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authors:
  - mwahl
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - September 24, 2017"
date: 2017-09-24T10:00:00+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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## Pony Stable 0.1.0 Released

[Pony-stable](https://github.com/ponylang/pony-stable), the Pony dependency manager, hit its first release *0.1.0* and is now available for convenient installation on your package manager of choice. Find out more in the [release blog post](https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/09/pony-stable-0.1.0-released/).

## Items of note

- We just reached the magical number of [100 contributors](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/graphs/contributors) on the [ponyc repository](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc). Thanks to everyone of you for bringing Ponylang to its current shape!
- In case you missed the Pony development sync of *September 13th 2017*. [The audio recording](https://pony.groups.io/g/dev/files/Pony%20Sync/2017_09_20) is available for your listening pleasure. Highlights this week are jemc and praetonus hunting down a bug in ponyc (thrilling!), jemc talking about the ponycc compiler design and someone trying to be sean (and failing miserably).
- [RFC 46 - More Random Methods](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/blob/main/text/0046-more-random-methods.md) has been implemented and will be available with the next release of ponyc.

## 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!
