NativeScript iOS Daily: Swift Package Rollback and Retry
A Swift Package Manager release workflow shipped last week broke all builds, forcing a same-week revert in PR 404, followed immediately by a more careful retry in PR 405 that scopes the package manifest per platform channel.
Duration: PT2M13S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from NativeScript iOS Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: NativeScript iOS Daily
- Published: 2026-07-11T13:11:24Z
- Audio duration: PT2M13S
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Good evening. It's July 11th, 2026, and this is NativeScript iOS Daily.
Tonight's story is really one story: the Swift Package Manager release effort had a false start, and the team is now rebuilding it more carefully.
Here's the timeline. Back in PR 395, the team introduced a Swift Package release workflow — new CI steps for building, versioning, and gating targets around package artifacts. It broke all builds. Eduardo Speroni's PR 404, merged yesterday evening, reverts that entire chain of changes, from the initial feature…
The bigger signal is what happened next. Within hours, Nathan Walker opened PR 405 to bring the Swift Package work back, but with a fix aimed squarely at what likely caused the original breakage: the package manifest wasn't correctly scoped per release channel. PR 405 verifies the manifest separately for iOS and…
For developers, the takeaway is this: don't pull in Swift Package Manager dependencies from the iOS or visionOS build pipelines until PR 405 lands and is confirmed stable. The underlying goal — sourcing NativeScript frameworks through Swift Package Manager for both platforms — hasn't changed, but the path there…
What's next: watch for PR 405 to merge,…