diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e6d12f1822da4..8f02045a213d6 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ New language features
   The available metrics are:
   - actual running time for the task (`Base.Experimental.task_running_time_ns`), and
   - wall-time for the task (`Base.Experimental.task_wall_time_ns`).
+- Support for Unicode 16 ([#56925]).
 
 Language changes
 ----------------
diff --git a/deps/checksums/utf8proc b/deps/checksums/utf8proc
index 543c1805afbd8..2055d3323b7e1 100644
--- a/deps/checksums/utf8proc
+++ b/deps/checksums/utf8proc
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-utf8proc-34db3f7954e9298e89f42641ac78e0450f80a70d.tar.gz/md5/e70e4fd2c914b4d4c0e3f0e2ca6c96d4
-utf8proc-34db3f7954e9298e89f42641ac78e0450f80a70d.tar.gz/sha512/0037f144e1150abd1b330d8a0c3a46c8352903acc9f4c8aad6bddd1370b19cc34551f8def58752cdff4eaace3efe54180bc11439a0e35c5ccad2fec4678c017e
+utf8proc-a1b99daa2a3393884220264c927a48ba1251a9c6.tar.gz/md5/2c404870fdc19982ec5313ee78e478d7
+utf8proc-a1b99daa2a3393884220264c927a48ba1251a9c6.tar.gz/sha512/a6652f5840439fe051d973d9467ca9805dcea8d0ac75a2d35e3f8041c513d6ccd5d205a3873f28d7cb5e33ce6471165850164997f188ca359111963b3aac9a16
diff --git a/deps/utf8proc.version b/deps/utf8proc.version
index a026ca858cfd3..c880d6561ce09 100644
--- a/deps/utf8proc.version
+++ b/deps/utf8proc.version
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-UTF8PROC_BRANCH=v2.9.0
-UTF8PROC_SHA1=34db3f7954e9298e89f42641ac78e0450f80a70d
+UTF8PROC_BRANCH=v2.10.0
+UTF8PROC_SHA1=a1b99daa2a3393884220264c927a48ba1251a9c6