Helge HeßOct 23, 2024
SwiftNIO: "Drop support for Swift 5.8".
Rational: "We only support the last three Swift released versions"
Actual changes? Nothing meaningful: https://github.com/apple/swift-nio/pull/2924/files
How is it even a semver minor change if compilation completely breaks simply by a semver compatible package upgrade 🤔
Drop support for Swift 5.8 by FranzBusch · Pull Request #2924 · apple/swift-nio

Motivation We only support the last three Swift released versions which are at this time 5.9, 5.10 and 6. Modification This PR drops anything related to Swift 5.8. Result Version support aligned.

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Show threadHelge Heß
FWIW it turns out that the compilation does not break. When resolving the semver, SPM actually does consider the Swift versions a specific tag supports and will select the last that is compatible w/ the host Swift version.
E.g. when resolving in Swift 5.6, you'll get SwiftNIO 2.59.0, not the latest (Swift incompatible) 2.76.1. And on top the #SwiftNIO team backports critical security fixes to older releases. Nice!
Thanks go to @fabianfett for pointing out my misconception on this 🙈
Oct 24, 2024 at 11:21pmWeb
Show threadGilad RonatOct 24, 2024
@helge @fabianfett I appreciate these kinds of follow ups as a casual reader.