Last Week in Pony - January 8, 2023
The headline news of the week, if you are using Pony 0.52.3 to 0.52.5, you should update to 0.53.0 as soon as possible to address a runtime segfault.
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Last Week in Pony - January 1, 2023
The big news is that you should update your Pony version to 0.52.5. It’s very important if you are using Pony 0.51.2 to 0.52.3 that you update as soon as possible.
Last Week in Pony - December 25, 2022
It was a week dominated by conversations about distributed cycle detection. Both the Pony development sync and Office Hours were almost entirely focused on the topic. Given the somewhat complicated nature of the topic, we expect that it will be a regular source of conversation for a while.
Last Week in Pony - December 18, 2022
The big news for this week is that we merged and release a safety fix that can have a large impact on performance for applications that send lots of messages that need to be traced by the garbage collector. We’ll be incrementally adding back in performance as we make the compiler smarter.
Last Week in Pony - December 11, 2022
Not a lot happened in the land of Pony this last week, but a lot will be happening soon.
Last Week in Pony - December 04, 2022
It was a week of releases and CI changes. We’ve switched from FreeBSD 13.0 to FreeBSD 13.1. We’ve dropped Rocky 8 support (for now anyway). We released a new ponyc with a wicked important bug fix. We released a far less interesting version of corral. So, kids, grab a Moxie, put on some Johnny Cash and dig in. It’s that time again, Last Week in Pony time!
Last Week in Pony - November 27, 2022
Here we are again, another week has gone by! So quick. Perhaps I am saying that because I had a four day work week. Perhaps not. There’s plenty that has happened this week in Pony and lots more coming.
Last Week in Pony - November 20, 2022
There’s a lot going on in Ponyland. Ok, not as much as say, the world of cryptocurrencies. (Man, they are really cooking with gas!) But hey, there’s still a lot going on, especially given the size of the community. Here’s your update on all the various things from this last week.
We strongly suggest that you settle in because there’s a lot to catch up on from this past week, so, how about you put on Patsy Cline’s Showcase and get reading!
Last Week in Pony - November 13, 2022
The story of the last week in Pony? Well, I guess you could say it was a story of documentation generation and a story of Windows and a story of DNS. There’s a new Pony compiler version running free on the streets and some Al Green music in the sheets.