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authors:
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description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
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  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - June 3, 2018"
date: 2018-06-03T21:30:00+02:00
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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).
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## Pony 0.22.3 - [Release Notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.22.3)

Once the release train is a-rollin', ain't nobody gonna stop it!

This time we have two small bug fixes and a lot of improvement on our new release process. Thus upgrading is recommended.

Thanks Dipin Hora, for taking care of this!

## News and Blog Posts

- [Introduction to the Pony programming language](https://opensource.com/article/18/5/pony) by Sean T. Allen

## Items of Note

- GitHub user [ergl](https://github.com/ergl) updated the offline stdlib viewer, [pony-docset](https://github.com/ergl/pony-docset), to support Pony 0.22 as well as the new documentation theme.
- [Matthias Wahl](https://github.com/mfelsche/) (That's me!!!) joined the Pony Core Team. [Yay!](https://twitter.com/matthias_wahl/status/1002638819177435138)
- We just wanted to let you know about the latest [pony-stable](https://github.com/ponylang/pony-stable) release 0.1.3 ([Release Notes](https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2018/06/pony-stable-0.1.3-released/)). It does not contain any user-facing changes but validates our new release process is working nicely. Upgrading is not necessary.

## RFCs

### Under Discussion

- [Add operators for partial integer arithmetic](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/125)

- [Formal Viewpoint Adaptation](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/122)

- [Use Site Variance and Implicit Interfaces for Generic Types.](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/123)

- [Trust boundary specification](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/124)

### Final Comment Period

- [Remove HTTP libraries from the standard library](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/117)

- [Change buffered.Reader.line to return String iso^](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/126)

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