Swift 3.0 developer previews are coming soon, but the full update won’t launch at WWDC

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by Sindy Cator on May 9, 2016 at 5:42 pm

Swift 3.0 is coming, and the first developer previews will be out later this week. In a blog post, the Swift team notes it will create the first developer preview of Swift 3.0 on May 12, and release it 4-6 weeks later. The release cycle for developer previews will be “irregular,” but the Swift team is trying to stick to a 4-6 week cadence. The Swift GitHub repo will also have three main branches: main, Swift 3.0 preview and Swift 3.0. All development will happen in the Master branch, while developer preview may have multiple offshoot branches for everything that’s…