# Incremental Build and LSP Updates

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/incremental-build-and-lsp-updates/81778>\
**Category:** VSCode Swift extension\
**Tags:** sourcekit-lsp, wwdc, vscode\
**Created:** [August 22, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/incremental-build-and-lsp-updates/81778 "2025-08-22T23:49:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![shoplab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/shoplab/32/42582_2.png) [@shoplab](https://forums.swift.org/u/shoplab)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/incremental-build-and-lsp-updates/81778/1 "2025-08-22T23:49:09Z")

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In some of the WWDC videos, I believe there was mention of upcoming improvements to the VSCode extension and LSP, particularly around better support for incremental builds. Did I understand that correctly? And if so, are there any timelines or expected release dates for these improvements?

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**Author:** ![bnbarham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/bnbarham/32/17708_2.png) [@bnbarham](https://forums.swift.org/u/bnbarham)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/incremental-build-and-lsp-updates/81778/2 "2025-08-28T23:09:29Z")

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In general, all improvements referred to in WWDC are either already there (since 6.1 for LSP or throughout the year in updates to the extension), or part of the upcoming 6.2 release.

The main update I can recall on the LSP front is from the What’s New in Swift video, eg. that background indexing was enabled by default in 6.1 for SwiftPM projects and the introduction of a new filtering/scoring mechanism for code completion in 6.2, which should improve the relevance of results.

Do you have a timestamp for the section about incremental builds you’re referring to?

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**Author:** ![shoplab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/shoplab/32/42582_2.png) [@shoplab](https://forums.swift.org/u/shoplab)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/incremental-build-and-lsp-updates/81778/3 "2025-08-29T10:10:25Z")

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Apologies - I rewatched the videos and realized I misunderstood some points.

Thank you for your time.