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Swift Next

  • #5728

    In packages that specify resources using a future tools version, the generated resource bundle accessor will import Foundation.Bundle for its own implementation only. Clients of such packages therefore no longer silently import Foundation, preventing inadvertent use of Foundation extensions to standard library APIs, which helps to avoid unexpected code size increases.

Swift 5.9

  • SE-0386

    SwiftPM packages can now use package as a new access modifier, allowing accessing symbols in another target / module within the same package without making it public.

  • SE-0387

    New swift experimental-sdk experimental command is now available for managing Swift SDK bundles that follow the format described in SE-0387: "Swift SDKs for Cross-Compilation".

  • SE-0391

    SwiftPM can now publish to a registry following the publishing spec as defined in SE-0391. SwiftPM also gains support for signed packages. Trust-on-first-use (TOFU) check which includes only fingerprints (e.g., checksums) previously has been extended to include signing identities, and it is enforced for source archives as well as package manifests.

  • #5966

    Plugin compilation can be influenced by using -Xbuild-tools-swiftc arguments in the SwiftPM command line. This is similar to the existing mechanism for influencing the manifest compilation using -Xmanifest arguments. Manifest compilation will also be influenced by -Xbuild-tools-swiftc, but only if no other -Xmanifest arguments are provided. Using -Xmanifest will show a deprecation message. -Xmanifest will be removed in the future.

  • #6060

    Support for building plugin dependencies for the host when cross-compiling.

  • #6067

    Basic support for a new .embedInCode resource rule which allows embedding the contents of the resource into the executable code by generating a byte array, e.g.

    struct PackageResources {
  static let best_txt: [UInt8] = [104,101,108,108,111,32,119,111,114,108,100,10]
}

  • #6111

    Package creation using package init now also supports the build tool plugin and command plugin types.

  • #6114

    Added a new allowNetworkConnections(scope:reason:) for giving a command plugin permissions to access the network. Permissions can be scoped to Unix domain sockets in general or specifically for Docker, as well as local or remote IP connections which can be limited by port. For non-interactive use cases, there is also a --allow-network-connections commandline flag to allow network connections for a particular scope.

  • #6144

    Remove the system-module and manifest templates and clean up the remaining empty, library, and executable templates so they include the minimum information needed to get started, with links to documentation in the generated library, executable, and test content.

  • #6185, #6200

    Add a new CompilerPluginSupport module which contains the definition for macro targets. Macro targets allow authoring and distribution of custom Swift macros such as expression macros.

  • #6276

    Add new build setting in the package manifest that enables Swift/C++ Interoperability for a given Swift target.

    .interoperabilityMode(.Cxx, version: "swift-5.9")

  • #6294

    When a package contains a single target, sources may be distributed anywhere within the ./Sources directory. If sources are placed in a subdirectory under ./Sources/<target>, or there is more than one target, the existing expectation for sources apply.

  • #6540

    Build tool plugins can be used with C-family targets

  • #6663

    Add visionOS as a platform alongside iOS and other platforms

Swift 5.8

  • SE-0362

    SwiftPM targets can now specify the upcoming language features they require. Package.swift manifest syntax has been expanded with an API to include setting enableUpcomingFeature and enableExperimentalFeature flags at the target level, as specified by SE-0362.

  • SE-0378

    SwiftPM now supports token authentication when interacting with a package registry. The swift package-registry command has two new subcommands login and logout as defined in SE-0378 for adding/removing registry credentials.

  • #5810

    SwiftPM now allows exposing an executable product that consists solely of a binary target that is backed by an artifact bundle. This allow vending binary executables as their own separate package, independently of the plugins that are using them.

  • #5819

    Improved handling of offline behavior when a cached version of a dependency exists on disk. SwiftPM will check for network availability status to determine if it should attempt to update a checked version of a dependency, and when offline will use the cached version without an update.

  • #5874

    In packages using tools version 5.8 or later, Foundation is no longer implicitly imported into package manifests. If Foundation APIs are used, the module needs to be imported explicitly.

  • #5892

    Added new --emit-extension-block-symbols and --omit-extension-block-symbols via swift package dump-symbol-graph. --emit-extension-block-symbols dumps symbol graph files that are extension block symbol format. The default behavior does not change. The --omit-extension-block-symbols flag will be used to explicitly disable the feature once the default behavior has been changed to --emit-extension-block-symbols in the future.

  • #5949

    New --pkg-config-path option on build, test, and run commands has been introduced as an alternative to passing PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable. It allows specifying alternative path to search for .pc files used by pkg-config. Use the option multiple times to specify more than one path.

Swift 5.7

  • SE-0292

    SwiftPM can now resolve dependencies from a server compliant with the package registry server API defined in SE-0292.

  • SE-0339

    Module aliases can now be defined in the package manifest to disambiguate between modules with the same name originating from different packages.

  • #4119

    Add a --disable-testable-imports flag to swift test with which tests are built without the testability feature (import @testable disabled).

  • #4131

    Update to manifest API to make it impossible to create an invalid build settings condition.

  • #4135

    Enable linker dead stripping for all platforms. This can be disabled with --disable-dead-strip

  • #4168

    Update to manifest API to make it impossible to create an invalid target dependency condition.

Swift 5.6

  • SE-0303

    Package plugins of the type buildTool can now be declared in packages that specify a tools version of 5.6 or later, and can be invoked using the swift build command.

  • SE-0332

    Package plugins of the type command can now be declared in packages that specify a tools version of 5.6 or later, and can be invoked using the swift package subcommand.

  • #3649

    Semantic version dependencies can now be resolved against Git tag names that contain only major and minor version identifiers. A tag with the form X.Y will be treated as X.Y.0. This improves compatibility with existing repositories.

  • #3486

    Both parsing and comparison of semantic versions now strictly follow the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 specification.

    The parsing logic now treats the first "-" in a version string as the delimiter between the version core and the pre-release identifiers, only if there is no preceding "+". Otherwise, it's treated as part of a build metadata identifier.

    The comparison logic now ignores build metadata identifiers, and treats 2 semantic versions as equal if and only if they're equal in their major, minor, patch versions and pre-release identifiers.

  • #3641

    Soft deprecate .package(name:, url:) dependency syntax in favor of .package(url:), given that an explicit name attribute is no longer needed for target dependencies lookup.

  • #3641

    Adding a dependency requirement can now be done with the convenience initializer .package(url: String, exact: Version).

  • #3641

    Dependency requirement enum calling convention is deprecated in favour of labeled argument:

    • .package(url: String, .branch(String)) -> .package(url: String, branch: String)
    • .package(url: String, .revision(String)) -> .package(url: String, revision: String)
    • .package(url: String, .exact(Version)) -> .package(url: String, exact: Version)

  • #3717

    Introduce a second version of Package.resolved file format which more accurately captures package identity.

  • #3890

    To increase the security of packages, SwiftPM performs trust on first use (TOFU) validation. The fingerprint of a package is now being recorded when the package is first downloaded from a Git repository or package registry. Subsequent downloads must have fingerpints matching previous recorded values, otherwise it would result in build warnings or failures depending on settings.

  • #3670, #3901, #3942

    Location of configuration files (including mirror file) have changed to accomodate new features that require more robust configuration directories structure, such as SE-0292:

    • <project>/.swiftpm/config (mirrors file) was moved to <project>/.swiftpm/configuration/mirrors.json. SwiftPM 5.6 will automatically copy the file from the old location to the new one and emit a warning to prompt the user to delete the file from the old location.
    • ~/.swiftpm/config/collections.json (collections file) was moved to ~/.swiftpm/configuration/collections.json. SwiftPM 5.6 will automatically copy the file from the old location to the new one and emit a warning to prompt the user to delete the file from the old location.

Swift 5.5

  • #3410

    In a package that specifies a minimum tools version of 5.5, @main can now be used in a single-source file executable as long as the name of the source file isn't main.swift. To work around special compiler semantics with single-file modules, SwiftPM now passes -parse-as-library when compiling an executable module that contains a single Swift source file whose name is not main.swift.

  • #3310

    Adding a dependency requirement can now be done with the convenience initializer .package(url: String, revision: String).

  • #3292

    Adding a dependency requirement can now be done with the convenience initializer .package(url: String, branch: String).

  • #3280

    A more intuitive .product(name:, package:) target dependency syntax is now accepted, where package is the package identifier as defined by the package URL.

  • #3316

    Test targets can now link against executable targets as if they were libraries, so that they can test any data structures or algorithms in them. All the code in the executable except for the main entry point itself is available to the unit test. Separate executables are still linked, and can be tested as a subprocess in the same way as before. This feature is available to tests defined in packages that have a tools version of 5.5 or newer.

Swift 5.4

  • #2937

    • Improvements

      Package manifests can now have any combination of leading whitespace characters. This allows more flexibility in formatting the manifests.

      SR-13566 The Swift tools version specification in each manifest file now accepts any combination of horizontal whitespace characters surrounding swift-tools-version, if and only if the specified version ≥ 5.4. For example, //swift-tools-version: 5.4 and // swift-tools-version: 5.4 are valid.

      All Unicode line terminators are now recognized in Package manifests. This ensures correctness in parsing manifests that are edited and/or built on many non-Unix-like platforms that use ASCII or Unicode encodings.

    • API Removal

      ToolsVersionLoader.Error.malformedToolsVersion(specifier: String, currentToolsVersion: ToolsVersion) is replaced by ToolsVersionLoader.Error.malformedToolsVersionSpecification(_ malformation: ToolsVersionSpecificationMalformation).

      ToolsVersionLoader.split(_ bytes: ByteString) -> (versionSpecifier: String?, rest: [UInt8]) and ToolsVersionLoader.regex are together replaced by ToolsVersionLoader.split(_ manifest: String) -> ManifestComponents.

    • Source Breakages for Swift Packages

      The package manager now throws an error if a manifest file contains invalid UTF-8 byte sequences.

Swift 4.2

  • SE-0209

    The swiftLanguageVersions property no longer takes its Swift language versions via a freeform Integer array; instead it should be passed as a new SwiftVersion enum array.

  • SE-0208

    The Package manifest now accepts a new type of target, systemLibrary. This deprecates "system-module packages" which are now to be included in the packages that require system-installed dependencies.

  • SE-0201

    Packages can now specify a dependency as package(path: String) to point to a path on the local filesystem which hosts a package. This will enable interconnected projects to be edited in parallel.

  • #1604

    The generate-xcodeproj has a new --watch option to automatically regenerate the Xcode project if changes are detected. This uses the watchman tool to detect filesystem changes.

  • Scheme generation has been improved:

    • One scheme containing all regular and test targets of the root package.
    • One scheme per executable target containing the test targets whose dependencies intersect with the dependencies of the exectuable target.

  • SR-6978 Packages which mix versions of the form vX.X.X with Y.Y.Y will now be parsed and ordered numerically.

  • #1489 A simpler progress bar is now generated for "dumb" terminals.

Swift 4.1

  • #1485 Support has been added to automatically generate the LinuxMain files for testing on Linux systems. On a macOS system, run swift test --generate-linuxmain.

  • SR-5918 Package manifests that include multiple products with the same name will now throw an error.

Swift 4.0

  • The generated Xcode project creates a dummy target which provides autocompletion for the manifest files. The name of the dummy target is in format: <PackageName>PackageDescription.

  • --specifier option for swift test is now deprecated. Use --filter instead which supports regex.

Swift 3.0

  • SE-0135

    The package manager now supports writing Swift 3.0 specific tags and manifests, in order to support future evolution of the formats used in both cases while still allowing the Swift 3.0 package manager to continue to function.

  • SE-0129

    Test modules now must be named with a Tests suffix (e.g., Foo/Tests/BarTests/BarTests.swift). This name also defines the name of the Swift module, replacing the old BarTestSuite module name.

  • It is no longer necessary to run swift build before running swift test (it will always regenerates the build manifest when necessary). In addition, it now accepts (and requires) the same -Xcc, etc. options as are used with swift build.

  • The Package initializer now requires the name: parameter.