diff --git a/general/genlib/icu.xml b/general/genlib/icu.xml
index 42c46fd3f0..6890c2b978 100644
--- a/general/genlib/icu.xml
+++ b/general/genlib/icu.xml
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
   <!ENTITY icu-download-http
            "https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-&icu-major;-&icu-minor;/icu4c-&icu-major;_&icu-minor;-src.tgz">
   <!ENTITY icu-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY icu-md5sum        "65287befec8116d79af23a58aa50c60d">
-  <!ENTITY icu-size          "24 MB">
-  <!ENTITY icu-buildsize     "367 MB (add 37 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY icu-time          "0.7 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 0.8 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY icu-md5sum        "e06ffc96f59762bd3c929b217445aaec">
+  <!ENTITY icu-size          "25 MB">
+  <!ENTITY icu-buildsize     "329 MB (add 37 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY icu-time          "0.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 1.6 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="icu" xreflabel="ICU-&icu-version;">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 5647c317d4..eb948176c4 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>April 12th, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to icu4c-71_1-src. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16389">#16389</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to openssh-9.0p1. Includes ssh-askpass. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16387">#16387</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 9291b01032..f4f73e5070 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
 <!ENTITY gsl-version                  "2.7.1">
 <!ENTITY gspell-version               "1.8.4">
 
-<!ENTITY icu-major                    "70">
+<!ENTITY icu-major                    "71">
 <!ENTITY icu-minor                    "1">
 <!ENTITY icu-patch                    "0">
 <!ENTITY icu-version                  "&icu-major;.&icu-minor;"><!-- .&icu-patch;-->