ICU 66 Preview

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ICU 66 (scheduled for 2020 March) will update to Unicode 13, and include some bug fixes. This will be a low-impact release with no other significant feature additions or implementation changes.

ICU 66 preview updates to Unicode 13 beta, including new characters, scripts, emoji, and corresponding API constants. It also updates to CLDR 36.1preview with Unicode 13 updates and bug fixes.

(The next feature release will be ICU 67, scheduled for 2020 April.)

Please test this preview release on your platforms and report bugs and regressions by using the icu-support mailing list and/or find/submit error reports.

Please do not use this preview release in production.

The preliminary API reference documents are published on https://unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/ – follow the “Dev” links there.

*Note: The prebuilt WinARM64 binaries should be considered alpha/experimental.

ICU 65.1

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We are pleased to announce the release of Unicode® ICU 65.

ICU 65 updates to CLDR 36 locale data with many additions and corrections, and some new measurement units. The Java LocaleMatcher API is improved, and ported to C++. For building ICU data, there are new filtering options, and new tracing support for data loading in ICU4C.

For details please see http://site.icu-project.org/download/65.

The API reference documents are published at the following locations:

• ICU4C: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c65rc/
• ICU4J: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j65rc/

*Note: The prebuilt WinARM64 binaries should be considered alpha/experimental.

ICU 65 RC

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We are pleased to announce the release candidate for ICU 65.

ICU 65 updates to CLDR 36 locale data with many additions and corrections, and some new measurement units. The Java LocaleMatcher API is improved, and ported to C++. For building ICU data, there are new filtering options, and new tracing support for data loading in ICU4C.

Please test this release candidate on your platforms and report bugs and regressions by Tuesday, 2019-sep-24. Please use the icu-support mailing list and/or find/submit error reports.

Please do not use this release candidate in production.

The preliminary API reference documents are published at the following locations:

• ICU4C: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c65rc/
• ICU4J: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j65rc/

*Note: The prebuilt WinARM64 binaries should be considered alpha/experimental.

ICU 64.2

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We are pleased to announce the release of Unicode® ICU 64.2. It updates to draft Unicode 12.1 data and to CLDR 35.1, adding support for the new Japanese era "Reiwa" (令和) and a special format for the first year of an era in the Japanese locale ("元年" instead of "1年").

This is on top of the recent ICU 64 release which updated to Unicode 12 and to CLDR 35 locale data with many additions and corrections, and some new languages. ICU adds a data filtering/subsetting mechanism, improved formatting API, and a C++ LocaleBuilder.

For details please see http://site.icu-project.org/download/64.

The API reference documents are published at the following locations:

• ICU4C: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/
• ICU4J: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j/

ICU 63.2

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This is a maintenance release of ICU 63.

This update provides display name support for the new Japanese era "Reiwa" (令和), updates to IANA tzdata2019a, but makes no API changes.

ICU 62.2

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This is a maintenance release of ICU. This update does not include any API changes.

• Data driven Japanese era support
• Display name for Japanese era Reiwa (令和)
• IANA tzdata2019a

ICU 61.2

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This is a maintenance release of ICU. This update does not include any API changes.

• New Japanese era Reiwa (令和) support
• IANA tzdata2019a

ICU 60.3

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This is a maintenance release of ICU. This update does not include any API changes.

• New Japanese era Reiwa (令和) support
• IANA tzdata2019a

For details please see http://site.icu-project.org/download/60

ICU 59.2

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This is a maintenance release of ICU. This update does not include any API changes.

• New Japanese era Reiwa (令和) support
• IANA tzdata2019a

ICU 58.3

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This is a maintenance release of ICU. This update does not include any API changes.

• New Japanese era Reiwa (令和) support
• IANA tzdata2019a