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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 - October 22, 2017"
date: 2017-10-22T10:00:00+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 0.20.0 released

Pony grew up a bit and we are proud to tell you that release **0.20.0** is out!

With this release we fixed some possible issues with OSX installs. If you have those issues we really recommend upgrading. Also the stdlib experienced a small breaking (but really helpful) change in the `buffered.Writer` class. Read up the details in the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.20.0).

## Pony Stable 0.1.1 released

[Pony-stable](https://github.com/ponylang/pony-stable), the Pony dependency manager, matured a lot and we celebrate its `0.1.1` release. More details are waiting to be read in the [release notes](https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/10/pony-stable-0.1.1-released/). Bugs have been fixed and it is now able to print its own version: `stable version`. How meta!

## News and Blog Posts

- `codec-abc` kindly gave us a glimpse into what its like starting out with Pony. Check out his [My First Pony](/blog/posts/myfirstpony-co.md) post! If you also want to let us know what your first experiences with Pony are, drop us a line.

## Items of note

- The Pony development sync took place last week on Wednesday 3:30 PM (GMT-04:00) America/New York. Did you miss out? Don't worry! We recorded the whole thing. Get the [Audio](https://vimeo.com/915352563) right now! It features Sean (as himself) talking about his thrilling work on runtime backpressure.

## 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!
