Mobile platforms
Kotlin 2.4.20 ships with deprecations and compiler fixes
Kotlin 2.4.20 lands with a wide set of compiler and API fixes, while Flutter and Swift tooling churn through incremental build and parsing fixes.
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Mobile platforms
Flutter engine rolls Skia and Fuchsia SDK
The Flutter engine pulled in a new Fuchsia Linux SDK and advanced Skia three revisions today, routine dependency rolls with no reported breakage.
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Mobile platforms
Swift and Kotlin compiler fixes land, Flutter dependency rolls continue
Swift fixes a C++ interop crash and extends an optimization, Kotlin begins a refactor of compiler-required arguments, and Flutter churns through routine dependency rolls.
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Mobile platforms
Swift's async runtime paves way for per-function CPU control and macro-driven conformance
Swift lands new concurrency and optimization work, including an AsyncStream error fix and a prototype for per-function CPU overrides, while Flutter's CLI refactor tightens its dependency injection.
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Mobile platforms
Flutter fixes semantics geometry, UTF-16 deletion, iOS keyboard accents
Flutter landed three correctness fixes across accessibility, text editing, and iOS keyboard input.
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Mobile platforms
Flutter tool migrates Doctor, CustomDevices, and Install commands to constructor injection
The Flutter tooling team completed the migration of three more commands to explicit constructor dependency injection, removing ambient global references and adding hermetic unit tests.
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Mobile platforms
Flutter tool DI migration lands Doctor and Channel commands
The Flutter tool's modular dependency injection migration reaches the Doctor and Channel commands, removing ambient access from FlutterCommand.
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Mobile platforms
Swift drops redundant array-index overflow check, Kotlin exposes boxed overrides
Swift's optimizer now skips an overflow check on array-index additions that can never observably overflow, while Kotlin's symbol light classes gain support for boxed methods on overrides in final classes.
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Mobile platforms
Swift type join considers toll-free bridging; Kotlin aligns JS/Wasm companion init
Swift's type join now accounts for toll-free bridging, while Kotlin aligns JS/Wasm companion object initialization with the JVM.
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Mobile platforms
Flutter fixes web server race condition, Swift enables lifetime dependencies on let properties
Flutter addresses a web-server race that could crash DWDS, Swift enables lifetime dependencies on let stored properties, and Kotlin advances diagnostics abstraction in the Analysis API.
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Mobile platforms
Flutter macOS text input crash fixed
Flutter patched a macOS crash that could take down any app when an IME reports a selection outside the text buffer.
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Mobile platforms
Swift fixes a silent miscompile in OSSA ownership, Flutter patches a ProMotion crash
A Swift compiler bug that could corrupt objects at deinit and a Flutter crash on ProMotion displays both shipped fixes overnight.
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Mobile platforms
Flutter Ships Release-Mode Route Injection as Swift and Kotlin Rush to Harden Compilers
Flutter's release-mode route injection fixes a long-standing Android gap, while Swift and Kotlin land compiler stability fixes that will save you from cryptic crashes.
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Mobile platforms
FLUTTER STUMBLES ON LINUX POPUPS AS SWIFT AND KOTLIN PUSH FORWARD
Flutter's Linux popup and tooltip positioning fix is back to square one, while Swift locks down move-only deinit crashers and Kotlin cleans house.
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Mobile platforms
Swift Kills PlatformKind::none, Flutter Rolls ICU
Swift's AST just deleted a footgun that has been a "common source of bugs" [ref:6], while Flutter quietly pulled in a new ICU revision [ref:3].
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Mobile platforms
SWIFT FIXES CRASH ON NON-COPYABLE EXISTENTIALS
A Swift compiler crash that hit local non-copyable existentials is patched, and the fix clears the way for broader adoption of move-only types.
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Mobile platforms
SWIFT GATES RUNTIME VARS, KOTLIN DROPS GRADLE 8.13
Swift's runtime now ignores safety-disabling environment variables in privileged processes, and JetBrains is cutting Kotlin's Gradle support at the knees.
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Mobile platforms
FLUTTER'S ACTIONS HANDLER IS BROKEN
A regression in Flutter's Actions.handler breaks intent lookup for every app, and the fix is already in review.
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Mobile platforms
FLUTTER CUTS TEST BOILERPLATE, SWIFT FIXES RUNTIME MEMORY LEAK
Flutter removes 140 lines of duplicate test setup code while Swift unifies crash reporting to plug a resource leak across runtime and demangler.
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Mobile platforms
FLUTTER TOOLS EXTENSIBILITY PROTOCOL LANDS, ANALYZER CLEANUP COMPLETE
Flutter's tool extensibility framework is now live with JSON-RPC protocol support, while the analyzer migration to the new plugin system finishes its final cleanup.
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