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Announcing the Windows Workgroup We are excited to announce the creation of the Windows workgroup!

Windows developers, you're invited! 🪟
We just launched a Windows workgroup to make Swift even better on Windows: improving the toolchain, core packages, API bridging, and deployment experiences.
Curious? Interested in contributing? You're welcome here. 👉 swift.org/blog/announcing-windows-workgroup/

Swift’s first Pre-FOSDEM Community Event is happening Friday, January 30th, from 12 PM to 6 PM! If you’re interested in giving a talk or volunteering, check out swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/.

The deadline to submit proposals is January 5th, 2026!

Photo taken by Mishal Shah of the Swift logo with an orange liquid splash into the acrylic cutout of the Swift logo.

10 years ago today, the Swift programming language was open-sourced. 🎉

Screenshot of Amazon Linux 2023 installing Swift with one command.

🚀 Swift is now officially supported on Amazon Linux 2023! This makes deploying Swift apps to AWS easier than ever. Try it: sudo dnf install swiftlang. The future of Swift keeps getting brighter... @awscloud.bsky.social #Linux docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023...

Swift SDK for Android (preview)!
* Blog post: www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
* Getting Started guide: www.swift.org/documentatio...
* Example repository: github.com/swiftlang/sw...
* Forums post: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...

Screenshot of the output of Swift Profile Recorder, running Hummingbird’s hello example visualized in Speedscope.

New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...

The Growth of the Swift Server Ecosystem Nearly ten years ago, Swift was open sourced and an official runtime for Linux was released. I’ve been involved with Swift on the server since almost the very beginning, originally picking it up as a ...

Ahead of next week's ServerSide.swift conference in London, organizer and Swift server workgroup member @0xtim.bsky.social looks back at the growth of Swift as a platform for building server apps: www.swift.org/blog/swift-o...

Swift.org blog post with latest swift news

The Swift.org/blog page has been redesigned! While you're there, be sure to check out the new post about Swift 6.2. #swiftlang

Compiler Tools Engineer - Jobs - Careers at Apple Apply for a Compiler Tools Engineer job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

My team at Apple is currently hiring for a role that focuses on compiler tools and infrastructure. If you’re interested in this opportunity, please take a look at the job posting here: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... #llvm #swiftlang

More on the new blog redesign here: www.swift.org/blog/redesig... This is just the start: we'll continue to roll out new getting started content and more...

Swift.org redesigned

Redesigned Swift.org is now live!

www.swift.org/blog/redesig...

Thank you to the website workgroup and community members for contributing to these improvements.

In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend delivers a 40% increase in performance, along with improved scalability, security, and availability.

The story behind the Apple Password Monitoring service, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world, which was recently rewritten in Swift: www.swift.org/blog/swift-a...

As the Swift ecosystem grows, we're adding a steering group to help us all coordinate efforts around package and tool development. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...

Introducing swiftly 1.0 Today we’re delighted to introduce the first stable release of swiftly, a Swift version manager that takes the pain out of installing, managing and updating your Swift toolchain.

How do you install Swift swiftly? With Swiftly, of course! Swiftly is the new default installer and version manager for downloading and updating the standalone Swift toolchain -- on macOS and Linux. ⏩🏁 www.swift.org/blog/introdu...

Swift 6.2 Release Process This post describes the release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 6.2. Snapshots of Swift 6.2 Downloadable snapshots of the Swift 6.2 release branch will be posted regularly as part of contin...

Swift 6.2 Release process announced: forums.swift.org/t/swift-6-2-... #swiftlang

👋 from the Swift team, now on Bluesky!

Social media expansion to Mastodon and Bluesky The Core Team is deeply appreciative of the community discussion and feedback around Swift’s social media presence. Our goal is to grow Swift and its community by reaching the widest audience while k...

I'm happy to say #swiftlang will be posting news to Mastodon and Bluesky starting soon.

forums.swift.org/t/social-med...

Advent of Code 2024 challenge in Swift! #swiftlang

forums.swift.org/t/advent-of-...