[icu-announce] Announcement: ICU 56 Milestone 1 is now available

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

Dear friends and users of ICU,

We are pleased to announce the release of milestone 1 of ICU 56 (ICU 
56.0.1). This milestone is intended for those wishing to get an early look 
at ICU 56 new features and API changes. The final release of ICU 56 is 
currently planned for October, 2015. 

This milestone build is NOT recommended for production use. Please use the 
icu-support mailing list for error reports. 

This milestone integrates character data from Unicode 8.0 data. It also 
imports some new data types from the current CLDR 28 development snapshot. 
Further information about this milestone, and downloadable distributions, 
can be found here:

http://site.icu-project.org/download/56m1

The API references are published at the following locations:

ICU4C: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c56m1/
ICU4J: http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j56m1/

Best regards, 
Yoshito Umaoka for the ICU project