Hi Ruslan, I wonder when 2.4 will be final? And since you are changing VarChar fields (and text indexing?), will the next versions of 2.4 require another irreversible format change, from 2.4b16 format to 2.4b17 format? Finally, I seemed to recall UTF-8 storage was going to make the cut for 2.4. Am I wrong, was it 2.5? Thanks, Jon