Follow the instructions below to install the latest version of Swift on a supported platform.

Latest Release

• Swiftly (recommended)

  The Swiftly installer manages Swift and its dependencies. It supports switching between different versions and downloading updates.

  Run this in a terminal:

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  curl -O "https://download.swift.org/swiftly/linux/swiftly-$(uname -m).tar.gz" && \
  tar zxf "swiftly-$(uname -m).tar.gz" && \
  ./swiftly init --quiet-shell-followup && \
  . ${SWIFTLY_HOME_DIR:-~/.local/share/swiftly}/env.sh && \
  hash -r
  

  License: Apache-2.0 | PGP: Signature

  Instructions

• Container

  If you prefer a containerized environment, you can download the official container images for compiling and running Swift on a variety of distributions.

  Docker Hub Instructions

Alternate installation options

Select Linux platform:

Select Red Hat Universal Base Image version:

Latest Release (Swift 6.1)

• Docker

  The official Docker images for Swift.

  6.1-rhel-ubi9 Instructions

• Tarball

  Tarball packages (.tar.gz)

  • Signature (PGP): x86_64 | aarch64
  Download (x86_64) Download (aarch64)
  Instructions

• Static Linux SDK

  Static Linux SDK - Cross compile to Linux

  • Signature (PGP)
  • Checksum: 111c6f7d280a651208b8c74c0521dd99365d785c1976a6e23162f55f65379ac6
  Download Linux Static SDK Instructions (Static Linux SDK)

Development Snapshots

Swift snapshots are prebuilt binaries that are automatically created from the branch. These snapshots are not official releases. They have gone through automated unit testing, but they have not gone through the full testing that is performed for official releases.

• main

  April 30, 2025

  Tarball (tar.gz)

  Download (x86_64) Download (aarch64)

  Docker

  nightly-rhel-ubi9
  Signature (PGP): x86_64 | aarch64

• release/6.2

  April 24, 2025

  Tarball (tar.gz)

  Download (x86_64) Download (aarch64)

  Docker

  nightly-6.2-rhel-ubi9
  Signature (PGP): x86_64 | aarch64

Instructions (Tarball) Instructions (Docker)

Static Linux SDK

• main

  January 31, 2025

  Static Linux SDK - Cross compile to Linux

  • Signature (PGP)
  • Checksum: cd1b0de0bcc809692e803a078800b9d577c0eefbd2b3d2cfd24e53f019ca5de3
  Download Linux Static SDK

• release/6.1

  March 25, 2025

  Static Linux SDK - Cross compile to Linux

  • Signature (PGP)
  • Checksum: 2b73c30ec402f443857e6cd2ac06b8525f186e889a7a727af05601629148fe6a
  Download Linux Static SDK

Instructions (Static Linux SDK)