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draft: false
authors:
  - theobutler
description: "We have some new RFCs and more updates to the Emacs ponylang-mode. This week's sync meeting includes a discussion about build systems and package management."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - June 14, 2020"
date: 2020-06-14T11:00:57-04:00
---

We have some new RFCs and more updates to the Emacs ponylang-mode. This week's sync meeting includes a discussion about build systems and package management.
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## Items of note

- Audio from the Pony developers sync for June 9, 2020 is [now available](https://vimeo.com/916247934).

## Releases

- Version 0.1.7 of ponylang-mode has been released. See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponylang-mode/releases/tag/0.1.7) for more details.
- Version 0.1.8 of ponylang-mode has been released. See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponylang-mode/releases/tag/0.1.8) for more details.
- Version 0.2.0 of ponylang-mode has been released. See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponylang-mode/releases/tag/0.2.0) for more details.
- Version 0.3.0 of ponylang-mode has been released. See the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponylang-mode/releases/tag/0.3.0) for more details.

## RFCs

### New RFCs

- The 'Add RFC for explicit self member access' RFC has been updated to 'new'. See the [RFC](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/173) for more details.

- The 'Add RFC for assign param syntax' RFC has been updated to 'new'. See the [RFC](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/174) for more details.

- The 'Add log_level argument to `LogFormatter.apply()`' RFC has been updated to 'new'. See the [RFC](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/175) 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!
