---
title: "Announcing Capacitor 8"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-capacitor-8-6jr9es0ba
source_url: https://ionic.io/blog/announcing-capacitor-8
type: article
source: "Ionic Blog"
published: 2025-12-09T01:49:03.745Z
updated: 2025-12-09T01:49:24.130Z
tags: ["mobile", "android", "ios", "swift"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 34
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Announcing Capacitor 8

**[Ionic Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ionic)** · 2 min read · 34 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Capacitor 8 has been released with two major updates: Swift Package Manager (SPM) replaces CocoaPods as the default dependency manager for new iOS projects, and Android now includes built-in edge-to-edge support through a new SystemBars plugin that automatically handles status and navigation bar appearance. Existing CocoaPods projects remain supported, and the new SystemBars API provides fine-grained control when needed. The framework continues growing rapidly, approaching one million weekly downloads.

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Tags: [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#ios](https://daily.dev/tags/ios), [#swift](https://daily.dev/tags/swift)

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