[icu-design] Announcing ICU 4.2 milestone 4

[<yos...@us...>]

Dear friends and users of ICU,

I am pleased to announce Milestone 4 in the development of the ICU 4.2.

Milestone 4 is the API freeze build and all API changes for ICU 4.2 are 
merged into this build.  The API reference documents for both ICU4C and 
ICU4J are published at the following locations:

ICU4C http://icu-project.org/apiref/42M4/icu4c/
ICU4J http://icu-project.org/apiref/42M4/icu4j/

This is snapshot of our ongoing development stream for ICU4C and ICU4J 
that has been tested on a number of major platforms (our reference 
platforms), and compiles and tests cleanly.

The Milestone is intended for those wishing to get an early look at ICU 
4.2 new features and API changes.  It has not received the same level of 
testing and checking as an official ICU release.  IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED 
FOR PRODUCTION USE.

The code is available in source form from our Subversion repository.

To extract ICU4C, use the following command:

  svn export 
http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/tags/milestone-4-1-4


To extract ICU4J,

  svn export 
http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu4j/tags/milestone-4-1-4

For more information about accessing the ICU SVN source repository, please 
refer to the following page - http://site.icu-project.org/repository

No special setup or access permissions are required to access the source 
repository in this way, beyond having command line svn installed.  The 
commands will work in both Windows and Unix like environments.


Yoshito Umaoka (ICU Project)