diff --git a/general/genlib/icu.xml b/general/genlib/icu.xml
index c1845b1b19..15abfc70c2 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        "c21cbdfe31a1e325afe765a16f907d20">
+  <!ENTITY icu-md5sum        "9403db682507369d0f60a25ea67014c4">
   <!ENTITY icu-size          "24 MB">
-  <!ENTITY icu-buildsize     "312 MB (add 37 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY icu-time          "0.7 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 2.2 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY icu-buildsize     "354 MB (add 36 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY icu-time          "0.9 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 2.0 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="icu" xreflabel="ICU-&icu-version;">
diff --git a/general/genlib/nodejs.xml b/general/genlib/nodejs.xml
index bda1e759da..8001bdac35 100644
--- a/general/genlib/nodejs.xml
+++ b/general/genlib/nodejs.xml
@@ -71,6 +71,16 @@
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
+    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Required patch:
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/node-v&nodejs-version;-icu_69-1.patch"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
 <!--<note>
       <para>
         This tarball was created using a BSD version of
@@ -111,6 +121,13 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Node.js</title>
 
+    <!-- needed for ICU-69.1 -->
+    <para>
+      First, fix the build with system ICU:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../node-v&nodejs-version;-icu_69-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>
       Build <application>Node.js</application> by running the following
       commands:
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index c7a77299e1..821115716b 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -40,23 +40,35 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
     -->
-    <listitem>
+   <listitem>
      <para>May 6th, 2021</para>
      <itemizedlist>
-         <listitem>
-           <para>[timtas] - Upgrade to xfce4-panel-4.16.3. Fixes
-           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;15002">#15002</ulink>.</para>
-         </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[renodr] - Update to ICU-69.1. Fixes
+         <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14884">#14884</ulink>.</para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[renodr] - Fix building WebKitGTK+ with ICU-69.1. Patch by Xi
+         Ruoyao.</para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[renodr] - Fix building Node.JS with ICU-69.1. Patch by Ken
+         Moffat.</para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[timtas] - Upgrade to xfce4-panel-4.16.3. Fixes
+         <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;15002">#15002</ulink>.</para>
+       </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>
 
    <listitem>
      <para>May 5th, 2021</para>
      <itemizedlist>
-         <listitem>
-           <para>[timtas] - Upgrade to thunderbird-78.10.1. Fixes
-           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14998">#14998</ulink>.</para>
-         </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[timtas] - Upgrade to thunderbird-78.10.1. Fixes
+         <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14998">#14998</ulink>.</para>
+       </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[thomas] - Upgrade libxkbcommon-1.3.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14980">#14980</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 7f8a7cc5b6..ac6a1e6cc3 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@
 <!ENTITY gsl-version                  "2.6">
 <!ENTITY gspell-version               "1.8.4">
 
-<!ENTITY icu-major                    "68">
-<!ENTITY icu-minor                    "2">
+<!ENTITY icu-major                    "69">
+<!ENTITY icu-minor                    "1">
 <!ENTITY icu-patch                    "0">
 <!ENTITY icu-version                  "&icu-major;.&icu-minor;"><!-- .&icu-patch;-->
 <!ENTITY icu-dl-version               "&icu-major;_&icu-minor;"><!-- _&icu-patch;-->
diff --git a/x/lib/webkitgtk.xml b/x/lib/webkitgtk.xml
index 98fa2f9c95..e11827652f 100644
--- a/x/lib/webkitgtk.xml
+++ b/x/lib/webkitgtk.xml
@@ -71,6 +71,16 @@
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
+    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Required patch:
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/webkitgtk-&webkitgtk-version;-icu_69-1.patch"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">WebKitGTK Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
@@ -136,6 +146,13 @@
 <screen><userinput>echo 'add_compile_definitions("U_DEFINE_FALSE_AND_TRUE=1")' &gt;&gt; Source/WTF/wtf/CMakeLists.txt</userinput></screen>
 -->
 
+    <!-- Needed for ICU-69.1 -->
+    <para>
+      First, fix building with ICU-69.1:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../webkitgtk-&webkitgtk-version;-icu_69-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>
       Install <application>WebKitGTK</application> by running the
       following commands: