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authors:
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description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - August 27, 2017"
date: 2017-08-27T07:11:42-04:00
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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).
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## Pony 0.18.1 released

Pony 0.18.1 is a high priority bug fix release that has no breaking changes. Upgrading as soon as possible is recommended. Full details are in the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.18.1).

## Items of note

- Pony now supports DragonFly BSD 4.8.
- Audio from the [August 23, 2017, Pony development sync](https://vimeo.com/915150178) is available.

## News and Blog Posts

- Andrew Turley has made a very basic IRC server and client demo in Pony. [https://github.com/aturley/pony-irc-demo](https://github.com/aturley/pony-irc-demo)
- From Gordon Tisher... "So as a learning exercise I've implemented yet another [PEG parsing library](https://github.com/chalcolith/kiuatan). No use of actors, but it can handle left recursion. No doubt has many beginner infelicities."
- From Andrew Turley... "If you're thinking of checking out the [Pony programming language](https://ponylang.io), here's a [list of things that I think are important to know](https://gist.github.com/aturley/49b60c98306d90ffc2f981515827b005). This list is based on a tweet that I wrote."

## 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

- [Improved Itertools API](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/blob/main/text/0049-improved-itertools-api.md)
