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authors:
  - colinobrien
categories: ["Last Week in Pony"]
date: 2017-04-05T10:43:57-04:00
draft: false
title: "Last Week in Pony - April 3, 2017"
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
---
_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

### Releases galore!

There were several "point" releases last week. For a list of full releases see the [releases page](http://www.ponylang.io/categories/release/). If you are running on Windows, it is recommended that you update to [0.12.3](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.12.3) as soon as possible. For those on developing on other platforms, upgrading to at least [0.12.1](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.12.1) as soon as possible is recommended.

[Version 0.12.3](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.12.3)
: Update recommended for Windows users.

[Version 0.12.2](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.12.2)
: Update recommended for Windows users.

[Version 0.12.1](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.12.1)
: Update recommended all users.

[Version 0.12.0](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.12.0)
: Update recommended for all users.

## News and Blog Posts

- [New Website Layout](http://www.ponylang.io/) ponylang.io got an update, as well as an official place for the [Pony blog](http://www.ponylang.io/blog/)

- [Pony Play Pen!](https://playground.ponylang.io/) Pony now has a live, browser-accessible sandbox.

- [Developer Sync Meeting](https://vimeo.com/915001704) Audio from the March 29th Pony developer sync meeting.

- [Acolyte](https://github.com/jtfmumm/acolyte) A procedurally generated RPG inspired by Rogue and written in Pony.

## 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!

### Approved RFCs

- [Add a TCPConnectNotify.received times parameter](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/85)
- [Add RFC for exhaustive match.](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/86)
- [Explicit Partial Call](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/82)
- [Exhaustive Pattern Matching](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/86)

### New RFCs

- [Pipeline or Extension Methods?](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/issues/89)
