Swift Package Index has moved to Apple, ending its run as an independent community project.
The announcement came directly from the SPI blog, but with few specifics. Whether the team is joining as employees, whether there is a formal acquisition, or whether this is some other kind of integration has not been detailed publicly. The site has long served as the primary way Swift developers browse, search, and evaluate third-party packages before pulling them in as dependencies.
That makes this more significant than it might look. SPI fills a gap Apple's own tooling left open: a searchable, metadata-rich index of community packages with compatibility and build status data. Whoever controls that discovery layer now has real influence over how developers first encounter the Swift ecosystem.
Whether this arrangement improves, preserves, or quietly diminishes the tool is the more useful question.