What's New / Storage, System & Virtualization
FSKit adds 32 file-system extension protocols including ReadWriteHandler and XattrHandler; System gains Stat and FileMode wrappers, and Virtualization adds VZEFI secure-boot APIs.
FSKit builds file system implementations as App Extensions that run in user space instead of a kernel extension.
System is a Swift interface to operating-system primitives, wrapping POSIX-style file and I/O concepts in typed Swift APIs.
Virtualization creates and runs virtual machines on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
DiskImageKit is Apple's framework for creating, opening, and inspecting disk images, including ASIF and RAW formats.
BrowserEngineKit is the framework iOS browsers use to host a third-party web engine.
Hypervisor is Apple's framework for building virtualization software.
XPC is Apple's interprocess communication framework for sending structured messages between processes.
CrashReportExtension is for building app extensions that receive and process crash reports.
Darwin is the BSD- and Mach-based system layer under iOS and macOS.
Runtime exposes the Swift runtime's support APIs, including name demangling that converts mangled Swift symbol names back to readable form.
StateReporting is a framework for describing the reportable state of system components as structured metadata keys and values.
The Compression framework provides buffer and stream compression and decompression.
The Objective-C runtime exposes a C API for inspecting and manipulating classes, methods, instance variables, properties, and loaded images at…
AppleArchive is Apple's framework for reading and writing compressed file archives.