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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
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
21 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
23 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
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32 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
33 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
35 Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
36 and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
44 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
49 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
52 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
70 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
76 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
77 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
81 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
84 All assemblies compile.
92 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
97 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
105 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
110 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
113 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
118 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
121 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
126 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
129 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
134 <img src="images/b2.png">
137 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
145 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
147 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
148 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
149 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
150 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
151 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
152 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
153 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
155 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
156 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
158 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
159 been checked into CVS.
161 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
162 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
163 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
164 C-based libxslt that we used before.
166 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
167 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
168 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
169 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
170 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
172 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
173 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
174 file from an .asmx file.
176 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
177 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
178 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
179 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
182 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
183 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
184 Monodoc documentation. The <a
185 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
186 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
189 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
190 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
193 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
195 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
196 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
197 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
198 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
199 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
201 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
202 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
203 problems (you can see a <a
204 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
207 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
208 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
209 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
210 description of instructions for serializing data, these
211 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
212 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
213 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
214 compiler and improving the performance of it.
216 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
217 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
218 serialization process.
220 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
221 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
222 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
223 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
224 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
227 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
228 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
229 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
230 the ECMA provider even more.
232 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
234 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
235 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
236 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
237 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
239 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
240 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
241 compliance to the spec and more.
244 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
245 notes</a> for details.
247 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
250 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
251 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
252 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
253 Brian's site at <a href="
254 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
256 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
257 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
258 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
259 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
260 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
262 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
264 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
265 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
266 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
269 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
270 source code is available on the <a
271 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
273 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
275 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
276 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
277 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
278 href="download.html">download page</a>.
280 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
282 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
283 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
284 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
285 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
286 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
287 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
288 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
290 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
291 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
293 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
295 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
296 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
298 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
300 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
302 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
304 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
306 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
307 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
308 testing it with other ORBs.
310 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
311 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
312 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
313 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
314 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
315 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
316 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
317 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
320 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
322 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
323 are now available from our (<a
324 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
326 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
329 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
330 three distinct flavors:
333 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
334 contain everything necessary to setup a new
335 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
336 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
338 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
339 the assemblies built on that day.
341 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
342 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
343 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
344 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
347 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
349 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
351 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
353 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
354 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
355 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
356 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
358 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
359 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
360 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
361 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
362 engine is still incomplete.
364 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
365 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
366 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
367 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
368 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
369 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
371 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
372 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
373 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
374 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
377 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
378 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
380 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
382 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
383 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
384 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
385 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
386 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
389 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
390 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
391 various ECMA subsets).
393 Peter explains the new build system <a
394 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
396 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
397 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
400 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
402 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
403 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
404 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
405 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
406 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
409 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
410 <li> ref and out parameters.
411 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
412 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
415 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
417 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
418 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
419 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
420 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
422 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
423 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
424 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
427 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
428 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
429 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
430 `monocov'. Details are <a
431 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
432 version is available now.
434 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
436 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
438 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
439 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
441 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
442 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
444 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
446 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
447 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
448 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
449 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
450 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
451 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
453 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
454 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
455 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
456 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
459 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
460 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
461 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
462 added improvements to it).
464 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
465 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
466 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
468 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
469 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
470 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
472 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
473 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
476 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
477 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
478 for ease-of-authoring).
480 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
481 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
483 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
485 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
486 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
487 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
488 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
489 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
490 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
491 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
492 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
493 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
494 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
495 mixed-platform development organizations.
497 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
499 Some technical details are available <a
500 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
502 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
505 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
506 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
507 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
508 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
509 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
510 The patches are available <a
511 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
513 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
514 href="download.html">download page</a>.
516 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
518 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
519 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
520 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
522 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
523 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
525 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
527 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
528 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
529 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
531 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
532 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
533 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
535 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
537 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
538 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
539 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
540 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
541 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
543 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
544 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
545 and a demo is available <a
546 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
548 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
551 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
552 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
554 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
556 Atsushi has created a <a
557 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
558 validating XML reader.
560 There is activity on the <a
561 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
562 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
564 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
566 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
567 only available in German, you can find it <a
568 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
570 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
571 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
572 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
573 to include your information.
575 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
577 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
579 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
581 Zoltan has commited his <a
582 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
583 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
585 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
587 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
588 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
589 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
591 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
593 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
594 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
595 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
597 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
598 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
599 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
601 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
603 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
604 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
606 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
608 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
611 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
612 What do you think about Mono?
614 Is your company involved with the development and
615 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
616 important part of your company's business application
617 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
618 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
619 and the use of Linux in business critical
622 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
623 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
625 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
631 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
633 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
634 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
635 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
636 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
638 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
640 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
641 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
642 bug fix release. No new features.
644 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
646 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
647 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
650 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
651 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
653 Martin also announced a <a
654 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
655 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
657 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
659 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
660 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
661 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
664 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
665 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
666 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
667 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
668 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
671 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
673 A new mailing list for <a
674 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
675 Development</a> has been created.
677 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
679 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
680 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
682 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
684 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
686 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
687 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
688 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
690 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
691 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
692 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
694 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
695 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
696 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
698 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
699 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
701 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
703 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
704 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
705 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
706 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
707 and performance improvements.
710 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
712 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
713 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
714 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
716 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
718 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
719 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
720 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
722 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
723 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
724 how to complete this process <a
725 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
726 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
727 for further discussion.
729 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
731 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
732 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
733 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
734 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
735 straight binding to the C API.
738 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
739 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
742 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
743 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
745 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
747 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
748 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
749 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
750 advantage of Unix facilities.
752 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
754 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
755 If you want to contribute please read <a
756 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
759 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
760 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
761 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
762 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
763 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
764 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
765 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
767 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
769 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
770 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
771 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
773 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
776 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
777 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
779 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
781 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
783 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
784 World Expo. A description is <a
785 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
788 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
789 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
790 shipping that uses Mono.
792 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
794 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
795 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
796 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
797 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
798 and performance improvements.
800 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
801 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
802 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
803 progress on the documentation browser.
805 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
806 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
808 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
810 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
811 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
812 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
813 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
814 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
817 Details of the release are available in <a
818 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
820 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
821 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
822 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
823 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
826 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
828 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
830 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
831 distribution, and MCS works with it.
833 Zoltan has managed to get <a
834 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
835 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
838 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
840 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
841 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
842 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
844 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
846 A new issue of the <a
847 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
848 Weekly News</a> has been published.
850 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
851 that Sebastien has put together.
853 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
855 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
856 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
857 improved this to use implicit names as well.
859 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
860 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
861 per-thread basis now.
863 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
864 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
865 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
866 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
867 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
869 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
870 statements on the grammar.
872 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
873 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
875 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
877 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
878 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
879 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
882 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
883 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
884 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
886 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
887 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
888 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
889 of their product, also using Mono.
891 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
894 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
895 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
896 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
897 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
899 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
900 and its available from our <a
901 href="download.html">download</a> page.
903 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
905 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
907 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
908 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
909 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
911 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
912 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
913 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
914 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
915 asp.net has been released as well.
917 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
919 This release also includes a new exception handling system
920 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
921 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
923 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
925 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
926 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
927 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
928 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
931 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
932 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
933 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
935 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
938 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
941 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
942 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
943 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
944 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
946 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
947 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
948 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
949 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
950 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
951 server on Unix using Mono.
953 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
954 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
955 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
956 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
958 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
959 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
960 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
961 new test application that people can use to test their
962 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
963 you can participate in the <a
964 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
967 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
968 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
970 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
973 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
974 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
976 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
977 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
978 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
979 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
981 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
983 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
984 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
986 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
987 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
989 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
990 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
991 new technology are <a
992 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
993 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
995 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
996 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
997 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
999 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1000 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1003 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1004 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1005 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1006 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1008 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1011 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1012 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1014 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1015 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1016 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1018 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1020 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1021 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1024 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1026 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1027 in Open Office file format.
1029 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1031 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1032 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1034 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1035 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1036 on the improvements in the System.Data
1038 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1039 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1041 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1043 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1044 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1045 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1046 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1047 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1049 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1051 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1052 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1053 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1054 been working on the Security classes.
1056 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1057 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1058 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1059 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1061 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1062 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1064 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1067 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1068 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1070 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1072 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1075 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1076 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1077 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1078 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1079 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1080 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1082 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1083 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1084 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1085 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1086 list</a> mailing list.
1088 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1089 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1090 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1091 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1092 data adapter is also coming soon.
1094 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1096 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1097 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1098 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1099 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1101 Last week we created a new <a
1102 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1103 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1105 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1106 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1109 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1111 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1112 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1113 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1114 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1115 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1116 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1117 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1118 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1119 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1120 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1122 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1123 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1124 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1125 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1126 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1127 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1128 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1129 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1132 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1134 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1135 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1136 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1138 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1139 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1141 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1142 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1143 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1144 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1145 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1146 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1147 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1149 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1150 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1151 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1152 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1153 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1156 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1157 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1158 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1159 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1160 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1161 Documentation Tools</a>.
1163 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1165 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1166 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1167 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1168 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1170 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1171 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1172 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1173 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1174 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1175 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1176 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1177 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1178 configuration file `machine.config'.
1180 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1182 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1184 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1185 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1186 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1189 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1190 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1191 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1192 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1193 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1195 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1197 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1198 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1200 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1201 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1202 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1203 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1204 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1205 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1208 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1210 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1211 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1212 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1214 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1215 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1216 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1217 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1220 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1222 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1223 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1226 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1228 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1229 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1230 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1233 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1234 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1235 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1236 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1237 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1238 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1241 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1243 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1244 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1245 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1246 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1247 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1248 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1250 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1251 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1252 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1254 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1255 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1256 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1257 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1258 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1259 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1260 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1261 on making a good UI in the future.
1263 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1264 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1265 This is the substrate for implementing the
1266 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1268 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1269 classes implementation.
1271 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1272 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1273 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1274 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1275 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1278 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1281 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1282 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1283 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1284 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1285 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1286 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1287 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1288 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1290 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1293 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1294 announced an Apache module that hosts
1295 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1296 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1299 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1301 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1302 released a fresh version of <a
1303 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1304 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1306 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1308 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1309 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1310 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1312 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1314 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1315 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1316 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1319 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1320 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1323 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1325 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1327 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1328 on par with the PPC port.
1330 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1331 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1332 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1334 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1335 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1338 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1340 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1341 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1342 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1343 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1345 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1346 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1347 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1348 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1350 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1351 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1352 for structure marshaling.
1354 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1355 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1356 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1357 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1359 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1360 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1361 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1363 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1366 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1368 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1369 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1370 a successful free software project.
1372 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1373 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1374 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1375 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1376 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1380 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.