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SwiftLeeds 2025
Hey everyone! I hope you’ve all had a fantastic couple of weeks — welcome to another issue of the newsletter!
I have just come back from the 5th edition of SwiftLeeds and I have to say that it somehow keeps getting better every year. I want to use this opportunity to thank Adam Rush and the team for organizing such an amazing conference and for having me ❤️.
The conference ran super smoothly, the talk show and the talks were great, I was able to catch up with good friends and meet a lot of new people and, in classing SwiftLeeds style, there was a good amount of Karaoke too 🎤.
This year I also had the chance to give a talk on the second day, which I really enjoyed. I gave my revisited Instruments talk updated for Xcode 26 where I diagnosed and fixed some real NowPlaying performance issues live on stage.
I really enjoy giving this talk at different conferences as it helps bring the often overlooked power of Instruments to the top of people’s minds through practical examples.
I would like to hear your thoughts: **How familiar are you with instruments? Would you be interested in a performance-focused webinar? **Let me know by replying to this week’s issue!
Now, let’s dive into today’s issue 👀…
⚠️ Don’t lose access to the App Store Connect API, sign the new agreement!
Apple has just revised the Apple Developer Program License Agreement to support updated policies and to provide clarification on existing ones.
As you might know, having signed and acknowledged the latest agreement is a requirement to use the App Store Connect API, so if you rely on using it (in Helm for example 😜), make sure you sign it before the 23rd of October.
🚨 CircleCI Xcode version deprecations
Following their Xcode image retention policy, CircleCI will soon be deprecating a set of Xcode images that are no longer supported by the platform.
If CircleCI is your CI/CD provider, I would thoroughly encourage you to check out their article and update your CI if needed before the Xcode versions are deprecated on the** 7th of November**.
🧪 How to test Swift CLIs using GitHub Actions
Swift is a great language to build the tooling that accompanies your app’s project. It is type-safe, has a low memory footprint and, most importantly, it is** a language that you and your team will be familiar with.**
If you have already built a tool and are wondering how to automate the process of testing it, you need to check out the latest edition of Tiago Henriques’ iOS Coffee Break newsletter.
🐙 GitHub Dependabot upcoming deprecations
GitHub have just announced that several Dependabot-specific pull request comment commands will be deprecated in favor of GitHub’s native pull request features and functionality on the 27th of January 2026.
If you use any of the commands listed in the post, make sure you check out the migration guide before the deprecation date.