Overview
This is a major release of CareKit that contains updated platform requirements and gradual movement towards full Swift 6 compatibility.
New Platform Requirements
- iOS: Minimum deployment target raised from 15.6 to 18.0
- watchOS: Minimum deployment target raised from 8.7 to 11.0
- macOS: Minimum deployment target raised from 14.6 to 15.0
- Xcode: Support for 26.0+
Updated Dependencies
- Updating FHIRModels and AsyncAlgorithms dependency versioning to use “Up to Next Major Version”
Breaking Changes
Swift 6 adoption
- Updating just CareKitStore to use Swift 6 as part of a long-term movement to move to Swift 6 support across the framework
- Conforming data structures to Sendable where appropriate
- Marking closure parameters with @sendable
- Protect internal mutable state with a Mutex integrate Swift 6 while maintaining synchronous public API
Postal Address
- OCKPostalAddress no longer subclasses CNPostalAddress directly
Store Protocol
- Query result methods now return opaque AsyncSequence types instead of CareStoreQueryResults
- Improved Swift concurrency support with proper Sendable conformance
Bug Fixes
- Includes minor bug fixes as well as public PR contributions since the last release.
Contributors
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