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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
15 application. It implements of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
16 and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
18 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
19 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
20 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
21 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
23 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
24 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
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32 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
33 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
35 Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
36 and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
44 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
49 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
52 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
70 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 <br>
74 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
75 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
79 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
82 All assemblies compile.
90 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
95 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
103 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
108 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
111 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
116 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
119 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
124 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
127 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
132 <img src="images/b2.png">
135 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
143 @item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced.
145 The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a
146 href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> have
149 @item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
151 We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
152 28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
153 notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
156 We will bring Mono t-shirts.
158 Mike Kestner released <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
159 and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
161 @item Oct 26th: Last Minute Mono BOF
163 The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
164 place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
165 to plot the evolution.
168 @item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
170 Johannes created a <a href="http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/gtk-sharp/gtk-sharp-0.11-cvs.exe">Windows Installer for GTK# 0.11+</a> and works
171 with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
173 @item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge
175 Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
176 hosting their projects can now use <a
177 href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts
179 href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono
182 Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
183 tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
184 you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
185 repository, and using our <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS
188 @item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
190 Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
191 substrate in Mono that uses the <a
192 href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International
193 Components for Unicode</a> library from IBM. This means that
194 we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
196 Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
197 System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
198 with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
199 implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
200 implementation on top of <a
201 href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> is used on Unix
202 systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
203 maintenance of System.Drawing.
205 There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
207 href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep
208 an eye on recent developments.
210 Bernie Solomon just <a
211 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked
212 in</a> 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
213 runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
215 @item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
217 Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
218 Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
219 href="download.html">download</a> page.
221 @item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
223 You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
224 href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
225 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
226 Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
227 href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
229 @item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
231 Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
232 href="download.html">download</a> page.
234 A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
235 is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
237 @item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
240 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release
241 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
242 completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
243 functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
245 @item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
247 The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
248 href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325799/qid=1064937318/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9624440-8714218?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">available</a>
249 in English. Originally available only in <a
250 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
251 The book technical review was done by <a
252 href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
253 architect at the Mono team.
255 @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
258 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
259 a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
262 <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a>
263 his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
265 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
267 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
268 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
269 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
270 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
271 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
272 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
273 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
275 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
276 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
278 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
279 been checked into CVS.
281 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
282 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
283 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
284 C-based libxslt that we used before.
286 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
287 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
288 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
289 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
290 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
292 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
293 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
294 file from an .asmx file.
296 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
297 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
298 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
299 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
302 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
303 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
304 Monodoc documentation. The <a
305 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
306 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
309 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
310 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
313 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
315 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
316 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
317 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
318 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
319 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
321 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
322 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
323 problems (you can see a <a
324 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
327 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
328 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
329 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
330 description of instructions for serializing data, these
331 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
332 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
333 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
334 compiler and improving the performance of it.
336 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
337 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
338 serialization process.
340 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
341 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
342 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
343 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
344 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
347 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
348 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
349 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
350 the ECMA provider even more.
352 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
354 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
355 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
356 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
357 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
359 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
360 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
361 compliance to the spec and more.
364 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
365 notes</a> for details.
367 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
370 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
371 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
372 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
373 Brian's site at <a href="
374 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
376 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
377 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
378 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
379 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
380 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
382 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
384 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
385 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
386 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
389 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
390 source code is available on the <a
391 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
393 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
395 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
396 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
397 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
398 href="download.html">download page</a>.
400 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
402 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
403 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
404 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
405 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
406 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
407 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
408 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
410 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
411 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
413 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
415 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
416 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
418 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
420 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
422 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
424 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
426 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
427 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
428 testing it with other ORBs.
430 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
431 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
432 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
433 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
434 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
435 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
436 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
437 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
440 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
442 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
443 are now available from our (<a
444 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
446 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
449 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
450 three distinct flavors:
453 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
454 contain everything necessary to setup a new
455 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
456 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
458 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
459 the assemblies built on that day.
461 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
462 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
463 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
464 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
467 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
469 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
471 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
473 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
474 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
475 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
476 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
478 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
479 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
480 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
481 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
482 engine is still incomplete.
484 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
485 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
486 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
487 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
488 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
489 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
491 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
492 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
493 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
494 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
497 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
498 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
500 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
502 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
503 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
504 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
505 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
506 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
509 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
510 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
511 various ECMA subsets).
513 Peter explains the new build system <a
514 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
516 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
517 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
520 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
522 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
523 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
524 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
525 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
526 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
529 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
530 <li> ref and out parameters.
531 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
532 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
535 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
537 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
538 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
539 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
540 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
542 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
543 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
544 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
547 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
548 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
549 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
550 `monocov'. Details are <a
551 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
552 version is available now.
554 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
556 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
558 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
559 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
561 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
562 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
564 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
566 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
567 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
568 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
569 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
570 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
571 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
573 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
574 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
575 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
576 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
579 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
580 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
581 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
582 added improvements to it).
584 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
585 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
586 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
588 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
589 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
590 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
592 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
593 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
596 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
597 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
598 for ease-of-authoring).
600 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
601 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
603 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
605 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
606 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
607 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
608 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
609 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
610 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
611 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
612 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
613 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
614 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
615 mixed-platform development organizations.
617 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
619 Some technical details are available <a
620 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
622 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
625 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
626 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
627 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
628 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
629 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
630 The patches are available <a
631 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
633 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
634 href="download.html">download page</a>.
636 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
638 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
639 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
640 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
642 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
643 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
645 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
647 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
648 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
649 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
651 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
652 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
653 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
655 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
657 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
658 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
659 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
660 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
661 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
663 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
664 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
665 and a demo is available <a
666 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
668 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
671 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
672 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
674 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
676 Atsushi has created a <a
677 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
678 validating XML reader.
680 There is activity on the <a
681 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
682 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
684 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
686 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
687 only available in German, you can find it <a
688 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
690 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
691 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
692 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
693 to include your information.
695 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
697 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
699 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
701 Zoltan has commited his <a
702 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
703 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
705 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
707 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
708 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
709 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
711 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
713 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
714 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
715 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
717 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
718 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
719 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
721 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
723 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
724 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
726 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
728 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
731 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
732 What do you think about Mono?
734 Is your company involved with the development and
735 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
736 important part of your company's business application
737 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
738 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
739 and the use of Linux in business critical
742 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
743 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
745 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
751 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
753 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
754 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
755 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
756 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
758 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
760 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
761 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
762 bug fix release. No new features.
764 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
766 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
767 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
770 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
771 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
773 Martin also announced a <a
774 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
775 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
777 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
779 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
780 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
781 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
784 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
785 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
786 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
787 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
788 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
791 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
793 A new mailing list for <a
794 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
795 Development</a> has been created.
797 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
799 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
800 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
802 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
804 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
806 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
807 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
808 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
810 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
811 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
812 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
814 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
815 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
816 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
818 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
819 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
821 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
823 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
824 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
825 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
826 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
827 and performance improvements.
830 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
832 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
833 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
834 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
836 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
838 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
839 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
840 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
842 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
843 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
844 how to complete this process <a
845 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
846 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
847 for further discussion.
849 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
851 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
852 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
853 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
854 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
855 straight binding to the C API.
858 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
859 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
862 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
863 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
865 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
867 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
868 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
869 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
870 advantage of Unix facilities.
872 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
874 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
875 If you want to contribute please read <a
876 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
879 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
880 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
881 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
882 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
883 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
884 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
885 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
887 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
889 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
890 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
891 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
893 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
896 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
897 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
899 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
901 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
903 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
904 World Expo. A description is <a
905 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
908 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
909 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
910 shipping that uses Mono.
912 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
914 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
915 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
916 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
917 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
918 and performance improvements.
920 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
921 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
922 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
923 progress on the documentation browser.
925 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
926 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
928 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
930 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
931 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
932 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
933 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
934 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
937 Details of the release are available in <a
938 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
940 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
941 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
942 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
943 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
946 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
948 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
950 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
951 distribution, and MCS works with it.
953 Zoltan has managed to get <a
954 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
955 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
958 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
960 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
961 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
962 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
964 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
966 A new issue of the <a
967 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
968 Weekly News</a> has been published.
970 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
971 that Sebastien has put together.
973 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
975 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
976 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
977 improved this to use implicit names as well.
979 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
980 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
981 per-thread basis now.
983 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
984 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
985 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
986 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
987 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
989 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
990 statements on the grammar.
992 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
993 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
995 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
997 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
998 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
999 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
1002 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
1003 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
1004 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
1006 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
1007 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
1008 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
1009 of their product, also using Mono.
1011 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
1014 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
1015 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
1016 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
1017 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
1019 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
1020 and its available from our <a
1021 href="download.html">download</a> page.
1023 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
1025 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
1027 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
1028 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
1029 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
1031 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
1032 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
1033 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
1034 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
1035 asp.net has been released as well.
1037 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
1039 This release also includes a new exception handling system
1040 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
1041 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
1043 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
1045 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
1046 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
1047 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
1048 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
1051 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
1052 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
1053 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
1055 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
1058 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
1061 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
1062 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
1063 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
1064 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
1066 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
1067 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
1068 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
1069 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
1070 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
1071 server on Unix using Mono.
1073 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
1074 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
1075 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
1076 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
1078 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
1079 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
1080 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
1081 new test application that people can use to test their
1082 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
1083 you can participate in the <a
1084 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
1087 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
1088 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
1090 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
1091 server</a> for Mono.
1093 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
1094 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
1096 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
1097 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
1098 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
1099 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
1101 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
1103 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
1104 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
1106 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
1107 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
1109 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
1110 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
1111 new technology are <a
1112 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
1113 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
1115 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
1116 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
1117 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
1119 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1120 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1123 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1124 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1125 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1126 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1128 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1131 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1132 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1134 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1135 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1136 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1138 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1140 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1141 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1144 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1146 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1147 in Open Office file format.
1149 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1151 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1152 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1154 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1155 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1156 on the improvements in the System.Data
1158 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1159 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1161 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1163 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1164 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1165 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1166 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1167 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1169 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1171 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1172 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1173 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1174 been working on the Security classes.
1176 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1177 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1178 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1179 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1181 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1182 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1184 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1187 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1188 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1190 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1192 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1195 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1196 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1197 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1198 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1199 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1200 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1202 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1203 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1204 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1205 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1206 list</a> mailing list.
1208 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1209 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1210 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1211 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1212 data adapter is also coming soon.
1214 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1216 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1217 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1218 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1219 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1221 Last week we created a new <a
1222 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1223 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1225 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1226 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1229 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1231 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1232 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1233 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1234 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1235 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1236 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1237 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1238 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1239 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1240 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1242 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1243 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1244 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1245 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1246 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1247 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1248 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1249 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1252 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1254 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1255 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1256 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1258 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1259 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1261 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1262 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1263 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1264 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1265 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1266 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1267 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1269 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1270 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1271 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1272 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1273 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1276 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1277 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1278 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1279 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1280 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1281 Documentation Tools</a>.
1283 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1285 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1286 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1287 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1288 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1290 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1291 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1292 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1293 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1294 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1295 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1296 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1297 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1298 configuration file `machine.config'.
1300 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1302 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1304 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1305 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1306 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1309 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1310 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1311 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1312 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1313 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1315 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1317 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1318 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1320 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1321 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1322 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1323 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1324 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1325 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1328 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1330 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1331 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1332 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1334 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1335 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1336 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1337 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1340 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1342 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1343 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1346 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1348 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1349 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1350 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1353 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1354 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1355 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1356 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1357 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1358 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1361 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1363 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1364 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1365 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1366 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1367 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1368 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1370 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1371 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1372 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1374 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1375 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1376 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1377 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1378 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1379 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1380 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1381 on making a good UI in the future.
1383 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1384 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1385 This is the substrate for implementing the
1386 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1388 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1389 classes implementation.
1391 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1392 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1393 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1394 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1395 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1398 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1401 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1402 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1403 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1404 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1405 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1406 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1407 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1408 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1410 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1413 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1414 announced an Apache module that hosts
1415 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1416 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1419 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1421 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1422 released a fresh version of <a
1423 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1424 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1426 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1428 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1429 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1430 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1432 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1434 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1435 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1436 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1439 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1440 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1443 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1445 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1447 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1448 on par with the PPC port.
1450 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1451 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1452 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1454 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1455 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1458 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1460 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1461 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1462 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1463 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1465 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1466 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1467 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1468 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1470 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1471 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1472 for structure marshaling.
1474 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1475 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1476 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1477 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1479 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1480 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1481 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1483 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1486 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1488 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1489 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1490 a successful free software project.
1492 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1493 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1494 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1495 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1496 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1500 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.