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authors:
  - theobutler
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - June 9, 2019"
date: 2019-06-09T10:39:55+02:00
---
_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

- Pony 0.28.1 has been released! Check out the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.28.1) to learn more.

- Recording of the June 4, 2019 Pony developer sync is available [here](https://vimeo.com/915527321). A lot of time was spent talking about various language design points. PLT geeks will enjoy this meeting more than our usual ones.

- The Zulip community has surpassed the 200 member mark.

- Earlier this week, GitHub introduced a new feature ["Generate new repositories with repository templates"](https://github.blog/2019-06-06-generate-new-repositories-with-repository-templates/). This is wonderful news who are using the Pony [library project starter](https://github.com/ponylang/library-project-starter) which will now be easier to use. Give it try!

- We could use some assistance from someone who knows their way around LLVM to get Pony compiling with LLVM 8: [ponylang/ponyc#3034](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/pull/3034)

## 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!

### Final Comment Period

- [Remove Traits from Pony](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/138)
