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draft: false
authors:
  - theobutler
description: "Version 0.40.0 of ponylang/ponyc has been released! Also, the 'Add String.add `iso` proposal' RFC is now in final comment period."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - May 3, 2021"
date: 2021-05-03T12:27:38-04:00
---

Version 0.40.0 of ponylang/ponyc has been released! Also, the 'Add String.add `iso` proposal' RFC is now in final comment period.
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## Items of note

- Audio from the [April 27, 2021](https://vimeo.com/916364045) Pony development sync call is available.

## Releases

- Version 0.40.0 of ponylang/ponyc has been released.
See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.40.0) for more details.

- Version 0.3.1 of ponylang/readme-version-updater-action has been released.
See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/readme-version-updater-action/releases/tag/0.3.1) for more details.

- Version 0.3.4 of ponylang/changelog-bot-action has been released.
See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/changelog-bot-action/releases/tag/0.3.4) for more details.

- Version 0.3.4 of ponylang/release-notes-bot-action has been released.
See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/release-notes-bot-action/releases/tag/0.3.4) for more details.

## RFCs

### Final Comment Period

- The 'Add String.add `iso` proposal' RFC has been updated to 'final comment period'
See the [RFC](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/185) for more details.

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_Last Week In Pony_ is a weekly blog post to catch you up on the latest news for the Pony programming language. To learn more about Pony check out [our website](https://ponylang.io), our Twitter account [@ponylang](https://twitter.com/ponylang), or our [Zulip community](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com).

Got something you think should be featured? There's a GitHub issue for that! Add a comment to the [open "Last Week in Pony" issue](https://github.com/ponylang/ponylang.github.io/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Alast-week-in-pony).

Interested in making a change, or keeping up with changes to Pony? Check out the [RFC repo](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs). Contributors welcome!
