The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce the release of version 2012-03-02 of the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD). This release adds 32 new sequences to the registered Adobe-Japan1 collection, and 8,850 new sequences to the registered Hanyo-Denshi collection. It also introduces a new datafile called IVD_Stats.txt that details Ideographic Variation Sequence (IVS) and Variation Selector (VS) usage for the entire IVD and on a per-collection basis. Details can be found at http://www.unicode.org/ivd/.