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draft: false
authors:
  - theobutler
description: "The July 21 sync includes discussions about ponyup and the String API."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - July 26, 2020"
date: 2020-07-26T16:00:37-04:00
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The July 21 sync includes discussions about ponyup and the String API.
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## Items of note

-[Audio from the July 21, 2020 Pony Development sync](https://vimeo.com/916249100) is available. Topics included [ponyup](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyup) and changes the standard library String API.

## Releases

- Version 0.5.3 of ponylang-mode has been released. See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponylang-mode/releases/tag/0.5.3) 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!
