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2026 22

  1. What's new in Swift: September 2026 Edition
  2. Swift 6.4 Released
  3. Module Tracking in Swift Debug Info
  4. What's new in Swift: August 2026 Edition
  5. Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.4
  6. What's new in Swift: July 2026 Edition
  7. What's new in Swift: June 2026 Edition
  8. Swift Package Index Update
  9. Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter
  10. Announcing the Networking Workgroup
  11. What's new in Swift: May 2026 Edition
  12. Bringing Goodnotes to the web with Swift and WebAssembly
  13. What's new in Swift: April 2026 Edition
  14. Expanding Swift's IDE Support
  15. What's new in Swift: March 2026 Edition
  16. Swift 6.3 Released
  17. Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service
  18. What's new in Swift: February 2026 Edition
  19. Announcing Swift System Metrics 1.0: Process-Level Monitoring
  20. What's new in Swift: January 2026 Edition
  21. Announcing the Windows Workgroup
  22. Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

2025 23

  1. What's new in Swift: December 2025 Edition
  2. Exploring the Swift SDK for Android
  3. Swift Configuration 1.0 released
  4. Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3
  5. GSoC 2025 Showcase: Improved Console Output for Swift Testing
  6. GSoC 2025 Showcase: Improved Code completion for Swift
  7. Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows
  8. GSoC 2025 Showcase: Extending Swift-Java Interoperability
  9. GSoC 2025 Showcase: Swiftly support in VS Code
  10. What's new in Swift: October 2025 Edition
  11. Announcing the Swift SDK for Android
  12. Introducing Swift Profile Recorder: Identifying Performance Bottlenecks in Production
  13. The Growth of the Swift Server Ecosystem
  14. Swift 6.2 Released
  15. Redesigned Swift.org is now live
  16. Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring service from Java
  17. ICYMI: Memory Safety, Ecosystem Talks, and Java Interoperability at FOSDEM 2025
  18. Swift 6.1 Released
  19. Introducing swiftly 1.0
  20. How Swift's server support powers Things Cloud
  21. Introducing gRPC Swift 2
  22. Updating the Visual Studio Code extension for Swift
  23. The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies

2024 16

  1. Announcing Swift 6
  2. Introducing Oblivious HTTP support in Swift
  3. Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption
  4. Plotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race Errors
  5. New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project
  6. Get Started with Embedded Swift on ARM and RISC-V Microcontrollers
  7. SSWG 2024 Annual Update
  8. Writing GNOME Apps with Swift
  9. Introducing the Benchmark Package: Complementing Unit Tests with Performance Checks
  10. Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate
  11. Iterate Over Parameter Packs in Swift 6.0
  12. Swift 5.10 Released
  13. Swift joins Google Summer of Code 2024
  14. On-device ML research with MLX and Swift
  15. Swift Summer of Code 2023 Summary
  16. Swift OpenAPI Generator 1.0 Released

2023 15

  1. On-Crash Backtraces in Swift
  2. Introducing Packages on Swift.org
  3. Swift Everywhere: Using Interoperability to Build on Windows
  4. Debugging Improvements in Swift 5.9
  5. Swift 5.9 Released
  6. SSWG 2023 Annual Update
  7. Introducing Swift HTTP Types
  8. Introducing Swift OpenAPI Generator
  9. Using Upcoming Feature Flags
  10. Evolving the Swift Workgroups
  11. Foundation Package Preview Now Available
  12. Swift 5.8 Released!
  13. Swift Package Index gains Apple sponsorship
  14. Introducing Swift Certificates and Swift ASN.1
  15. “The Swift Programming Language” book now published with DocC

2022 17

  1. The Future of Foundation
  2. Swift Summer of Code 2022 Summary
  3. Swift project in 2023
  4. Swift 5.7 Released!
  5. Announcing SwiftNIO IMAP
  6. Server Guides Now on Swift.org
  7. Announcing the Documentation Workgroup
  8. Swift Extension for Visual Studio Code
  9. Swift language announcements from WWDC22
  10. Developer Spotlight: Porting Graphing Calculator from C++ to Swift
  11. Exploring Swift: Property wrappers in the wild
  12. Announcing the Language Workgroup
  13. Celebrating learning experiences from the 2021 Swift Mentorship Program
  14. SSWG 2021 Annual Update
  15. Introducing Swift Async Algorithms
  16. Swift.org Website is Now Open Source
  17. Swift 5.6 Released!

2021 9

  1. Introducing Swift Distributed Actors
  2. Swift-DocC is Now Open Source
  3. Swift 5.5 Released!
  4. Package Collections
  5. Announcing the Swift Mentorship Program
  6. Swift 5.4 Released!
  7. Introducing Swift Collections
  8. Celebrating Women’s History Month
  9. Celebrating Black History Month

2020 19

  1. Diversity in Swift
  2. Accessibility and Inclusion in the Swift Community
  3. Introducing SwiftNIO SSH
  4. Introducing Swift Service Discovery
  5. Announcing Swift Algorithms
  6. Introducing Swift Atomics
  7. Swift System is Now Open Source
  8. Introducing Swift on Windows
  9. Swift 5.3 released!
  10. Introducing Swift Cluster Membership
  11. Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle
  12. Introducing Swift AWS Lambda Runtime
  13. Additional Linux Distributions
  14. Swift 5.3 Release Process
  15. Swift 5.2 Released!
  16. Announcing ArgumentParser
  17. Standard Library Preview Package
  18. Library Evolution in Swift
  19. Introducing Swift Crypto

2019 14

  1. Swift Numerics
  2. SSWG Annual Update
  3. New Diagnostic Architecture Overview
  4. Swift 5.2 Release Process
  5. Swift 5.1 Released!
  6. Thread Sanitizer for Swift on Linux
  7. Swift 5 Released!
  8. UTF-8 String
  9. Behind the Proposal — SE-0200 Enhancing String Literals Delimiters to Support Raw Text
  10. Swift 5.1 Release Process
  11. Evolving Swift On Apple Platforms After ABI Stability
  12. ABI Stability and More
  13. Introducing the sourcekitd Stress Tester
  14. Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement

2018 12

  1. REPL Support for Swift Packages
  2. How Mirror Works
  3. Swift 5.0 Release Process
  4. Swift 4.2 Released!
  5. Introducing Related Projects to Swift Forums
  6. Swift Community-Hosted Continuous Integration
  7. Reimplementation of Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals
  8. Swift 4.1 Released!
  9. Swift 4.2 Release Process
  10. Code Size Optimization Mode in Swift 4.1
  11. Swift Forums Now Open!
  12. Conditional Conformance in the Standard Library

2017 11

  1. Swift 4.1 Release Process
  2. Xcode 9.1 Improves Display of Fatal Errors
  3. Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0
  4. Swift 4.0 Released!
  5. Swift Local Refactoring
  6. Swift Package Manager Manifest API Redesign
  7. Swift Source Compatibility Test Suite Now Available
  8. Swift 3.1 Released!
  9. Swift 4 Release Process
  10. Faster Mix-and-Match Builds with Precompiled Bridging Headers
  11. Swift Evolution Status Page Now Available

2016 12

  1. Swift 3.1 Release Process
  2. Server APIs Work Group
  3. Whole-Module Optimization in Swift 3
  4. Swift 3.0 Released!
  5. Xcode Playground Support
  6. Swift 3.0 Preview 1 Released!
  7. Swift 2.3
  8. Swift 3.0 Release Process
  9. New Features in Swift 2.2
  10. Swift 2.2 Released!
  11. Expanding Commit Access
  12. Swift Benchmark Suite now Available

Undated 6

  1. Swift CI
  2. Swift api transformation
  3. Swift 2.2 release process
  4. Swift 3 api design
  5. Swift linux port
  6. Welcome