diff --git a/core/icu/PKGBUILD b/core/icu/PKGBUILD
index 3057e4a74..a26255917 100644
--- a/core/icu/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/icu/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #  - remove check for clang in configure - picks up distcc
 
 pkgname=icu
-pkgver=68.2
+pkgver=69.1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="International Components for Unicode library"
 arch=(x86_64)
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ makedepends=('python')
 provides=(libicu{data,i18n,io,test,tu,uc}.so)
 source=(https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-${pkgver//./-}/${pkgname}4c-${pkgver//./_}-src.tgz{,.asc}
         icudata-stdlibs.patch)
-# https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-68-1/SHASUM512.txt
-sha512sums=('24f3b7981667b37df58118f56ae76a09b719358c1efa8d6f044d28ef8df1c722a894957acadfb3c37aee39ac845893924fc3370d6bbe09875aec8d937059f84b'
+# https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-69-1/SHASUM512.txt
+sha512sums=('d4aeb781715144ea6e3c6b98df5bbe0490bfa3175221a1d667f3e6851b7bd4a638fa4a37d4a921ccb31f02b5d15a6dded9464d98051964a86f7b1cde0ff0aab7'
             'SKIP'
             '8f13898c2b2d69ef516ee0831a73e5865676795716e7becac4457e208642bfdffb42f2a9280e99dcc10303ad721f5dc2e10ef83c633bd723044e98cc72c6bc7b')
 validpgpkeys=('BA90283A60D67BA0DD910A893932080F4FB419E3') #  "Steven R. Loomis (filfla-signing) <srloomis@us.ibm.com>"