diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# salmonIPM 1.6.0
+
+* Initial release.
diff --git a/src/Makevars.win b/src/Makevars.win
index dc3c4b3..39307b4 100644
--- a/src/Makevars.win
+++ b/src/Makevars.win
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 
 STANHEADERS_SRC = $(shell "$(R_HOME)/bin$(R_ARCH_BIN)/Rscript" -e "message()" -e "cat(system.file('include', 'src', package = 'StanHeaders', mustWork = TRUE))" -e "message()" | grep "StanHeaders")
 
-STANC_FLAGS = $(shell "$(R_HOME)/bin$(R_ARCH_BIN)/Rscript" -e "cat(ifelse(utils::packageVersion('rstan') >= 2.26, '-DUSE_STANC3',''))")
-PKG_CPPFLAGS = -I"../inst/include" -I"$(STANHEADERS_SRC)" -DBOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS -DEIGEN_NO_DEBUG -DRCPP_PARALLEL_USE_TBB=1 $(STANC_FLAGS)
+STANC_FLAGS = $(shell "$(R_HOME)/bin$(R_ARCH_BIN)/Rscript" -e "cat(ifelse(utils::packageVersion('rstan') >= '2.26', '-DUSE_STANC3',''))")
+PKG_CPPFLAGS = -I"../inst/include" -I"$(STANHEADERS_SRC)" -DBOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS -DEIGEN_NO_DEBUG -DRCPP_PARALLEL_USE_TBB=1 $(STANC_FLAGS) -D_HAS_AUTO_PTR_ETC=0
 PKG_CXXFLAGS = $(shell "$(R_HOME)/bin$(R_ARCH_BIN)/Rscript" -e "RcppParallel::CxxFlags()") $(shell "$(R_HOME)/bin$(R_ARCH_BIN)/Rscript" -e "StanHeaders:::CxxFlags()")
 PKG_LIBS = $(shell "$(R_HOME)/bin$(R_ARCH_BIN)/Rscript" -e "RcppParallel::RcppParallelLibs()") $(shell "$(R_HOME)/bin$(R_ARCH_BIN)/Rscript" -e "StanHeaders:::LdFlags()")
 
-CXX_STD = CXX14
+CXX_STD = CXX17
+PKG_CXXFLAGS += -Wa,-mbig-obj
diff --git a/src/salmonIPM.dll b/src/salmonIPM.dll
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