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        <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
        launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
        implementation of the .NET Development Framework. 

        Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
        C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
        Common Language Infrastructure (the CLR) and a set of <a
        href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.  

        You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
        this project.  If you have questions about the project, please
        read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
        Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>

        You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
        source</a> for our work so far.  Grab a <a
        href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
        href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
        the sources</a>

        You might want to <a
        href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
        and mono-announce-list

        You can contact the team at: <a
        href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
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              <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
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              <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
              Self hosting on .NET.
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              <b>JIT</b>
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              Linux/x86 working.
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              <b>Interpreter</b>
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              Working:<br>
              Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
              In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
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              <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
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              Corlib is self hosting.
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@item Jul 9th, 2002

        Ajay was the first to notice <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
        Mono's first birthday</a>.

        In a year, we have achieved plenty:
        <ul>
                * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
                * A complete CLI implementation:
                <ul>
                        <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
                        <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
                </ul>
                * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
                * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
                * 92,000 lines of C code.
                * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
                * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
                * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
                  System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
                * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
        </ul>

        Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
        feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
        list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
        countless hours of bug hunting.  This project would not have
        been possible with every contribution.  

        It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
        project.  I think we have built a new and exciting community.

        Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
        looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
        Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
        `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
        scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
        GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
        to integrate with other object systems.

        Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
        year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
        all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
        code generation.

        A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
        to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
        regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
        down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
        track for so long.

@item Jul 8th, 2002

        Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
        Linux/PowerPC.

        Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
        href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
        player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
        technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
        Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
        applications like these in the near future.

        Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
        code in the JIT engine to our internal representation.  This
        means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
        architecture-specific code to maintain.  The inliner, constant
        folder and constant propagation are also done at the
        architecture independent layer.

        Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
        Linux with the Mono runtime.  It still needs polishing though,
        and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
        appreciated.  The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
        PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
        do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
        most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
        thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
        the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
        Linux.

        Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
        implements the Win32 semantics.  Now only redirection is
        missing.

@item Jul 3rd, 2002

        Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
        conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday.  Details are
        <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>

        You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
        <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>

        Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
        conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
        applications with it.  Details are <a
        href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
        and <a
        href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>

@item Jun 30, 2002

        Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
        compile our corlib.  The compilation was tricky because of the way
        MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
        being defined at that point to perform compares).

        Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
        remaining issues.  Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
        our resulting corlib.

        Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.

        I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS.  The
        interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
        using MCS itself.  Which is a good test that the compiler is 
        now a good development tool.

        Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
        there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
        Evolution's composer).  And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
        bindings, that should simplify application development.

        A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
        Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms. 

@item Jun 24, 2002

        Duncan has written a few sample <a
        href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">gtk# demo apps</a>..

@item Jun 20, 2002

        Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
        Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls.  Session tracking is
        next.  Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.

        Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
        XmlSerialization code.  All fields had to be re-ordered to
        match the Microsoft implementation.

@item Jun 19, 2002

        You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS 
        compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
        website</a>.
      
        New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
        http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.

@item Jun 10, 2002

        Ajay <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
        today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.

@item Jun 7, 2002

        <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes!  More working code!
        Better compiler!  Faster runtime!  Less bugs! 

        You can get it <a
        href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
        href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
        href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).

@item Jun 3rd, 2002

        CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.

@item May 31, 2002

        Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
        .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
        It is currently on its infancy.  But very good news, now we need to 
        upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.

        Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
        been checked into CVS.

        Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
        PInvoke dlls to other libraries).

        <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
        a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad.  And Rodrigo
        started the OleDB using LibGDA.

@item May 27, 2002

        An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
        Mono news.  I find it surprising that there are so many tools
        that process this data.  

        Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
        now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.

@item May 26, 2002

        Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
        System.Data class library.

@item May 24, 2002

        Ajay <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
        checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.

        Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
        templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
        and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
        ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.

@item May 22, 2002

        <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
        on the Mono runtime.  This <a
        href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
        MonoLogo running Gtk#.

@item May 21, 2002

        Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
        it is possible to get <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
        number</a> information on stack traces.

@item May 20, 2002

        XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
        available on the AnonCVS servers.  This is part of the ASP.NET
        support in Mono.  Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.

        Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
        implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.  

        Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
        compiling most of our regression test suite.

        Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
        polishing the underlying network infrastructure.

        The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
        VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.

        Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter

@item May 9, 2002

        Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
        engine.  Read <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
        it</a>

@item May 5, 2002

        We are able to retrieve simple data from the database 
        using our ADO.NET like functionality.  Only string and integer data
        types are supported right now but more are in the works.
        
        You can find more information 
        at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
        
        Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim, 
        and others for these bits.

@item May 4th, 2002

        Rodrigo Moya announced <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
        LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
        This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
        should make it easier to use and compile. 

        This is another milestone for our <a
        href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>

        We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)

@item May 2nd, 2002

        Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
        Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
        on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.

        Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
        simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
        we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono.  This is needed to fully
        emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
        expose to applications.

        News from the <a
        href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
        href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
        support</a>, Mike <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
        the story</a>   

@item May 1st, 2002

        Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
        <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>

@item Apr 26, 2002

        Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
        href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
        (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
        <a
        href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
        to BaseLabs).

@item Apr 24, 2002

        <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
        fixes and more classes are included.

        A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
        been packaged for your download pleasure.  Binaries are
        included.  The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
        are available.

        You can get it <a
        href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
        href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
        href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).

@item Apr 23, 2002

        SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>

        Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
        their new release.

@item Apr 20, 2002

        Some updates from the hacking lines:

        <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
        http runtime support and started work on thread pools.  This
        is part of the ASP.NET support.

        <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
        hacking on MonoDoc.

        <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
        working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
        the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
        rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
        exceptions work).  Check <a
        href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
        goodies.

        <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
        made the compiler twice as fast this week:

        Early this week Patrik started the string
        rewrite in the runtime.  Today Dietmar finished the
        constructors and deployed the new layout. 

        Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
        turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.

        Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
        with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
        representation.

        At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
        implemented constant propagation.  These two optimizations
        together are very powerful.

        <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
        with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
        Ravi, Sergey)


@item Apr 18, 2002

        Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
        CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.

        Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
        our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
        on CVS as well.

@item Apr 11, 2002

        Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>

        Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
        href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
        people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.

@item Apr 6, 2002

        <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
        Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
        helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
        resource for anyone interested in remoting.

@item Apr 5, 2002

        Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
        Dietmar.  Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
        This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
        Mono.

@item Mar 28, 2002

        Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
        to Martin's work.  The resulting dwarf file can be used to
        single step C# code in GDB.  A document will be shortly published with
        the details.

@item Mar 27, 2002

        <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
        been released.

        A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
        been packaged for your download pleasure.  Binaries are
        included.  The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
        are available.

        You can get it <a
        href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
        href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
        href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).

@item Mar 26, 2002

        Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
        us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler.  Goodies are on
        CVS.

        <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
        href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
        World</a>.  Mike posted some <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>


@item Mar 19, 2002

        Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
        on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
        the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
        debugging information).
        
        Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
        allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.  

        The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
        also part of the class status now).  Ajay contributed a large
        chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace

        Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
        support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
        internal calls.

        Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
        environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
        us to run the compiler on Linux.

        Remember to post your bug reports.

        The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
        endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick.  These status
        report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
        in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)

@item Mar 12, 2002

        At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
        host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
        hostingness.  We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.

        A release will follow up shortly.

@item Mar 9, 2002

        Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
        it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
        assembly.

@item Mar 7, 2002

        MCS compiles on Linux!   

        Today Paolo got the <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
        compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
        completely for the first time!  The resulting image still contains
        some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now.  Later in the day
        and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
        speed was improved in 400%

        We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.

        Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
        we deploy the more advanced ORP one. 

@item Mar 5, 2002

        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>

        Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
        classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
        the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.   

        Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
        revamped regression test suite.

        Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
        status</a> page again, with even more information available.

        The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
        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>

@item Mar 1, 2002

        RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>

@item Feb 28, 2002

        <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
        has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which 
        shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.

        RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>

@item Feb 27, 2002

        New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
        provides detailed information about missing functionality in
        our class libraries.  Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
        did the XSLT and DHTML magic.

        More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
        enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
        Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)

@item Feb 26, 2002

        Paolo posted a list of <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
        you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now.  Sergey followed up with 
        <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
        suggestions.

@item Feb 25, 2002

        StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.  

@item Feb 24, 2002

        SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)

        Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)

@item Feb 22, 2002

        <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>

        A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
        been packaged for your download pleasure.  The <a
        href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>

        You can get it <a
        href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
        href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
        href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).

@item Feb 21, 2002

        Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
        Self hosting is closer every day.

        Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.

@item Feb 20, 2002

        Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.

        C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing). 

        New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
        is <a href="download.html">available</a>.  We can now easily compile
        Mono on Windows and Linux.  If you had trouble before, use the
        above scripts which will get the setup right for you.

        There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
        use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
        you will get one of the machines.

@item Feb 19, 2002

        Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>

@item Feb 18, 2002

        Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
        modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
        this with the --share-code command line option.

        Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
        libraries.

        PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)

@item Feb 13, 2002

        Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:

        AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar).  Socket work is done
        (Dick).  Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan).  New
        comprehensive tests for colib bits (David).  Nick is driving the
        regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
        New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)

        Miguel is off to the <a
        href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.

@item Feb 11, 2002

        <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>

        A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
        been packaged for your download pleasure.  

        You can get it <a
        href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
        href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
        href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)

@item Feb 11, 2002

        We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
        joined the project in the last couple of days.  The classes
        are rapidly moving.

        An explanation of the relationship between <a
        href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
        and Mono</a>.  

        Nick is still leading our test suite platform.  I can not
        stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
        for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
        stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.

        We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
        non-Linux systems.  Work is moving on native code generation
        for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
        other systems.

        There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
        a set of web server classes for <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
        ASP.NET</a> on Mono.

        Paolo also <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
        posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux

@item Feb 10, 2002

        Mike Kestner has posted an <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
        on his Gtk#</a> activities.

@item Feb 4, 2002

        Adam has done <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
        bindings</a> for .NET.  Adam is cool.

@item Jan 29, 2002

        Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
        Mono: <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
        System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.

        This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
        fully Unicode aware.  This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
        was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
        set of the Perl regex engine). 

@item Jan 28, 2002

        The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
        the terms of the
        <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.

        This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
        (most notably, the XFree86 project).   

        The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
        the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.

        Our <a
        href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
        Release</a>

        Press coverage: <a
        href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
        href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>, 
        <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>, 
        <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.

@item Jan 23, 2002

        New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
        This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
        to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.

        This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
        code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail.  It should also
        expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.

@item Jan 21, 2002

        Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
        Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
        <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>

        Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on 
        non-Windows platforms.  

        C# compiler front:  A lot of focus in the past weeks after
        the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
        tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
        reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
        has begun.

@item Jan 8, 2002

        Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd.  In
        the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
        Linux.  Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
        the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
        Linux.

@item Jan 4, 2002

        Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch.  Class libraries and
        runtimes are now fully Unicode aware.  The details are <a href=
        "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
        here</a>

        Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
        compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
        ChangeLog entries.   

@item Jan 4, 2002

        Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
        year, new direction</i></a>.

        Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
        System.Windows.Forms.  

@item Jan 3, 2002

        Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient.  We can now continue
        development of the compiler with itself.  

        Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
        self hosting system.  We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
        on Linux before the end of the month.

        Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
        href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
        <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.

@item Dec 28, 2001

        After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
        There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
        being fixed quickly.

        We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!

@item Dec 18, 2001

        JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick). 

        JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)

        System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
        PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.

        C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
        the outstanding issues.  More bug fixing allows it to compile
        more programs.

@item Dec 14, 2001

        Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
        two to three times as fast as it did yesterday.  Amazing.

        The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
        implementation is there.

@item Dec 11, 2001

        The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as 
        well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
        recently.  Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
        allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
        and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
        reduce spills and reloads. 

        On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
        much complete.  The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
        visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
        analysis.  There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.

        You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>

        More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
        libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
        `make test' going.

@item Dec 1, 2001

        AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour).  Thanks
        to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
        Climent for helping to set this up.

@item Nov 30, 2001

        All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
        (Dietmar).

        Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
        working now (Ravi).

        More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).

@item Nov 28, 2001

        JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
        Dietmar added exceptions support to it.

        The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
        switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs.  Many
        new more tests.
        
        Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.

        Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.

@item Nov 16, 2001

<blockquote>
        Mike Kestner has posted an <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
        on Gtk# development.
</blockquote>

@item Nov 14, 2001

<blockquote>
        Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
        Linux</a>.  It compiles a sample program and then the sample
        program is executed.

        Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
        functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
        are complete.

        To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
        uses the .NET classes to get its work done.  To make this work
        on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
<ul>
                * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
                  many programs now (our test suite at this point is 
                  made up of 40 tests).

                * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
                  the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is 
                  what Paolo has been working on lately). 

                  The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
                  .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>

                * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
                  compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
</ul>

        At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
        replace our interpreter in production.
</blockquote>

@item Nov 12, 2001

<blockquote>
        Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine.  Sean has
        got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).

        More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.

        Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries. 
</blockquote>

@item Nov 8, 2001

<blockquote>
        Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.

        Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
</blockquote>

@item Nov 5, 2001

<blockquote>
        Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
        tests running now.
</blockquote>

@item Nov 4, 2001

<blockquote>
        Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
        update</a> on his work on Gtk#.  

        Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
        compiler. 

        Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.

        Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
        System.Reflection.Emit implementations.  He has been working
        steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now.  This is the
        foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
        important piece of the puzzle.
</blockquote>

@item Nov 3, 2001

<blockquote>
        Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak. 

        Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
        for the JITer. 

        A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
        new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
</blockquote>

@item Nov 1, 2001

<blockquote>
        Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
        variable length arguments.  Now he depends on Miguel finishing
        the array handling support. 
</blockquote>

@item Oct 27, 2001

<blockquote>
        Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
        morning.

        Some large recent developments:

        The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
        partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
        place now and compile and link the decimal code).

        Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
        the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
        engine that we can finally use all over the place. 

        Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
        Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
        optimize foreach for the array case).   

        Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
        previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong.  Paolo
        has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
        support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
        week.  Dick on the other hand is still working on the
        WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code.  WaitAll is like select on
        steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
        mutexes, events and a couple of others.

        Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
        .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
</blockquote>

@item Oct 18, 2001

<blockquote>
        Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
        properties.  <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
        days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.  

        Ximian users around the world <!--a
        href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
        recent C# compiler progress.
</blockquote>

@item Oct 17, 2001

<blockquote>
        Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
        (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
</blockquote>

@item Oct 15, 2001

<blockquote>
        JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
        creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).  

        The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
        missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
        delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
        try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.

        System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
        classes.
</blockquote>

@item Oct 5, 2001

<blockquote>
        Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
        assembler written in C#.  You can get it from his web page:
        <a
        href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.

        The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon.  This
        component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
        eventually.
</blockquote>

@item Oct 4, 2001

<blockquote>
        Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
        executable today.  This means that a very simple .NET program
        that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
        while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.

        The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
        the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
        basically focusing on completeness now.  
</blockquote>

@item Sep 28, 2001

<blockquote>
        <a
        href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
        Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
</blockquote>

@item Sep 26, 2001

<blockquote>
        More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
        runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
        (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
        type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
        Ant (Sean and Sergey);  Refactored and documented the
        internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar);  StatementExpressions
        handled correctly (Miguel).
</blockquote>

@item Sep 21, 2001

<blockquote>
        A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
        support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
        got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
        the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
        got i++ working.   All in tonight's snapshot
</blockquote>

@item Sep 19, 2001

<blockquote>
        Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
        Mono</a> to othre architectures.
</blockquote>

@item Sep 18, 2001

<blockquote>
        <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
        released (runtime engine, class libraries
        and C# compiler).  Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
        0.7 announcement</a> for details
</blockquote>

@item Sep 17, 2001

<blockquote>
        Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
        repository.  Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
        The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
        C#.  You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>

        Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
</blockquote>

@item Sep 10, 2001

<blockquote>
        Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
        importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
</blockquote>


@item Sep 5, 2001

<blockquote>
        The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
        application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!

        This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
        August 28)
</blockquote>

@item Sep 4, 2001

<blockquote>
        Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
        independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
</blockquote>

@item Aug 28, 2001

<blockquote>
        <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b>  The latest snapshots
        will let you run it.   

        Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions, 
        performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll

        Good work Mono team!
</blockquote>

@item Aug 23, 2001

<blockquote>
        Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
        are available here: <a
        href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
</blockquote>

@item Aug 22, 2001

<blockquote>
        New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
        <a
        href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
        href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
</blockquote>
        
@item Aug 20, 2001

<blockquote>
        A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
        service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
        without access to the <a
        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>
</blockquote>

@item Aug 3, 2001

<blockquote>
        Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
        run every night at 10pm Boston time.  
</blockquote>

@item Jul 29, 2001

<blockquote>
        Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
        href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
        href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
</blockquote>

@item Jul 25, 2001

<blockquote>
        The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
        presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
        Open Source Software Convention</a>
</blockquote>

@item Jul 22, 2001

<blockquote>
        Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
        href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>.  You can
        get the new class libraries from <a
        href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
</blockquote>

@item Jul 19, 2001

<blockquote>
        Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
        href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>.  You can
        get the new class libraries from <a
        href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
</blockquote>
        
@item Jul 17, 2001

<blockquote>
        Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
        href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>.  You can
        get the new class libraries from <a
        href="download.html#july-17">here</a>

        Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.

        Got Sean's new Class
        Status web pages up.  These are a lot better than mine, and
        we are now keeping better track of contributors.
</blockquote>

@item Jul 15, 2001

<blockquote>
        Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
        href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>.  Get it <a
        href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
</blockquote>

@item Jul 14, 2001

<blockquote>
        A <a
        href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
        release</a> of the
        runtime, compiler and classes has been made.  Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
</blockquote>

@item Jul 12, 2001

<blockquote>
        I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
        Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it.  I finally <a
        href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
</blockquote>

@item Jul 9, 2001

<blockquote>
        Project launched.
</blockquote>

@item O'Reilly

<blockquote>
        Brian posted a story on <a
        href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>
</blockquote>