About the 25R3 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 25R3 (Available November 3) provides detailed explanations of each feature.
• 25R3 Feature Enablement Details (Available November 3) includes information on how new features are enabled.

Pre-Release Information

• Pre-Release FAQ answers common questions about “pre-release”.
• Known Issues in 25R3 Pre-Release (Available November 21) lists known issues in the 25R3 pre-release. This page also lists the release notes for any maintenance releases applied to pre-release.

Release Information

• 25R3 Release Impact Assessment (Published October 13) analyzes the impact of new features. New versions will be published on Tuesdays and Thursdays if changes to the previous version have occurred.
• 25R3 Migration Vault Release Impact Assessment (Published October 13) analyzes the impact of new features.
• 25R3 Supplemental Vault Release Impact Assessment (Available October 20) lists Vault Platform features in the 25R3 release that can impact EDC or CDB customers.
• 25R3 Fixed Issues (Available November 21) documents issues that affected previous versions or pre-release and are fixed in 25R3.
• 25R3 Known Issues (Available November 21) documents issues introduced in 25R3 which are not yet fixed.
• 25R3 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 25R3, see the Vault Release Notes .

Announcements

Pre-Release Window Update

Prior to this release, pre-release was available for 6 weeks after general availability of a new version. Starting with 25R3, pre-release will remain available for four weeks after general availability of a new version. Therefore, the pre-release vaults will now be available to customers four weeks prior to general availability and remain available up to four weeks after a general release. This change applies to EDC & CDB pre-release.

Multi-Vault Selector

When working in multiple Vaults (e.g. EDC and CTMS), a user’s session, prior to this release, would be invalidated when navigating to a different Vault in another tab, forcing that user to reauthenticate and potentially lose their work.

With this release, Vault sessions will now remain active in all tabs when using the Vault Selector to change Vaults within a tab or window. This behavior also applies to opening another Vault in a new tab or window by right clicking a Vault in the Vault Selector or the My Vaults page.

Item Groups & Items Created Concurrently with Forms

Previously, item records were only created when data was first auto-saved on the form. With this release, we’ve enhanced the creation of item groups and items to be concurrent with form creation. This feature will be available for Early Adopters in 25R3, and it will be rolled out to all vaults in a future release.

With this feature, we are solving a reporting issue where SDV and DMR were being marked as complete at an event where not all items were created. Creation timestamps in the audit trail for items, events, forms, and change reasons for items with default data will now be the same, as they will be created at the same time.

Note that for number item types with rules that have “Blank Handling” set to “AS ZERO”, the item value will be considered as zero after the form and item are created. Some IsBlank rules will now evaluate to False when this feature is enabled.

RIA Feature Enablement Changes

With this release, we’ve added the following enablement value options to the Enablement column in the RIA: Early Adopter and Phased Release. Features that are only available for early adopters will be marked as such in the enablement column. Phased Release enablement refers to features that will be enabled in phases across customers after the general release.

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