Releases: unicode-org/icu
ICU 76.1
ICU 76 updates to Unicode 16 (blog), including new characters and scripts, emoji, collation & IDNA changes, and corresponding APIs and implementations. It also updates to CLDR 46 (beta blog) locale data with new locales, significant updates to existing locales, and various additions and corrections. For example, the CLDR and Unicode default sort orders are now very nearly the same.
Most of the java.time (Temporal) types can now be formatted directly using the existing ICU4J date/time formatting classes.
There are some new APIs to make ICU easier to use with modern C++ and Java patterns. Most of the C/C++ APIs added for this purpose are implemented as C++ header-only APIs, and usable on top of binary stable C APIs, which is a first for ICU.
The Java and C++ technology preview implementations of the (also in tech preview) CLDR MessageFormat 2.0 specification have been updated to match recent changes.
ICU 76 and CLDR 46 are major releases, including a new version of Unicode and major locale data improvements.
For details, please see https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/download/76.html.
ICU 76 RC
We are pleased to announce the release candidate for Unicode® ICU 76. It updates to Unicode 16 (blog), including new characters and scripts, emoji, collation & IDNA changes, and corresponding APIs and implementations. It also updates to CLDR 46 (beta blog) locale data with new locales, significant updates to existing locales, and various additions and corrections. For example, the CLDR and Unicode default sort orders are now very nearly the same.
Most of the java.time (Temporal) types can now be formatted directly using the existing ICU4J date/time formatting classes.
There are some new APIs to make ICU easier to use with modern C++ and Java patterns. Most of the C/C++ APIs added for this purpose are implemented as C++ header-only APIs, and usable on top of binary stable C APIs, which is a first for ICU.
The Java and C++ technology preview implementations of the (also in tech preview) CLDR MessageFormat 2.0 specification have been updated to match recent changes.
ICU 76 and CLDR 46 are major releases, including a new version of Unicode and major locale data improvements.
For details, please see https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/download/76.html.
Please test this release candidate on your platforms and report bugs and regressions by Monday, 2024-oct-21, via the icu-support mailing list, and/or please find/submit error reports.
Please do not use this release candidate in production.
The preliminary API reference documents are published on unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/ – follow the “Dev” links there.
icu4x/2024-05-16/75.x
ICU-22718 Export disallowed/ignored UTS 46 data for ICU4X
icu4x/2024-05-03/75.x
ICU-22764 Fix gendict memory safety in toml uchars mode (cherry picked from commit 23bf38f10f146d5b637922321119926b5e60bf03)
ICU 75.1
Unicode® ICU 75 updates to CLDR 45 (beta blog) locale data with new locales and various additions and corrections. C++ code now requires C++17 and is being made more robust.
The CLDR MessageFormat 2.0 specification is now in technology preview, together with a corresponding update of the ICU4J (Java) tech preview and a new ICU4C (C++) tech preview.
For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/75.
ICU 75 RC
We are pleased to announce the release candidate for Unicode® ICU 75. It updates to CLDR 45 (alpha blog) locale data with new locales and various additions and corrections. C++ code now requires C++17 and is being made more robust.
The CLDR MessageFormat 2.0 specification is now in technology preview, together with a corresponding
update of the ICU4J (Java) tech preview and a new ICU4C (C++) tech preview.
For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/75.
Please test this release candidate on your platforms and report bugs and regressions by Monday, 2024-apr-15, via the icu-support mailing list, and/or please find/submit error reports.
Please do not use this release candidate in production.
The preliminary API reference documents are published on unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/ – follow the “Dev” links there.
ICU 74.2
ICU 74.2 updates to CLDR 44.1 locale data. These are maintenance releases for ICU 74 and CLDR 44, with limited sets of bug fixes and no API or structural changes.
- The CLDR bug fix relevant for ICU is for some formatting patterns that erroneously had two adjacent space characters. These are coalesced into one. (CLDR-17233)
- Important: DateFormat.getInstanceForSkeleton() and the DateTimePatternGenerator sometimes used the wrong patterns because they failed to use/inherit certain data (ICU-22575 — CLDR 44 had removed some redundant data that ICU relied on)
For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/74.
ICU 74.1
Unicode® ICU 74 updates to Unicode 15.1, and to CLDR 44 locale data with various additions and corrections.
ICU 74 and CLDR 44 are major releases, including a new version of Unicode and major locale data improvements. They subsume the changes for the ICU 73.2 and CLDR 43.1 maintenance releases.
Unicode 15.1 adds source code security mechanisms, improves line breaking for southeast Asian scripts, and adds important CJK unified ideographs.
CLDR 44 has added or improved data for a number of languages that have been newly added to ICU, and has improved measurement unit handling, conversion, and formatting.
ICU 74 implements these improvements, adds new C APIs for locale handling, adds a plug-in API for word segmentation, and switches the Java build system to Maven.
For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/74.
ICU 74 RC
We are pleased to announce the release candidate for Unicode® ICU 74. It updates to Unicode 15.1, and to CLDR 44 locale data with various additions and corrections.
ICU 74 and CLDR 44 are major releases, including a new version of Unicode and major locale data improvements. They subsume the changes for the ICU 73.2 and CLDR 43.1 maintenance releases.
For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/74.
Please test this release candidate on your platforms and report bugs and regressions by Wednesday, 2023-oct-26, via the icu-support mailing list, and/or please find/submit error reports.
Please do not use this release candidate in production.
The preliminary API reference documents are published on unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/ – follow the “Dev” links there.
Note: The prebuilt WinARM64 binaries below should be considered alpha/experimental.
(ICU locale data was generated from the CLDR tag: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/releases/tag/release-44-beta2)
cldr/2023-09-27
Tagged through the following for use by CLDR:
- 7a03734 ICU-22324 Mavenization, building the CLDR utilities
- c670bbd ICU-22420 GB18030 change 3 mappings for GBK/web compat
- 87fe057 ICU-22324 Mavenization, add -SNAPSHOT back to the maven version
... - 99026f0 ICU-22325 BRS74RC: Update version number to 74.1 #2613
... - c468984 ICU-22463 Fix the conversion from gasoline-equivalent units to kilograms-per-meter-squared-per-second #2616
- 8c4af50 ICU-22324 Mavenization, minimize the places that need a version
... - 501fe1b ICU-22324 Mavenization, preparing for maven central deployment
... - f14b24a ICU-22324 Allow single Maven cache creation and multiple read-only usage
... - 2ca7c49 ICU-22464 Fix Java DateFormatSymbols to copy abbreviated day period names to the other sizes when appropriate.