diff --git a/core/icu/PKGBUILD b/core/icu/PKGBUILD
index 421ca7644..9cf723bd0 100644
--- a/core/icu/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/icu/PKGBUILD
@@ -5,22 +5,23 @@
 #  - patch to fix icudata library linking on ARM
 
 pkgname=icu
-pkgver=64.2
-pkgrel=1
+pkgver=65.1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="International Components for Unicode library"
 arch=(x86_64)
-url="http://www.icu-project.org/"
+url="http://site.icu-project.org/home"
 license=('custom:icu')
 depends=('gcc-libs' 'sh')
 makedepends=('python')
 #makedepends=('clang')
 # no https available
-source=(#http://download.icu-project.org/files/${pkgname}4c/${pkgver}/${pkgname}4c-${pkgver/./_}-src.tgz
-        https://ssl.icu-project.org/files/${pkgname}4c/${pkgver}/${pkgname}4c-${pkgver//./_}-src.tgz{,.asc}
+source=(https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-${pkgver//./-}/${pkgname}4c-${pkgver//./_}-src.tgz{,.asc}
+        icu-65.1-initialized-buffer-uloc_getKeywordValue.patch::https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/commit/fab4c3c719.patch
+# https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-65-1/SHASUM512.txt
         icudata-stdlibs.patch)
-# https://ssl.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/62.1/SHASUM512.txt
-sha512sums=('5ecb4c230ba45918747a1cf9aef86f555aa07d5b29b1d07ab674e8013f46dfb907a0e9d6945db41155f9dc3012fd94e1152ffc19f61a68b6dfcbabdcb8ae9d78'
+sha512sums=('8f1ef33e1f4abc9a8ee870331c59f01b473d6da1251a19ce403f822f3e3871096f0791855d39c8f20c612fc49cda2c62c06864aa32ddab2dbd186d2b21ce9139'
             'SKIP'
+            '8898fe0fa9805304cd2fc02c00ab1131861836f4d11887f82450c2378666cb03bce0c5038d3f0bdcdd1c1cdee2a00a61ef85602ed0e0c74ad2e58578b1940123'
             '8f13898c2b2d69ef516ee0831a73e5865676795716e7becac4457e208642bfdffb42f2a9280e99dcc10303ad721f5dc2e10ef83c633bd723044e98cc72c6bc7b')
 validpgpkeys=('BA90283A60D67BA0DD910A893932080F4FB419E3') #  "Steven R. Loomis (filfla-signing) <srloomis@us.ibm.com>" 
 validpgpkeys+=('9731166CD8E23A83BEE7C6D3ACA5DBE1FD8FABF1') #  "Steven R. Loomis (ICU Project) <srl@icu-project.org>" 
@@ -28,7 +29,10 @@ validpgpkeys+=('FFA9129A180D765B7A5BEA1C9B432B27D1BA20D7') # "Fredrik Roubert <f
 validpgpkeys+=('E4098B78AFC94394F3F49AA903996C7C83F12F11') # "keybase.io/srl295 <srl295@keybase.io>"
 
 prepare() {
-  cd icu/source
+  cd icu
+  # https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-20884
+  patch -Np2 -i ../icu-65.1-initialized-buffer-uloc_getKeywordValue.patch
+  cd source
   patch -p2 -i ${srcdir}/icudata-stdlibs.patch
 }
 
@@ -48,8 +52,8 @@ check() {
 
 package() {
   cd icu/source
-  make -j1 DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
+  make -j1 DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
 
   # Install license
-  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/icu/LICENSE ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/icu/LICENSE
+  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}"/icu/LICENSE "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/licenses/icu/LICENSE
 }