Use this tag only for questions directly related to changes in version 5 of Apple's Swift programming language. Use the tag [swift] for more general language questions, or the tags [ios], [cocoa], [apple-watch] etc. for questions about developing on Apple platforms.
Swift 5 is a version of the Swift language developed by Apple and was released March 26th, 2019 with Xcode 10.2. The language is open source and available on GitHub (see swift).