Xcode 14.3 release also brings Swift 5.8 to developers.

New version of Swift has major updates to programming language itself and standard library.

One notable addition is hasFeature check allowing gradual adoption of new Swift features while maintaining compatibility with previous compiler versions.

Swift 5.8 also improves result builder implementation. More details are provided in forum post.

Release also brings improvements in Swift-DocC, SwiftSyntax, Swift Package Manager.

Swift 5.8 is available for Apple platforms, Windows and Linux.

Swift Blog: Swift 5.8 Released!

Recommendations

Developer:

Go through Swift 5.8 features, use conditional compilation checks where appropriate.

QA engineer:

Business as usual.

PM/DM:

Business as usual.

Leave a comment

Leave a Reply