Announcing Swift 5.6.2 for Linux and Windows

We are happy to announce the release of Swift 5.6.2 for Linux and Windows.

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Release Notes

swift

  • swift-autolink-extract now filters common Swift libraries from being duplicated on the linker invocation, reducing the number of times the linker must load these common libraries. This results in a significant reduction in memory use when linking on Linux. (59114)

swift-corelibs-foundation

  • Fix an issue in JSONDecoder where the decoder uses mismatches accessors on NSNumber for numeric conversion.
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