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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
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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>
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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 25th: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices
146 Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from <a
147 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">the Gtk# web site</a>.
149 Sunil has checked in the implementation of
150 System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap
153 @item Nov 14th: Gtk# 0.13 released.
156 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016943.html">announced</a>
157 the release of the <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
158 GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono.
160 @item Nov 13th: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET
162 Sunil Kumar at Novell has <a
163 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016907.html">announced</a>
164 the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for
165 Mono and the .NET Framework.
167 You can obtain the library from <a
168 href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> <a
169 href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/cvs/cvsbrowse.php/ldapcsharp/CsharpLDAP">CSharpLDAP</a>
172 @item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced.
174 The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a
175 href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> have
178 @item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
180 We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
181 28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
182 notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
185 We will bring Mono t-shirts.
187 Mike Kestner released <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
188 and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
190 @item Oct 26th: Last Minute Mono BOF
192 The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
193 place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
194 to plot the evolution.
197 @item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
199 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
200 with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
202 @item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge
204 Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
205 hosting their projects can now use <a
206 href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts
208 href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono
211 Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
212 tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
213 you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
214 repository, and using our <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS
217 @item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
219 Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
220 substrate in Mono that uses the <a
221 href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International
222 Components for Unicode</a> library from IBM. This means that
223 we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
225 Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
226 System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
227 with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
228 implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
229 implementation on top of <a
230 href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> is used on Unix
231 systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
232 maintenance of System.Drawing.
234 There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
236 href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep
237 an eye on recent developments.
239 Bernie Solomon just <a
240 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked
241 in</a> 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
242 runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
244 @item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
246 Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
247 Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
248 href="download.html">download</a> page.
250 @item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
252 You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
253 href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
254 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
255 Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
256 href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
258 @item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
260 Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
261 href="download.html">download</a> page.
263 A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
264 is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
266 @item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
269 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release
270 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
271 completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
272 functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
274 @item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
276 The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
277 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>
278 in English. Originally available only in <a
279 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
280 The book technical review was done by <a
281 href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
282 architect at the Mono team.
284 @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
287 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
288 a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
291 <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a>
292 his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
294 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
296 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
297 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
298 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
299 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
300 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
301 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
302 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
304 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
305 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
307 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
308 been checked into CVS.
310 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
311 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
312 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
313 C-based libxslt that we used before.
315 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
316 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
317 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
318 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
319 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
321 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
322 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
323 file from an .asmx file.
325 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
326 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
327 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
328 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
331 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
332 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
333 Monodoc documentation. The <a
334 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
335 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
338 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
339 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
342 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
344 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
345 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
346 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
347 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
348 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
350 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
351 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
352 problems (you can see a <a
353 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
356 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
357 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
358 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
359 description of instructions for serializing data, these
360 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
361 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
362 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
363 compiler and improving the performance of it.
365 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
366 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
367 serialization process.
369 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
370 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
371 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
372 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
373 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
376 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
377 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
378 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
379 the ECMA provider even more.
381 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
383 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
384 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
385 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
386 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
388 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
389 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
390 compliance to the spec and more.
393 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
394 notes</a> for details.
396 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
399 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
400 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
401 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
402 Brian's site at <a href="
403 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
405 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
406 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
407 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
408 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
409 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
411 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
413 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
414 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
415 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
418 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
419 source code is available on the <a
420 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
422 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
424 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
425 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
426 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
427 href="download.html">download page</a>.
429 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
431 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
432 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
433 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
434 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
435 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
436 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
437 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
439 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
440 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
442 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
444 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
445 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
447 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
449 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
451 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
453 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
455 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
456 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
457 testing it with other ORBs.
459 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
460 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
461 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
462 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
463 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
464 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
465 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
466 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
469 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
471 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
472 are now available from our (<a
473 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
475 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
478 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
479 three distinct flavors:
482 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
483 contain everything necessary to setup a new
484 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
485 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
487 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
488 the assemblies built on that day.
490 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
491 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
492 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
493 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
496 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
498 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
500 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
502 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
503 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
504 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
505 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
507 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
508 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
509 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
510 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
511 engine is still incomplete.
513 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
514 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
515 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
516 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
517 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
518 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
520 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
521 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
522 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
523 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
526 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
527 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
529 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
531 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
532 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
533 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
534 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
535 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
538 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
539 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
540 various ECMA subsets).
542 Peter explains the new build system <a
543 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
545 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
546 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
549 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
551 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
552 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
553 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
554 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
555 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
558 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
559 <li> ref and out parameters.
560 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
561 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
564 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
566 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
567 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
568 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
569 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
571 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
572 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
573 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
576 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
577 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
578 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
579 `monocov'. Details are <a
580 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
581 version is available now.
583 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
585 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
587 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
588 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
590 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
591 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
593 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
595 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
596 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
597 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
598 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
599 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
600 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
602 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
603 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
604 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
605 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
608 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
609 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
610 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
611 added improvements to it).
613 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
614 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
615 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
617 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
618 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
619 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
621 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
622 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
625 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
626 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
627 for ease-of-authoring).
629 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
630 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
632 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
634 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
635 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
636 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
637 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
638 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
639 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
640 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
641 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
642 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
643 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
644 mixed-platform development organizations.
646 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
648 Some technical details are available <a
649 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
651 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
654 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
655 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
656 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
657 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
658 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
659 The patches are available <a
660 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
662 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
663 href="download.html">download page</a>.
665 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
667 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
668 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
669 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
671 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
672 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
674 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
676 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
677 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
678 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
680 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
681 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
682 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
684 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
686 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
687 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
688 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
689 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
690 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
692 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
693 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
694 and a demo is available <a
695 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
697 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
700 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
701 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
703 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
705 Atsushi has created a <a
706 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
707 validating XML reader.
709 There is activity on the <a
710 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
711 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
713 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
715 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
716 only available in German, you can find it <a
717 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
719 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
720 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
721 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
722 to include your information.
724 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
726 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
728 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
730 Zoltan has commited his <a
731 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
732 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
734 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
736 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
737 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
738 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
740 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
742 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
743 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
744 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
746 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
747 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
748 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
750 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
752 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
753 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
755 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
757 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
760 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
761 What do you think about Mono?
763 Is your company involved with the development and
764 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
765 important part of your company's business application
766 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
767 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
768 and the use of Linux in business critical
771 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
772 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
774 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
780 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
782 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
783 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
784 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
785 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
787 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
789 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
790 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
791 bug fix release. No new features.
793 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
795 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
796 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
799 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
800 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
802 Martin also announced a <a
803 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
804 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
806 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
808 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
809 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
810 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
813 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
814 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
815 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
816 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
817 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
820 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
822 A new mailing list for <a
823 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
824 Development</a> has been created.
826 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
828 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
829 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
831 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
833 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
835 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
836 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
837 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
839 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
840 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
841 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
843 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
844 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
845 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
847 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
848 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
850 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
852 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
853 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
854 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
855 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
856 and performance improvements.
859 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
861 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
862 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
863 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
865 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
867 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
868 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
869 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
871 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
872 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
873 how to complete this process <a
874 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
875 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
876 for further discussion.
878 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
880 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
881 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
882 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
883 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
884 straight binding to the C API.
887 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
888 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
891 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
892 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
894 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
896 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
897 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
898 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
899 advantage of Unix facilities.
901 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
903 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
904 If you want to contribute please read <a
905 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
908 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
909 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
910 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
911 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
912 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
913 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
914 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
916 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
918 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
919 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
920 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
922 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
925 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
926 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
928 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
930 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
932 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
933 World Expo. A description is <a
934 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
937 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
938 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
939 shipping that uses Mono.
941 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
943 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
944 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
945 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
946 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
947 and performance improvements.
949 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
950 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
951 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
952 progress on the documentation browser.
954 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
955 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
957 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
959 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
960 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
961 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
962 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
963 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
966 Details of the release are available in <a
967 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
969 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
970 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
971 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
972 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
975 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
977 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
979 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
980 distribution, and MCS works with it.
982 Zoltan has managed to get <a
983 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
984 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
987 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
989 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
990 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
991 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
993 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
995 A new issue of the <a
996 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
997 Weekly News</a> has been published.
999 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
1000 that Sebastien has put together.
1002 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
1004 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
1005 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
1006 improved this to use implicit names as well.
1008 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
1009 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
1010 per-thread basis now.
1012 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
1013 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
1014 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
1015 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
1016 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
1018 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
1019 statements on the grammar.
1021 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
1022 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
1024 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
1026 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
1027 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
1028 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
1031 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
1032 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
1033 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
1035 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
1036 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
1037 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
1038 of their product, also using Mono.
1040 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
1043 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
1044 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
1045 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
1046 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
1048 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
1049 and its available from our <a
1050 href="download.html">download</a> page.
1052 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
1054 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
1056 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
1057 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
1058 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
1060 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
1061 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
1062 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
1063 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
1064 asp.net has been released as well.
1066 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
1068 This release also includes a new exception handling system
1069 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
1070 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
1072 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
1074 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
1075 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
1076 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
1077 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
1080 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
1081 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
1082 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
1084 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
1087 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
1090 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
1091 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
1092 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
1093 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
1095 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
1096 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
1097 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
1098 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
1099 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
1100 server on Unix using Mono.
1102 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
1103 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
1104 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
1105 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
1107 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
1108 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
1109 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
1110 new test application that people can use to test their
1111 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
1112 you can participate in the <a
1113 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
1116 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
1117 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
1119 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
1120 server</a> for Mono.
1122 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
1123 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
1125 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
1126 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
1127 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
1128 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
1130 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
1132 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
1133 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
1135 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
1136 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
1138 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
1139 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
1140 new technology are <a
1141 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
1142 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
1144 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
1145 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
1146 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
1148 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1149 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1152 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1153 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1154 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1155 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1157 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1160 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1161 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1163 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1164 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1165 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1167 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1169 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1170 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1173 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1175 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1176 in Open Office file format.
1178 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1180 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1181 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1183 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1184 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1185 on the improvements in the System.Data
1187 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1188 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1190 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1192 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1193 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1194 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1195 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1196 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1198 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1200 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1201 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1202 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1203 been working on the Security classes.
1205 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1206 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1207 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1208 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1210 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1211 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1213 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1216 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1217 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1219 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1221 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1224 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1225 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1226 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1227 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1228 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1229 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1231 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1232 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1233 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1234 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1235 list</a> mailing list.
1237 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1238 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1239 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1240 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1241 data adapter is also coming soon.
1243 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1245 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1246 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1247 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1248 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1250 Last week we created a new <a
1251 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1252 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1254 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1255 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1258 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1260 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1261 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1262 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1263 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1264 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1265 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1266 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1267 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1268 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1269 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1271 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1272 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1273 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1274 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1275 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1276 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1277 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1278 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1281 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1283 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1284 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1285 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1287 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1288 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1290 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1291 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1292 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1293 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1294 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1295 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1296 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1298 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1299 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1300 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1301 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1302 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1305 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1306 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1307 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1308 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1309 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1310 Documentation Tools</a>.
1312 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1314 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1315 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1316 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1317 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1319 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1320 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1321 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1322 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1323 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1324 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1325 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1326 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1327 configuration file `machine.config'.
1329 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1331 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1333 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1334 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1335 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1338 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1339 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1340 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1341 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1342 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1344 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1346 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1347 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1349 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1350 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1351 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1352 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1353 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1354 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1357 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1359 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1360 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1361 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1363 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1364 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1365 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1366 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1369 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1371 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1372 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1375 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1377 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1378 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1379 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1382 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1383 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1384 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1385 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1386 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1387 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1390 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1392 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1393 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1394 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1395 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1396 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1397 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1399 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1400 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1401 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1403 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1404 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1405 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1406 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1407 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1408 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1409 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1410 on making a good UI in the future.
1412 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1413 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1414 This is the substrate for implementing the
1415 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1417 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1418 classes implementation.
1420 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1421 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1422 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1423 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1424 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1427 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1430 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1431 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1432 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1433 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1434 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1435 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1436 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1437 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1439 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1442 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1443 announced an Apache module that hosts
1444 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1445 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1448 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1450 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1451 released a fresh version of <a
1452 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1453 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1455 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1457 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1458 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1459 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1461 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1463 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1464 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1465 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1468 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1469 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1472 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1474 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1476 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1477 on par with the PPC port.
1479 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1480 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1481 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1483 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1484 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1487 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1489 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1490 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1491 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1492 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1494 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1495 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1496 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1497 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1499 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1500 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1501 for structure marshaling.
1503 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1504 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1505 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1506 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1508 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1509 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1510 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1512 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1515 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1517 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1518 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1519 a successful free software project.
1521 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1522 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1523 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1524 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1525 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1529 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.