SwiftWasm 5.6.0 is now available

SwiftWasm maintainers are happy to announce the new release of SwiftWasm tracking upstream Swift 5.6!

Notable WebAssembly-specific changes in this release:

  • The toolchain is now available for Ubuntu 20.04 on aarch64 and Amazon Linux 2 on x86_64 architectures.
  • Updated WASI SDK with support for "reactor" and "command" execution models. You should be using "reactor" model for event-based (browser) applications, while "command" mode is suitable for command-line applications.

SwiftWasm 5.6.0 is also accompanied by new releases of JavaScriptKit library for bridging Swift calls to JavaScript via WebAssembly, carton command-line build tool, and Tokamak SwiftUI compatibility library.

Please refer to the announcement blog post for more details.

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Great work to get this out so soon after the release of Swift 5.6. Thank you to all contributors!

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