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International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J)
-Read Me for ICU4J 4.4.2.1
+Read Me for ICU4J 4.4.2.2
Release Date
-July 1, 2011
-
+August 24, 2011
Note: This is an update release of ICU4J 4.4. This release contains
several bug fixes and updated data, but does not introduce any new APIs or
@@ -168,6 +167,31 @@ is available
here.
+Summary of updates in 4.4.2.2 (August 24, 2011)
+Java 7 Locale support
+Java 7 was shipped in July 2011 including some enhancements in java.util.Locale class.
+For supporting the enhancements in Locale class, ICU4J com.ibm.icu.util.ULocale was also
+updated in the latest code stream by following tickets.
+
+- #8078 ICU4J APIs taking Locale to use new JDK7 APIs to access script/extensions
+- #8630 Java 7 Locale Category support
+
+These changes in ULocale class were back-ported to this release. (Note: The new APIs for locale category
+are tagged as @stable ICU 49, indicating these APIs are back-ported from later code stream.)
+
+Bug fixes
+This release contains following bug fixes
+
+- #6108 DecimalFormat fraction digit problem with rounding + BigDecimal
+- #8410 In IndianCalendar, the add operation performs like roll
+- #8484 endless loop in RuleBasedCollator.getSortKeyBytes
+- #8549 UTF-7 error handling consumes too many valid subsequent chars
+- #8569 UTF-7 missing terminating shift character
+- #8596 GregorianCalendar.getActualMaximum(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR) returns 52 when it should return 53
+- #8624 ucol_getSortKey+strncmp and ucol_strcoll give different comparison result
+
+
+
Summary of updates in 4.4.2.1 (July 1, 2011)
ICU4J plug-in for Eclipse 3.7
ICU4J 4.4.2.1 source archive includes files for building ICU4J plug-in for Eclipse 3.7.
@@ -1116,8 +1140,8 @@ ICU4J data is built by ICU4C tools. Please see "icu4j-readme.txt" in $icu4c_r
the CLDR source files checked out.
Update $cldr_root/common to 'release-1-8-1' tag
Update $cldr_root/tools to 'release-1-8-1' tag
- Checkout ICU4C with tag 'release-4-4-1'
- Checkout ICU4J with tag 'release-4-4-1'
+ Checkout ICU4C with tag 'release-4-4-2'
+ Checkout ICU4J with tag 'release-4-4-2-2'
Build ICU4J
Build ICU4C
Change to $cldr_root/tools/java directory
@@ -1131,7 +1155,7 @@ ICU4J data is built by ICU4C tools. Please see "icu4j-readme.txt" in $icu4c_r
About ICU4J Time Zone
-ICU4J 4.4.2.1 includes time zone data version 2011h, which is the latest one as of
+
ICU4J 4.4.2.2 includes time zone data version 2011h, which is the latest one as of
the release date. However, time zone data is frequently updated in response
to changes made by local governments around the world. If you need to update
the time zone data, please refer the ICU user guide topic