[icu-announce] ICU 74.2 Released: Date/time formatting bug fixes

[Markus Scherer]

Dear friends and users of ICU,

We are pleased to announce the release of Unicode® ICU 74.2. It 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.

Best regards,

Markus Scherer for the ICU Project