We’re delighted to announce the general availability of Swift 6. This is a major new release that expands Swift to more platforms and domains. Many people know of Swift as a language for app development, with a million apps on the App Store. But Swift is great for more than just apps. Swift’s safety, speed, and approachability make it a great choice...

We’re excited to introduce an implementation of provisional support for Oblivious HTTP to the Swift ecosystem, with the availability of a new package called SwiftNIO Oblivious HTTP. Oblivious HTTP is a protocol to allow a client to make requests of a server without the server being able to identify the source of those requests. Conventional HTTP...

We’re excited to announce a new open source Swift package for homomorphic encryption in Swift: swift-homomorphic-encryption. Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a cryptographic technique that enables computation on encrypted data without revealing the underlying unencrypted data to the operating process. It provides a means for clients to send encrypted...

Swift 6 introduces compile-time data race safety checking for any code that opts in to use the Swift 6 language mode. While individual modules can adopt this mode incrementally and independently of their dependencies, the full benefit of runtime data race safety is only realized when all modules have opted in. Therefore, the quick adoption of Swift...

Today, we are announcing an exciting development for the Swift programming language: its migration to a dedicated GitHub organization at GitHub.com/swiftlang. This migration reflects the growth and maturity of the Swift community and highlights Swift’s versatility beyond Apple’s own ecosystems. Over the last decade, many inspiring individuals’ hard...

We’re pleased to introduce a repository of example projects that demonstrate how Embedded Swift can be used to develop software on a range of microcontrollers. Swift is a scalable language, great for writing desktop and mobile apps, server backends, and system software. And as you may have seen, thanks to a new, experimental compilation mode, you...