diff --git a/core/icu/PKGBUILD b/core/icu/PKGBUILD
index bcf2b8f56..1e5e02b8a 100644
--- a/core/icu/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/icu/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #  - patch to fix icudata library linking on ARM
 
 pkgname=icu
-pkgver=61.1
+pkgver=62.1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="International Components for Unicode library"
 arch=(x86_64)
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ depends=('gcc-libs' 'sh')
 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}
         icudata-stdlibs.patch)
-# upstream offers md5sum checks, only asc file for md5sum check
-md5sums=('68fe38999fef94d622bd6843d43c0615'
-         'SKIP'
-         '4e5202245fce364490334bd66b5edabc')
+# https://ssl.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/62.1/SHASUM512.txt
+sha512sums=('8295f2754fb6907e2cc8f515dccca05530963b544e89a2b8e323cd0ddfdbbe0c9eba8b367c1dbc04d7bb906b66b1003fd545ca05298939747c832c9d4431cf2a'
+            'SKIP'
+            '8f13898c2b2d69ef516ee0831a73e5865676795716e7becac4457e208642bfdffb42f2a9280e99dcc10303ad721f5dc2e10ef83c633bd723044e98cc72c6bc7b')
 validpgpkeys=('BA90283A60D67BA0DD910A893932080F4FB419E3') #  "Steven R. Loomis (filfla-signing) <srloomis@us.ibm.com>" 
 validpgpkeys+=('9731166CD8E23A83BEE7C6D3ACA5DBE1FD8FABF1') #  "Steven R. Loomis (ICU Project) <srl@icu-project.org>" 
 validpgpkeys+=('FFA9129A180D765B7A5BEA1C9B432B27D1BA20D7') # "Fredrik Roubert <fredrik@roubert.name>"