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• GSoC 2025 Showcase: Improved Console Output for Swift Testing (Swift)
  The Swift community participated in Google Summer of Code 2025, and we’ve recently been showcasing all of the projects and work accomplishe…
• Swift Evolution Status Page Now Available (Swift)
  We’re pleased to announce the release of the new Swift Evolution status page as a one-stop destination for information about proposed chang…
• Introducing Swift Cluster Membership (Swift)
  It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift Server ecosystem, Swift Cluster Membership.
• What's new in Swift: December 2025 Edition (Swift)
  Welcome to the latest digest of news from the Swift project.
• Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service (Swift)
  TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focu…
• SSWG 2023 Annual Update (Swift)
  Once a year, the Swift Server workgroup (SSWG) reflects on recent community accomplishments and lays out focus areas for the year ahead.
• ABI Stability and More (Swift)
  It has been a longstanding goal to stabilize Swift’s ABI on macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
• Celebrating Women’s History Month (Swift)
  This Women’s History Month, we’re so happy to celebrate the amazing women developers in our community.
• Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3 (Swift)
  Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like m…
• ICYMI: Memory Safety, Ecosystem Talks, and Java Interoperability at FOSDEM 2025 (Swift)
  The Swift community had a strong presence at FOSDEM 2025, the world’s largest independently run open source conference, held every year in…
• Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0 (Swift)
  In the latest release of Swift, dictionaries and sets gain a number of new methods and initializers that make common tasks easier than ever.
• Redesigned Swift.org is now live (Swift)
  Over the past few months, the website workgroup has been redesigning Swift.org. On behalf of the website workgroup, I’m pleased to announce…
• Swift 3.0 Release Process (Swift)
  Swift 3.0 Release Process This post describes the goals, release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 3.0.
• What's new in Swift: August 2026 Edition (Swift)
  Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.
• Exploring the Swift SDK for Android (Swift)
  Since the announcement of the preview Swift SDK for Android, the Android workgroup has seen a lot of interest in how it works and what’s ne…
• Swift 3 API Design Guidelines (Swift)
  The design of commonly-used libraries has a large impact on the overall feel of a programming language.
• The Growth of the Swift Server Ecosystem (Swift)
  Nearly ten years ago, Swift was open sourced and an official runtime for Linux was released.
• Evolving Swift On Apple Platforms After ABI Stability (Swift)
  With the release of Swift 5.0, Swift is now ABI stable and is delivered as a core component of macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS.
• Swift 3.1 Release Process (Swift)
  Swift 3.1 Release Process This post describes the goals, release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 3.1.
• Swift Community-Hosted Continuous Integration (Swift)
  We are delighted to announce a significant expansion of our Swift.org continuous integration testing system.
• Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter (Swift)
  TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications.
• Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption (Swift)
  We’re excited to announce a new open source Swift package for homomorphic encryption in Swift: swift-homomorphic-encryption.
• Bringing Goodnotes to the web with Swift and WebAssembly (Swift)
  Goodnotes has been helping millions of users take handwritten notes on iPad for over a decade, earning recognition as Apple’s iPad App of t…
• Introducing Swift Service Discovery (Swift)
  It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift Server ecosystem, Swift Service Discovery.
• New Features in Swift 2.2 (Swift)
  Swift 2.2 brings new syntax, new features, and some deprecations too. It is an interim release before Swift 3 comes later this year with ev…
• Swift Summer of Code 2023 Summary (Swift)
  The Swift project regularly participates in Google Summer of Code in order to help people new to the open source ecosystem dip their toes i…
• Swift 5.3 Release Process (Swift)
  Swift 5.3 Release Process This post describes the goals, release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 5.3.
• REPL Support for Swift Packages (Swift)
  The swift run command has a new --repl option which launches the Swift REPL with support for importing library targets of a package.
• Swift Summer of Code 2022 Summary (Swift)
  Google Summer of Code (also known as GSoC) is a long-running mentorship program focused on introducing contributors to the world of open so…
• The Swift Linux Port (Swift)
  With the launch of the open source Swift project, we are also releasing a port that works with the Linux operating system!
• The Future of Foundation (Swift)
  The Foundation framework is used in nearly all Swift projects. It provides both a base layer of functionality for fundamentals like strings…
• Swift Configuration 1.0 released (Swift)
  Every application has configuration: in environment variables, configuration files, values from remote services, command-line flags, or rep…
• Xcode 9.1 Improves Display of Fatal Errors (Swift)
  Swift has language constructs that allow you to specify your program’s expectations. If these expectations are not met at runtime, the prog…
• Introducing Swift Profile Recorder: Identifying Performance Bottlenecks in Production (Swift)
  Swift Profile Recorder, an in-process sampling profiler for Swift services, is now available as an open source project.
• Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.4 (Swift)
  Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like m…
• Xcode Playground Support (Swift)
  We are delighted to introduce Xcode Playground Support as part of the Swift open source community!
• Swift 4.2 Release Process (Swift)
  Swift 4.2 Release Process This post describes the goals, release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 4.2.
• Announcing the Swift Mentorship Program (Swift)
  We’re thrilled to announce the Swift Mentorship Program — a new contributor program for the Swift community and part of the Diversity in Sw…
• The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies (Swift)
  Swift continues to grow in popularity as a cross-platform language supporting a wide variety of use cases, with support on a variety of emb…
• Introducing the sourcekitd Stress Tester (Swift)
  Sourcekitd provides the data backing key editor features like code completion, semantic highlighting, and refactoring for Swift files in bo…
• Server APIs Work Group (Swift)
  Since Swift became available on Linux there has been a huge amount of interest in using Swift on the server, resulting in the emergence of…
• GSoC 2025 Showcase: Extending Swift-Java Interoperability (Swift)
  This is the second post in our series showcasing the Swift community’s participation in Google Summer of Code 2025.
• Behind the Proposal (Swift)
  The development, refinement, and deployment of SE-0200 Enhancing String Literals Delimiters to Support Raw Text was a long and surprising j…
• Introducing gRPC Swift 2 (Swift)
  Say hello to gRPC Swift 2: a major update that brings first-class concurrency support and more expressive APIs for a seamless developer exp…
• “The Swift Programming Language” book now published with DocC (Swift)
  We’re happy to announce that The Swift Programming Language book (TSPL) is now published using Swift-DocC, starting with Swift 5.8.
• Introducing Swift AWS Lambda Runtime (Swift)
  It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift Server ecosystem, Swift AWS Lambda Runtime.
• Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (Swift)
  There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift,…
• Using Upcoming Feature Flags (Swift)
  Beginning in Swift 5.8 you can flexibly adopt upcoming Swift features using a new compiler flag and compilation condition.
• Swift Local Refactoring (Swift)
  Xcode 9 includes a brand new refactoring engine. It can transform code locally within a single Swift source file, or globally, such as rena…
• On-Crash Backtraces in Swift (Swift)
  The new Swift 5.9 release contains a number of helpful, new features for debugging code, including an out-of-process, interactive crash han…