Latest Swift News

Adopters

Bringing Goodnotes to the web with Swift and WebAssembly June 1, 2026 Goodnotes has been helping millions of users take handwritten notes on iPad for over a decade, earning recognition as Apple’s iPad App of the Year in 2022. Today, the same Swift code that powers our iOS app also runs seamlessly in web browsers through WebAssembly, delivering the exact same ink rendering and note-taking experience users love. Read more

• Language

  Swift 6.3 Released March 24, 2026

  Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs.

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• Developer Tools

  Expanding Swift's IDE Support April 8, 2026

  You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live.

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• Community

  Announcing the Networking Workgroup June 4, 2026

  The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup! Workgroups are community-led efforts, formally recognized by the project, to advance key areas of Swift.

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• Digest

  What's new in Swift: May 2026 Edition June 3, 2026

  Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.

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