Release Information

• 25R1 Release Impact Assessment (Published February 18) analyzes the impact of new features.
• 25R1 Migration Vault Release Impact Assessment (Published February 18) analyzes the impact of new features.
• 25R1 Supplemental Vault Release Impact Assessment (Available February 21) lists Vault Platform features in the 25R1 release that can impact CDMS vaults.
• 25R1 Fixed Issues (Available April 4) documents issues that affected previous versions or pre-release and are fixed in 25R1.
• 25R1 Known Issues (Available April 4) documents issues introduced in 25R1 which are not yet fixed.
• 25R1 Maintenance Releases (Available with first maintenance release) documents fixes for issues that are affecting customers in production environments.

For details about new features in the Vault Platform in 25R1, see the Vault Release Notes .

Announcements

CDMS License Key

The 25R1 release includes an updated method of verifying EDC and CDB study licenses for non-ELA (Enterprise License Agreement) customers. The updated method utilizes study-specific license keys now included on the sales order form. Prior to the initial Production deployment of a study, customers will enter the study license key in the designated field in EDC Tools in the DEV Vault. Casebook validations will verify that the entered value matches the stored license key, at which point the study will be eligible for deployment to Production.

This change avoids challenges some customers experienced when a study name used in EDC is different from the one used in contracting. Studies already deployed to Production at the time of the 25R1 release will automatically move to the new model without any impact to study activities.

CDB Pre-release window extended to 4 weeks before General Availability

The CDB pre-release window has been extended.

Vault Platform New Security Profile

In 25R1, the Vault platform will release a new security policy called Configuration Only. In CDMS, a user with this profile (set through Vault Admin), is not able to view any CDMS study objects, so they will not see any studies, study design, or users in CDMS System Tools. They can see Vault settings and view user information in Admin. Several pages may return an error when trying to load.

In a future release, Veeva CDMS may use this security policy to create a Read-Only Vault Owner type user, but for now this is just a Vault option to give Vault Administrators access without giving them the ability to view any clinical data.

MySQL8 Upgrade

With the 25R2 release, CDB will upgrade the MySQL version from MySQL5.7 to MySQL8.0

With this upgrade, please consider the following behavior changes for MySQL8.0:

• MySQL8.0 will no longer allow the comparison of a string value to a date or datetime without converting the string to a date/datetime.
• Casting a number as decimal will require passing an additional argument for precision. Not doing so will result in a loss of decimal precision.
• MySQL8.0 will no longer automatically strip trailing or leading spaces found in string literals.
• If a string that includes timezone offset is passed to the date_format function, then timezone conversion will be honored.

Notifications Opt-In

As a valued member of our community, providing you with control over the communications you receive from Veeva is important to us. Please allow us to send you pre-release environment notifications and other industry related information. Contact your vault’s administrator to verify that the Product Announcements checkbox is selected for your user profile.

Veeva Connect Communities

Release-related updates will be posted to Veeva Connect, a central hub for product information and a place to ask questions and share knowledge about Veeva products. Product information provided on Veeva Connect includes general release communications, release highlights, and key feature demos.

The links in the list of Vault product communities below will take you to the community and automatically add you to it. If you are not already a member of Veeva Connect, you can register using your company email address. Once registered, in addition to browsing the communities relevant to your role below, click Releases at the top-right of Veeva Connect to view all release-related content.

• Vault CDMS: EDC & Coder
• Veeva CDB