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Swift download links have moved to a new location to provide faster download speeds! The toolchains will be hosted at download.swift.org, and it will use a similar pattern as the current URL. To use the new URL, replace swift.org/builds/ with download.swift.org/. Starting Oct 26th 2021, the swift.org/builds URLs will be redirected to the new sub domain.

Example:
Current URL:

https://swift.org/builds/swift-5.5-release/xcode/swift-5.5-RELEASE/swift-5.5-RELEASE-osx.pkg

New URL:

https://download.swift.org/swift-5.5-release/xcode/swift-5.5-RELEASE/swift-5.5-RELEASE-osx.pkg
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This is life-changing, thank you @mishal_shah!

I just compared the two download links: The new download completed in 2 minutes for me here in Tokyo, while the old one is at 9% and it'll take another 90minutes to complete.

This really helps and will help me not waste hours upon hours waiting for nightly toolchains, thank you :smiley:

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This new site is blazingly fast! Just released swiftbox 0.13.1, and I can see a 10x download speed from the CI (3.12→38.4MB/s). A fresh Swift installation now takes only 41s, compared with 1m27s before.

However, I didn’t notice any improvement on downloading speed from China mainland. It’s a ~10KB/s experience from my desktop, which is even slower than before (~90KB/s).

I would expect such problem to be fixed. It seems to be related with the CDN or storage service. If solving it costs too high, I’d suggest providing a file-list and allow enterprises and institutes to set up their own mirrors.

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Hello, do you have any good ideas about swift package? Pulling dependencies is slow.

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Sorry if it's obvious but does this apply to Docker images too?

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Docker images are pulled from DockerHub so this won't affect it

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This has been updated, and all traffic from swift.org/builds will be redirected to download.swift.org

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