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7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
15 application. It implements of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
16 and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
18 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
19 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
20 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
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37 and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
45 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
50 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
53 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
71 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 <br>
75 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
76 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
80 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
83 All assemblies compile.
91 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
96 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
104 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
109 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
112 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
117 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
120 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
125 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
128 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
133 <img src="images/b2.png">
136 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
144 @item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced.
146 The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a
147 href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> have
150 @item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
152 We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
153 28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
154 notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
157 We will bring Mono t-shirts.
159 Mike Kestner released <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
160 and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
162 @item Oct 26th: Last Minute Mono BOF
164 The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
165 place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
166 to plot the evolution.
169 @item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
171 Johannes created a <a href="http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/gtk-sharp/gtk-sharp-0.11-cvs.exe">Windows Installer for GTK# 0.11+</a> and works
172 with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
174 @item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge
176 Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
177 hosting their projects can now use <a
178 href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts
180 href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono
183 Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
184 tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
185 you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
186 repository, and using our <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS
189 @item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
191 Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
192 substrate in Mono that uses the <a
193 href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International
194 Components for Unicode</a> library from IBM. This means that
195 we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
197 Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
198 System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
199 with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
200 implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
201 implementation on top of <a
202 href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> is used on Unix
203 systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
204 maintenance of System.Drawing.
206 There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
208 href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep
209 an eye on recent developments.
211 Bernie Solomon just <a
212 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked
213 in</a> 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
214 runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
216 @item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
218 Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
219 Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
220 href="download.html">download</a> page.
222 @item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
224 You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
225 href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
226 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
227 Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
228 href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
230 @item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
232 Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
233 href="download.html">download</a> page.
235 A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
236 is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
238 @item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
241 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release
242 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
243 completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
244 functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
246 @item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
248 The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
249 href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325799/qid=1064937318/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9624440-8714218?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">available</a>
250 in English. Originally available only in <a
251 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
252 The book technical review was done by <a
253 href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
254 architect at the Mono team.
256 @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
259 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
260 a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
263 <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a>
264 his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
266 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
268 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
269 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
270 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
271 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
272 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
273 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
274 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
276 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
277 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
279 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
280 been checked into CVS.
282 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
283 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
284 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
285 C-based libxslt that we used before.
287 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
288 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
289 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
290 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
291 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
293 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
294 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
295 file from an .asmx file.
297 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
298 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
299 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
300 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
303 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
304 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
305 Monodoc documentation. The <a
306 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
307 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
310 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
311 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
314 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
316 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
317 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
318 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
319 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
320 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
322 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
323 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
324 problems (you can see a <a
325 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
328 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
329 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
330 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
331 description of instructions for serializing data, these
332 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
333 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
334 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
335 compiler and improving the performance of it.
337 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
338 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
339 serialization process.
341 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
342 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
343 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
344 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
345 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
348 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
349 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
350 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
351 the ECMA provider even more.
353 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
355 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
356 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
357 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
358 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
360 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
361 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
362 compliance to the spec and more.
365 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
366 notes</a> for details.
368 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
371 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
372 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
373 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
374 Brian's site at <a href="
375 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
377 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
378 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
379 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
380 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
381 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
383 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
385 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
386 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
387 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
390 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
391 source code is available on the <a
392 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
394 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
396 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
397 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
398 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
399 href="download.html">download page</a>.
401 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
403 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
404 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
405 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
406 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
407 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
408 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
409 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
411 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
412 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
414 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
416 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
417 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
419 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
421 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
423 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
425 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
427 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
428 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
429 testing it with other ORBs.
431 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
432 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
433 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
434 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
435 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
436 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
437 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
438 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
441 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
443 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
444 are now available from our (<a
445 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
447 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
450 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
451 three distinct flavors:
454 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
455 contain everything necessary to setup a new
456 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
457 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
459 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
460 the assemblies built on that day.
462 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
463 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
464 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
465 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
468 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
470 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
472 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
474 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
475 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
476 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
477 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
479 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
480 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
481 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
482 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
483 engine is still incomplete.
485 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
486 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
487 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
488 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
489 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
490 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
492 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
493 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
494 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
495 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
498 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
499 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
501 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
503 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
504 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
505 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
506 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
507 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
510 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
511 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
512 various ECMA subsets).
514 Peter explains the new build system <a
515 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
517 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
518 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
521 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
523 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
524 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
525 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
526 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
527 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
530 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
531 <li> ref and out parameters.
532 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
533 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
536 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
538 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
539 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
540 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
541 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
543 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
544 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
545 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
548 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
549 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
550 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
551 `monocov'. Details are <a
552 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
553 version is available now.
555 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
557 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
559 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
560 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
562 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
563 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
565 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
567 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
568 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
569 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
570 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
571 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
572 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
574 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
575 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
576 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
577 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
580 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
581 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
582 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
583 added improvements to it).
585 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
586 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
587 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
589 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
590 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
591 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
593 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
594 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
597 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
598 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
599 for ease-of-authoring).
601 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
602 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
604 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
606 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
607 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
608 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
609 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
610 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
611 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
612 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
613 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
614 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
615 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
616 mixed-platform development organizations.
618 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
620 Some technical details are available <a
621 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
623 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
626 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
627 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
628 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
629 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
630 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
631 The patches are available <a
632 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
634 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
635 href="download.html">download page</a>.
637 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
639 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
640 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
641 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
643 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
644 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
646 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
648 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
649 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
650 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
652 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
653 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
654 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
656 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
658 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
659 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
660 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
661 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
662 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
664 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
665 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
666 and a demo is available <a
667 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
669 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
672 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
673 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
675 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
677 Atsushi has created a <a
678 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
679 validating XML reader.
681 There is activity on the <a
682 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
683 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
685 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
687 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
688 only available in German, you can find it <a
689 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
691 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
692 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
693 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
694 to include your information.
696 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
698 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
700 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
702 Zoltan has commited his <a
703 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
704 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
706 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
708 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
709 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
710 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
712 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
714 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
715 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
716 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
718 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
719 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
720 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
722 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
724 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
725 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
727 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
729 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
732 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
733 What do you think about Mono?
735 Is your company involved with the development and
736 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
737 important part of your company's business application
738 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
739 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
740 and the use of Linux in business critical
743 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
744 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
746 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
752 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
754 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
755 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
756 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
757 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
759 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
761 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
762 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
763 bug fix release. No new features.
765 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
767 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
768 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
771 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
772 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
774 Martin also announced a <a
775 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
776 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
778 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
780 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
781 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
782 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
785 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
786 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
787 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
788 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
789 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
792 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
794 A new mailing list for <a
795 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
796 Development</a> has been created.
798 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
800 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
801 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
803 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
805 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
807 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
808 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
809 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
811 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
812 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
813 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
815 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
816 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
817 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
819 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
820 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
822 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
824 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
825 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
826 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
827 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
828 and performance improvements.
831 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
833 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
834 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
835 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
837 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
839 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
840 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
841 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
843 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
844 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
845 how to complete this process <a
846 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
847 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
848 for further discussion.
850 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
852 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
853 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
854 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
855 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
856 straight binding to the C API.
859 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
860 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
863 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
864 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
866 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
868 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
869 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
870 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
871 advantage of Unix facilities.
873 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
875 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
876 If you want to contribute please read <a
877 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
880 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
881 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
882 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
883 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
884 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
885 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
886 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
888 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
890 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
891 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
892 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
894 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
897 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
898 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
900 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
902 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
904 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
905 World Expo. A description is <a
906 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
909 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
910 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
911 shipping that uses Mono.
913 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
915 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
916 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
917 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
918 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
919 and performance improvements.
921 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
922 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
923 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
924 progress on the documentation browser.
926 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
927 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
929 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
931 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
932 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
933 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
934 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
935 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
938 Details of the release are available in <a
939 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
941 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
942 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
943 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
944 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
947 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
949 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
951 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
952 distribution, and MCS works with it.
954 Zoltan has managed to get <a
955 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
956 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
959 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
961 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
962 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
963 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
965 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
967 A new issue of the <a
968 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
969 Weekly News</a> has been published.
971 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
972 that Sebastien has put together.
974 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
976 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
977 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
978 improved this to use implicit names as well.
980 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
981 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
982 per-thread basis now.
984 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
985 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
986 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
987 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
988 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
990 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
991 statements on the grammar.
993 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
994 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
996 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
998 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
999 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
1000 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
1003 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
1004 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
1005 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
1007 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
1008 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
1009 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
1010 of their product, also using Mono.
1012 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
1015 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
1016 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
1017 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
1018 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
1020 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
1021 and its available from our <a
1022 href="download.html">download</a> page.
1024 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
1026 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
1028 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
1029 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
1030 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
1032 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
1033 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
1034 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
1035 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
1036 asp.net has been released as well.
1038 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
1040 This release also includes a new exception handling system
1041 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
1042 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
1044 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
1046 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
1047 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
1048 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
1049 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
1052 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
1053 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
1054 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
1056 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
1059 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
1062 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
1063 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
1064 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
1065 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
1067 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
1068 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
1069 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
1070 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
1071 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
1072 server on Unix using Mono.
1074 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
1075 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
1076 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
1077 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
1079 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
1080 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
1081 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
1082 new test application that people can use to test their
1083 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
1084 you can participate in the <a
1085 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
1088 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
1089 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
1091 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
1092 server</a> for Mono.
1094 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
1095 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
1097 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
1098 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
1099 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
1100 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
1102 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
1104 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
1105 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
1107 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
1108 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
1110 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
1111 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
1112 new technology are <a
1113 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
1114 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
1116 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
1117 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
1118 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
1120 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1121 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1124 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1125 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1126 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1127 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1129 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1132 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1133 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1135 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1136 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1137 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1139 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1141 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1142 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1145 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1147 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1148 in Open Office file format.
1150 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1152 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1153 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1155 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1156 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1157 on the improvements in the System.Data
1159 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1160 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1162 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1164 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1165 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1166 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1167 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1168 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1170 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1172 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1173 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1174 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1175 been working on the Security classes.
1177 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1178 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1179 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1180 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1182 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1183 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1185 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1188 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1189 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1191 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1193 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1196 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1197 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1198 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1199 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1200 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1201 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1203 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1204 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1205 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1206 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1207 list</a> mailing list.
1209 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1210 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1211 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1212 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1213 data adapter is also coming soon.
1215 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1217 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1218 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1219 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1220 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1222 Last week we created a new <a
1223 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1224 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1226 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1227 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1230 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1232 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1233 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1234 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1235 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1236 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1237 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1238 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1239 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1240 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1241 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1243 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1244 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1245 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1246 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1247 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1248 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1249 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1250 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1253 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1255 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1256 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1257 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1259 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1260 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1262 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1263 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1264 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1265 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1266 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1267 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1268 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1270 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1271 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1272 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1273 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1274 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1277 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1278 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1279 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1280 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1281 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1282 Documentation Tools</a>.
1284 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1286 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1287 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1288 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1289 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1291 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1292 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1293 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1294 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1295 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1296 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1297 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1298 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1299 configuration file `machine.config'.
1301 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1303 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1305 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1306 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1307 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1310 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1311 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1312 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1313 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1314 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1316 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1318 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1319 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1321 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1322 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1323 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1324 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1325 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1326 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1329 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1331 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1332 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1333 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1335 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1336 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1337 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1338 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1341 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1343 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1344 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1347 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1349 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1350 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1351 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1354 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1355 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1356 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1357 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1358 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1359 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1362 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1364 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1365 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1366 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1367 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1368 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1369 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1371 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1372 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1373 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1375 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1376 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1377 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1378 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1379 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1380 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1381 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1382 on making a good UI in the future.
1384 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1385 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1386 This is the substrate for implementing the
1387 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1389 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1390 classes implementation.
1392 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1393 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1394 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1395 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1396 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1399 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1402 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1403 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1404 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1405 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1406 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1407 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1408 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1409 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1411 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1414 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1415 announced an Apache module that hosts
1416 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1417 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1420 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1422 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1423 released a fresh version of <a
1424 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1425 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1427 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1429 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1430 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1431 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1433 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1435 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1436 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1437 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1440 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1441 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1444 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1446 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1448 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1449 on par with the PPC port.
1451 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1452 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1453 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1455 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1456 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1459 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1461 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1462 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1463 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1464 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1466 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1467 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1468 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1469 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1471 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1472 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1473 for structure marshaling.
1475 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1476 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1477 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1478 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1480 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1481 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1482 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1484 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1487 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1489 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1490 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1491 a successful free software project.
1493 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1494 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1495 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1496 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1497 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
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