News 2025-10-30: ICU 78 is now available — releases/tag/release-78.1 — Maven: com.ibm.icu / icu4j / version 78.1 ICU 78 updates to Unicode 17 (blog), including new characters and scripts, emoji, collation & IDNA changes, and corresponding APIs and implementations. It also updates to CLDR 48 (blog)