# Crystal 1.6.0 has been released!

**URL:** <https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/crystal-1-6-0-has-been-released/5003>\
**Category:** Official\
**Tags:** release\
**Created:** [October 7, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/crystal-1-6-0-has-been-released/5003 "2022-10-07T19:09:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![beta-ziliani](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/beta-ziliani/32/1821_2.png) [@beta-ziliani](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/beta-ziliani)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/crystal-1-6-0-has-been-released/5003/1 "2022-10-07T19:09:50Z")

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We’ve written a blog post summarizing the changes in this patch release: [Crystal 1.6.0 released! - The Crystal Programming Language](https://crystal-lang.org/2022/10/06/1.6.0-released.html). While we have tested it against several known and sizeable projects, that doesn’t preclude the existence of regressions. If you find an issue, please check the issue tracker and file a bug: it will be fixed in the following patch version.

The full changelog is here: [Release 1.6.0 · crystal-lang/crystal · GitHub](https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/tag/1.6.0).

It is already available on the supported platforms, check the [install page](https://crystal-lang.org/install) for details. That includes [docker images 🐋](https://hub.docker.com/r/crystallang/crystal/), [snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/crystal), `.deb` and `.rpm` packages, and the brew formula 🍺.

Happy Crystallizing!

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**Author:** ![noaheverett](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/noaheverett/32/1789_2.png) [@noaheverett](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/noaheverett)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/crystal-1-6-0-has-been-released/5003/2 "2022-10-08T14:48:12Z")

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Great work team and contributors! Really appreciate all your work, we love Crystal 👏👏👏

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**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/jzakiya/32/278_2.png) [@jzakiya](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/jzakiya)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/crystal-1-6-0-has-been-released/5003/3 "2022-10-08T16:28:45Z")

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Recompiling some of my numerical intensive, multi-core code benchmarks,  
I find 1) 1.6.0 is a few percentage faster than 1.5.1 and 2) the binaries are smaller.

I’ll be doing more extensive testing, but this small sample didn’t find any regressions either.