Apple Swift Blog - Latest Posts
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Apple Swift Blog - Latest Posts
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## Latest Swift News
### Language
Swift 6.3 Released March 24, 2026 Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs. [Read more](https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/)
* ### Community
Announcing the Windows Workgroup January 26, 2026
We are excited to announce the creation of the Windows workgroup!
[Read more](https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-windows-workgroup/)
* ### Developer Tools
Expanding Swift's IDE Support April 8, 2026
You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live.
[Read more](https://www.swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/)
* ### Adopters
Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service March 6, 2026
TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the data of over 16 million people every month, helping thousands of app publishers improve their products, and we’re doing it all with a Swift-based infrastructure.
[Read more](https://www.swift.org/blog/building-privacy-first-analytics-with-swift/)
* ### Digest
What's new in Swift: April 2026 Edition May 1, 2026
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.
[Read more](https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-april-2026/)
### [What's new in Swift: April 2026 Edition May 1, 2026 Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Digest](https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-april-2026/)### [Expanding Swift's IDE Support April 8, 2026 You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live. Developer Tools](https://www.swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/)### [What's new in Swift: March 2026 Edition March 31, 2026 Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Digest](https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-march-2026/)### [Swift 6.3 Released March 24, 2026 Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs. Language](https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/)### [Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service March 6, 2026 TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the data of over 16 million people every month, helping thousands of app publishers improve their products, and we’re doing it all with a Swift-based infrastructure. Adopters](https://www.swift.org/blog/building-privacy-first-analytics-with-swift/)### [What's new in Swift: February 2026 Edition March 2, 2026 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. Digest](https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-february-2026/)### [Announcing Swift System Metrics 1.0: Process-Level Monitoring February 20, 2026 We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics, a Swift package that collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage. Swift System Metrics runs on both Linux and macOS, providing a common API across platforms. Developer Tools](https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-system-metrics-1.0-released/)### [What's new in Swift: January 2026 Edition January 30, 2026 A Reddit thread earlier this month asked about building web apps with Swift. For this edition of “What’s new in Swift,” we invited a developer to share their experience: Digest](https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-january-2026/)### [Announcing the Windows Workgroup January 26, 2026 We are excited to announce the creation of the Windows workgroup! Community](https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-windows-workgroup/)### [Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift January 22, 2026 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 interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code. Language](https://www.swift.org/blog/improving-usability-of-c-libraries-in-swift/)### [What's new in Swift: December 2025 Edition December 19, 2025 Welcome to the latest digest of news from the Swift project. Digest](https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-december-2025/)### [Exploring the Swift SDK for Android December 18, 2025 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 next.Please read on for some answers to common questions about the technology and itsfuture, and try out the new Swift 6.3 SDK nightly previews. Developer Tools](https://www.swift.org/blog/exploring-the-swift-sdk-for-android/)### [Swift Configuration 1.0 released December 11, 2025 Every application has configuration: in environment variables, configuration files, values from remote services, command-line flags, or repositories for stored secrets like API keys. But until now, Swift developers have had to wire up each source individually, with scattered parsing logic and application code that is tightly coupled to specific configuration providers. Developer Tools](https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-configuration-1.0-released/)### [Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3 November 17, 2025 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 Swift produces significantly smaller binaries than regular Swift. While a subset of the full language, the vast majority of the Swift language works exactly the same in Embedded Swift. Additional information is described in the Embedded Swift vision document. Language](https://www.swift.org/blog/embedded-swift-improvements-coming-in-swift-6.3/)### [GSoC 2025 Showcase: Improved Console Output for Swift Testing November 14, 2025 The Swift community participated in Google Summer of Code 2025, and we’ve recently been showcasing all of the projects and work accomplished here on the Swift blog. You can learn more by following these convenient links: Community](https://www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-2025-showcase-swift-testing-output/)### [GSoC 2025 Showcase: Improved Code completion for Swift November 12, 2025 Our blog post series showcasing the Swift community’s participat