Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision 3a12cb87352d79e2b257f20d27f9a53952422157)
+++ general.ent	(revision a8e7b72584cbea73271e9722d2a1c8923ed23d29)
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
 -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "29">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "30">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "12">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2011">
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "December 29th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "December 30th, &year;">
 <!-- <!ENTITY releasedate  "November &day;st, &year;"> -->
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
@@ -178,5 +178,5 @@
 <!ENTITY libusb-version               "1.0.8">
 <!ENTITY libusb-compat-version        "0.1.3">
-<!ENTITY icu-version                  "4.2.1">
+<!ENTITY icu-version                  "4.8.1.1">
 <!ENTITY iso-codes-version            "3.30">
 <!ENTITY gmime-version                "2.4.21">
Index: general/genlib/icu.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genlib/icu.xml	(revision 3a12cb87352d79e2b257f20d27f9a53952422157)
+++ general/genlib/icu.xml	(revision a8e7b72584cbea73271e9722d2a1c8923ed23d29)
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
   %general-entities;
 
-  <!ENTITY icu-download-http "http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/&icu-version;/icu4c-4_2_1-src.tgz">
+  <!ENTITY icu-download-http "http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/&icu-version;/icu4c-4_8_1_1-src.tgz">
   <!ENTITY icu-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY icu-md5sum        "e3738abd0d3ce1870dc1fd1f22bba5b1">
-  <!ENTITY icu-size          "12.6 MB">
-  <!ENTITY icu-buildsize     "227 MB">
-  <!ENTITY icu-time          "3.6 SBU">
+  <!ENTITY icu-md5sum        "ea93970a0275be6b42f56953cd332c17">
+  <!ENTITY icu-size          "18 MB">
+  <!ENTITY icu-buildsize     "245 MB (+ 20MB if running the testsuite)">
+  <!ENTITY icu-time          "2.2 SBU (+ 2.6 SBU if running the testsuite)">
 ]>
 
@@ -35,5 +35,5 @@
     gives applications the same results on all platforms.</para>
 
-    &lfs67_checked;
+    &lfs70_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
@@ -61,4 +61,7 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">ICU Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
+    <!-- Commenting this because the layout sample (only thing using these) isn't
+    built by default, the instructions in the readme.html are not correct (make
+    all doesn't build it), and running it requires non-standard fonts
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (To build the sample code)</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional"><xref linkend="cairo"/>,
@@ -66,5 +69,5 @@
     <xref linkend="libgnomeui"/></para>
     <para>See readme.txt under the source/samples directory for further
-    details.</para>
+    details.</para> -->
 
     <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
@@ -80,9 +83,11 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>cd source &amp;&amp;
-chmod +x runConfigureICU configure install-sh &amp;&amp;
+<!-- chmod +x runConfigureICU configure install-sh &amp;&amp; -->
 ./runConfigureICU Linux --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
+    <para>On at least x86_64, the testsuite ends with a segmentation fault, and
+    therefore reports an error in cintltest and ends in error. If you nevertheless
+    wish to test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
 
     <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
@@ -102,6 +107,5 @@
       <seglistitem>
         <seg>derb, genbrk, gencfu, gencnval, genctd, genrb, icu-config,
-        makeconv, pkgdata, uconv, genccode, gencmn, gensprep, genuca, and
-        icupkg</seg>
+        makeconv, pkgdata, and uconv</seg>
         <seg>libicudata.so, libicui18n.so, libicuio.so, libicule.so,
         libiculx.so, libicutu.so, and libicuuc.so</seg>
@@ -217,5 +221,5 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
-      <varlistentry id="genccode">
+      <!--<varlistentry id="genccode">
         <term><command>genccode</command></term>
         <listitem>
@@ -267,5 +271,5 @@
           </indexterm>
         </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
+      </varlistentry>-->
 
       <varlistentry id="libicudata">
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 3a12cb87352d79e2b257f20d27f9a53952422157)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision a8e7b72584cbea73271e9722d2a1c8923ed23d29)
@@ -43,4 +43,13 @@
 -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>December 30th, 2011</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to icu4c_4_8_1_1.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>December 29th, 2011</para>
       <itemizedlist>
