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)