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<p class="only-draft"><b>Note:</b> This is a draft readme.</p>
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<p class="note only-rc">This is a release candidate version of ICU4C.
It is not recommended for production use.</p>
- <p>Last updated: 2016-Mar-05<br />
+ <p>Last updated: 2016-Mar-21<br />
Copyright © 1997-2016 International Business Machines Corporation and
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- "./LICENSE">Copyright and License Information</a>.</p>
+ "http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/LICENSE">Copyright and License Information</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="News" href="#News" id="News">What is new in this
release?</a></h2>
<p>See the <a href="APIChangeReport.html">API Change Report</a> for a complete
list of APIs added, removed, or changed in this release.</p>
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+ <h3>ICU 57: Changes related to new CLDR data and specifications</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Time formats may include the new day period characters b, B, and
+ these may produced in response to the new skeleton character C used
+ with DateTimePatternGenerator.</li>
+ <li>In day period rules, the use of "after" has been deprecated.</li>
+ <li>The measurement unit "proportion-karat" has been renamed to
+ "concentr-karat".</li>
+ </ul>
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<h3>ICU 56: COLON withdrawn as date/time pattern character</h3>
<p>In ICU 55, COLON was introduced as a date/time pattern character
<p>The previous list concentrates on <em>changes that affect existing
applications migrating from previous ICU releases</em>.
For more news about this release, as well as late-breaking news, see the
- <a href="http://site.icu-project.org/download/54">ICU download page</a>.</p>
+ <a href="http://site.icu-project.org/download/57">ICU download page</a>.</p>
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