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The Swift Package Index Blog

Find news and updates from the Swift Package Index on our blog. Read more about the latest features, our efforts in the community, and any other updates that affect the site.

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SwiftPM tooling has three main components – SwiftPM resolves dependencies for the compiler, a package index helps you discover packages, and a package registry hosts and serves verified, immutable source archives. Even better, you can try a registry today.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/what-is-a-package-registry

23 days ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Swift Package Index Joins Apple
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The Swift Package Index Blog

This week sees a rather significant anniversary for the Swift Package Index. It's been five years since we launched, so it's time to reflect!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/five-years-of-the-swift-package-index

1 year ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

You can now check the compatibility of every package in the Swift Package Index with Wasm and Android.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/adding-wasm-and-android-compatibility-testing

1 year ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

We've added support for custom package collections to allow well-known community efforts to present package collections.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/introducing-custom-package-collections

1 year ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

We are thrilled to announce that Amazon is joining Apple as a supporter of the Swift Package Index by providing infrastructure support.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/welcoming-amazon-as-an-infrastructure-supporter

1 year ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

We recently transitioned our Mac build machines that power our compatibility and documentation build system from a manually configured and maintained collection of Mac mini machines to a new Orka cluster from MacStadium. It provides complete isolation for builds, and a more efficient use of our build machines.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/switching-to-ephemeral-macos-build-runners

2 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Does Swift Package Index support DocC’s support for custom themes? Of course we do! Find out how, and see a great example of a package that’s taking advantage of this feature.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/customising-the-docc-documentation-theme

2 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

The march of Swift's progress continues, the same is true for the Swift Package Index! We're delighted to announce that compatibility results for Swift 5.10 are available on every package page!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/supporting-swift-510

2 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Are services like GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective, Patreon, and Ko-fi the best way to fund open-source software development? They may not be a perfect solution, but they are the best “one size fits all” solution we have, so let’s highlight them.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/highlighting-package-funding-links

2 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

When you search the Swift Package Index, the order in which the search results are displayed is determined by a combination of the relevance of text in the package name and description, and an internal score based on various metrics. Today, we’re adding a feature to make those scores public and transparent.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/revealing-and-explaining-package-scores

2 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

We’ve added support for visionOS to our compatibility testing, showing it on the package pages and build badges.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/supporting-visionos

3 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

How could we improve on adding support for a new Swift version after just one week of it being available? We could add support for Swift 5.9 one week after the release of the first beta version!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/supporting-swift-59

3 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Swift Package Index Manifest files are YAML files that configure how the package index processes your package. With our online validator you can now confirm the format is correct without having to wait for reprocessing.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/validating-spi-manifest-files

3 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Last Thursday, Apple released Swift 5.8, and today we are delighted to announce that the Swift Package Index already has full support for parsing and processing Swift packages using Xcode 14.3 and Swift 5.8 across all our supported platforms.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/supporting-swift-58

3 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

As we approach our third anniversary working on the Swift Package Index, we are thrilled to announce that Apple is adding their public and financial support to the project.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/welcoming-apple-as-a-supporter-of-the-swift-package-index

3 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

The Swift Package Index now recognises primary contributors to open-source Swift packages by including author information alongside package metadata. Thank you to everyone who contributes to open-source Swift software!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/recognising-package-authors

3 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Using auto-hosted documentation remains the easiest way to get your package’s documentation available on the web, but we now also support documentation for projects that have more complex requirements or well-established documentation that already lives on the web.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/externally-hosted-package-documentation

3 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

We rolled out auto-generating DocC documentation exactly two months ago, and now we’re rolling out phase two. Versioned documentation!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/versioned-docc-documentation

4 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

With Swift 5.6, Xcode and the Swift Package Manager gained a new product type, plugins, and we’re delighted to announce we now have support for filtering search results by whether or not they include a plugin.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/searching-for-plugins

4 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

DocC is Apple’s recommended way to provide documentation for your packages, and launching today, the Swift Package Index can generate, host, and update package documentation for any package in the index!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/auto-generating-auto-hosting-and-auto-updating-docc-documentation

4 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

It’s been exactly two years since the first commit of the Swift Package Index! More than 950 pull requests and 5,000 commits later, we now index and compatibility test over 4,500 packages!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/two-years-of-the-swift-package-index

4 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

How often do you update your package dependencies, and when you do, do you check what’s new or changed? We have a new tool that can help!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/keeping-up-with-dependency-changes

4 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Recently, we’ve been focusing our attention on improving search here on the Swift Package Index, and it’s time to let you all know what we’ve implemented!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/improvements-to-package-search

4 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

We’ve run real-world performance benchmarks with the new M1 MacBook Pro machines against M1 and Intel machines.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/m1-pro-and-m1-max-build-and-test-benchmarks

4 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

In pursuit of helping you make better decisions about the packages you depend on, we’re taking a step towards exposing dependency information for all packages!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/package-dependencies-step-one

4 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

What are package collections? JSON descriptions of Swift package metadata. What does the Swift Package Index have in droves? Metadata about Swift packages! As soon as we heard about package collections in Swift 5.5, we knew we had to support it.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/launching-swift-package-collections

5 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Authors, keywords, dependencies, a home page redesign, package collections, and more! Will we ever get all of this done? We’re going to try!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/whats-next-may-2021

5 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Three months ago, we published a list of areas that we wanted to focus on next. We’re just about to update that list for the next few months, but before we do that, let’s check-in quickly with how well we stayed on track since February!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/progress-update-may-2021

5 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

How did the Swift Package Index project get started, and why does a button feature so prominently in the story? Read on to find out.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/how-the-swift-package-index-project-got-started

5 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Making any open-source project sustainable for the long term is challenging in many ways, but with the Swift Package Index we also need significant hardware resources to keep it available.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/hosting-the-swift-package-index

5 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

It’s been about seven months since we launched the Swift Package Index and we’ve been hard at work implementing a few major updates. Are we done? No, we are not!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/whats-next-february-2021

5 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

Where’s the most important source of information for deciding whether a package is suitable for your needs? It’s in the README file!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/inline-readme-files

5 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

How do you keep up with new releases of the packages you use? How do you discover new packages? It’s a tough challenge to keep up to date with everything that the community releases, so we have some announcements today that can help you stay informed!
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/keeping-up-to-date-with-swift-packages

5 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

The Swift Package Index gathers most of the metadata about a package from external sources. The package manifest, the git repository, and GitHub. But, there are some things we need to know that are specific to the Swift Package Index. Learn how to take advantage of the extra settings available to your package.
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5 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

As part of the Swift Package Index build system, we have processed what must be the most extensive test of Apple Silicon compatibility outside of Apple. Here’s what we found.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/building-3238-packages-for-apple-silicon

5 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

We decided that one of the most important pieces of information we could provide on a package metadata page was what versions of Swift, and what platforms it was compatible with. Building that feature turned out to be quite an epic journey.
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/launching-language-and-platform-package-compatibility

6 years ago

The Swift Package Index Blog

It’s always hard to know when to ship v1 of a project. Which features get included? Are there things that can wait? It’s a balancing act. You’re excited to show the world what you built, but is it good enough?
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https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/say-hello-to-the-swift-package-index-blog

6 years ago