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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
27 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
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32 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
33 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
34 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
37 You can contact the team at: <a
38 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
119 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
122 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
127 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
130 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
135 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
138 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
143 <img src="images/b2.png">
146 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
154 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
156 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
157 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
158 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
159 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
160 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
163 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
164 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
165 various ECMA subsets).
167 Peter explains the new build system <a
168 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
170 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
171 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
174 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
176 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
177 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
178 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
179 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
180 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
183 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
184 <li> ref and out parameters.
185 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
186 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
189 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
191 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
192 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
193 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
194 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
196 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
197 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
198 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
201 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
202 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
203 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
204 `monocov'. Details are <a
205 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
206 version is available now.
208 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
210 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
212 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
213 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
215 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
216 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
218 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
220 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
221 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
222 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
223 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
224 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
225 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
227 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
228 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
229 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
230 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
233 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
234 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
235 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
236 added improvements to it).
238 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
239 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
240 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
242 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
243 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
244 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
246 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
247 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
250 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
251 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
252 for ease-of-authoring).
254 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
255 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
257 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
259 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
260 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
261 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
262 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
263 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
264 development partnership under which Ximian® will provide
265 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
266 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
267 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
268 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
269 mixed-platform development organizations.
271 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
273 Some technical details are available <a
274 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
276 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
279 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
280 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
281 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
282 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
283 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
284 The patches are available <a
285 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
287 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
288 href="download.html">download page</a>.
290 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
292 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
293 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
294 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
296 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
297 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
299 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
301 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
302 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
303 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
305 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
306 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
307 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
309 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
311 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
312 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
313 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
314 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
315 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
317 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
318 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
319 and a demo is available <a
320 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
322 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
325 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
326 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
328 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
330 Atsushi has created a <a
331 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
332 validating XML reader.
334 There is activity on the <a
335 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
336 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
338 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
340 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
341 only available in German, you can find it <a
342 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
344 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
345 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
346 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
347 to include your information.
349 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
351 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
353 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
355 Zoltan has commited his <a
356 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
357 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
359 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
361 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
362 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
363 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
365 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
367 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
368 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
369 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
371 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
372 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
373 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
375 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
377 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
378 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
380 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
382 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
385 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
386 What do you think about Mono?
388 Is your company involved with the development and
389 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
390 important part of your company's business application
391 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
392 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
393 and the use of Linux in business critical
396 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
397 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
399 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
405 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
407 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
408 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
409 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
410 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
412 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
414 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
415 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
416 bug fix release. No new features.
418 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
420 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
421 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
424 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
425 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
427 Martin also announced a <a
428 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
429 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
431 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
433 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
434 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
435 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
438 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
439 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
440 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
441 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
442 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
445 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
447 A new mailing list for <a
448 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
449 Development</a> has been created.
451 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
453 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
454 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
456 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
458 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
460 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
461 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
462 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
464 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
465 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
466 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
468 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
469 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
470 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
472 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
473 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
475 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
477 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
478 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
479 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
480 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
481 and performance improvements.
484 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
486 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
487 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
488 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
490 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
492 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
493 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
494 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
496 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
497 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
498 how to complete this process <a
499 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
500 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
501 for further discussion.
503 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
505 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
506 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
507 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
508 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
509 straight binding to the C API.
512 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
513 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
516 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
517 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
519 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
521 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
522 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
523 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
524 advantage of Unix facilities.
526 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
528 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
529 If you want to contribute please read <a
530 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
533 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
534 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
535 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
536 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
537 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
538 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
539 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
541 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
543 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
544 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
545 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
547 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
550 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
551 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
553 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
555 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
557 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
558 World Expo. A description is <a
559 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
562 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
563 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
564 shipping that uses Mono.
566 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
568 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
569 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
570 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
571 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
572 and performance improvements.
574 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
575 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
576 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
577 progress on the documentation browser.
579 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
580 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
582 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
584 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
585 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
586 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
587 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
588 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
591 Details of the release are available in <a
592 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
594 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
595 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
596 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
597 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
600 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
602 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
604 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
605 distribution, and MCS works with it.
607 Zoltan has managed to get <a
608 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
609 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
612 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
614 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
615 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
616 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
618 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
620 A new issue of the <a
621 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
622 Weekly News</a> has been published.
624 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
625 that Sebastien has put together.
627 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
629 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
630 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
631 improved this to use implicit names as well.
633 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
634 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
635 per-thread basis now.
637 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
638 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
639 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
640 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
641 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
643 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
644 statements on the grammar.
646 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
647 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
649 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
651 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
652 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
653 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
656 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
657 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
658 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
660 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
661 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
662 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
663 of their product, also using Mono.
665 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
668 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
669 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
670 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
671 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
673 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
674 and its available from our <a
675 href="download.html">download</a> page.
677 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
679 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
681 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
682 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
683 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
685 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
686 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
687 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
688 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
689 asp.net has been released as well.
691 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
693 This release also includes a new exception handling system
694 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
695 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
697 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
699 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
700 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
701 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
702 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
705 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
706 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
707 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
709 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
712 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
715 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
716 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
717 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
718 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
720 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
721 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
722 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
723 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
724 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
725 server on Unix using Mono.
727 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
728 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
729 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
730 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
732 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
733 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
734 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
735 new test application that people can use to test their
736 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
737 you can participate in the <a
738 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
741 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
742 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
744 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
747 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
748 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
750 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
751 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
752 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
753 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
755 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
757 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
758 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
760 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
761 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
763 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
764 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
765 new technology are <a
766 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
767 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
769 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
770 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
771 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
773 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
774 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
777 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
778 see Windows screenshots for it <a
779 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
780 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
782 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
785 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
786 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
788 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
789 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
790 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
792 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
794 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
795 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
798 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
800 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
801 in Open Office file format.
803 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
805 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
806 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
808 Tim Coleman posted an <a
809 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
810 on the improvements in the System.Data
812 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
813 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
815 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
817 Tim's SqlClient is <a
818 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
819 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
820 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
821 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
823 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
825 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
826 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
827 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
828 been working on the Security classes.
830 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
831 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
832 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
833 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
835 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
836 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
838 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
841 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
842 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
844 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
846 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
849 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
850 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
851 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
852 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
853 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
854 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
856 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
857 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
858 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
859 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
860 list</a> mailing list.
862 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
863 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
864 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
865 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
866 data adapter is also coming soon.
868 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
870 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
871 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
872 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
873 are not supported by the .NET framework.
875 Last week we created a new <a
876 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
877 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
879 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
880 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
883 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
885 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
886 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
887 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
888 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
889 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
890 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
891 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
892 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
893 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
894 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
896 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
897 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
898 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
899 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
900 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
901 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
902 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
903 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
906 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
908 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
909 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
910 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
912 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
913 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
915 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
916 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
917 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
918 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
919 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
920 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
921 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
923 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
924 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
925 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
926 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
927 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
930 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
931 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
932 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
933 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
934 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
935 Documentation Tools</a>.
937 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
939 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
940 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
941 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
942 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
944 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
945 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
946 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
947 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
948 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
949 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
950 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
951 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
952 configuration file `machine.config'.
954 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
956 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
958 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
959 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
960 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
963 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
964 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
965 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
966 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
967 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
969 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
971 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
972 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
974 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
975 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
976 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
977 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
978 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
979 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
982 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
984 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
985 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
986 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
988 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
989 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
990 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
991 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
994 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
996 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
997 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1000 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1002 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1003 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1004 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1007 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1008 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1009 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1010 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1011 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1012 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1015 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1017 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1018 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1019 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1020 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1021 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1022 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1024 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1025 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1026 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1028 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1029 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1030 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1031 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1032 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1033 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1034 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1035 on making a good UI in the future.
1037 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1038 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1039 This is the substrate for implementing the
1040 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1042 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1043 classes implementation.
1045 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1046 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1047 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1048 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1049 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1052 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1055 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1056 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1057 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1058 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1059 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1060 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1061 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1062 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1064 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1067 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1068 announced an Apache module that hosts
1069 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1070 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1073 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1075 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1076 released a fresh version of <a
1077 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1078 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1080 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1082 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1083 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1084 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1086 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1088 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1089 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1090 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1093 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1094 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1097 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1099 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1101 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1102 on par with the PPC port.
1104 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1105 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1106 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1108 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1109 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1112 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1114 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1115 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1116 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1117 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1119 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1120 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1121 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1122 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1124 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1125 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1126 for structure marshaling.
1128 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1129 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1130 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1131 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1133 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1134 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1135 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1137 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1140 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1142 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1143 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1144 a successful free software project.
1146 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1147 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1148 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1149 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1150 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1154 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.