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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
27 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
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32 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
33 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
34 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
37 You can contact the team at: <a
38 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
116 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
117 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
118 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
120 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
121 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
122 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
124 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
126 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
127 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
128 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
129 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
130 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
132 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
133 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
134 and a demo is available <a
135 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
137 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
140 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
141 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
143 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
145 Atsushi has created a <a
146 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
147 validating XML reader.
149 There is activity on the <a
150 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
151 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
153 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
155 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
156 only available in German, you can find it <a
157 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
159 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
160 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
161 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
162 to include your information.
164 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
166 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
168 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
170 Zoltan has commited his <a
171 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
172 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
174 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
176 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
177 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
178 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
180 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
182 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
183 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
184 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
186 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
187 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
188 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
190 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
192 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
193 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
195 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
197 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
200 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
201 What do you think about Mono?
203 Is your company involved with the development and
204 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
205 important part of your company's business application
206 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
207 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
208 and the use of Linux in business critical
211 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
212 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
214 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
220 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
222 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
223 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
224 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
225 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
227 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
229 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
230 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
231 bug fix release. No new features.
233 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
235 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
236 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
239 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
240 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
242 Martin also announced a <a
243 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
244 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
246 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
248 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
249 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
250 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
253 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
254 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
255 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
256 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
257 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
260 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
262 A new mailing list for <a
263 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
264 Development</a> has been created.
266 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
268 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
269 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
271 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
273 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
275 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
276 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
277 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
279 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
280 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
281 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
283 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
284 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
285 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
287 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
288 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
290 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
292 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
293 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
294 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
295 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
296 and performance improvements.
299 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
301 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
302 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
303 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
305 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
307 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
308 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
309 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
311 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
312 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
313 how to complete this process <a
314 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
315 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
316 for further discussion.
318 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
320 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
321 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
322 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
323 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
324 straight binding to the C API.
327 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
328 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
331 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
332 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
334 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
336 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
337 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
338 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
339 advantage of Unix facilities.
341 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
343 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
344 If you want to contribute please read <a
345 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
348 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
349 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
350 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
351 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
352 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
353 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
354 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
356 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
358 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
359 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
360 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
362 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
365 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
366 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
368 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
370 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
372 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
373 World Expo. A description is <a
374 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
377 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
378 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
379 shipping that uses Mono.
381 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
383 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
384 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
385 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
386 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
387 and performance improvements.
389 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
390 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
391 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
392 progress on the documentation browser.
394 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
395 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
397 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
399 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
400 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
401 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
402 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
403 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
406 Details of the release are available in <a
407 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
409 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
410 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
411 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
412 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
415 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
417 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
419 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
420 distribution, and MCS works with it.
422 Zoltan has managed to get <a
423 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
424 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
427 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
429 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
430 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
431 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
433 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
435 A new issue of the <a
436 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
437 Weekly News</a> has been published.
439 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
440 that Sebastien has put together.
442 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
444 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
445 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
446 improved this to use implicit names as well.
448 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
449 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
450 per-thread basis now.
452 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
453 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
454 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
455 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
456 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
458 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
459 statements on the grammar.
461 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
462 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
464 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
466 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
467 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
468 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
471 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
472 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
473 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
475 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
476 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
477 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
478 of their product, also using Mono.
480 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
483 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
484 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
485 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
486 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
488 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
489 and its available from our <a
490 href="download.html">download</a> page.
492 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
494 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
496 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
497 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
498 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
500 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
501 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
502 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
503 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
504 asp.net has been released as well.
506 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
508 This release also includes a new exception handling system
509 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
510 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
512 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
514 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
515 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
516 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
517 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
520 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
521 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
522 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
524 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
527 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
530 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
531 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
532 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
533 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
535 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
536 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
537 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
538 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
539 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
540 server on Unix using Mono.
542 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
543 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
544 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
545 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
547 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
548 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
549 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
550 new test application that people can use to test their
551 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
552 you can participate in the <a
553 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
556 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
557 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
559 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
562 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
563 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
565 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
566 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
567 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
568 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
570 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
572 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
573 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
575 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
576 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
578 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
579 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
580 new technology are <a
581 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
582 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
584 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
585 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
586 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
588 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
589 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
592 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
593 see Windows screenshots for it <a
594 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
595 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
597 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
600 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
601 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
603 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
604 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
605 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
607 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
609 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
610 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
613 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
615 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
616 in Open Office file format.
618 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
620 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
621 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
623 Tim Coleman posted an <a
624 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
625 on the improvements in the System.Data
627 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
628 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
630 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
632 Tim's SqlClient is <a
633 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
634 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
635 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
636 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
638 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
640 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
641 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
642 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
643 been working on the Security classes.
645 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
646 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
647 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
648 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
650 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
651 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
653 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
656 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
657 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
659 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
661 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
664 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
665 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
666 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
667 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
668 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
669 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
671 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
672 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
673 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
674 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
675 list</a> mailing list.
677 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
678 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
679 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
680 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
681 data adapter is also coming soon.
683 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
685 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
686 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
687 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
688 are not supported by the .NET framework.
690 Last week we created a new <a
691 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
692 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
694 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
695 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
698 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
700 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
701 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
702 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
703 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
704 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
705 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
706 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
707 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
708 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
709 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
711 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
712 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
713 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
714 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
715 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
716 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
717 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
718 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
721 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
723 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
724 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
725 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
727 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
728 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
730 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
731 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
732 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
733 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
734 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
735 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
736 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
738 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
739 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
740 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
741 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
742 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
745 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
746 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
747 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
748 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
749 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
750 Documentation Tools</a>.
752 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
754 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
755 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
756 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
757 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
759 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
760 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
761 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
762 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
763 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
764 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
765 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
766 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
767 configuration file `machine.config'.
769 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
771 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
773 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
774 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
775 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
778 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
779 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
780 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
781 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
782 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
784 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
786 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
787 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
789 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
790 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
791 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
792 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
793 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
794 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
797 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
799 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
800 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
801 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
803 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
804 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
805 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
806 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
809 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
811 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
812 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
815 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
817 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
818 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
819 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
822 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
823 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
824 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
825 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
826 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
827 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
830 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
832 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
833 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
834 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
835 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
836 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
837 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
839 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
840 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
841 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
843 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
844 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
845 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
846 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
847 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
848 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
849 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
850 on making a good UI in the future.
852 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
853 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
854 This is the substrate for implementing the
855 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
857 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
858 classes implementation.
860 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
861 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
862 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
863 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
864 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
867 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
870 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
871 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
872 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
873 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
874 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
875 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
876 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
877 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
879 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
882 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
883 announced an Apache module that hosts
884 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
885 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
888 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
890 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
891 released a fresh version of <a
892 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
893 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
895 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
897 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
898 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
899 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
901 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
903 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
904 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
905 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
908 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
909 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
912 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
914 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
916 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
917 on par with the PPC port.
919 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
920 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
921 code for the remoting infrastructure.
923 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
924 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
927 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
929 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
930 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
931 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
932 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
934 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
935 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
936 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
937 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
939 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
940 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
941 for structure marshaling.
943 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
944 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
945 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
946 to integrate with Patrik's code.
948 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
949 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
950 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
952 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
955 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
957 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
958 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
959 a successful free software project.
961 The first, deserved, entry goes to
962 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
963 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
964 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
965 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
969 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.