# September 29, 2021

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/september-29-2021/53926>\
**Category:** Workgroup Updates\
**Created:** [December 8, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/september-29-2021/53926 "2021-12-08T16:11:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![fabianfett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/fabianfett/32/10042_2.png) [@fabianfett](https://forums.swift.org/u/fabianfett)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/september-29-2021/53926/1 "2021-12-08T16:11:39Z")

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### Attendees:

- @0xTim
- @kmahar
- @patrick
- @adam-fowler
- @tomerd
- @fabianfett
- @varland

### Action items

#### Carry over

- GH actions @0xTim to carry over
  - Work has started
  - Currently working on best way to use SPM cache with GitHub actions
  - Maybe there could be an example repo for next meeting

- Swift Async Guide
  - Guide was posted as a PR: [Swift Concurrency adoption guidelines for Swift Server Libraries](https://github.com/swift-server/guides/pull/70)

- Discussing features of potential tool to handle swift installations:
  - @tomerd to reach out to Ted about next steps
  - Open questions: What are the features we want to have?
  - @adam-fowler and @patrick will drive design doc.
    - Use the correct installer for the platform. Use deb/rpm.
    - Swift dependencies should be handled by deb/rpm.
    - (Advanced) Move between different Swift versions easily.
    - Architect in a way where other tools could be added later. Like `swiftformat` and `swiftlint`

#### New action item

- Review MultipartKit proposal by siemensikkema · [Pull Request #59 · swift-server/sswg](https://github.com/swift-server/sswg/blob/main/proposals/0017-multipart-kit.md) · GitHub
  - Review manager: @kmahar
  - Goal state: Incubating

- @adam-fowler @0xTim to prepare some Swift 5.5 performance numbers to show off the improvements.

### Todays topics

- Vapor plans to pitch JWTKit
  - Goal is to not bring another copy of BoringSSL and depend solely on SwiftCrypto.
  - Lack of x.509 certificates might be an issue.
    - @tomerd mention that there might be ways around this problem

- Vapor plans to extend the Crypto supported range. Technically this would be a breaking change. [Discussion is up on the Swift forums](https://forums.swift.org/t/vapor-4-and-swift-crypto-2/52384).
- A forum post on stack corruption issues in Swift 5.5 has appeared.
- Swift 5.5 performance improvements
- Swift Server SEO problems
  - a search for "Swift HTTP server" does not return the popular swift on server web frameworks.
  - The framework authors will look into this.

- AsyncHTTPClient 1.6.0 was released