Swift 6.1 Released
a day ago
- #iOS
- #Swift
- #Programming
- Swift 6.1 introduces new language enhancements to improve productivity, diagnostics, and data-race safety.
- Concurrency improvements include extending `nonisolated` to types and extensions and better type inference for task groups.
- New `@implementation` attribute allows implementing Objective-C types in Swift.
- Productivity enhancements include trailing commas in more contexts like tuples and parameter lists.
- Package traits introduced for conditional compilation and optional dependencies in Swift packages.
- Background indexing is now enabled by default for SwiftPM projects in SourceKit-LSP.
- Swift Testing now supports custom traits for test scoping and improved error handling macros.
- Swift-DocC introduces human-readable symbol link disambiguation using parameter and return types.
- Swift 6.1 is available in Xcode 16.3 for Apple platforms and can be installed via swiftly or other methods.