Re: [ANN] CHICKEN 6.0.0 has been released

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
>>
>>
>>