Last Last Week in Pony for 2017 - December 31, 2017

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Same procedure as every week, Matthias!

Pony 0.21.1 and 0.21.2 released

We got lucky this Christmas and have been gifted with two new releases!

0.21.1 brought us

• Dynamic scheduler thread scaling based on workload and
• Support setting the binary executable name with –bin-name.

This release comes with improved stability and memory consumption of the runtime, so updating is recommended.

0.21.2 is a bug fix release for Dynamic Thread Scheduling, and thus it deserves our gratefulness even more.

Items of note

• Due to the holidays there has been no Pony Development Sync this week. The next one is scheduled for Wednesday, January 3, 2017 at 03:30 PM (GMT-05:00) America/New York via zoom. We’d love to have you there.

New RFCs

• There is a new RFC out for Class and Actor field Docstrings.

Interested in making a change, or keeping up with changes to Pony? Check out the RFC repo. Contributors welcome!