Swift Package Index announced Monday that it has joined Apple, turning the registry into an Apple service. The move follows the index’s growth to over 10,000 Swift packages and its reputation for compatibility testing across macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, Linux, visionOS, WebAssembly and Android. Users can browse the site as before. The integration also gives Apple access to the index’s metadata, enhancing Xcode’s package suggestions.

The index runs continuous builds on every submitted library, currently processing more than 3.5 million compatibility builds each year. Those tests cover multiple Swift versions and platforms, giving developers confidence that a dependency will compile before they add it to a project. Apple’s resources will expand this infrastructure, allowing faster scaling and deeper security checks such as future package signing.

Both package consumers and authors will see the service operate unchanged for now; discovery, documentation, and compatibility dashboards remain live. Open‑source contributions continue, with Apple engineers joining the existing community maintainers. The partnership aims to tighten the Swift ecosystem’s supply chain while preserving the index’s transparent model, delivering a more reliable dependency experience for developers today.