# What's new in Swift: February 2026 Edition

DevFeed: [What's new in Swift: February 2026 Edition](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-s-new-in-swift-february-2026-edition-2939.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-february-2026/>)

Author: Dave Lester

Published: 2026-03-02T14:05:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Swift.org](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/swift-org.md>)

Topics: [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>)

Tags: [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [conference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conference.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/process.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [swift](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/swift.md>), [webassembly](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webassembly.md>)

## AI overview

A Swift community roundup covering FOSDEM participation, browser-based Swift with WebAssembly, and new packages for fuzzy matching, GraphQL APIs, SQL Server access, terminal UIs, and system metrics.

## Source excerpt

Welcome to this edition of "What's New in Swift," where we share interesting projects and updates in the Swift community that deserve visibility to a broader audience. FOSDEM is the largest open source conference in the world, and this year Swift was featured in talks across multiple tracks and a dedicated pre-conference event. Here's a report from the Swift community: Hey there! Karen Chu here. 👋 I help grow and support the Swift open source community, and one of my favorite things has been increasing Swift's participation in open source events. As a follow-up to Swift's presence at FOSDEM last year, this year we expanded our approach by running our own Pre-FOSDEM fringe event, which included 11 talks across multiple platforms, in addition to four Swift talks across various devroom tracks. Though it was my first year at FOSDEM, it was delightful to meet several people who attended the Swift devroom last year and also came through again this year. With the vast array of attendee backgrounds (I met recent grads, former Swift mentees, Swift workgroup members, folks from the Swift Core Team, and more) and talks covering different platforms (embedded, server, BSD, Android, and more), that weekend showed me just how much momentum Swift has gained as a general purpose language that can benefit everyone. I wanted to highlight Simon Leeb's talk, Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI, as a popular talk from the event which showed how to run Swift applications natively in the browser with WebAssembly. FOSDEM may be over (for now), but I'm already excited about how the Swift community will show up next year! To catch up on all the talks at the Pre-FOSDEM event, check out the YouTube playlist. Now on to other news about Swift: New package releases Originally developed for searching financial databases for strings like stock tickers, FuzzyMatch brings high-performance fuzzy string matching to Swift. Now you can expose GraphQL APIs in your applications with new Vapor and Humming