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draft: false
authors:
  - red
description: "@Theodus steps away, Zulip goes public, and RISC-V hits main!"
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - July 17, 2022"
date: 2022-07-17T23:59:59-04:00
---

@Theodus writes: "Hey all, I want to announce that I will be stepping down from the Pony core team. I haven't been dedicating time to working on Pony for a while now. Hopefully I'll have some projects in the future that get me to dive back in. I can't thank the community and core team enough for being truly awesome and for teaching me so much ever since I got involved as a high school student back in 2016. This language and community have come such a long way since I got involved back then, and it's been an amazing experience to have participated in some small part of that. I constantly refer to Pony as an inspiration and an example of a great type system, runtime design, and set of values. I'll still be hanging around in Zulip, and hopefully I'll be back to contributing in the future."

We'll keep the seat warm for you Theo!
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## Items of note

- Pony's [Zulip community](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com) is now accessible without an account. We've made most of the streams that make up the Zulip "web public" which means if you visit the Zulip and aren't logged in, you'll be able to read all the content in those streams.
  Want to know why? [There's a Zulip discussion that covers it!](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/189934-general/topic/Making.20the.20Zulip.20public).

- RISC-V support has [landed on main](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/pull/3435). It will go out in the [next release](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/4154) targeted for early August.

- Audio from the July 5th Pony Development sync is available: [https://vimeo.com/917341618](https://vimeo.com/917341618)

- Audio from the July 12th Pony Development sync is available: [https://vimeo.com/917341765](https://vimeo.com/917341765)

## Releases

- Version 0.5.0 of ponylang/changelog-tool has been released.
  See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/changelog-tool/releases/tag/0.5.0) for more details.

- Version 0.1.1 of ponylang/release-notes-reminder has been released.
  See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/release-notes-reminder-bot-action/releases/tag/0.1.1) for more details.

- Version 0.3.5 of ponylang/release-notes-bot-action has been released.
  See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/release-notes-bot-action/releases/tag/0.3.5) 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!
