Swift 5.6 and 5.7 bring major updates to the type system, concurrency, and ecosystem, with 5.6 laying the groundwork and 5.7 introducing features like shorthand optional unwrapping, regex literals, and enhanced generics with primary associated types and existential type improvements.
Monthly update 386 • June 2022 • 2022-06-01 - 2022-06-30
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library follows Nora Seed, a woman overwhelmed by regret, who attempts suicide and finds herself in a magical library between life and death.
The Swift.org website is now open source, inviting community contributions to enhance its role as a central hub for all Swift users, supported by the new Swift Website Workgroup (SWWG) to guide its development.
We've just released Vapor 4.61.1 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's URLEncodedFormDecoder.
Monthly update 385 • May 2022 • 2022-05-01 - 2022-05-31
We've just released Vapor 4.60.3 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's FileMiddleware.
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.
In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch.
Monthly update 384 • April 2022 • 2022-04-01 - 2022-04-30
Unfortunately the time has come to say goodbye to Quiet. It served us all for almost 6 years. In that time I enjoyed the feedback you have given.
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.
Monthly update 383 • March 2022 • 2022-03-01 - 2022-03-31
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.
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 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.
Monthly update 382 • February 2022 • 2022-02-01 - 2022-02-28
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.
Monthly update 381 • January 2022 • 2022-01-01 - 2022-01-31
Global Positioning System is, without a doubt, one of the most useful inventions of the late 20th century. It made it significantly easier for ships, airplanes, cars, and hikers to figure out where they are with high degree of accuracy.
Monthly update 380 • December 2021 • 2021-12-01 - 2021-12-31