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draft: false
authors:
  - theobutler
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - September 1, 2019"
date: 2019-09-01T13:52:07+02:00
---
_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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## Items of note

- Pony 0.31.0 was [released](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.31.0) on Saturday. There's one small breaking change. There aren't any major bug fixes or security patches so feel free to upgrade at your leisure.

    [Release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.31.0)

- Recording of the August 27, 2019 Pony developer sync is available [here](https://vimeo.com/915530831).

- Sylvan Clebsch, originator of Pony, will be joining Sean T. Allen to give an all-day Pony tutorial at CodeMesh in London this November. Tickets are still available.

- Andrew Turley proposed a [Pony unsession at Strange Loop](https://github.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop2019/wiki/Unsessions#getting-in-the-saddle-with-the-pony-programming-language). If you're going to Strange Loop and you'd like to see this happen, please add your name to the "interested" section.

- Andrew Turley wrote a [little program](https://github.com/aturley/pony-sync-helper) that grabs all of the recently updated issues in the ponylang org on GitHub and creates a little report for the sync. If you're interested in seeing how to do things like use the GitHub HTTP API from Pony you can check it out.

## RFCs

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

### Ready For Vote

- [Pass LLVM command line arguments to ponyc](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/153)
