Swift.org Blog

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Published Time: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:18:17 GMT

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Latest Swift News

Adopters

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter June 12, 2026 We rewrote Apple's TrueType hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift for the Fall 2025 releases. Beyond memory safety, the new implementation runs 13% faster than the C interpreter it replaced.Read more

• 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.

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• 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.

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• Community

Announcing the Networking Workgroup June 4, 2026

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 Swift.

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• Digest

What's new in Swift: June 2026 Edition July 2