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        <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
        launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
        implementation of the .NET Development Framework.

        Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
        C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
        Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
        set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.  The
        runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
        application.

        Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
        and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.

        You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
        this project.  If you have questions about the project, please
        read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
        Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>

        You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
        source</a> for our work so far.  Grab a <a
        href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
        href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
        the sources</a>

        You might want to <a
        href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
        and mono-announce-list.  There is also a <a
        href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
        href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.

        You can contact the team at: <a
        href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>

        In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
        about the team members we have created the <a 
        href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
        Which archives can be found <a 
        href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
        We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
        and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>

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              <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
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              <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
              Self hosting on .NET.
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              <b>JIT</b>
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              Linux/x86 working.
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              <b>Interpreter</b>
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              Working:<br>
              Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
              In progress:<br>
              SPARC.
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            <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
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              <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
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              All assemblies compile.
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              <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
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              <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
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              <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
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              <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
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@item Jul 27th, 2003: Daily Snapshots

        We're now building daily snapshots of Mono.  They come in
        three distinct flavors:

        <ul>
                * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
                  contain everything necessary to setup a new
                  installation from scratch.  This includes the Mono
                  runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.

                * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
                  the assemblies built on that day.

                * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
                  'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe' and 'System.dll'. They can be used to
                  re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
        <ul>

        The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>

If you find that the builds are broken, please notify me.
@item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments

        Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
        to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
        is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
        work-in-progress projects that are progressing.

        Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
        well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
        generic program.  Support for handling images with generics
        has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
        engine is still incomplete. 

        On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
        improvements.  Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
        implementation to run its first stylesheet.  Although
        currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
        namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
        will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.

        Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
        of WSDL</a> in Mono.  Now that the web services runtime is
        ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
        development tool.

        Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
        System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.

@item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system;  IPV6 support.

        Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
        addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
        system.  He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
        helped test it and get it into CVS.  We no longer have the
        historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
        Windows.

        This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
        libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
        various ECMA subsets).

        Peter explains the new build system <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>

        Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
        build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
        NET_1_1 build).

@item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.

        Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
        authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
        (which shipped in Mono 0.25).  This works using our ASP.NET
        runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
        new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
        <ul>
                <li> .asmx files.
                <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
                <li> ref and out parameters.
                <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
                <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
        </ul>

        For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>

        GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
        implement System.Drawing continues.  This will provide a full
        GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
        Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.

        MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
        coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
        extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
        their web browsers.

        Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
        With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
        code paths are missing regression tests.  The module is
        `monocov'.  Details are <a
        href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>.  A fresh Gtk#
        version is available now.

        Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.

@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.

        We have released Mono 0.25.  A list of the new features is
        available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.  

        Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
        available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.

@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks

        Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
        services in the Mono runtime.  This allows Mono to work as a
        web services client.  We still require a WSDL compiler to
        compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
        compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
        experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.  

        As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
        increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
        specs.  Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
        arbitrary limits.  This was done as part of our collaboration
        with SourceGear.

        Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
        runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
        coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
        added improvements to it).

        Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
        migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
        advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.

        Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
        regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
        the Mono toolkit.  One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.

        On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
        checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
        and bounds.

        Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
        of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
        for ease-of-authoring).

        Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
        for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.

@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership

        Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
        solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
        that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
        technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
        products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
        development partnership under which Ximian® will provide
        custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
        products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
        both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
        code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
        mixed-platform development organizations.

        <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>

        Some technical details are available <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.

@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.

        OpenLink <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
        the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
        that can be used dynamically from Mono.  This work simplifies
        the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
        have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
        The patches are available <a
        href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.

        Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
        href="download.html">download page</a>.

@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono

        Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
        href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
        of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.  

        A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
        href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>

@item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships

        We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
        generation engine.  A list of the new features is available <a
        href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.  

        Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
        available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
        We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.

@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.

        <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
        their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
        3.0</a> database system.  Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
        On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
        ASP.NET.  Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.

        Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
        href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
        and a demo is available <a
        href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.

        OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
        an ongoing basis. 

        Jon Udell wrote a small <a
        href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>

@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.

        Atsushi has created a <a
        href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
        validating XML reader.

        There is activity on the <a
        href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
        href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>

@item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out;  Team pages.

        The first book to cover Mono is out.  This book is currently
        only available in German, you can find it <a
        href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>

        We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
        where we include a list of some of the people who have made
        Mono possible.  If you have CVS access, please update the page
        to include your information.

@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.

        The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
        details are <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>

        Zoltan has commited his <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
        allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.

@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI;  GtkMozEmbed; SWT#

        Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
        <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool.  Screenshots are <a
        href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
        and <a
        href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>

        Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
        module name: `GtkMozEmbed'.  Read the <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>

        The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>.  Screenshots are
        <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>. 

@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.

        <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
        openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.

@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey

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               <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
                 What do you think about Mono?

                 Is your company involved with the development and
                 deployment of web applications?  Is Linux becoming an
                 important part of your company's business application
                 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
                 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
                 and the use of Linux in business critical
                 applications?

                 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
                 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
                 email us at <a
                 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
               </div>
             </td>
           </tr>
        </table>

@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.

        Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
        that will work with and Mono.  See the mono-winforms-list.  It
        is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
        Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.

@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23

        A new freshly baked release of Mono is available.  Release
        notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>.   This is mostly a
        bug fix release.  No new features.

@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22;  MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.

        Mono 0.22 has been released.  See the <a
        href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>.  This is a bug fix
        release.

        A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
        has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.

        Martin also announced a <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
        release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line). 

@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga

        The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
        continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
        contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
        software project.

        Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug 
        fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
        and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
        and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the 
        point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual 
        machine.

@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.

        A new mailing list for <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
        Development</a> has been created.

@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released

        Mono 0.21 has been released.  This is only a bug fix release.
        The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.

        Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>

@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released;   New Apache module released.

        Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
        href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
        Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.

        Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
        handles ASP.NET.  The code is available at <a
        href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>

        Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
        tests</a>.  We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.

        Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
        momentum is picking up!  See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.

@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.

        Mono 0.20 has been released.  Check out the <a
        href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
        the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
        There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
        and performance improvements.  

        Gtk# 0.8 has been <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>

        <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
        binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus.  Please read <a
        href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.

@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#

        With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
        looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
        of the Gtk# binding for Mono.

        Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory.  We have
        checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
        how to complete this process <a
        href="documentation.html">here</a>.  Mail the <a
        href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
        for further discussion.

@item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono;  Mono Basic updates.

        Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
        Gnome.  A screenshot can be seen <a
        href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>.  The bindings are available
        on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'.  This is a
        straight binding to the C API. 

        Marco has <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
        an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
        for Mono.

        We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
        JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)

@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site

        Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
        as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32.  The
        Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
        advantage of Unix facilities.

        A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.

        Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
        If you want to contribute please read <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
        message</a>

        Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
        improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
        has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
        source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
        (compiler) and Daniel (runtime).  Also Jackson has resumed
        work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
        generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).

@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.

        <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
        Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
        announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.

@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1

        A <a
        href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
        release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
        Release <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>

@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.

        Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
        World Expo.  A description is <a
        href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>

        Open Link has a <a
        href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
        release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
        shipping that uses Mono.

@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released;  Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7

        Mono 0.19 has been released.  Check out the <a
        href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
        the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
        There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
        and performance improvements.

        We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
        screenshots</a> of various Mono applications.  You can see
        there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
        progress on the documentation browser.

        <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>

@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.

        After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
        released the first version of the Mono debugger.  The Mono
        debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
        unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
        applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
        platforms.  

        Details of the release are available in <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>. 

        The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
        The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
        by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
        applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
        flag to gcc).
        
@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X

        Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client. 

        MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
        distribution, and MCS works with it.

        Zoltan has managed to get <a
        href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
        for .NET) to run with Mono.  The HelloWorld.class runs with
        the Mono runtime.

@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released

        Mono 0.18 has been released.  Check out the <a
        href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
        the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.

@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.

        A new issue of the <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
        Weekly News</a> has been published.

        Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
        that Sebastien has put together.

@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.

        Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
        the designed widgets is now easier than ever.  Alp has
        improved this to use implicit names as well.

        Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
        debugging.  Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
        per-thread basis now.

        Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
        Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module.  Gonzalo
        has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
        are now shared between XSP and mod_mono).  You can get the
        mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono). 

        Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
        statements on the grammar.

        Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
        his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.

@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.

        <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
        href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
        their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
        to run on Mono.

        <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
        href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
        availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.

        Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
        href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
        href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
        of their product, also using Mono.

@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released;  Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.

        Mike Kestner <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
        Gtk# 0.6</a>.  This new release includes many new features and
        bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
        href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.

        Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
        and its available from our <a
        href="download.html">download</a> page.

        Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>

@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released

        Mono 0.17 has been released.  Check out the <a
        href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
        list.   You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.

        Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes.  Many new
        System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
        which can now be hosted in any web server.  A simple <a
        href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
        asp.net has been released as well.

        This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.

        This release also includes a new exception handling system
        that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
        our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).   

@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.

        Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
        classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
        invocation, local variables, and some statements).  The
        compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.

        Screenshots: <a
        href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
        Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
        href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).

        Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
        repository as well.

@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.

        <a
        href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
        Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
        Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
        href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.

        <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
        href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
        href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
        announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
        href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
        server on Unix using Mono.

        Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
        tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site.  This
        tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
        use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>

        Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
        on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono.  There is a
        new test application that people can use to test their
        controls.  If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
        you can participate in the <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
        mailing list</a>

        Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
        href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
        layer</a> and an <a
        href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
        server</a> for Mono.

        Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
        continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes. 

        The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
        runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries.  Also,
        compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
        number of simple optimizations in the compiler.

@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides

        Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
        as well as RSA <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
        We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.

        Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
        can be found in the Mono.Data assembly.  The details of this
        new technology are <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
        It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.

        Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
        Thinking in C#</a>.  The book is Mono-friendly.

        Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
        href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
        here</a>.

        Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
        see Windows screenshots for it <a
        href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
        href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.

        Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
        <ul>
                <li><a
                href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
                Mono Keynote presentation</a>

                <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
                The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
                href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>

                <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>

                <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
                Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
        </ul>

        A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
        are available <a
        href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
        in Open Office file format.

@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.

        Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
        packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.

        Tim Coleman posted an <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
        on the improvements in the System.Data

        The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
        virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.

@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.

        Tim's SqlClient is <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
        capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
        using the TDS protocol.  A screenshot showing a sample client
        running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
        Windows is shown <a
        href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>

        Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
        supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
        present and the X590 certificates are now in too.  Jackson has
        been working on the Security classes.

        Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
        Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
        compiler, runtime engine.  A big thank goes for everyone who
        has been providing bug reports for us to track down.

        Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls.  Gonzalo migrated
        the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.

        In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
        bindings.

        Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
        out the status pages for areas of collaboration.

@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.

        Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
        into CVS.

        The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
        System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
        interfaces in Mono.  This means that it is possible to embed
        ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
        easily embed it with Apache for example.  The XSP module has
        now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.

        We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
        to the Windows.Forms implementation.  If you want to help
        write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
        list</a> mailing list. 

        Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
        servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
        connection pooling.  Currently it can connect, run
        transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types.  A
        data adapter is also coming soon.
        
@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.

        Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
        DES and TripleDES have been fixed;  Rijndael and CFB modes
        still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
        are not supported by the .NET framework.

        Last week we created a new <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
        list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.

        Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
        and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
        binding.  

        Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf.  This
        binding <a
        href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
        unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
        complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
        representation of the types instead of two (the master types
        is defined in CLI-land).  Also Property Editors (<a
        href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
        simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
        configuration to backend keys, following the <a
        href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
        Human Interface Guidelines.</a>

        Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
        number of documents detailing the state of the debugger.  The
        major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
        applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types).  We
        will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
        href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
        shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
        users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
        time as Mono 0.17.

@item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.

        Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
        provider for Mono.  Daniel posted some <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
        Brian posted <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
        about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.

        Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
        cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
        in quite some time.  We are looking for a way to handle
        big-nums.  We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
        classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
        expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
        assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).

        Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
        file/line combos.  This was more complex than generic
        breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
        routines that probably have not been JITed just yet.  Martin's
        focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
        release of it.

        We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
        module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
        necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
        browser for Mono.  This together with the work from Adam will
        be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
        Documentation Tools</a>. 

@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.

        Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
        been working on various database providers.  The MySQL has
        seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
        more extensive regression tests have been checked in.

        Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
        low-level bugs in the portability layer.  Now the Mono handle
        daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
        regions.  Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
        into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
        complete HttpRuntime implementation.  This means that you are
        able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
        want.  This also includes support for the system-wide
        configuration file `machine.config'.

        Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
        it looks <a
        href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
        and <a
        href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
        Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
        working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
        the screenshot).  

        <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
        activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
        Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
        Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
        mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
        Gtk# is seen <a
        href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.

        Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
        work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.

        Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
        new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
        The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
        more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
        chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
        processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
        performance.

@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released;  Debugger updates.

        Mono 0.16 has been released.  Source and RPMs are <a
        href="download.html">available</a>.  The release notes are <a
        href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.  

        Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
        Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
        breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
        debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
        single-stepping).

@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.

        Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
        href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
        Survey</a>

@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban 

        The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
        continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
        contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
        software project.

        This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban.  Sergey has
        been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
        work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
        origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
        Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
        engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit. 

        
@item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms

        Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again.  We
        have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
        chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
        inline</a>).  This includes the use of a master reference file
        that will hold the entry points to document.  All master files
        for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.

        Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
        checked into CVS.  Although ILASM is old and will soon be
        updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.

        Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
        but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
        (including the Mono runtime).  Dwarf-2 is required to compile
        your code.  The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
        step and step-into are supported.  And comes with a Gtk#
        UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
        code.  Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
        on making a good UI in the future.

        Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
        Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
        This is the substrate for implementing the
        System.DirectoryServices assembly.

        Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
        classes implementation.

        After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
        href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
        Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
        going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself.  So
        the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
        implementation. 

@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available

        The <a
        href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
        ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available.  Paolo
        will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
        runtime in your Windows and Linux applications.  Mike Kestner
        will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
        the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
        be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
        the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.

@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration

        <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
        announced an Apache module that hosts
        Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
        module access to the Apache runtime.  This uses the Mono embedding
        API.

@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released

        Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
        released a fresh version of <a
        href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.

@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released

        Mono 0.15 has been released.  Source and RPMs are <a
        href="download.html">available</a>.  The release notes are <a
        href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>

@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.

        Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
        the Mono class libraries.  This is a great step towards
        cooperation between these projects.  Thanks to Paolo for doing the
        merger on our side.

        His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
        that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
        circumstances.  

@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET

        <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th.  Linux World Expo.

        Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
        on par with the PPC port.

        Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
        to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
        code for the remoting infrastructure.  

        More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
        providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
        their first query.

@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET

        Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
        compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
        speed and the generated code quality of MCS.  Today we got a
        50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds. 

        Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
        corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
        well as using the tree widget.  Here is a shot of <a
        href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.

        On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
        support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
        for structure marshaling.  

        Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
        is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
        into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
        to integrate with Patrik's code.

        Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
        implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
        cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.

        A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
        checked into CVS.

@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame

        The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
        to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
        a successful free software project.

        The first, deserved, entry goes to
        Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing 
        infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured 
        himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
        Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.

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