56.1 is out and contains many bug fixes and new syntax

[James]

That's all really. They're saying it's much better than 52.

[Steven R. Loomis (srl-icu-project)]

FYI 54.1 release candidate was just released http://sourceforge.net/p/icu/mailman/message/32842986/

[Steven R. Loomis (srl-icu-project)]

. .if you haven't started on 53 I would just jump to 54

[James (bluebaroncanada)]

I thought that was just an RC. Must be losing my mind.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Steven R. Loomis <email address hidden>
wrote:

> . .if you haven't started on 53 I would just jump to 54
>
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> Title:
> 53.1 is out and contains many bug fixes and new syntax
>
> Status in “icu” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> That's all really. They're saying it's much better than 52.
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[Steven R. Loomis (srl-icu-project)]

it is a release candidate. GA (final) Oct 1st.

On 09/19/2014 12:36 PM, James wrote:
> I thought that was just an RC. Must be losing my mind.
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Steven R. Loomis <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> . .if you haven't started on 53 I would just jump to 54
>>
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>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371588
>>
>> Title:
>> 53.1 is out and contains many bug fixes and new syntax
>>
>> Status in “icu” package in Ubuntu:
>> New
>>
>> Bug description:
>> That's all really. They're saying it's much better than 52.
>>
>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icu/+bug/1371588/+subscriptions
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[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Since Ubuntu sync most of the packages from Debian, I took a look there, and saw that icu version 1.53.1 has been packaged in Debian experimental. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/icu for more package information.

However, if you look under "testing migrations" on that page they are planning to transition to the new version. In practice this means that any package depending on icu in some way are rebuilt with the newer version to make sure they still work as expected with the newer version. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757025 for details.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Steven R. Loomis (srl-icu-project)]

57.1 was released last week

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

icu 57.1 is available in Ubuntu 16.10

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icu/57.1-4