Swift 3.0 Release Date

According to the TNW post, Swift 3.0 will be release for developer preview on 12 May 2016. TNW got the information from the blog post Swift 3.0 Release Process. There are few pointers to note for developers.

• I believe this is the first major release since Swift is open source.
• Developer preview is also available for Linux platform.
• There will be major changes to the core libraries.
• Swift 3.0 will introduce package manager which will attempt to provide cross platform support.
• Old C programming syntax such as i++ and `for` loop will be removed.
• Swift 3.0 is also considered to be a major stable release.
• This is the first version that includes Linux core libraries.

For further information, please visit the open source site https://swift.org/.

To learn about Swift 3 release process check out this blog post Swift 3.0 Release Process. 

To find out what are the changes to Swift 3.0 in details, please check out Apple's Github page called Swift-evolution.