Congratulations on the new major release! -Ivan
On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM Felix Winkelmann via Chicken-users < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear CHICKEN users, > > We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CHICKEN 6.0.0 > at the following URL: > > https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/chicken-6.0.0.tar.gz > > This tarball has the following SHA256 checksum: > 92835552b1b687ad26737e429b5aba36510bf429f8816ec0f6d336c8cb41f443 > > This is major release, containing many improvements and enhancements, > including full support for the R7RS (small) language standard and > UNICODE strings. Support for Windows platforms has been improved > and many smaller changes were done for better standards compliance > and better compatibility to other Scheme implementations. Building > the system from source is now a bit more ergonomic due to the use > of a configure script (no new dependencies have been added - a C > compiler, GNU make and a POSIX shell is all that is required). > > Many thanks to everyone who helped test this release. > > For a full list of the changes since 5.4.0 (which are quite > considerable) see the NEWS file: > > https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS > > > Kind regards, > The CHICKEN Team > > >
