About the 25R2 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 25R2 (Available June 30) provides detailed explanations of each feature.
• 25R2 Feature Enablement Details (Available June 30) includes information on how new features are enabled.

Pre-Release Information

• Pre-Release FAQ answers common questions about “pre-release”.
• Known Issues in 25R2 Pre-Release (Available July 7) lists known issues in the 25R2 pre-release. This page also lists the release notes for any maintenance releases applied to pre-release.

Release Information

• 25R2 Release Impact Assessment (Updated June 10) analyzes the impact of new features.
• 25R2 Migration Vault Release Impact Assessment (Published June 9) analyzes the impact of new features.
• 25R2 Supplemental Vault Release Impact Assessment (Available June 12) lists Vault Platform features in the 25R2 release that can impact EDC or CDB customers.
• 25R2 Fixed Issues (Available July 25) documents issues that affected previous versions or pre-release and are fixed in 25R2.
• 25R2 Known Issues (Available July 25) documents issues introduced in 25R2 which are not yet fixed.
• 25R2 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 25R2, see the Vault Release Notes .

Announcements

MySQL Upgrade

As previously announced, CDB Workbench and Clinical Reporting will be upgrading the MySQL version from MySQL5.7 to MySQL8.0 with the 25R2 release.

There will be downtime for the upgrade to your instance, which will happen in the interim between 25R2 and 25R3, starting in September. Veeva will communicate the timing of the upgrade two weeks prior for downtime awareness.

Certain Workbench listings may no longer be valid after the upgrade.

Please note the following behavior changes with 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 a 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.

API update to all versions: New “Decommissioned” Billing Status blocks Casebook creation via Create Subjects (Casebooks) endpoint

This release includes a critical update regarding casebook creation through the Create Subjects (Casebooks) endpoint.

A new billing status – Decommissioned – has been introduced. If a study is set to the Decommissioned billing status, you will no longer be able to create casebooks via the API.

This change applies to all API versions.

If you create casebooks using an API integration, note the new billing status dependency.

Timezone for Lab Locations

As part of the 25R2 enhancements to support Unknown time for normal range effective datetimes, a timezone field is being added to lab location records. At the time of release, this field, where applicable, will be populated based on the entered address information for the Lab Location as of May 30th, 2025. Otherwise, the timezone of the study sites associated with the lab will be used. The vault timezone will be used if there is no associated study site.

Timezones can be updated after the release, using the lab location import functionality which has been enhanced to support updates to existing lab locations. We highly recommend reviewing all timezones for your lab locations after the release, and updating as necessary. Review the release note for more details about this feature.

Deprecation of v23.2 CDB Query API Version in 25R3

Starting with the 25R3 release, we plan to support two CDB API versions for the Queries domain: v24.3 and v25.3. Users using any of the CDB Query APIs must upgrade to v24.3 prior to the release, until the version v25.3 is available in December.

CDB APIs maintain two active versions per API domain.

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.

• Veeva Clinical Data: EDC & Coder
• Veeva CDB