Welcome to Last Week in Pony! It was a Guns n’ Roses morning here at Pony HQ as we were putting together this week’s Last Week in Pony for you. This week we have an update on the 0.60.0 release progress, with a major milestone achieved in Ponyup’s arm64 Windows support. We also have notes from our latest Office Hours session, which included discussions on electronics, distributed Pony applications, and high-throughput event processing.
Welcome to the July 20, 2025 edition of Last Week in Pony! This week we’re ending support for MacOS on Intel processors and introducing the new ponylang/ssl library. It replaces the deprecated crypto and net_ssl libraries. We also have several new releases, including ponylang/ssl 1.0.0.
Catch up on the latest Pony developments! This week we have the July 8th sync recording available, and a recap of our Office Hours where we discussed monitoring and debugging Pony applications, including DTrace support, runtime tracing, and performance bottleneck identification.
We’re back after a short break! I was traveling last week, so there was no Last Week in Pony post. This week, we have a few updates and some discussion from the last Office Hours.
There will be no Last Week in Pony next week.
Work towards the Pony 0.60.0 release has slowed a bit, but we’re still working towards it.
There has been lots of activity this week from core team members. Most of it in service of getting the Pony 0.60.0 release out the door.
Time to update your copy of ponyup! Pony 0.60.0 is coming later this week with significant work on Arm64 binaries for Linux and Windows.
Full corral and ponyup support with binaries is close for Linux and Windows. “Above the surface” this week, Windows for Arm support landed in ponyc. Under the surface, much work continues on Arm64 binaries for Linux.
LLVM 18 support is here. Ditto for Linux Arm support and Alpine prebuilt binaries for ponyc. It’s an exciting time.