Release 1.6.0

* [Improve runtime feature detection (and performance)](#21)
* [remove libc](#20)
* [Enable generating and publishing binary packages](#22)

Author: onethumb

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changes for crc-fast-rust
 
+## [1.6.0](https://github.com/awesomized/crc-fast-rust/releases/tag/1.6.0) - 2025-10-30
+* [Improve runtime feature detection (and performance)](https://github.com/awesomized/crc-fast-rust/pull/21)
+* [remove libc](https://github.com/awesomized/crc-fast-rust/pull/20)
+* [Enable generating and publishing binary packages](https://github.com/awesomized/crc-fast-rust/pull/22)
+
 ## [1.5.0](https://github.com/awesomized/crc-fast-rust/releases/tag/1.5.0) - 2025-09-01
 * [Improve state handling](https://github.com/awesomized/crc-fast-rust/pull/16)
 * [Add support for building a static library](https://github.com/awesomized/crc-fast-rust/pull/17)

Cargo.lock

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "crc-fast"
-version = "1.5.0"
+version = "1.6.0"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["Don MacAskill"]
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ repository = "https://github.com/awesomized/crc-fast-rust"
 description = "World's fastest generic CRC32 and CRC64 calculator using SIMD. Supplies a C-compatible shared library for use in other languages."
 readme = "README.md"
 
-# 1.69.0 added VPCLMULQDQ x86 detection support, 1.70.0 added LLVM 16 which supports PMULL2 on Aarch64
+# important intrinsics stabilization notes:
+# 1.69.0 added VPCLMULQDQ x86 detection support
+# 1.70.0 added LLVM 16 which supports PMULL2 on Aarch64
+# 1.89.0 stabilized AVX-512 intrinsics, including VPCLMULQDQ
 rust-version = "1.81"
 
 [lib]
@@ -23,6 +26,8 @@ crc = "3"
 digest = {  version = "0.10", features = ["alloc"] }
 rand = "0.9"
 regex = "1.12"
+
+# will be removed once Rust 1.89 is the minimum supported version
 rustversion = "1.0"
 
 # constrain indexmap (transitive) to a version compatible with Rust 1.81.0