In alignment with the Vault Platform, EDC and DQS are transitioning from utf8mb3 (the legacy UTF-8 database standard) to utf8mb4 (the new official UTF-8 standard). This update aligns our infrastructure with modern global encoding requirements, providing full support for emojis, special symbols, and expanded international character sets.

• Functional & Data Impact: No impact on existing data or application functionality is expected.
• Large Vaults: May require a maintenance window of approximately 30 minutes. Affected customers will be notified 2 weeks in advance.
• Smaller Vaults: Will experience a brief maintenance window. Timing details will be published via trust.com.