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7 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
12 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler:</a></b>
15 Self hosting on Linux and .NET
25 PowerPC: MacOS and Linux.<br>
35 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
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40 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
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47 All assemblies compile.
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60 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
66 <b>Beta 1 Press Coverage</b>
69 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/MonoBeta1PressCoverage.htm" target="blank">May 2004</a>: Mono Beta 1 rallies the press
78 <a href="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/5375/4/">May 3rd, 2004</a>: And then there's Mono
87 <a href="http://tools.devchannel.org/devtoolschannel/04/04/21/169234.shtml?tid=46">Apr 26th, 2004</a>: What is Mono and why should you care ?
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96 <a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award.
101 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
105 <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
110 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
113 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
118 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
121 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
126 <img src="images/b2.png">
129 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
136 The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by <a
137 href="http://novell.com">Novell</a> to create a free
138 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
142 Mono includes <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
143 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">Common Language
144 Runtime</a> (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a
145 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
146 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
147 application. It implements both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
148 and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
151 If you have questions about the project, read <a
152 href="rationale.html">the project launch statement</a>
153 or visit our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
158 For details on the project's future direction, read the
159 <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>, and <a
160 href="download.html">download</a> the latest software version.
161 You can also get a <a href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our
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167 To participate in discussion and development, <a
168 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe to our mailing lists</a>.
169 You can also visit the <a
170 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
171 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a> or the <a
172 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk#</a> and
173 <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
176 @item May 17th, 2004: Huge press response for Mono 1.0 Beta 1
178 Two weeks after the release of Mono 1.0 Beta 1, we take a
179 look at the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target='_blank'>press coverage</a> that followed the
182 @item May 10th, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes Todd Berman
184 The <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
185 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
186 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
189 Todd Berman is a steady contributor to Mono. He has worked
190 everywhere: from the Class Libraries, to the early implementation of
191 the GAC and most recently has lead the effort to develop, port and
192 maintain MonoDevelop an IDE for the Mono environment. His help has
193 been key to the development of Mono.
195 @item May 4th, 2004: Mono Beta 1 available
201 src="http://www.go-mono.com/images/beta1-anim.gif"></td>
202 <td>Mono Beta 1 has been released. See our <a
203 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta1/beta1.html">Release
204 Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
209 @item May 2nd, 2004: mDnsResponder.Net; Global Assembly Cache.
211 Brady Anderson has released the first version of his <a href=
212 "http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mdnsresponder">multicast
213 DNS responder</a> written in C# for the Mono and .NET
214 platforms. This is the foundation for implementing
215 rendezvous-like functionality in your applications.
217 The tree has started to stabilize after all the changes last
218 week to integrate the Global Assembly Cache work that Jackson,
219 Sebastien, Todd and all the volunteers helped us deploy.
221 @item Apr 22nd, 2004: XSP 0.12 released.
223 A new release of XSP is available. It fixes a bug that made Web Services
224 unusable from client proxies. You can download it from <a
225 href="/archive/xsp-0.12.tar.gz">here</a>.
227 @item Apr 21st, 2004: XSP 0.11 and mod_mono 0.8 released.
229 Gonzalo has made new releases of XSP and mod_mono (The ASP.NET
230 hosting service for Mono).
232 Check the XSP/mod_mono <a href="archive/xsp-0.10.html">
233 Release Notes</a> to see what is new and to obtain the source
236 @item Apr 20, 2004: S390 port; Interpreted Updated; Identity classes; System.Drawing; Mono Debugger.
238 Neale who originally wrote the S390 interpreter support for
239 Mono has checked into CVS his port of the S390 JIT engine.
240 Now, if we could only have one of those in our living room.
242 Bernie has checked into CVS a new interpreter for the Mono
243 runtime. This new interpreter translates the CIL opcodes into
244 a new intermediate representation. The new IL representation
245 avoids doing costly lookups during interpretation which means that the
246 interpreter is a lot faster now.
248 Performance wise, the new interpreter is three times faster
249 than the old one when doing a compiler bootstrap.
251 Sebastien has recently completed the identity classes in the
252 Mono Runtime, you can see more details on his <a
253 href="http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/poupou.html">blog</a>
255 New progress on the GDI+ front: Jordi has completed the region
256 code; Ravindra the various brushes that we must support;
257 Sanjay the Icon and BMP loaders (with Mark) and Vladimir has
258 contributed various codecs and a new fresh implementation of
261 Lluis and Atsushi in the meantime has been in charge of
262 completing various pending items from our class libraries:
263 basically an API audit of the things missing for the Mono 1.0
264 release, small but important things.
266 Martin has replaced the old command-line language in the
267 debugger with our home-grown "Command Line" language, a
268 TCL-like command line language that we built for it (its a
269 tiny .NETized Tcl-like language). The interaction process is
270 a lot smoother than it used to be and we are focusing on the
271 usability of the command line language to improve the
272 debugging experience.
274 @item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft.
276 Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding
277 support to the C# compiler to support the various checks required
278 by the Common Language Specification (CLS).
280 In the past the C# compiler was unable to flag any problems
281 related to the creation of cross-language libraries. Today
282 with this patch the compiler will properly flag errors in CLS
283 compliance. Tests for all of the errors have also been
286 <a href="http://www.mainsoft.com">Mainsoft</a> has contributed
287 an implementation of their Basic runtime to the project. The
288 runtime they wrote is written in Java and we are translating
289 this into C# code. The code will reach CVS within the next
292 Mainsoft also contributed an extensive regression test suite
293 for the Basic runtime, a port of the NIST XML tests and their
294 own in-house developed XML tests.
296 @item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released
298 New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released.
300 Gtk# is available from <a
301 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# home page</a> and MonoDoc 0.13
302 is available from our <a href="download.html">download</a>
305 Gtk# now features [ConnectBefore] attribute for hooking up
306 signals; An automake/autoconf setup; the System.Drawing
307 dependency has been dropped and many more docs.
309 And <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/">MonoDevelop 0.2</a>
312 @item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released
314 We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features
315 and improvements are described in our <a
316 href="archive/mono-0.31.html">Mono 0.31 Release Notes</a>.
318 You can download Mono 0.31 packages using Red Carpet, or pick
319 the individual packages from our <a
320 href="download.html">download</a> page.
322 @item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono.
324 Gonzalo has completed the implementation of Async I/O for Mono
325 using the kernel aio_* interfaces. If your operating system supports
326 the aio_ POSIX interface, the FileStream methods that
327 expose asynchronous methods will use this facility instead of
328 emulating it with threads as we have done in the past.
330 We had this request come to us from various people in the
331 past, and we are now looking for your help to test and debug
334 @item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC.
336 Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono
337 JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for
338 this amazing development.
340 @item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston.
342 The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: <a
343 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/MonoMeet.html">Mono Meeting
346 @item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston.
348 On March 5th-6th (Friday and Saturday) there will be an
349 open-house meeting for people interested in Mono to get
350 together with the Mono developers at the Novell offices in
351 in Cambridge Massachusetts (<a
352 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/contact/">directions</a>).
354 The whole Novell Mono team will be here (Atsushi Enomoto, Dick
355 Porter, Duncan Mak, Erik Dasque, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson
356 Harper, Jordi Mas, Lluis Sanches, Manjula, Martin Baulig,
357 Miguel de Icaza, Mike Kestner, Paolo Molaro, Peter Bartok,
358 Sebastien Pouliot, Sachin Kumar) and hopefully Joe Shaw, Nat
359 Friedman, Peter Williams and Ravi Pratap will be joining us as
360 well. Expect to see Todd Berman from MonoDevelop as well.
362 If you are coming, please notify <a
363 href="edasque@ximian.com">edasque@ximian.com</a> about it, so
364 we can add you to the security list, and use the `open house
365 confirmation' subject in your email.
367 @item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released
369 We have released a small bug-fix release of Mono, the release
370 notes are available <a
371 href="archive/mono-0.30.1.html">here</a> and you can download
372 it from our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
374 @item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization
376 We have a new document that describes some <a
377 href="performance.html">common tricks to improve the
378 performance</a> of your Mono or .NET application. These are a
379 summary of techniques that we employed to tune our own C#
382 @item Feb 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released
385 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.30.html">Release
386 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.30. Or go directly to our <a
387 href="download.html">download</a> section
389 @item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial.
391 Sunil Kumar has written an <a
392 href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/cooldev/features/a_net_cplus_ldap_library_cdev.html">introduction
393 to Novell.LDAP</a> class libraries, which are part of Mono.
395 @item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released.
397 A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from:
398 <a href="archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz">archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz</a>
400 @item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories
402 If you have a success story about using Mono or one of the Mono
403 components in any way, we want to hear about you. Please mail
404 your details to miguel@ximian.com
406 @item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
408 There is a <a href="archive/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows
409 Installer for Mono 0.29</a> available now.
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