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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 - March 24, 2019"
date: 2019-03-24T09:59:00-04:00
---
_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 0.28.0 has been released. It's considered a high-priority bug fix upgrade, so upgrading ASAP is recommended. More details are available in the [release notes](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.28.0).

- Audio for the March 19, 2019 Pony sync is [here](https://vimeo.com/915523946).

- All recordings of Pony development sync meetings going back to the beginning are available without being behind a "paywall". Check them out at [https://vimeo.com/channels/ponydevelopmentsync](https://vimeo.com/channels/ponydevelopmentsync).

- We're leaving Slack for the greener fields of permanent history on Zulip. Zulip is a lot like Slack so the adjustment should be fairly quick. The biggest difference, you have "streams" and "topics" rather than "channels". Learn more at [https://zulipchat.com/help/about-streams-and-topics](https://zulipchat.com/help/about-streams-and-topics) and then join us in the new [Ponylang Zulip](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/).

- We've shutdown our mailing lists since the traffic was minimal, especially after opening the Slack and later Zulip. The mailing list have been put into a read-only mode so they can be referenced in the future. If you occasionally used a Pony mailing list, we invite you to join us in our much more active [Zulip community](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/).

- Have a fun problem you tackled with Pony? Show off your solution at the next Pony Virtual Users Group. Let us know if you're interested on [Zulip](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/189934-general/topic/virtual.20user.20group).

## News and Blog Posts

- We're excited to announce that Josh Horwitz will be speaking at [Detroit Tech Watch](https://detroittechwatch.org/). Join Josh on a tour through Pony, which will allow you to write fast, safe, efficient and highly concurrent programs.

- Andrew Turley updated the [Pony Cheat Sheet](https://www.ponylang.io/media/cheatsheet/pony-cheat-sheet.pdf) to use the ponylang.io domain, include a Zulip link, show how to do doc strings, and fix an error. Go check it out if you haven't already.

## 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!

### Approved RFCs

- [RFC 62](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/blob/main/text/0062-tcpconnection-hard-close.md) for `TCPConnection` hard_close
