Adding a database table index
Fluent, a Swift ORM, lacks native support for adding database table indexes during creation or migration due to complexities across supported databases, but you can achieve this using SQLKit.
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SSWG 2021 Annual Update
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) welcomed Adam Fowler, Fabian Fett, and Patrick Freed as new members on September 3, 2021, replacing Johannes Weiss after his three-year tenure.
Introducing Swift Async Algorithms
The Swift Async Algorithms package, introduces algorithms tailored for AsyncSequence in Swift 5.5, focusing on seamless async/await integration, time-based operations like debounce and throttle, and cross-platform, open-source development.
Swift.org Website is Now Open Source
The Swift.org website is now an open-source project, welcoming community contributions to enhance its role as a hub for all Swift users, not just contributors.
Swift 5.6 Released!
Swift 5.6 introduces type system enhancements like type placeholders and explicit existential types with the any keyword, improves pointer interactions with temporary buffers and relaxed diagnostics, and refines concurrency safety by suppressing Sendable diagnostics by default.
The next steps for Vapor
Vapor, a popular Swift web framework, is planning its next major release, Vapor 5, which will fully embrace Swift Concurrency by eliminating EventLoopFutures and leveraging AsyncSequences, actors, and Sendable conformances for improved performance and safety.
Introducing Swift Distributed Actors
Apple announced Swift Distributed Actors, a new open-source package for server-side Swift that provides a complete cluster library for the experimental distributed actor language feature, released early to gather community feedback.
Swift-DocC is Now Open Source
Apple introduced Swift-DocC at WWDC21 as a new documentation compiler for Swift frameworks and packages, now released as open source with support for macOS and Linux.
Swift 5.5 Released!
Swift 5.5 is a major release introducing powerful concurrency features like async/await, structured concurrency, and Actors, alongside other enhancements.
Package Collections
Swift 5.5 introduces package collections to the Swift Package Manager, enabling curated lists of packages to simplify discovery and adoption for specific tasks.
Swift 5.4 Released!
Swift 5.4 introduces new language features like multiple variadic parameters, extended implicit member syntax, result builders, and support for overloading local functions and property wrappers for local variables.
Introducing Swift Collections
Swift Collections is a new open-source package that adds advanced data structures like Deque, OrderedSet, and OrderedDictionary to extend the Swift Standard Library’s offerings beyond Array, Set, and Dictionary.
Introducing SwiftNIO SSH
SwiftNIO SSH is a new open-source Swift package for the Swift Server ecosystem, providing a programmatic implementation of the SSHv2 protocol for building custom SSH clients and servers.
Introducing Swift Service Discovery
Swift Service Discovery is a new open-source package for the Swift Server ecosystem, providing a standard API for service discovery backends like DNS or key-value stores, without implementing the functionality itself.
Announcing Swift Algorithms
Swift Algorithms is a new open-source package offering a suite of generic sequence and collection algorithms, such as chunking, combinations, permutations, and random sampling, designed to replace error-prone loops with clear, performant code.
Introducing Swift Atomics
Swift Atomics is a new open-source package enabling low-level atomic operations in Swift, allowing systems programmers to build concurrent data structures safely.
Swift System is Now Open Source
Swift System is a new open-source library for Apple platforms and Linux, providing idiomatic, type-safe interfaces to system calls and low-level types, replacing error-prone C interfaces like the open function.
Introducing Swift on Windows
The Swift project now offers downloadable toolchain images for Windows, enabling developers to build and run Swift code on this platform.
Swift 5.3 released!
Swift 5.3 enhances developer productivity with language refinements, better diagnostics, faster code completion, and improved build times.
Introducing Swift Cluster Membership
Swift Cluster Membership is a new open-source Swift package for server applications, providing reusable, runtime agnostic implementations of cluster membership protocols for distributed systems like databases and key-value stores.
Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle
Swift Service Lifecycle is a new open-source Swift package designed to simplify and standardise the management of startup and shutdown sequences for server applications.
Introducing Swift AWS Lambda Runtime
The Swift AWS Lambda Runtime is a new open-source Swift package that simplifies building server-less functions for AWS Lambda, enabling Swift developers to create scalable, cost-effective cloud solutions with low memory use and fast startup.
Additional Linux Distributions
The Swift project now officially supports Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 8, and Amazon Linux 2, alongside Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, with downloadable toolchains and Docker images available on Swift.org.
I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did
It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But Google does this,” or “But Apple does this.”
Swift 5.3 Release Process
Swift 5.3 focuses on significant quality and performance improvements while expanding platform support to include Windows and additional Linux distributions.