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Swift 6 Officially Available
The Swift team has officially announced the availability of Swift 6, a new major version of Apple open-source language with focus on low-level and embedded programming, concurrent code safety, new cross-platforms APIs, and extended Linux and Windows support.
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Swift Testing is a New Framework from Apple to Modernize Testing for Swift across Platforms
While XCTest remains the preferred way to create tests in Xcode, the new Swift Testing framework attempts to introduce an expressive and intuitive API for the definition of tests that applies to all platforms where Swift is supported. The framework also enables parallelizing, categorizing and associating tests with bugs.
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Apple Unveils Apple Foundation Models Powering Apple Intelligence
Apple published the details of their new Apple Foundation Models (AFM), a family of large language models (LLM) that power several features in their Apple Intelligence suite. AFM comes in two sizes: a 3B parameter on-device version and a larger cloud-based version.
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The Swift Composable Architecture Brings the Redux Model to iOS App Development
The Composable Architecture (TCA), which recently reached version 1.13, is an "ergonomic" Swift library that provides a general framework to address commonplace problems when you build an app, including state management, feature composition, side effect management, and testing.
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Swift 6 Introduces Embedded Swift for Low-level Programming
Swift 6 brings a new compilation mode aiming to address the specific constraints of embedded devices as well as kernel- and other low-level code. Embedded Swift is a full-featured subset of Swift covering most of the language, including value and reference types, closures, optionals, error handling, generics and more.
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Swift 6 Brings New Opt-In Data-Race Safe Mode
In his WWDC 2024 talk, Apple's Languages and Runtimes team lead and Swift core team member Ted Kremenek introduced Swift 6 new data-race safe mode, which promises to help developers create concurrent programs free of data races thanks to a new compile-time static detector.
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Apple Announces its First AI Code Generation Model, Swift Assist
Described as a companion tool for all coding tasks, Swift Assist aims to help developers transform ideas into code and focus on higher-level problems. Powered by a model running in Apple's Cloud, Swift Assist is integrated into Xcode and is able to generate code from a prompt expressed in human language.
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Xcode 16 Brings Predictive Code Completion Using Custom Model
At WWDC 2024, Xcode and Swift Playground senior manager Ken Orr presented the most salient features of the upcoming version of Xcode, Xcode 16, including predictive code completion and many bug fixes and improvements.
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Apple WWDC: iOS18 and Apple Intelligence Announcements
At WWDC 2024 Apple unveiled "Apple Intelligence," a suite of AI features coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. Apple’s aim with Apple Intelligence is to seamlessly integrate AI into the core of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac experience.
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Apple Open-Sources One Billion Parameter Language Model OpenELM
Apple released OpenELM, a Transformer-based language model. OpenELM uses a scaled-attention mechanism for more efficient parameter allocation and outperforms similarly-sized models while requiring fewer tokens for training.
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Swift 5.10 Brings Full Data Isolation Compile-Time Safety to Concurrent Code
The latest Swift release, Swift 5.10, includes just a few new proposals that nevertheless represent an important achievement for the language concurrency model, which is now able to ensure full data isolation at the compiler level, explains Swift team engineer Holly Borla.
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Swift OpenAPI Generator Reaches 1.0
Open-sourced six months ago, the Swift OpenAPI Generator is now stable. Version 1.0 brings new features and a simplified API.
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iOS Developers Can Now Use Non-Apple App Stores in the EU, for a Fee
Responding to the European Commission Digital Markets Act (DMA), which aims to regulate the "gatekeeper power" of digital companies, Apple has opened up the possibility for developers to distribute their iPhone apps through alternative marketplaces in EU countries. Developers, though, will be required to pay a new Core Technology Fee if they do.
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Xcode 15.2 Stabilizes Support for the Apple Vision Pro Spatial Computing Headset
Apple released the first stable version of its new visionOS SDK, providing support to create apps for the Apple Vision Pro and submitting them to the App Store. The new SDK is available in Xcode 15.2.
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Apple Allows US App Store Apps to Link to External Purchase Methods
A recent decision by the US Supreme Court forces Apple to make it possible for iOS and iPad apps to link to alternative payment systems. The decision only applies to apps published in the US App Store and raised some debate since Apple still wants to collect a commission on external purchases.