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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 refered as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
15 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
16 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
17 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
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37 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
40 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
43 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
61 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
68 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
71 Corlib is self hosting.
79 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
88 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
90 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
91 on par with the PPC port.
93 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
94 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
95 code for the remoting infrastructure.
97 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
98 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
101 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
103 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
104 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
105 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
106 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
108 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
109 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
110 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
111 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
113 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
114 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
115 for structure marshaling.
117 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
118 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
119 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
120 to integrate with Patrik's code.
122 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
123 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
124 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
126 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
129 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
131 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
132 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
133 a successful free software project.
135 The first, deserved, entry goes to
136 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
137 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
138 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
139 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
141 @item Looking for volunteers
143 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
144 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
148 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
150 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
151 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
152 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
153 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
154 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
156 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
157 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
158 library documentation.
160 We have some special needs (read them <a
161 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
162 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
163 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
164 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
166 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
167 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
168 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
171 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
172 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
173 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
176 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
178 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
179 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
180 assignment in the C# language.
182 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
185 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
186 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
187 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
189 Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
190 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
191 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
193 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
194 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
195 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
197 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
200 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
201 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
202 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
204 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
206 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
207 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
208 your sources for the <a
209 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
210 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
212 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
213 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
214 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
215 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
216 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
218 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
220 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
221 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
223 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
224 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
225 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
226 associated web service tools.
228 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
230 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
232 A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
233 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
235 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
236 has been translated as well.
238 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
240 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
241 now landed on the CVS repository.
243 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
244 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
245 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
246 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
249 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
250 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
251 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
255 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
256 available online, from young director <a
257 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
258 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
261 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
262 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
264 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
265 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
266 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
267 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
269 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
270 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
271 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
275 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
276 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
277 compiler and the Mono runtime.
279 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
280 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
281 from the source code it is compiling.
283 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
284 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
285 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
289 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
290 The resulting image contained errors though.
292 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
293 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
295 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
296 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
297 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
299 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
300 run the compiler on Linux.
302 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
303 compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
305 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
306 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
307 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
309 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
310 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
313 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
314 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
315 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
317 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
318 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
319 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
320 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
321 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
322 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
323 code is cross platform.
327 Ajay was the first to notice <a
328 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
329 Mono's first birthday</a>.
331 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
333 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
334 * A complete CLI implementation:
336 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
337 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
339 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
340 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
341 * 92,000 lines of C code.
342 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
343 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
344 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
345 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
346 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
349 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
350 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
351 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
352 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
353 been possible without every contribution.
355 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
356 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
358 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
359 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
360 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
361 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
362 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
363 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
364 to integrate with other object systems.
366 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
367 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
368 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
371 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
372 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
373 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
374 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
379 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
382 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
383 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
384 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
385 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
386 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
387 applications like these in the near future.
389 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
390 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
391 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
392 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
393 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
394 architecture independent layer.
396 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
397 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
398 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
399 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
400 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
401 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
402 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
403 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
404 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
407 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
408 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
413 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
414 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
415 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
417 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
418 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
420 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
421 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
422 applications with it. Details are <a
423 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
425 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
429 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
430 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
431 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
432 being defined at that point to perform compares).
434 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
435 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
436 our resulting corlib.
438 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
440 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
441 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
442 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
443 now a good development tool.
445 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
446 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
447 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
448 bindings, that should simplify application development.
450 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
451 Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
455 I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
456 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
457 to promote free software is going very well.
459 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
461 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
462 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
464 On Monday Piers Haken <a
465 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
466 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
467 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
469 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
470 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
471 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
472 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
473 This means for example that any process can check on the
474 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
476 Of course, those interested
477 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
482 Duncan has written a few sample <a
483 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
485 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
487 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
489 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
490 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
492 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
497 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
498 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
500 Also, we are getting close to
501 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
502 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
503 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
505 Steam is picking up in <a
506 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
507 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
508 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
509 libraries, which is nice to see.
513 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
514 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
515 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
517 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
518 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
519 match the Microsoft implementation.
523 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
524 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
527 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
528 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
533 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
534 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
538 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
539 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
542 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
543 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
544 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
548 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
552 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
553 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
554 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
555 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
557 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
558 been checked into CVS.
560 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
561 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
563 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
564 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
565 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
569 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
570 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
571 that process this data.
573 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
574 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
578 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
579 System.Data class library.
584 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
585 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
587 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
588 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
589 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
590 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
594 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
595 on the Mono runtime. This <a
596 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
597 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
601 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
602 it is possible to get <a
603 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
604 number</a> information on stack traces.
608 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
609 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
610 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
612 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
613 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
615 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
616 compiling most of our regression test suite.
618 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
619 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
621 The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
622 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
624 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
628 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
630 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
635 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
636 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
637 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
639 You can find more information
640 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
642 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
643 and others for these bits.
647 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
648 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
649 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
650 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
651 should make it easier to use and compile.
653 This is another milestone for our <a
654 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
656 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
660 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
661 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
662 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
664 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
665 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
666 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
667 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
668 expose to applications.
671 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
672 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
674 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
679 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
680 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
684 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
685 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
686 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
688 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
693 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
694 fixes and more classes are included.
696 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
697 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
698 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
702 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
703 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
704 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
708 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
710 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
715 Some updates from the hacking lines:
717 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
718 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
719 is part of the ASP.NET support.
721 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
724 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
725 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
726 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
727 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
728 exceptions work). Check <a
729 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
732 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
733 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
735 Early this week Patrik started the string
736 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
737 constructors and deployed the new layout.
739 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
740 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
742 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
743 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
746 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
747 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
748 together are very powerful.
750 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
751 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
757 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
758 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
760 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
761 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
766 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
767 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
769 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
770 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
771 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
775 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
776 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
777 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
778 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
782 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
783 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
784 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
789 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
790 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
791 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
796 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
799 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
800 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
801 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
805 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
806 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
807 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
811 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
812 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
815 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
816 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
817 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
818 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
823 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
824 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
825 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
826 debugging information).
828 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
829 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
831 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
832 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
833 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
835 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
836 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
839 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
840 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
841 us to run the compiler on Linux.
843 Remember to post your bug reports.
845 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
846 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
847 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
848 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
852 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
853 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
854 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
856 A release will follow up shortly.
860 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
861 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
866 MCS compiles on Linux!
868 Today Paolo got the <a
869 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
870 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
871 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
872 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
873 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
874 speed was improved in 400%
876 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
878 Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
879 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
883 The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>
885 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
886 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
887 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
889 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
890 revamped regression test suite.
892 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
893 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
895 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
896 killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>
900 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
905 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
906 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
907 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
909 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
913 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
914 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
915 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
916 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
918 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
919 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
920 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
924 Paolo posted a list of <a
925 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
926 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
927 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
932 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
936 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
938 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
942 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
944 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
945 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
946 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
949 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
950 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
951 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
955 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
956 Self hosting is closer every day.
958 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
962 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
964 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
966 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
967 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
968 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
969 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
971 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
972 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
973 you will get one of the machines.
977 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
981 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
982 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
983 this with the --share-code command line option.
985 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
988 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
992 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
994 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
995 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
996 comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
997 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
998 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1000 Miguel is off to the <a
1001 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1005 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1007 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1008 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1011 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1012 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1013 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1017 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1018 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1021 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1022 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1025 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1026 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1027 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1028 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1030 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1031 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1032 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1035 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1036 a set of web server classes for <a
1037 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1038 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1041 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1042 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1046 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1047 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1048 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1053 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1054 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1058 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1060 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1061 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1063 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1064 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1065 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1066 set of the Perl regex engine).
1070 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1072 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1074 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1075 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1077 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1078 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1081 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1085 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1086 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1087 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1088 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1092 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1093 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1094 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1096 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1097 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1098 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1102 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1103 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1104 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1106 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1107 non-Windows platforms.
1109 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1110 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1111 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1112 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1117 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1118 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1119 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1120 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1125 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1126 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1127 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1130 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1131 compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
1136 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1137 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1138 year, new direction</i></a>.
1140 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1141 System.Windows.Forms.
1145 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1146 development of the compiler with itself.
1148 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1149 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1150 on Linux before the end of the month.
1152 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1153 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1154 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1158 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1159 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1160 being fixed quickly.
1162 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1166 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1168 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1170 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1171 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1173 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1174 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1179 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1180 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1182 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1183 implementation is there.
1187 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1188 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1189 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1190 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1191 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1192 reduce spills and reloads.
1194 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1195 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1196 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1197 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1199 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1201 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1202 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1207 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1208 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1209 Climent for helping to set this up.
1213 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1216 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1219 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1223 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1224 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1226 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1227 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1230 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1232 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1237 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1238 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1239 on Gtk# development.
1245 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1246 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1247 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1248 program is executed.
1250 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1251 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1254 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1255 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1256 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1258 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1259 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1260 made up of 40 tests).
1262 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1263 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1264 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1266 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1267 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1269 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1270 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1273 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1274 replace our interpreter in production.
1280 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1281 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1283 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1285 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1291 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1293 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1299 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1306 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1307 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1308 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1310 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
1313 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1315 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1316 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1317 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1318 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1319 important piece of the puzzle.
1325 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1327 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
1330 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1331 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1337 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
1338 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1339 the array handling support.
1345 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
1348 Some large recent developments:
1350 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1351 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1352 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1354 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1355 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1356 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1358 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1359 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1360 optimize foreach for the array case).
1362 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1363 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1364 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1365 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1366 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1367 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1368 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1369 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1371 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1372 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1378 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1379 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1380 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1382 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1383 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1384 recent C# compiler progress.
1390 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1391 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1397 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1398 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1400 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1401 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1402 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1403 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1405 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1412 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1413 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1415 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1417 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1418 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1425 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1426 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1427 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1428 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1430 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1431 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1432 basically focusing on completeness now.
1439 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1440 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1446 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1447 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1448 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1449 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1450 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1451 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1452 handled correctly (Miguel).
1458 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1459 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1460 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1461 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1462 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1468 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1469 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
1475 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1476 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1477 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1478 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1484 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1485 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1486 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1487 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1489 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1495 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1496 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1503 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1504 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1506 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1513 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1514 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1520 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1521 will let you run it.
1523 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
1524 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1526 Good work Mono team!
1532 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1533 are available here: <a
1534 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1540 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1542 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1543 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1549 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1550 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1551 without access to the <a
1552 href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
1558 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1559 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1565 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1566 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1567 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1573 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1574 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1575 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1581 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1582 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1583 get the new class libraries from <a
1584 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1590 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1591 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1592 get the new class libraries from <a
1593 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1599 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1600 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1601 get the new class libraries from <a
1602 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1604 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1606 Got Sean's new Class
1607 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1608 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1614 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1615 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1616 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1623 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1625 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1631 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1632 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1633 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1645 Brian posted a story on <a
1646 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>