Release: v1.6.0 [skip ci]

TinySemVer · TinySemVer · commit 00073a516547 · 2025-11-23T23:22:15.000Z
### Minor - Add: UTF-8 Processing benchmarks (d519c74) ### Patch - Make: Use `icu` for Unicode parsing (789a69d) - Docs: UTF-8 language-specific datasets (0a93238)
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "stringwars"
-version = "1.5.0"
+version = "1.6.0"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["Ash Vardanian <1983160+ashvardanian@users.noreply.github.com>"]
 description = "Comparing performance-oriented string-processing libraries for substring search, multi-pattern matching, hashing, edit-distances, sketching, and sorting across CPUs and GPUs in Rust 🦀"
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5.0
+1.6.0
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "stringwars"
-version = "1.5.0"
+version = "1.6.0"
 description = "Comparing performance-oriented string-processing libraries for substring search, multi-pattern matching, hashing, edit-distances, sketching, and sorting across CPUs and GPUs in Python 🐍"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
