[icu-announce] ICU 71 Release Candidate available

[Markus Scherer]

Dear friends and users of ICU,

We are pleased to announce the release candidate for Unicode® ICU 71. It updates to CLDR 41 locale data with various additions and corrections, and adds phrase-based line breaking for Japanese. ICU 71 also includes a number of other bug fixes and enhancements, and we are working to re-establish continuous performance testing.

ICU 71 updates to the time zone data version 2022a. Note that pre-1970 data for a number of time zones has been removed, as has been the case in the upstream tzdata release since 2021b.

For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/71.

Please test this release candidate on your platforms and report bugs and regressions by Tuesday, 2022-apr-05, 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.

Best regards,

Markus Scherer for the ICU Project