Index: general/genlib/icu.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genlib/icu.xml	(revision 9d6b3e697cbf05dce56c06904f9eef7cc2edf505)
+++ general/genlib/icu.xml	(revision b01309e79e57ea66ec86b7689af029706127d2bb)
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
            "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)">
 ]>
 
Index: general/genlib/nodejs.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genlib/nodejs.xml	(revision 9d6b3e697cbf05dce56c06904f9eef7cc2edf505)
+++ general/genlib/nodejs.xml	(revision b01309e79e57ea66ec86b7689af029706127d2bb)
@@ -72,4 +72,14 @@
     </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>
@@ -111,4 +121,11 @@
   <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>
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 9d6b3e697cbf05dce56c06904f9eef7cc2edf505)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision b01309e79e57ea66ec86b7689af029706127d2bb)
@@ -41,11 +41,23 @@
     </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>
@@ -54,8 +66,8 @@
      <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
Index: packages.ent
===================================================================
--- packages.ent	(revision 9d6b3e697cbf05dce56c06904f9eef7cc2edf505)
+++ packages.ent	(revision b01309e79e57ea66ec86b7689af029706127d2bb)
@@ -108,6 +108,6 @@
 <!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;-->
Index: x/lib/webkitgtk.xml
===================================================================
--- x/lib/webkitgtk.xml	(revision 9d6b3e697cbf05dce56c06904f9eef7cc2edf505)
+++ x/lib/webkitgtk.xml	(revision b01309e79e57ea66ec86b7689af029706127d2bb)
@@ -68,4 +68,14 @@
         <para>
           Estimated build time: &webkitgtk-time;
+        </para>
+      </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>
@@ -136,4 +146,11 @@
 <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>
