<a href="http://site.icu-project.org/download/57">ICU download page</a>.</p>
<h3>New for 59 RC</h3>
- <p>Windows build changes: Building the UWP projects in Visual Studio requires Visual Studio
- 2015 Update 3 with a version of the Windows 10 SDK installed. You may need to re-target the
- UWP projects to the version of the SDK that you have installed. (In Visual Studio you can
- right-click on the projects and select the option 'Retarget SDK Version').</p>
- <p>Note: You do not need to have a copy of the Windows 10 SDK installed in order to build
- the non-UWP projects in Visual Studio. If the SDK is not installed then the UWP projects
- will simply not be loaded.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Windows XP and Windows Vista are no longer supported. (The minimum supported version is Windows 7).</li>
+ <li>Building the Visual Studio UWP projects requires Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 with a version of the Windows 10 SDK installed.</li>
+ </ul>
<h3>New for 59 Milestone 1</h3>
<ul>
type compatible with other Windows code expecting wchar_t strings.</li>
</ul>
- <h3>Upcoming changes</h3>
- <p>Please note the following changes planned for an upcoming ICU4C release (likely ICU 59):</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Support for Windows XP will be removed.</li>
- </ul>
-
<h2><a name="RecentPreviousChanges" href="#RecentPreviousChanges" id="RecentPreviousChanges">Changes in recent
previous releases</a></h2>