Alamofire 5.6.0 Released

[Jon_Shier]

Biggest change in this version is that Swift 5.6.0 is now required to build Alamofire's Swift Concurrency support in order to avoid bugs with Xcode 13.2.0 and 13.2.1. Xcode 13.3.1 is the first bug free release, at least so far.

Release Notes

Added

• Support for HTTPMethod.query to support the upcoming standard.
  • Added by Jon Shier in Pull Request #3553.
• Compile-time Swift version check to enforce minimum supported Swift version.
  • Added by Dave Verwer in Pull Request #3549.
• GitHub Sponsors support. You can now sponsor Alamofire directly through GitHub.
  • Added by Jon Shier in Pull Request #3543.

Updated

• Swift version required to build [ Experimental ] Swift Concurrency support to 5.6.0 to avoid various Apple bugs with Xcode 13.2.0 and 13.2.1. Support now requires Xcode 13.3.1.
  • Updated by Jon Shier in Pull Request #3590.
• DownloadRequest to avoid producing resume data when not explicitly requested on cancellation.
  • Updated by Jon Shier in Pull Request #3538.
• Testing infrastructure to use XCTestPlans on Apple platforms.
  • Updated by Jon Shier in Pull Request #3538.
• GitHub Actions support for greater OS coverage, more SPM platforms, and Swift 5.6.
  • Updated by Jon Shier in Pull Requests #3534, #3545, #3570, and #3587.

Fixed

• Various Security framework deprecation warnings when deploying to newer OSes.
  • Fixed by Jon Shier in Pull Request #3555.
• Various documentation issues.
  • Fixed by Jon Shier, Emanuele Fumagalli, Huang-Libo, and rain2540 in Pull Requests #3548, #3562, #3573, #3574, and #3585.