Hello everyone!
A little over a week ago we published a pre-release version 2.17.20260702 of the Swift extension for VS Code. It contains major changes to extension activation and reloading that we'd love for more community members to try out and provide feedback on. The big changes are:
Switching to the pre-release and providing feedback either in this thread or through GitHub issues would be greatly appreciated! To update to a pre-release version you can follow the instructions in our documentation.
The plan is to let these changes soak for at least a month before we include them in an official 2.18.0 release.
A note for extension authors: this pre-release contains breaking changes to the Swift extension's public API. The GitHub repository now includes a TypeScript definition for the public API that you can download and use in your extension to stay up to date with all the correct typings.