This is very exciting, thanks so much to everyone who contributed! Looking forward to get my hands dirty.
K. On Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 19:30 Anton Idukov via Chicken-users < [email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations! A long awaited release! > > > P.S in the Wiki there is a perfect page > https://wiki.call-cc.org/programming-for-performance#programming-for-performance > IMO there should be a couple words added about building faster C6 and > (generated native code) itself by the new ./configure way. "Optimization > flags, like -O2 -march=native or -ffast-math should be passed to the > ./configure script in the environment variable CFLAGS: $ > CFLAGS="-march-native -O2 ... -ffast-math ./configure --prefix=...." > Thank You! > > вт, 11 авг. 2026 г. в 11:43, Felix Winkelmann via Chicken-users < > [email protected]>: > >> 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 >> >> >>
