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Swift is a general-purpose programming language that's fast, modern, safe, and a joy to write. Designed for all, developed in the open.

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Swift Language @swift.org · 17/09/2026
Updates to swift-crypto that offer an expanded cross-platform feature set for apps relying on cryptography: github.com/apple/swift-...
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Release 5.0.0 · apple/swift-crypto
Swift Crypto 5.0 Release Notes Swift Crypto 5.0 aligns the cross-platform API surface with CryptoKit as shipped in Xcode 27 (CryptoKit-383.2.1), and takes the opportunity to streamline the package ...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 15/09/2026
Swift 6.4 is out! 🎉 This release brings deeper interoperability, stronger platform support, and easier everyday code. www.swift.org/blog/swift-6... Highlights in this thread 🧵
The Swift logo with the text Swift 6.4
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Swift Language @swift.org · 11/09/2026
How does the debugger know exactly which Swift module your code came from? The upcoming Swift 6.4 release makes it more precise than ever, tracking the module path in debug info instead of looking it up by name, for faster and more reliable debugging. www.swift.org/blog/module-...
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Module Tracking in Swift Debug Info
When your Swift program hits a breakpoint and stops so you can inspect it, the debugger’s expression evaluator has to find the exact Swift module your code was built from. Until now, that lookup wasn’...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 04/09/2026
Lots of cross-platform Swift news this month. ElementaryUI brings Swift to the web, SwiftTUI brings state and animations to the terminal, and Swift on Windows keeps getting better. Read more in our latest digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
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What's new in Swift: August 2026 Edition
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 25/08/2026
At last: a unified home for Swift documentation, pulling together the language reference, core libraries and tooling, and platform specifics into a single central home, no matter what you're building! Check it out and give us feedback: docs.swift.org
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Swift Language @swift.org · 21/08/2026
Circleback didn't port an app to Swift, instead using it as a portable systems layer that provides the connective tissue between an Electron UI and some underlying platform dependencies (ScreenCaptureKit on macOS, libobs on Windows). Interesting approach: circleback.ai/blog/how-we-...
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How we rebuilt our Electron recording engine in Swift - Circleback
How we moved our Electron app's recording engine from the render process to native Swift, bridging ScreenCaptureKit and libobs to React with a Combine-to-Jotai tool.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 20/08/2026
Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift built for tiny, constrained hardware, with far smaller binaries while keeping the language you already know. Swift 6.4 brings it closer to full Swift than ever, supporting "any" types, untyped throws, and metatypes. www.swift.org/blog/embedde...
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Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.4
Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded S...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 14/08/2026
What's the difference between a package index and a package registry? One helps you discover packages, the other hosts and serves them. 📦 A new post explains how they fit together. Read more: swiftpackageindex.com/blog/what-is...
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What is a package registry? on the Swift Package Index Blog – Swift Package Index
SwiftPM tooling has three main components – SwiftPM resolves dependencies for the compiler, a package index helps you discover packages, and a package registry hosts and serves verified, immutable so…
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Swift Language @swift.org · 08/08/2026
A busy summer for Swift continues. ☀️ In July: • Task Stealers land in Swift Concurrency’s runtime. • SwiftPM gets a package registry reference implementation. • A talk about explicit ownership at PLDI 2026. Read more: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
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What's new in Swift: July 2026 Edition
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 02/07/2026
June was a big month for Swift: previews of Swift 6.4, Swift Package Index joining Apple, and a community project that brought Swift to a 1977 Apple II. Read more in our latest digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
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What's new in Swift: June 2026 Edition
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 30/06/2026
Swift 6.3.3 is out now! 🔩 This maintenance release improves stability in the Swift REPL, concurrency, and key paths. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
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Announcing Swift 6.3.3
We are happy to announce the release of Swift 6.3.3. Install Swift Toolchain Install via Swiftly swiftly install 6.3.3 or swiftly install latest Download toolchain directly from Install Swift | Sw...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 23/06/2026
Swift Package Index has become an essential part of the Swift ecosystem, and joining Apple strengthens it as it continues its mission. Learn more: swift.org/blog/swift-p...
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Swift Package Index Update
Since its launch, Swift Package Index has become an essential part of the Swift ecosystem, helping developers discover quality packages, evaluate compatibility, and make informed decisions about depen...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 12/06/2026
Memory-safe. 13% faster on average. ⚡️ The TrueType hinting interpreter in macOS and iOS has been rewritten in Swift, replacing the original C implementation. Pixel-perfect accuracy was validated across 27 million glyphs. And the results: www.swift.org/blog/migrati...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 04/06/2026
A unified networking stack for Swift, layered from low-level I/O primitives, through common protocols, to a modern HTTP client and server API. ⚙️ That's what the new Networking workgroup is building. Interested in contributing? Join us: www.swift.org/blog/announc...
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Announcing the Networking Workgroup
The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup! Workgroups are community-led efforts, formally recognized by the project, to advance key areas of Sw...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 04/06/2026
Training an LLM with Swift, with optimization techniques to match or exceed C performance. 🏎️ Plus Wasm updates, recently active Swift Evolution proposals, and a talk about the Temporal Swift SDK, in the latest edition of What’s New in Swift www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
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What's new in Swift: May 2026 Edition
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 03/06/2026
Need dynamic configuration for Swift services running on Kubernetes? Swift Configuration supports hot reloading, watching specific values, and more. Learn more on the CNCF blog: www.cncf.io/blog/2026/06...
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Dynamic configuration for cloud native Swift services
Modern Swift services increasingly run alongside the same cloud native infrastructure stacks that power much of today’s Kubernetes ecosystem — including ConfigMaps, containerized workloads…
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Swift Language @swift.org · 01/06/2026
When you draw a stroke in Goodnotes on the web, you get the exact same curves and ink flow as on iPad, because it’s literally the same Swift code running on both. ✍️ Goodnotes engineer Yuta Saito shares how they built it with Swift and WebAssembly: www.swift.org/blog/bringin...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 29/05/2026
Want to give back to the Swift community, or level up your open source skills? The 2026 Swift Mentorship Program is open! 🤝 Mentor others, or contribute to ANY Swift open source project as a mentee. Mentor surveys are due June 1! Learn more: www.swift.org/mentorship/
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Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 13/05/2026
Swift 6.3.2 is available! 🛠️ This maintenance release includes updates to Swift Package Manager and Swift Build, making it easier to load package resources on background threads. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
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Announcing Swift 6.3.2
We are happy to announce the release of Swift 6.3.2. Install Swift Toolchain Install via Swiftly swiftly install 6.3.2 or swiftly install latest Download toolchain directly from Install Swift | Sw...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 01/05/2026
Inside the latest ‘What’s new in Swift’ digest: two talks on Embedded Swift, a guest contribution highlighting a Swift client for Valkey, new packages, and more: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
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What's new in Swift: April 2026 Edition
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 30/04/2026
🆕Looking to add a fast, scalable, resilient, in-memory key-value store to your Swift project? Valkey just shipped a production-quality Swift client today: valkey.io/blog/valkey-... @valkeyio.bsky.social #server
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Valkey: Valkey-swift - Announcing 1.0 Release
We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of valkey-swift, a client library for Valkey written in Swift.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 17/04/2026
Announcing Swift 6.3.1, a maintenance release with reliability improvements. More details in the forum post here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
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Announcing Swift 6.3.1
We are happy to announce the release of Swift 6.3.1. Install Swift Toolchain Install via Swiftly swiftly install 6.3.1 or swiftly install latest Download toolchain directly from Install Swift | Sw...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 09/04/2026
☕️ New update to the Swift Java interop tooling, with plentiful improvements for use in both server and Android scenarios: github.com/swiftlang/sw... #java
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Swift Language @swift.org · 08/04/2026
🆕 The Swift extension is now live on the Open VSX Registry, enabling first-class Swift support in Cursor, VSCodium, AWS Kiro, and Google Antigravity. That means code completion, refactoring, debugging, testing, and DocC support, wherever you code.🧑‍💻https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/
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Swift Language @swift.org · 08/04/2026
Thanks to Swift community member Saleem for creating a new Swift XML parser! 🌿 Xylem is pure Swift, zero dependencies, covering SAX, DOM, and XPath 1.0. This is the kind of infrastructure work that helps Swift thrive everywhere! 🎉 forums.swift.org/t/xylem-a-pu...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 31/03/2026
Your digest of everything new in Swift has just landed! Read up on the latest release, community projects, evolution proposals, and videos from across the ecosystem: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
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What's new in Swift: March 2026 Edition
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 24/03/2026
Swift 6.3 has landed! 🚀 This release brings community-driven Android support into the official toolchain, along with major improvements to C interoperability, the build system, and embedded Swift. Read more: www.swift.org/blog/swift-6... #AndroidDev #iOSDev
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Swift Language @swift.org · 06/03/2026
🏗️What if your whole stack was built with Swift? @telemetrydeck.com made it a reality, building an internet-scale, privacy-first analytics backend from the ground up. Read their story: www.swift.org/blog/buildin...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 04/03/2026
Great language support means nothing without great tooling. Watch Jonas Devlieghere show how LLDB brings first-class debugging to Swift on WebAssembly. fosdem.org/2026/schedul... #Wasm #FOSDEM
VSCode disassembling generated WebAssembly code from a Swift breakpoint.
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Konrad ‘ktoso’ Malawski @kto.so · 03/03/2026
Adding to that, here's a small wrap-up post about the pre #fosdem Swift Community Event, including the long awaited group pic! :-) forums.swift.org/t/wrapping-u... Thank you everyone for joining us! #swiftlang
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Swift Language @swift.org · 03/03/2026
Swift/JS interop used to mean "JSObject", "JSValue", and runtime surprises. BridgeJS changes that: annotate your Swift, get typed glue code in both directions. Compile-time safe. Zero manual boilerplate. 🧵
The BridgeJS Playground at https://swiftwasm.org/JavaScriptKit/PlayBridgeJS/
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Swift Language @swift.org · 03/03/2026
Lots of great things happening with Swift: here’s the latest edition of our news digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
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What's new in Swift: February 2026 Edition
Welcome to this edition of “What’s New in Swift,” where we share interesting projects and updates in the Swift community that deserve visibility to a broader audience.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 27/02/2026
Swift 6.2.4: available with swiftly install latest ✅ Bugs: fixed 🔨 Builds: faster ⚡️ Closures: smoother 🧈 Details: here 🔗 forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 24/02/2026
🚀 New libraries for @GraphQL on Vapor and Hummingbird dropped! Expose GraphQL APIs with just one line of code: routeBuilder.graphql(schema: schema) { ... } ✅ Full spec compliance ✅ WebSocket subscriptions ✅ Built-in GraphiQL IDE Check them out 👇 forums.swift.org/t/introducin...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 20/02/2026
📐Announcing Swift System Metrics 1.0! 🎉 A stable API for process-level monitoring on Linux and macOS. Add it to your service in a few lines, plug into Prometheus or OTel, and start visualizing in Grafana. Contributions welcome! www.swift.org/blog/swift-s...
Swift System Metrics visualized in Grafana, demonstrating what's possible with real-time monitoring.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 31/01/2026
🗞️News from Swift: web apps, a new mail stack, 3D printing, embedded Swift updates, and some community events. Read all about it in the latest Swift blog post: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
“After 20 years of shipping web applications, I have never seen fewer crashes and bugs make it to production. Performance has also been excellent, especially after moving our templates to Elementary. Our heaviest pages make it to the browser in less than 100ms.” (Nick Sloan, Studioworks)
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Swift Language @swift.org · 27/01/2026
📽️ Lots of fun projects being showcased on the forums recently. Here are a few recent favorites... Check out forums.swift.org/c/community-... for more!
Swift Community Showcase featuring recent projects: Swift Argument Parser alternative, Swift for Yocto embedded Linux, LLM Context Management, GraphQL Generator build plugin, ElementaryUI web framework, Service dependency injection for Swift Concurrency, Algebraic Effects, Iris 2D game engine, monocle CLI for coding agents, Typhoon async retry framework, Alarik S3-compatible storage, and TaylorTorch LibTorch wrapper. Stats: 12+ projects this month, 500+ total community showcases.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 26/01/2026
The @swift.org team is demonstrating a level of consistency that makes me believe they really want to see the Swift programming language thrive outside of the Apple ecosystem.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 26/01/2026
Windows developers, you're invited! 🪟 We just launched a Windows workgroup to make Swift even better on Windows: improving the toolchain, core packages, API bridging, and deployment experiences. Curious? Interested in contributing? You're welcome here. 👉 swift.org/blog/announcing-windows-workgroup/
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Announcing the Windows Workgroup
We are excited to announce the creation of the Windows workgroup!
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Swift Language @swift.org · 22/01/2026
Your favorite C library, now with Swift superpowers. 🦸 New post: how to transform C APIs into idiomatic Swift, with enums, automatic reference counting, and argument-labeled methods. Best of all: no header changes needed, thanks to API notes! 🥳 www.swift.org/blog/improvi...
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Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct inte...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 15/01/2026
📚Check out this beautiful contribution by @peterfriese.dev: a typeset PDF of The Swift Programming Language book, our official reference to Swift, produced with Typst. Download and read the PDF here: github.com/peterfriese/... @typstapp.bsky.social
A preview image of the typeset book.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 13/01/2026
"Build a balance bike, not training wheels." Doug Gregor's Swift Craft talk describes Swift's progressive disclosure: start with the simple stuff, reach for the advanced stuff when you need it, and never have to throw out what you've learned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqK...
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On Progressive Disclosure in Swift - Doug Gregor - Swift Craft 2025
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Swift Language @swift.org · 09/01/2026
FOSDEM, the legendary open source gathering in Brussels, is coming soon, and we'd love to see you there! We've got multiple talks on Swift plus a pre-FOSDEM community meetup. Whether you're a longtime attendee or new to the event, come say hi! 👋 swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/ #FOSDEM
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Swift @ FOSDEM 2026
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Swift Language @swift.org · 03/01/2026
Always interesting to see new Swift projects pop up on Hacker News. Here's one that's trending right now: github.com/tomasf/Cadova
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GitHub - tomasf/Cadova: Swift DSL for parametric 3D modeling
Swift DSL for parametric 3D modeling. Contribute to tomasf/Cadova development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 20/12/2025
🗓️2025 was a great year for Swift 🍾 Thank you all for choosing Swift. We're ending the year with a digest of what's been going on in the project and community recently. 🗞️ Read up here: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
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What's new in Swift: December 2025 Edition
Welcome to the latest digest of news from the Swift project.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 18/12/2025
Exploring the Swift SDK for Android: updates on ongoing progress! www.swift.org/blog/explori...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 18/12/2025
New in Swift 6.2.3, available both separately and as part of Xcode 26.2: a way to express enums that can add new cases over time without breaking compatibility: github.com/swiftlang/sw...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 18/12/2025
Planning to attend FOSDEM next year? Here's a guide to some of the Swift talks and connection events that will take place: swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/
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Swift @ FOSDEM 2026
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Swift Language @swift.org · 11/12/2025
⚙️ Swift Configuration 1.0 is here! 🎉 No more juggling environment variables, config files, and command-line flags separately. One unified, type-safe API to read configuration from any source, and swap providers without refactoring your code. More here... www.swift.org/blog/swift-c...
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Swift Language @swift.org · 09/12/2025
Swift 6.2.2 is here. This maintenance release includes minor bug fixes to keep your development running smoothly. Install via swiftly (Mac/Linux), Docker, or directly from our website. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
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Announcing Swift 6.2.2!
We are happy to announce the release of Swift 6.2.2. Install Swift Toolchain Install via Swiftly swiftly install 6.2.2 or swiftly install latest Download toolchain directly from Install Swift | Sw...
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