Skip to content
archive

recent-swift-news-summary

Swift · · 3 min read · swift.org ↗

Latest Swift News (2025-2026)

2026

May

  • What's new in Swift: April 2026 Edition (May 1, 2026) - Curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.

April

  • Expanding Swift's IDE Support (April 8, 2026) - Swift now available in Cursor, VSCodium, AWS Kiro, and Google Antigravity.
  • Swift 6.3 Released (March 24, 2026) - Major release expanding Swift to more platforms and domains.

March

  • App Store expands support to 11 new languages (March 31, 2026) - New languages for App Store metadata and badges.
  • Now Available: Monthly Subscriptions with a 12-Month Commitment (April 27, 2026) - New subscription payment option on the App Store.
  • Brazilian betting license requirement for App Store availability (May 8, 2026) - New regulatory requirement for apps with gambling features in Brazil.

2025

October

  • What's new in Swift: October 2024 Edition (October 31, 2024) - Regular digest covering Server Side Swift conference, package releases, and evolution proposals.
  • Announcing the Swift SDK for Android (October 24, 2024) - Swift expands to Android platform.
  • Introducing Swift Profile Recorder (October 6, 2024) - New open source project for performance profiling.
  • The Growth of the Swift Server Ecosystem (September 23, 2024) - Overview of Swift's maturation as a server-side language.

September

  • Swift 6.2 Released (September 15, 2024) - Major release focused on developer productivity.
  • Redesigned Swift.org is now live (June 4, 2024) - New website design for Swift.org.
  • Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring service from Java (June 2, 2024) - Case study showing 40% performance improvement.
  • ICYMI: Memory Safety, Ecosystem Talks, and Java Interoperability at FOSDEM 2025 (May 5, 2025) - Recap of Swift presentations at FOSDEM.

March

  • Swift 6.1 Released (March 31, 2025) - Incremental update with improvements.
  • Introducing swiftly 1.0 (March 28, 2025) - First stable release of Swift version manager.
  • How Swift's server support powers Things Cloud (February 21, 2025) - Case study of Swift in production server environment.
  • Introducing gRPC Swift 2 (February 14, 2025) - Major update with first-class concurrency support.
  • Updating the Visual Studio Code extension for Swift (February 10, 2025) - Official Swift extension for VS Code gets major update.
  • The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies (February 1, 2025) - Discussion of cross-platform build tools for Swift.

January

  • Announcing Swift 6 (September 17, 2024) - The major Swift 6 release.
  • Introducing Oblivious HTTP support in Swift (August 21, 2024) - New package for privacy-preserving HTTP.
  • Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption (July 30, 2024) - New package for secure computation.
  • Plotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race Errors (July 1, 2024) - Swift 6's approach to data race safety.
  • New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project (June 10, 2024) - Swift moves to dedicated GitHub organization.
  • Get Started with Embedded Swift on ARM and RISC-V Microcontrollers (April 3, 2024) - Example projects for embedded development.
  • SSWG 2024 Annual Update (March 28, 2024) - Server Side Swift work group update.
  • Writing GNOME Apps with Swift (March 25, 2024) - Using Swift for Linux desktop applications.
  • Introducing the Benchmark Package (March 20, 2024) - New package for performance testing.
  • Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate (March 12, 2024) - Swift on handheld gaming devices.
  • Iterate Over Parameter Packs in Swift 6.0 (March 7, 2024) - New language feature for generics.
  • Swift 5.10 Released (March 5, 2024) - Latest Swift release with safety improvements.
  • Swift joins Google Summer of Code 2024 (February 23, 2024) - Swift participates in GSoC.
  • Introducing Swift Configuration 1.0 (December 11, 2024) - New configuration management library.
  • Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3 (November 17, 2024) - Embedded Swift enhancements.
  • GSoC 2024 Showcase: Improved Console Output for Swift Testing (November 14, 2024) - GSoC project showcase.
  • GSoC 2024 Showcase: Improved Code completion for Swift (November 12, 2024) - GSoC project showcase.
  • Introducing Temporal Swift SDK (November 10, 2024) - New SDK for building workflows.
  • GSoC 2024 Showcase: Extending Swift-Java Interoperability (November 7, 2024) - GSoC project showcase.
  • GSoC 2024 Showcase: Swiftly support in VS Code (November 5, 2024) - GSoC project showcase.
  • What's new in Swift: October 2024 Edition (October 31, 2024) - Regular digest.
  • Announcing the Swift SDK for Android (October 24, 2024) - Swift on Android.
  • Introducing Swift Profile Recorder (October 6, 2024) - Performance profiling tool.
  • The Growth of the Swift Server Ecosystem (September 23, 2024) - Swift server ecosystem update.
  • Swift 6.2 Released (September 15, 2024) - Swift 6.2 release.