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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 - January 5, 2020"
date: 2020-01-05T12:59:32-05:00
---

Ponyup now supports the macOS builds of ponyc! We highly recommend that you update ponyup to the latest version, even if you are a Linux user.

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## Items of note

- Version 0.5.0 of ponyup has been released. See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyup/releases/tag/0.5.0) for more details. We recommend that users of prior ponyup versions delete any `~/.pony/` or `~/.local/share/ponyup/` directories before [installing the latest ponyup](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyup#install-ponyup).

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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!
