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7 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
12 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler:</a></b>
15 Self hosting on Linux and .NET
25 PowerPC: MacOS and Linux.<br>
35 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
39 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
40 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
44 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
47 All assemblies compile.
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60 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
66 <b>Beta 1 Press Coverage</b>
69 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target="blank">May 2004</a>: Mono Beta 1 rallies the press
78 <a href="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/5375/4/">May 3rd, 2004</a>: And then there's Mono
87 <a href="http://tools.devchannel.org/devtoolschannel/04/04/21/169234.shtml?tid=46">Apr 26th, 2004</a>: What is Mono and why should you care ?
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96 <a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award.
101 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
105 <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
110 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
113 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
118 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
121 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
126 <img src="images/b2.png">
129 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
136 The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by <a
137 href="http://novell.com">Novell</a> to create a free
138 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
142 Mono includes <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
143 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">Common Language
144 Runtime</a> (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a
145 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
146 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
147 application. It implements both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
148 and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
151 If you have questions about the project, read <a
152 href="rationale.html">the project launch statement</a>
153 or visit our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
158 For details on the project's future direction, read the
159 <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>, and <a
160 href="download.html">download</a> the latest software version.
161 You can also get a <a href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our
163 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
167 To participate in discussion and development, <a
168 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe to our mailing lists</a>.
169 You can also visit the <a
170 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
171 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a> or the <a
172 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk#</a> and
173 <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
177 @item Jun 15th, 2004: Mono Beta 3 has been released
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185 Our third beta has been released.
187 Packages and source code are available <a
188 href="download.html">on our download</a> page.
193 @item Jun 1st, 2004: Mono Beta 2 has been released
199 <td>Mono Beta 2 has been released. See our <a
200 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta2/beta2.html">Release
201 Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
206 @item May 17th, 2004: Huge press response for Mono 1.0 Beta 1
208 Two weeks after the release of Mono 1.0 Beta 1, we take a
209 look at the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target='_blank'>press coverage</a> that followed the
212 @item May 10th, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes Todd Berman
214 The <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
215 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
216 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
219 Todd Berman is a steady contributor to Mono. He has worked
220 everywhere: from the Class Libraries, to the early implementation of
221 the GAC and most recently has lead the effort to develop, port and
222 maintain MonoDevelop an IDE for the Mono environment. His help has
223 been key to the development of Mono.
225 @item May 4th, 2004: Mono Beta 1 available
231 src="http://www.go-mono.com/images/beta1-anim.gif"></td>
232 <td>Mono Beta 1 has been released. See our <a
233 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta1/beta1.html">Release
234 Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
239 @item May 2nd, 2004: mDnsResponder.Net; Global Assembly Cache.
241 Brady Anderson has released the first version of his <a href=
242 "http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mdnsresponder">multicast
243 DNS responder</a> written in C# for the Mono and .NET
244 platforms. This is the foundation for implementing
245 rendezvous-like functionality in your applications.
247 The tree has started to stabilize after all the changes last
248 week to integrate the Global Assembly Cache work that Jackson,
249 Sebastien, Todd and all the volunteers helped us deploy.
251 @item Apr 22nd, 2004: XSP 0.12 released.
253 A new release of XSP is available. It fixes a bug that made Web Services
254 unusable from client proxies. You can download it from <a
255 href="/archive/xsp-0.12.tar.gz">here</a>.
257 @item Apr 21st, 2004: XSP 0.11 and mod_mono 0.8 released.
259 Gonzalo has made new releases of XSP and mod_mono (The ASP.NET
260 hosting service for Mono).
262 Check the XSP/mod_mono <a href="archive/xsp-0.10.html">
263 Release Notes</a> to see what is new and to obtain the source
266 @item Apr 20, 2004: S390 port; Interpreted Updated; Identity classes; System.Drawing; Mono Debugger.
268 Neale who originally wrote the S390 interpreter support for
269 Mono has checked into CVS his port of the S390 JIT engine.
270 Now, if we could only have one of those in our living room.
272 Bernie has checked into CVS a new interpreter for the Mono
273 runtime. This new interpreter translates the CIL opcodes into
274 a new intermediate representation. The new IL representation
275 avoids doing costly lookups during interpretation which means that the
276 interpreter is a lot faster now.
278 Performance wise, the new interpreter is three times faster
279 than the old one when doing a compiler bootstrap.
281 Sebastien has recently completed the identity classes in the
282 Mono Runtime, you can see more details on his <a
283 href="http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/poupou.html">blog</a>
285 New progress on the GDI+ front: Jordi has completed the region
286 code; Ravindra the various brushes that we must support;
287 Sanjay the Icon and BMP loaders (with Mark) and Vladimir has
288 contributed various codecs and a new fresh implementation of
291 Lluis and Atsushi in the meantime has been in charge of
292 completing various pending items from our class libraries:
293 basically an API audit of the things missing for the Mono 1.0
294 release, small but important things.
296 Martin has replaced the old command-line language in the
297 debugger with our home-grown "Command Line" language, a
298 TCL-like command line language that we built for it (its a
299 tiny .NETized Tcl-like language). The interaction process is
300 a lot smoother than it used to be and we are focusing on the
301 usability of the command line language to improve the
302 debugging experience.
304 @item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft.
306 Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding
307 support to the C# compiler to support the various checks required
308 by the Common Language Specification (CLS).
310 In the past the C# compiler was unable to flag any problems
311 related to the creation of cross-language libraries. Today
312 with this patch the compiler will properly flag errors in CLS
313 compliance. Tests for all of the errors have also been
316 <a href="http://www.mainsoft.com">Mainsoft</a> has contributed
317 an implementation of their Basic runtime to the project. The
318 runtime they wrote is written in Java and we are translating
319 this into C# code. The code will reach CVS within the next
322 Mainsoft also contributed an extensive regression test suite
323 for the Basic runtime, a port of the NIST XML tests and their
324 own in-house developed XML tests.
326 @item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released
328 New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released.
330 Gtk# is available from <a
331 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# home page</a> and MonoDoc 0.13
332 is available from our <a href="download.html">download</a>
335 Gtk# now features [ConnectBefore] attribute for hooking up
336 signals; An automake/autoconf setup; the System.Drawing
337 dependency has been dropped and many more docs.
339 And <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/">MonoDevelop 0.2</a>
342 @item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released
344 We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features
345 and improvements are described in our <a
346 href="archive/mono-0.31.html">Mono 0.31 Release Notes</a>.
348 You can download Mono 0.31 packages using Red Carpet, or pick
349 the individual packages from our <a
350 href="download.html">download</a> page.
352 @item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono.
354 Gonzalo has completed the implementation of Async I/O for Mono
355 using the kernel aio_* interfaces. If your operating system supports
356 the aio_ POSIX interface, the FileStream methods that
357 expose asynchronous methods will use this facility instead of
358 emulating it with threads as we have done in the past.
360 We had this request come to us from various people in the
361 past, and we are now looking for your help to test and debug
364 @item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC.
366 Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono
367 JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for
368 this amazing development.
370 @item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston.
372 The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: <a
373 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/MonoMeet.html">Mono Meeting
376 @item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston.
378 On March 5th-6th (Friday and Saturday) there will be an
379 open-house meeting for people interested in Mono to get
380 together with the Mono developers at the Novell offices in
381 in Cambridge Massachusetts (<a
382 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/contact/">directions</a>).
384 The whole Novell Mono team will be here (Atsushi Enomoto, Dick
385 Porter, Duncan Mak, Erik Dasque, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson
386 Harper, Jordi Mas, Lluis Sanches, Manjula, Martin Baulig,
387 Miguel de Icaza, Mike Kestner, Paolo Molaro, Peter Bartok,
388 Sebastien Pouliot, Sachin Kumar) and hopefully Joe Shaw, Nat
389 Friedman, Peter Williams and Ravi Pratap will be joining us as
390 well. Expect to see Todd Berman from MonoDevelop as well.
392 If you are coming, please notify <a
393 href="mailto:edasque@ximian.com">edasque@ximian.com</a> about it, so
394 we can add you to the security list, and use the `open house
395 confirmation' subject in your email.
397 @item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released
399 We have released a small bug-fix release of Mono, the release
400 notes are available <a
401 href="archive/mono-0.30.1.html">here</a> and you can download
402 it from our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
404 @item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization
406 We have a new document that describes some <a
407 href="performance.html">common tricks to improve the
408 performance</a> of your Mono or .NET application. These are a
409 summary of techniques that we employed to tune our own C#
412 @item Feb 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released
415 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.30.html">Release
416 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.30. Or go directly to our <a
417 href="download.html">download</a> section
419 @item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial.
421 Sunil Kumar has written an <a
422 href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/cooldev/features/a_net_cplus_ldap_library_cdev.html">introduction
423 to Novell.LDAP</a> class libraries, which are part of Mono.
425 @item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released.
427 A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from:
428 <a href="archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz">archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz</a>
430 @item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories
432 If you have a success story about using Mono or one of the Mono
433 components in any way, we want to hear about you. Please mail
434 your details to miguel@ximian.com
436 @item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
438 There is a <a href="archive/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows
439 Installer for Mono 0.29</a> available now.
443 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see older news.