Xcode 26.4 Beta 1 – Swift Version Mismatch?

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A few days ago, Xcode 26.4 Beta 1 was released. However, the official release notes state:

Xcode 26.4 beta includes Swift 6.2.3

That said, https://xcodereleases.com indicates that Xcode 26.4 ships with Swift 6.3.

Since I haven’t installed macOS 26 on my machines yet, I’m unable to verify this myself. If anyone has Xcode 26.4 Beta installed, could you please check the actual Swift version and share the output of:

swift --version

If the release notes are incorrect, I’d appreciate it if someone from Apple could clarify or update the documentation to avoid confusion for developers.

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swift-driver version: 1.148.6 Apple Swift version 6.3 (swiftlang-6.3.0.119.2 clang-2100.0.119.1)
Target: arm64-apple-macosx26.0

It's just a typo in the release notes. After 20 years, generating accurate release notes remains an unsolved problem.

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FYI, the data on xcodereleases.com is generated by looking at the Xcode.app install itself; SDK versions are extracted from support files, and compiler versions come from running the --version command of the relevant executable.

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This has been fixed.

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