Last Week in Pony - September 3, 2017

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Pony 0.19.0 Released

Yesterday Pony 0.19.0 was released. The release contains breaking changes. If you don’t use the Itertools package then upgrading should be painless. If you do use Itertools , the process should be relatively straightforward. MacOS, FreeBSD and Dragonfly BSD users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible to fix a race condition on the kqueue event system. More details information is available in the release notes.

Items of note

The “Improve Iterools API” RFC has been implemented and released. See the Pony 0.19.0 release notes for how to update for the breaking API change.

API” RFC has been implemented and released. See the Pony 0.19.0 release notes for how to update for the breaking API change. Audio from the August 30, 2017, Pony development sync is available for your listening pleasure.

Andrew Turley has started a project that collects together helpful commands for usage with Pony and LLDB. Check it out and contribute today!

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AUTHOR Sean T. Allen Sean is a member of the Pony core team. His turn-ons include programming languages, distributed computing, Hiwatt amplifiers, and Fender Telecasters. His turn-offs include mayonnaise, stirring yogurt, and sloppy code. He is one of the authors of Storm Applied, and VP of Engineering at Wallaroo Labs.

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