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👋 from the Swift team, now on Mastodon!
Swift 6.3 has landed! 🚀
This release brings community-driven Android support into the official toolchain, along with major improvements to C interoperability, the build system, and embedded Swift. Read more: https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/ #AndroidDev #iOSDev
Thanks to Swift community member Saleem, we have a new Swift XML parser! 🌿
Xylem is pure Swift, zero dependencies, covering SAX, DOM, and XPath 1.0. This is the kind of infrastructure work that helps Swift thrive everywhere! 🎉 https://forums.swift.org/t/xylem-a-pure-swift-xml-parser/85754
Swift 6.3.2 is available! 🛠️ This maintenance release includes updates to Swift Package Manager and Swift Build, making it easier to load package resources on background threads. More here:
https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-6-3-2/86698
Announcing Swift 6.3.1, a maintenance release with reliability improvements. More details in the forum post here: https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-6-3-1/86080
Lots of great things happening with Swift: here’s the latest edition of our news digest: https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-february-2026/
🚀 New libraries for @graphql@mastodon.social on Vapor and Hummingbird dropped!
Expose GraphQL APIs with just one line of code:
routeBuilder.graphql(schema: schema) { ... }
✅ Full spec compliance
✅ WebSocket subscriptions
✅ Built-in GraphiQL IDE
Check them out 👇
https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-graphql-vapor-hummingbird-packages/84758
🆕Looking to add a fast, scalable, resilient, in-memory key-value store to your Swift project? Valkey just shipped a production-quality Swift client today: https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-swift-1.0/ #server
🏗️ What if your whole stack was built with Swift? @telemetrydeck@social.telemetrydeck.com made it a reality, building an internet-scale, privacy-first analytics backend from the ground up. Read their story: https://www.swift.org/blog/building-privacy-first-analytics-with-swift/
🏗️ What if your whole stack was built with Swift? @telemetrydeck@social.telemetrydeck.com made it a reality, building an internet-scale, privacy-first analytics backend from the ground up. Read their story: https://www.swift.org/blog/building-privacy-first-analytics-with-swift/
Inside the latest ‘What’s new in Swift’ digest: two talks on Embedded Swift, a guest contribution highlighting a Swift client for Valkey, new packages, and more: https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-april-2026/
🆕 The Swift extension is now live on the Open VSX Registry, enabling first-class Swift support in Cursor, VSCodium, AWS Kiro, and Google Antigravity.
That means code completion, refactoring, debugging, testing, and DocC support, wherever you code.🧑💻 https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/
Your digest of everything new in Swift has just landed! Read up on the latest release, community projects, evolution proposals, and videos from across the ecosystem: https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-march-2026/
Great language support means nothing without great tooling. Watch @jdevlieghere@mastodon.social show how LLDB brings first-class debugging to Swift on WebAssembly. https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/87ZLQV-wasm-debugging-lldb/ #Wasm #fosdem
Swift 6.2.4: available with swiftly install latest ✅
Bugs: fixed 🔨
Builds: faster ⚡️
Closures: smoother 🧈
Details: here 🔗 https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-6-2-4/85050
🎄This year's Advent of Code promises fun coding challenges for all! And if you haven't tried Swift before, it's a great way to get started. Join the Swift challenge board here: https://forums.swift.org/t/advent-of-code-2025/83424 @maartene@mastodon.nl #AdventOfCode
☕️ New update to the Swift Java interop tooling, with plentiful improvements for use in both server and Android scenarios: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-java/releases/tag/0.2.0 #java
Ahead of next week's ServerSide.swift conference in London, organizer and Swift server workgroup member @0xTim@hachyderm.io looks back at the growth of Swift as a platform for building server apps: https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-on-the-server-ecosystem/ @swiftserverconf@hachyderm.io
Learn more about how the team behind Things, an award-winning personal task manager, rewrote their backend in Swift with a threefold reduction in compute costs: https://www.swift.org/blog/how-swifts-server-support-powers-things-cloud/ @things@mastodon.online @codevapor@hachyderm.io
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