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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
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37 and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
45 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
50 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
53 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
71 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 <br>
75 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
76 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
80 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
83 All assemblies compile.
91 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
96 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
104 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
109 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
112 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
117 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
120 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
125 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
128 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
133 <img src="images/b2.png">
136 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
144 @item Dec 10th: Mono Debugger 0.5 released
147 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/blog/archives/000231.html">released</a>
148 a new version of the Mono Debugger.
150 @item Dec 2nd: Mono 0.29 has been released
153 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.html">Release
154 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.29.
156 This release includes the PPC JIT engine running `Hello World'
157 and ASP.NET is considered feature-complete.
159 @item Nov 25th: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices
161 Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from <a
162 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">the Gtk# web site</a>.
164 Sunil has checked in the implementation of
165 System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap
168 @item Nov 14th: Gtk# 0.13 released.
171 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016943.html">announced</a>
172 the release of the <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
173 GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono.
175 @item Nov 13th: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET
177 Sunil Kumar at Novell has <a
178 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016907.html">announced</a>
179 the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for
180 Mono and the .NET Framework.
182 You can obtain the library from <a
183 href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> <a
184 href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/cvs/cvsbrowse.php/ldapcsharp/CsharpLDAP">CSharpLDAP</a>
187 @item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced.
189 The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a
190 href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> have
193 @item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
195 We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
196 28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
197 notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
200 We will bring Mono t-shirts.
202 Mike Kestner released <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
203 and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
205 @item Oct 26th: Last Minute Mono BOF
207 The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
208 place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
209 to plot the evolution.
212 @item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
214 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
215 with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
217 @item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge
219 Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
220 hosting their projects can now use <a
221 href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts
223 href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono
226 Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
227 tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
228 you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
229 repository, and using our <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS
232 @item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
234 Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
235 substrate in Mono that uses the <a
236 href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International
237 Components for Unicode</a> library from IBM. This means that
238 we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
240 Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
241 System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
242 with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
243 implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
244 implementation on top of <a
245 href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> is used on Unix
246 systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
247 maintenance of System.Drawing.
249 There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
251 href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep
252 an eye on recent developments.
254 Bernie Solomon just <a
255 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked
256 in</a> 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
257 runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
259 @item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
261 Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
262 Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
263 href="download.html">download</a> page.
265 @item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
267 You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
268 href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
269 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
270 Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
271 href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
273 @item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
275 Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
276 href="download.html">download</a> page.
278 A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
279 is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
281 @item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
284 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release
285 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
286 completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
287 functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
289 @item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
291 The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
292 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>
293 in English. Originally available only in <a
294 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
295 The book technical review was done by <a
296 href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
297 architect at the Mono team.
299 @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
302 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
303 a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
306 <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a>
307 his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
309 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
311 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
312 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
313 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
314 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
315 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
316 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
317 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
319 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
320 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
322 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
323 been checked into CVS.
325 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
326 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
327 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
328 C-based libxslt that we used before.
330 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
331 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
332 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
333 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
334 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
336 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
337 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
338 file from an .asmx file.
340 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
341 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
342 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
343 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
346 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
347 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
348 Monodoc documentation. The <a
349 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
350 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
353 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
354 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
357 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
359 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
360 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
361 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
362 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
363 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
365 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
366 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
367 problems (you can see a <a
368 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
371 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
372 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
373 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
374 description of instructions for serializing data, these
375 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
376 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
377 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
378 compiler and improving the performance of it.
380 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
381 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
382 serialization process.
384 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
385 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
386 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
387 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
388 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
391 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
392 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
393 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
394 the ECMA provider even more.
396 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
398 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
399 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
400 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
401 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
403 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
404 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
405 compliance to the spec and more.
408 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
409 notes</a> for details.
411 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
414 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
415 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
416 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
417 Brian's site at <a href="
418 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
420 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
421 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
422 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
423 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
424 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
426 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
428 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
429 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
430 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
433 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
434 source code is available on the <a
435 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
437 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
439 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
440 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
441 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
442 href="download.html">download page</a>.
444 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
446 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
447 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
448 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
449 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
450 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
451 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
452 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
454 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
455 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
457 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
459 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
460 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
462 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
464 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
466 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
468 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
470 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
471 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
472 testing it with other ORBs.
474 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
475 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
476 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
477 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
478 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
479 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
480 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
481 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
484 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
486 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
487 are now available from our (<a
488 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
490 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
493 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
494 three distinct flavors:
497 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
498 contain everything necessary to setup a new
499 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
500 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
502 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
503 the assemblies built on that day.
505 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
506 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
507 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
508 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
511 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
513 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
515 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
517 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
518 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
519 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
520 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
522 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
523 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
524 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
525 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
526 engine is still incomplete.
528 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
529 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
530 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
531 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
532 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
533 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
535 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
536 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
537 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
538 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
541 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
542 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
544 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
546 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
547 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
548 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
549 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
550 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
553 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
554 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
555 various ECMA subsets).
557 Peter explains the new build system <a
558 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
560 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
561 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
564 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
566 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
567 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
568 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
569 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
570 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
573 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
574 <li> ref and out parameters.
575 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
576 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
579 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
581 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
582 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
583 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
584 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
586 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
587 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
588 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
591 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
592 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
593 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
594 `monocov'. Details are <a
595 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
596 version is available now.
598 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
600 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
602 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
603 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
605 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
606 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
608 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
610 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
611 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
612 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
613 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
614 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
615 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
617 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
618 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
619 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
620 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
623 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
624 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
625 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
626 added improvements to it).
628 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
629 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
630 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
632 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
633 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
634 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
636 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
637 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
640 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
641 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
642 for ease-of-authoring).
644 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
645 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
647 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
649 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
650 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
651 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
652 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
653 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
654 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
655 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
656 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
657 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
658 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
659 mixed-platform development organizations.
661 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
663 Some technical details are available <a
664 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
666 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
669 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
670 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
671 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
672 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
673 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
674 The patches are available <a
675 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
677 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
678 href="download.html">download page</a>.
680 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
682 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
683 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
684 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
686 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
687 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
689 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
691 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
692 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
693 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
695 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
696 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
697 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
699 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
701 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
702 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
703 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
704 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
705 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
707 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
708 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
709 and a demo is available <a
710 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
712 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
715 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
716 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
718 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
720 Atsushi has created a <a
721 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
722 validating XML reader.
724 There is activity on the <a
725 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
726 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
728 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
730 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
731 only available in German, you can find it <a
732 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
734 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
735 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
736 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
737 to include your information.
739 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
741 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
743 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
745 Zoltan has commited his <a
746 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
747 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
749 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
751 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
752 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
753 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
755 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
757 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
758 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
759 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
761 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
762 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
763 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
765 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
767 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
768 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
770 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
772 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
775 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
776 What do you think about Mono?
778 Is your company involved with the development and
779 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
780 important part of your company's business application
781 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
782 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
783 and the use of Linux in business critical
786 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
787 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
789 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
795 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
797 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
798 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
799 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
800 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
802 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
804 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
805 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
806 bug fix release. No new features.
808 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
810 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
811 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
814 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
815 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
817 Martin also announced a <a
818 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
819 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
821 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
823 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
824 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
825 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
828 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
829 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
830 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
831 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
832 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
835 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
837 A new mailing list for <a
838 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
839 Development</a> has been created.
841 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
843 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
844 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
846 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
848 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
850 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
851 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
852 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
854 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
855 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
856 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
858 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
859 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
860 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
862 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
863 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
865 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
867 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
868 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
869 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
870 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
871 and performance improvements.
874 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
876 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
877 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
878 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
880 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
882 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
883 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
884 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
886 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
887 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
888 how to complete this process <a
889 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
890 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
891 for further discussion.
893 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
895 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
896 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
897 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
898 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
899 straight binding to the C API.
902 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
903 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
906 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
907 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
909 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
911 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
912 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
913 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
914 advantage of Unix facilities.
916 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
918 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
919 If you want to contribute please read <a
920 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
923 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
924 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
925 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
926 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
927 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
928 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
929 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
931 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
933 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
934 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
935 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
937 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
940 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
941 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
943 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
945 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
947 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
948 World Expo. A description is <a
949 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
952 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
953 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
954 shipping that uses Mono.
956 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
958 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
959 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
960 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
961 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
962 and performance improvements.
964 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
965 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
966 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
967 progress on the documentation browser.
969 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
970 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
972 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
974 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
975 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
976 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
977 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
978 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
981 Details of the release are available in <a
982 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
984 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
985 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
986 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
987 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
990 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
992 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
994 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
995 distribution, and MCS works with it.
997 Zoltan has managed to get <a
998 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
999 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
1002 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
1004 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
1005 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
1006 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
1008 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
1010 A new issue of the <a
1011 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
1012 Weekly News</a> has been published.
1014 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
1015 that Sebastien has put together.
1017 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
1019 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
1020 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
1021 improved this to use implicit names as well.
1023 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
1024 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
1025 per-thread basis now.
1027 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
1028 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
1029 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
1030 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
1031 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
1033 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
1034 statements on the grammar.
1036 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
1037 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
1039 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
1041 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
1042 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
1043 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
1046 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
1047 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
1048 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
1050 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
1051 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
1052 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
1053 of their product, also using Mono.
1055 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
1058 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
1059 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
1060 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
1061 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
1063 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
1064 and its available from our <a
1065 href="download.html">download</a> page.
1067 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
1069 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
1071 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
1072 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
1073 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
1075 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
1076 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
1077 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
1078 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
1079 asp.net has been released as well.
1081 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
1083 This release also includes a new exception handling system
1084 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
1085 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
1087 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
1089 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
1090 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
1091 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
1092 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
1095 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
1096 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
1097 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
1099 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
1102 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
1105 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
1106 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
1107 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
1108 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
1110 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
1111 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
1112 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
1113 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
1114 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
1115 server on Unix using Mono.
1117 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
1118 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
1119 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
1120 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
1122 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
1123 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
1124 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
1125 new test application that people can use to test their
1126 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
1127 you can participate in the <a
1128 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
1131 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
1132 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
1134 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
1135 server</a> for Mono.
1137 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
1138 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
1140 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
1141 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
1142 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
1143 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
1145 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
1147 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
1148 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
1150 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
1151 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
1153 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
1154 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
1155 new technology are <a
1156 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
1157 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
1159 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
1160 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
1161 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
1163 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1164 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1167 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1168 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1169 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1170 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1172 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1175 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1176 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1178 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1179 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1180 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1182 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1184 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1185 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1188 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1190 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1191 in Open Office file format.
1193 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1195 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1196 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1198 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1199 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1200 on the improvements in the System.Data
1202 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1203 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1205 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1207 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1208 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1209 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1210 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1211 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1213 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1215 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1216 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1217 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1218 been working on the Security classes.
1220 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1221 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1222 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1223 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1225 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1226 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1228 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1231 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1232 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1234 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1236 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1239 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1240 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1241 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1242 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1243 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1244 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1246 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1247 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1248 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1249 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1250 list</a> mailing list.
1252 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1253 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1254 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1255 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1256 data adapter is also coming soon.
1258 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1260 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1261 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1262 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1263 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1265 Last week we created a new <a
1266 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1267 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1269 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1270 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1273 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1275 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1276 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1277 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1278 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1279 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1280 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1281 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1282 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1283 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1284 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1286 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1287 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1288 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1289 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1290 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1291 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1292 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1293 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1296 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1298 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1299 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1300 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1302 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1303 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1305 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1306 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1307 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1308 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1309 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1310 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1311 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1313 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1314 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1315 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1316 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1317 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1320 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1321 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1322 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1323 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1324 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1325 Documentation Tools</a>.
1327 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1329 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1330 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1331 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1332 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1334 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1335 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1336 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1337 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1338 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1339 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1340 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1341 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1342 configuration file `machine.config'.
1344 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1346 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1348 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1349 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1350 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1353 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1354 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1355 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1356 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1357 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1359 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1361 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1362 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1364 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1365 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1366 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1367 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1368 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1369 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1372 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1374 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1375 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1376 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1378 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1379 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1380 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1381 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1384 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1386 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1387 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1390 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1392 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1393 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1394 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1397 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1398 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1399 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1400 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1401 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1402 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1405 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1407 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1408 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1409 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1410 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1411 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1412 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1414 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1415 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1416 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1418 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1419 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1420 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1421 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1422 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1423 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1424 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1425 on making a good UI in the future.
1427 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1428 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1429 This is the substrate for implementing the
1430 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1432 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1433 classes implementation.
1435 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1436 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1437 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1438 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1439 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1442 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1445 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1446 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1447 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1448 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1449 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1450 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1451 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1452 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1454 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1457 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1458 announced an Apache module that hosts
1459 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1460 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1463 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1465 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1466 released a fresh version of <a
1467 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1468 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1470 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1472 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1473 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1474 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1476 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1478 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1479 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1480 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1483 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1484 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1487 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1489 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1491 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1492 on par with the PPC port.
1494 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1495 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1496 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1498 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1499 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1502 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1504 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1505 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1506 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1507 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1509 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1510 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1511 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1512 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1514 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1515 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1516 for structure marshaling.
1518 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1519 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1520 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1521 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1523 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1524 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1525 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1527 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1530 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1532 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1533 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1534 a successful free software project.
1536 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1537 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1538 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1539 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1540 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1544 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.