What's new in Swift: April 2026 Edition
The April 2026 edition of 'What's new in Swift' highlights the 1.0 release of valkey-swift, a production-grade Swift client for Valkey and Redis built with Swift 6 and structured concurrency. The update also covers recent videos on Embedded Swift, new package releases like swift-tar and Xylem, and ongoing Swift Evolution proposals. Developers are encouraged to adopt valkey-swift and explore new tools and language improvements in the Swift ecosystem.
- ▪The 1.0 version of valkey-swift, a Swift client for Valkey and Redis, was released with support for Swift 6 and structured concurrency.
- ▪valkey-swift provides compile-time type checking for Valkey commands and automatic resource cleanup through structured concurrency.
- ▪The Swift Evolution process is reviewing SE-0529 to add FilePath to the standard library and has accepted a vision document for improving Swift's networking APIs.
- ▪New Swift packages include swift-tar for TAR archive handling, Xylem for XML parsing, and IndustrialKit for robotic systems control.
- ▪Videos from try! Swift Tokyo 2026 cover Embedded Swift development, including bare-metal programming on Raspberry Pi Pico and advanced optional handling techniques.
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Docs Community Packages Blog Install (6.3.1) Docs Community Packages Blog Install (6.3.1) What's new in Swift: April 2026 Edition Adam Fowler Dave Lester May 1, 2026 Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. The 1.0 release of valkey-swift was recently announced on the Valkey blog. We’ve invited one of the authors to be this month’s guest contributor: Hi, I’m Adam Fowler, an open source developer working in the Swift on server ecosystem. I am excited to announce the 1.0 release of valkey-swift - a production-grade Swift client for Valkey. Valkey is a high-performance datastore commonly used as a caching layer or message broker in server applications. It is an open source fork of Redis.
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