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draft: false
authors:
  - theobutler
description: "Version 0.43.0 of ponylang/ponyc has been released. A video of the 10th edition of the Pony Virtual User Group (VUG) is available. LibreSSL and OpenSSL builder Docker images have been updated."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - July 18, 2021"
date: 2021-07-18T17:39:31-04:00
---

Version 0.43.0 of ponylang/ponyc has been released. A video of the 10th edition of the Pony Virtual User Group (VUG) is available. LibreSSL and OpenSSL builder Docker images have been updated.

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## Items of note

- Audio from the [July 13, 2021](https://vimeo.com/916366265) Pony development sync call is available.

- On July 13th the 10th edition of the Pony Virtual User Group (VUG) took place. Check out the video here: [https://vimeo.com/574893226](https://vimeo.com/574893226)

- The [readme-version-updater-action](https://github.com/ponylang/readme-version-updater-action) has been deprecated. Its functionality is now available as a subcommand in the [release-bot-action](https://github.com/ponylang/release-bot-action).

- The `x86-64-unknown-linux-builder-with-libressl-3.1.2` has been deprecated. It has been replaced by `x86-64-unknown-linux-builder-with-libressl-3.2.5`.

- The `x86-64-unknown-linux-builder-with-openssl_1.1.1g` has been deprecated. It has been replaced by `x86-64-unknown-linux-builder-with-openssl_1.1.1k`.

## Releases

- Version 0.43.0 of ponylang/ponyc has been released.
See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.43.0) for more details.

- Version 0.6.0 of ponylang/release-bot-action has been released.
See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/release-bot-action/releases/tag/0.6.0) for more details.

- Version 0.6.1 of ponylang/release-bot-action has been released.
See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/release-bot-action/releases/tag/0.6.1) for more details.

- Version 0.2.2 of ergl/pony-protobuf has been released.
See the [release notes](https://github.com/ergl/pony-protobuf/releases/tag/0.2.2) for more details.

---

_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!
