Outdated release

[andreabalducci]

Found an issue with en-AU cultulreinfo on win10 (dotnet/runtime#73837) porting a library from net 4.x to 6.x.
Current release is outdated (current version is ICU 71) and windows update seems to ignore new ICU releases.

An updated release of this package can fix the odd behavior of the linked issue.

[Jetski5822]

I am also looking to use this - are you able to release an update to 71 or even 72 which is the current latest ICU version, to address the above issue and others in the ICU lib please?

[rp9-next]

@andreabalducci @Jetski5822, We have plans to update the current release of MS-ICU to v72. Going forward, we want to shorten the delay in the update cadence. Please bear with us for some time.

[Jetski5822]

sounds great @rp9-next

[andyinaus]

@rp9-next Do we have an ETA for the release?

[rp9-next]

@andyinaus We are working towards it. The nuget package should be available around May-June(or earlier) timeframe from where it would be consumed by .NET

[directhex]

@rp9-next is May-June still the goal?

[Jetski5822]

@rp9-next any update on this? the latest is 77.1 - see https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/tag/release-77-1

[0xced]

The current ICU version is now 78.1, released on October 30.

The last message from a maintainer about this was exactly 3 years ago (We are working towards it). That's not looking good unfortunately. 🙁