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* Add 5.8 release announcement draft * Update Content/posts/5-8-released.md Co-authored-by: Carson Katri <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Carson Katri <[email protected]>
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date: 2023-05-08 10:10
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description: SwiftWasm 5.8.0 has been released.
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# SwiftWasm 5.8.0 is now available
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We're happy to announce the new release of SwiftWasm tracking upstream Swift 5.8!
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Notable WebAssembly-specific changes in this release:
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- The toolchain is now available for Ubuntu 22.04 on the `x86_64` architecture. (Note that `aarch64` support is available only for macOS and Ubuntu 20.04 for now.)
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- Support for [Distributed Actors](https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0336-distributed-actor-isolation.md) on WebAssembly was added.
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- The `ghcr.io/swiftwasm/swift` Docker image is now based on Ubuntu 22.04 by default for `latest` and `5.8` tags.
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As for changes in upstream Swift 5.8, we recommend referring [to the official
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changelog](https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/release/5.8/CHANGELOG.md#swift-58).
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For more information about SwiftWasm in general and for getting started, please visit [the project documentation](https://book.swiftwasm.org/).
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If you have any questions, please come and talk to us on [the SwiftWasm discussion forums](https://github.com/swiftwasm/swift/discussions)
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or [open an issue](https://github.com/swiftwasm/swift/issues/new)!
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## Acknowledgements
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We'd like to thank [our GitHub sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/swiftwasm) and [OpenCollective
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contributors](https://opencollective.com/swiftwasm) for their support, which allowed us to continue working on SwiftWasm
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and related projects.
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We're committed to publishing transparent and open finances, so all expenses and transactions can be
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viewed publicly on our [OpenCollective Transactions](https://opencollective.com/swiftwasm/transactions) page.
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So far we've spent money on monthly CI bills that cover new `aarch64` CPU architecture and [community CI](https://ci-external.swift.org/job/oss-swift-RA-linux-ubuntu-20.04-webassembly),
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domain registration, email hosting, and development hardware for our maintainers.
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Many thanks to [MacStadium](https://www.macstadium.com) for giving us access to Apple Silicon hardware.
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Additionally, we'd like to thank everyone who contributed their work and helped us make this release
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happen. These new releases wouldn't be possible without the hard work of them and the Swift community as a whole.
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## About the last release
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We forgot to announce the [last release of SwiftWasm 5.7](https://github.com/swiftwasm/swift/releases/tag/swift-wasm-5.7.3-RELEASE) in this blog, so here's a quick summary of what was included in
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that release:
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- The Foundation and XCTest core libraries were shipped without release optimizations.
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[Now they're built with release optimizations enabled](https://github.com/swiftwasm/swift/pull/4355), which should improve performance of SwiftWasm apps.
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- Support for [duration-based `Task.sleep`](https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0329-clock-instant-duration.md) was added.
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