[icu-announce] Announcing ICU 49 release candidate

[Peter E. <pe...@ap...>]

Dear friends and users of ICU,

We are pleased to announce the release candidate for ICU 49. Please test this release candidate if possible.

The final release of ICU 49 is planned for March 21. ICU 49 is now in a code freeze state: There will be no further changes to the public APIs and their implementation unless showstopper bugs are reported. Please use the icu-support mailing list for error reports. As a reminder, this release candidate build is NOT recommended for production use.

More information about this release can be found on the following page: http://site.icu-project.org/download/49

The API reference documents for both ICU4C and ICU4J are published at the following locations:
 ICU4C: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c49rc/
 ICU4J: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j49rc/

Best regards,
Peter Edberg for the ICU Project