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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
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35 You can contact the team at: <a
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38 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
39 about the team members we have created the <a
40 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
41 Which archives can be found <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
48 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
53 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
56 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
74 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
81 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
84 All assemblies compile.
92 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
97 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
105 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
107 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
108 World Expo. A description is <a
109 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
112 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
113 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
114 shipping that uses Mono.
116 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
118 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
119 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
120 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
121 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
122 and performance improvements.
124 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
125 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
126 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
127 progress on the documentation browser.
129 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
130 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
132 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
134 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
135 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
136 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
137 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
138 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
141 Details of the release are available in <a
142 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
144 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
145 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
146 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
147 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
150 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
152 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
154 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
155 distribution, and MCS works with it.
157 Zoltan has managed to get <a
158 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
159 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
162 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
164 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
165 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
166 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
168 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
170 A new issue of the <a
171 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
172 Weekly News</a> has been published.
174 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
175 that Sebastien has put together.
177 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
179 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
180 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
181 improved this to use implicit names as well.
183 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
184 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
185 per-thread basis now.
187 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
188 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
189 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
190 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
191 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
193 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
194 statements on the grammar.
196 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
197 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
199 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
201 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
202 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
203 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
206 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
207 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
208 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
210 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
211 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
212 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
213 of their product, also using Mono.
215 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
218 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
219 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
220 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
221 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
223 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
224 and its available from our <a
225 href="download.html">download</a> page.
227 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
229 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
231 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
232 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
233 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
235 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
236 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
237 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
238 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
239 asp.net has been released as well.
241 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
243 This release also includes a new exception handling system
244 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
245 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
247 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
249 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
250 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
251 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
252 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
255 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
256 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
257 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
259 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
262 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
265 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
266 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
267 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
268 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
270 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
271 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
272 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
273 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
274 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
275 server on Unix using Mono.
277 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
278 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
279 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
280 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
282 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
283 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
284 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
285 new test application that people can use to test their
286 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
287 you can participate in the <a
288 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
291 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
292 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
294 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
297 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
298 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
300 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
301 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
302 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
303 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
305 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
307 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
308 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
310 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
311 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
313 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
314 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
315 new technology are <a
316 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
317 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
319 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
320 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
321 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
323 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
324 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
327 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
328 see Windows screenshots for it <a
329 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
330 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
332 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
335 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
336 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
338 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
339 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
340 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
342 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
344 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
345 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
348 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
350 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
351 in Open Office file format.
353 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
355 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
356 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
358 Tim Coleman posted an <a
359 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
360 on the improvements in the System.Data
362 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
363 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
365 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
367 Tim's SqlClient is <a
368 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
369 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
370 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
371 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
373 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
375 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
376 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
377 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
378 been working on the Security classes.
380 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
381 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
382 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
383 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
385 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
386 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
388 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
391 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
392 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
394 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
396 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
399 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
400 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
401 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
402 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
403 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
404 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
406 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
407 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
408 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
409 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
410 list</a> mailing list.
412 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
413 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
414 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
415 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
416 data adapter is also coming soon.
418 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
420 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
421 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
422 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
423 are not supported by the .NET framework.
425 Last week we created a new <a
426 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
427 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
429 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
430 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
433 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
435 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
436 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
437 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
438 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
439 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
440 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
441 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
442 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
443 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
444 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
446 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
447 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
448 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
449 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
450 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
451 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
452 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
453 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
456 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
458 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
459 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
460 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
462 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
463 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
465 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
466 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
467 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
468 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
469 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
470 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
471 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
473 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
474 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
475 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
476 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
477 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
480 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
481 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
482 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
483 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
484 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
485 Documentation Tools</a>.
487 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
489 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
490 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
491 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
492 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
494 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
495 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
496 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
497 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
498 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
499 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
500 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
501 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
502 configuration file `machine.config'.
504 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
506 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
508 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
509 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
510 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
513 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
514 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
515 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
516 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
517 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
519 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
521 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
522 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
524 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
525 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
526 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
527 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
528 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
529 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
532 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
534 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
535 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
536 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
538 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
539 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
540 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
541 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
544 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
546 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
547 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
550 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
552 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
553 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
554 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
557 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
558 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
559 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
560 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
561 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
562 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
565 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
567 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
568 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
569 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
570 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
571 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
572 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
574 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
575 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
576 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
578 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
579 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
580 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
581 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
582 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
583 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
584 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
585 on making a good UI in the future.
587 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
588 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
589 This is the substrate for implementing the
590 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
592 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
593 classes implementation.
595 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
596 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
597 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
598 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
599 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
602 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
605 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
606 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
607 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
608 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
609 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
610 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
611 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
612 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
614 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
617 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
618 announced an Apache module that hosts
619 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
620 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
623 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
625 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
626 released a fresh version of <a
627 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
628 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
630 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
632 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
633 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
634 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
636 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
638 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
639 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
640 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
643 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
644 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
647 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
649 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
651 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
652 on par with the PPC port.
654 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
655 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
656 code for the remoting infrastructure.
658 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
659 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
662 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
664 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
665 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
666 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
667 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
669 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
670 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
671 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
672 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
674 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
675 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
676 for structure marshaling.
678 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
679 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
680 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
681 to integrate with Patrik's code.
683 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
684 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
685 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
687 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
690 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
692 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
693 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
694 a successful free software project.
696 The first, deserved, entry goes to
697 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
698 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
699 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
700 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
702 @item Looking for volunteers
704 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
705 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
709 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
711 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
712 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
713 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
714 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
715 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
717 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
718 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
719 library documentation.
721 We have some special needs (read them <a
722 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
723 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
724 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
725 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
727 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
728 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
729 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
732 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
733 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
734 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
737 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
739 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
740 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
741 assignment in the C# language.
743 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
746 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
747 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
748 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
750 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
751 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
752 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
754 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
755 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
756 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
758 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
761 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
762 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
763 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
765 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
767 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
768 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
769 your sources for the <a
770 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
771 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
773 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
774 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
775 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
776 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
777 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
779 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
781 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
782 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
784 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
785 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
786 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
787 associated web service tools.
789 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
791 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
793 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
794 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
796 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
797 has been translated as well.
799 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
801 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
802 now landed on the CVS repository.
804 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
805 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
806 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
807 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
810 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
811 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
812 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
816 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
817 available online, from young director <a
818 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
819 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
822 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
823 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
825 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
826 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
827 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
828 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
830 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
831 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
832 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
836 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
837 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
838 compiler and the Mono runtime.
840 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
841 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
842 from the source code it is compiling.
844 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
845 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
846 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
850 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
851 The resulting image contained errors though.
853 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
854 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
856 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
857 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
858 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
860 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
861 run the compiler on Linux.
863 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
864 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
866 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
867 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
868 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
870 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
871 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
874 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
875 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
876 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
878 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
879 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
880 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
881 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
882 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
883 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
884 code is cross platform.
888 Ajay was the first to notice <a
889 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
890 Mono's first birthday</a>.
892 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
894 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
895 * A complete CLI implementation:
897 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
898 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
900 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
901 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
902 * 92,000 lines of C code.
903 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
904 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
905 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
906 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
907 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
910 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
911 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
912 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
913 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
914 been possible without every contribution.
916 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
917 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
919 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
920 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
921 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
922 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
923 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
924 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
925 to integrate with other object systems.
927 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
928 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
929 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
932 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
933 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
934 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
935 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
940 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
943 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
944 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
945 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
946 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
947 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
948 applications like these in the near future.
950 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
951 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
952 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
953 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
954 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
955 architecture independent layer.
957 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
958 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
959 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
960 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
961 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
962 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
963 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
964 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
965 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
968 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
969 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
974 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
975 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
976 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
978 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
979 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
981 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
982 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
983 applications with it. Details are <a
984 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
986 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
990 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
991 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
992 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
993 being defined at that point to perform compares).
995 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
996 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
997 our resulting corlib.
999 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
1001 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
1002 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
1003 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
1004 now a good development tool.
1006 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
1007 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
1008 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
1009 bindings, that should simplify application development.
1011 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
1012 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
1016 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
1017 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
1018 to promote free software is going very well.
1020 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
1022 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
1023 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
1025 On Monday Piers Haken <a
1026 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
1027 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
1028 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
1030 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
1031 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
1032 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
1033 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
1034 This means for example that any process can check on the
1035 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
1037 Of course, those interested
1038 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
1043 Duncan has written a few sample <a
1044 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
1045 applications</a> (<a
1046 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
1048 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
1050 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
1051 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
1052 She also got some <a
1053 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
1058 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
1059 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
1061 Also, we are getting close to
1062 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
1063 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
1064 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
1066 Steam is picking up in <a
1067 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
1068 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
1069 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
1070 libraries, which is nice to see.
1074 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
1075 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
1076 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
1078 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
1079 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
1080 match the Microsoft implementation.
1084 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
1085 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
1088 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
1089 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
1094 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
1095 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
1099 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
1100 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1103 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1104 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1105 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1109 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1113 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1114 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1115 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1116 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1118 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1119 been checked into CVS.
1121 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1122 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1124 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1125 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1126 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1130 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1131 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1132 that process this data.
1134 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1135 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1139 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1140 System.Data class library.
1145 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1146 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1148 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1149 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1150 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1151 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1155 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1156 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1157 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1158 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1162 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1163 it is possible to get <a
1164 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1165 number</a> information on stack traces.
1169 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1170 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1171 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1173 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1174 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1176 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1177 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1179 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1180 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1182 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1183 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1185 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1189 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1191 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1196 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1197 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1198 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1200 You can find more information
1201 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1203 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1204 and others for these bits.
1208 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1209 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1210 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1211 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1212 should make it easier to use and compile.
1214 This is another milestone for our <a
1215 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1217 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1221 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1222 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1223 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1225 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1226 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1227 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1228 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1229 expose to applications.
1232 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1233 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1234 support</a>, Mike <a
1235 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1240 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1241 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1245 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1246 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1247 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1249 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1254 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1255 fixes and more classes are included.
1257 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1258 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1259 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1263 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1264 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1265 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1269 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1271 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1276 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1278 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1279 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1280 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1282 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1285 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1286 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1287 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1288 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1289 exceptions work). Check <a
1290 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1293 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1294 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1296 Early this week Patrik started the string
1297 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1298 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1300 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1301 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1303 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1304 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1307 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1308 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1309 together are very powerful.
1311 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1312 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1318 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1319 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1321 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1322 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1327 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1328 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1330 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1331 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1332 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1336 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1337 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1338 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1339 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1343 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1344 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1345 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1350 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1351 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1352 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1357 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1360 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1361 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1362 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1366 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1367 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1368 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1372 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1373 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1376 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1377 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1378 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1379 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1384 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1385 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1386 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1387 debugging information).
1389 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1390 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1392 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1393 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1394 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1396 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1397 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1400 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1401 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1402 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1404 Remember to post your bug reports.
1406 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1407 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1408 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1409 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1413 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1414 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1415 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1417 A release will follow up shortly.
1421 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1422 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1427 MCS compiles on Linux!
1429 Today Paolo got the <a
1430 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1431 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1432 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1433 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1434 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1435 speed was improved in 400%
1437 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1439 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1440 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1444 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>
1446 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1447 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1448 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1450 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1451 revamped regression test suite.
1453 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1454 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1456 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1457 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>
1461 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1466 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1467 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1468 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1470 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1474 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1475 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1476 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1477 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1479 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1480 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1481 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1485 Paolo posted a list of <a
1486 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1487 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1488 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1493 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1497 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1499 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1503 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1505 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1506 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1507 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1510 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1511 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1512 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1516 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1517 Self hosting is closer every day.
1519 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1523 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1525 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1527 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1528 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1529 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1530 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1532 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1533 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1534 you will get one of the machines.
1538 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1542 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1543 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1544 this with the --share-code command line option.
1546 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1549 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1553 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1555 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1556 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1557 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1558 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1559 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1561 Miguel is off to the <a
1562 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1566 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1568 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1569 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1572 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1573 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1574 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1578 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1579 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1582 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1583 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1586 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1587 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1588 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1589 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1591 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1592 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1593 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1596 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1597 a set of web server classes for <a
1598 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1599 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1602 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1603 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1607 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1608 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1609 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1614 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1615 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1619 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1621 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1622 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1624 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1625 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1626 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1627 set of the Perl regex engine).
1631 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1633 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1635 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1636 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1638 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1639 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1642 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1646 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1647 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1648 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1649 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1653 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1654 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1655 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1657 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1658 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1659 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1663 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1664 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1665 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1667 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1668 non-Windows platforms.
1670 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1671 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1672 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1673 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1678 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1679 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1680 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1681 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1686 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1687 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1688 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1691 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1692 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1697 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1698 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1699 year, new direction</i></a>.
1701 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1702 System.Windows.Forms.
1706 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1707 development of the compiler with itself.
1709 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1710 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1711 on Linux before the end of the month.
1713 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1714 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1715 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1719 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1720 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1721 being fixed quickly.
1723 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1727 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1729 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1731 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1732 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1734 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1735 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1740 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1741 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1743 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1744 implementation is there.
1748 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1749 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1750 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1751 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1752 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1753 reduce spills and reloads.
1755 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1756 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1757 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1758 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1760 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1762 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1763 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1768 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1769 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1770 Climent for helping to set this up.
1774 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1777 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1780 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1784 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1785 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1787 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1788 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1791 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1793 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1798 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1799 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1800 on Gtk# development.
1806 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1807 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1808 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1809 program is executed.
1811 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1812 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1815 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1816 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1817 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1819 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1820 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1821 made up of 40 tests).
1823 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1824 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1825 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1827 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1828 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1830 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1831 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1834 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1835 replace our interpreter in production.
1841 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1842 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1844 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1846 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1852 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1854 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1860 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1867 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1868 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1869 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1871 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1874 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1876 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1877 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1878 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1879 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1880 important piece of the puzzle.
1886 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1888 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1891 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1892 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1898 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1899 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1900 the array handling support.
1906 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1909 Some large recent developments:
1911 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1912 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1913 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1915 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1916 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1917 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1919 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1920 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1921 optimize foreach for the array case).
1923 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1924 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1925 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1926 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1927 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1928 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1929 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1930 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1932 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1933 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1939 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1940 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1941 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1943 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1944 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1945 recent C# compiler progress.
1951 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1952 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1958 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1959 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1961 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1962 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1963 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1964 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1966 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1973 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1974 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1976 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1978 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1979 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1986 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1987 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1988 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1989 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1991 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1992 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1993 basically focusing on completeness now.
2000 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
2001 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
2007 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
2008 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
2009 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
2010 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
2011 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
2012 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
2013 handled correctly (Miguel).
2019 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
2020 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
2021 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
2022 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
2023 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
2029 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
2030 Mono</a> to other architectures.
2036 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
2037 released (runtime engine, class libraries
2038 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
2039 0.7 announcement</a> for details
2045 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
2046 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
2047 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
2048 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
2050 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
2056 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
2057 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
2064 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
2065 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
2067 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
2074 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
2075 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
2081 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
2082 will let you run it.
2084 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
2085 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
2087 Good work Mono team!
2093 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
2094 are available here: <a
2095 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2101 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2103 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2104 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2110 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2111 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2112 without access to the <a
2113 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>
2119 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2120 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2126 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2127 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2128 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2134 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2135 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2136 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2142 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2143 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2144 get the new class libraries from <a
2145 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2151 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2152 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2153 get the new class libraries from <a
2154 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2160 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2161 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2162 get the new class libraries from <a
2163 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2165 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2167 Got Sean's new Class
2168 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2169 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2175 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2176 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2177 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2184 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2186 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2192 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2193 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2194 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2206 Brian posted a story on <a
2207 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>