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     <h2><a name="News" href="#News" id="News">What Is New In This Release?</a></h2>
 
-    <p>This release updates to Unicode 13 beta, CLDR 36.1, and includes some bug fixes.
-    This is a low-impact release with no other significant feature additions or implementation changes.</p>
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     <p>See the <a href="http://site.icu-project.org/download/67">ICU 67 download page</a>
     for more information on this release, including any other changes, bug fixes, known issues,
     changes to supported platforms and build environments,