[icu-design] ICU 55 is now available

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

Dear friends and users of ICU, 

We are pleased to announce the release of ICU 55 (with initial public release version 55.1).

ICU 55 includes data from CLDR 27 (with a major cleanup of region locales, among many other improvements), formatting for scientific notation ("1.2 × 10³"), an update to Unicode 7.0 data for spoof-checking, narrow AM/PM markers ("7:45p"), and various performance enhancements. For C/C++, there are new methods for flexible dates ("Nov 10", or "Sept 2015"), named capture groups for regular expressions, formatting of compound units ("3.5 meters per second"), new C wrappers, and independent timezone resource loading. ICU4J has been improved and tested for using ICU4C data and for running on Android.

More information about this release, including detailed release notes and API change information, can be found here:
• http://site.icu-project.org/download/55

The API reference documents for both ICU4C and ICU4J are published at the following locations:
• ICU4C: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/
• ICU4J: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j/

Best regards,
Peter Edberg for the ICU Project