• What’s new in Swift: October 2025 Edition Editor Note: This is the first of a new series, What’s new in Swift, a regular digest featuring what’s new in the Swift project and ecosystem, with insights and perspectives from across the Swift world. • This October edition covers highlights from the Server Side Swift conference, major package releases, and the latest Swift Evolution proposals. • Thanks to Joe Heck for sharing his conference experience and insights as our inaugural guest contributor. • Guest contributor highlights At the beginning of October, I attended the Server Side Swift conference, my second year attending. • I love that it focuses on using Swift both with and beyond Apple devices. • This makes the conference a bit different from others you’ll see talked about by the community.
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- Summary - “What’s new in Swift: October 2025 Edition”
The inaugural edition of the “What’s new in Swift” digest highlights a busy month for the language and ecosystem. Joe Heck reports on the Server Side Swift conference in London, where Ben Cohen’s keynote focused on language performance and the 1.0 release of swift‑otel, which adds OpenTelemetry‑based logs, metrics, and traces to server apps. The async‑http‑client 1.29.0 and Valkey client now support distributed tracing. Community updates include a preview Swift SDK for Android, VS Code Swift Extension v2.12.0, a new Build and Packaging workgroup, and refreshed Swift Package Manager documentation. Key conference talks cover generative‑AI integration and concurrency‑driven networking libraries.
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