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.
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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.
Joined May 2014
- 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:
- Swift 6.3.3 is out now! 🔩 This maintenance release improves stability in the Swift REPL, concurrency, and key paths. More here:
- Swift Package Index has become an essential part of the Swift ecosystem, and joining Apple strengthens it as it continues its mission. Learn more:
- 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: swift.org/blog/migrating…
