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authors:
  - seantallen
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- Last Week in Pony
date: 2017-05-07T06:41:07-04:00
description: Last week's Pony news, reported this week.
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title: Last Week in Pony - May 7, 2017
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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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## 0.14.0 released

[0.14.0 was released](https://ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/0.14.0-released/). You should upgrade as soon as possible. 0.14.0 closes many high-priority bugs. It also contains a breaking change in the standard library.

## An Early History of Pony

Over the last year or two, many folks have asked some variation on "how did Pony come to be?". Well dear interlocutors, ask no more. Sylvan Clebsch published [An Early History of Pony](/blog/posts/early-history-of-pony.md). Question no more. Go forth and spread the word, for ye, it is good.

## Items of Note

Audio from the [May 3rd Pony development sync meeting](https://vimeo.com/915140870) is available for your listening pleasure.

## 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!

### Finished

The code implementing [RFC #23: "require programmer to implement network failure handling"](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/blob/main/text/0023-network-dont-provide-default-implementation-for-failures.md) was released as part of 0.14.0.

### Approved RFCs

[RFC 42: "more persistent collections"](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/blob/main/text/0042-more-persistent-collections.md)
