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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
27 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
28 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
32 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
33 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
34 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
37 You can contact the team at: <a
38 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
116 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
117 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
118 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
120 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
121 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
123 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
125 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
126 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
127 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
129 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
130 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
131 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
133 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
135 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
136 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
137 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
138 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
139 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
141 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
142 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
143 and a demo is available <a
144 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
146 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
149 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
150 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
152 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
154 Atsushi has created a <a
155 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
156 validating XML reader.
158 There is activity on the <a
159 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
160 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
162 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
164 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
165 only available in German, you can find it <a
166 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
168 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
169 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
170 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
171 to include your information.
173 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
175 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
177 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
179 Zoltan has commited his <a
180 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
181 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
183 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
185 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
186 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
187 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
189 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
191 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
192 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
193 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
195 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
196 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
197 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
199 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
201 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
202 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
204 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
206 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
209 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
210 What do you think about Mono?
212 Is your company involved with the development and
213 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
214 important part of your company's business application
215 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
216 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
217 and the use of Linux in business critical
220 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
221 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
223 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
229 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
231 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
232 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
233 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
234 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
236 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
238 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
239 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
240 bug fix release. No new features.
242 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
244 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
245 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
248 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
249 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
251 Martin also announced a <a
252 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
253 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
255 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
257 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
258 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
259 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
262 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
263 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
264 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
265 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
266 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
269 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
271 A new mailing list for <a
272 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
273 Development</a> has been created.
275 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
277 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
278 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
280 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
282 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
284 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
285 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
286 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
288 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
289 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
290 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
292 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
293 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
294 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
296 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
297 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
299 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
301 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
302 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
303 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
304 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
305 and performance improvements.
308 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
310 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
311 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
312 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
314 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
316 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
317 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
318 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
320 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
321 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
322 how to complete this process <a
323 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
324 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
325 for further discussion.
327 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
329 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
330 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
331 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
332 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
333 straight binding to the C API.
336 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
337 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
340 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
341 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
343 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
345 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
346 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
347 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
348 advantage of Unix facilities.
350 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
352 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
353 If you want to contribute please read <a
354 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
357 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
358 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
359 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
360 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
361 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
362 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
363 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
365 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
367 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
368 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
369 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
371 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
374 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
375 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
377 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
379 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
381 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
382 World Expo. A description is <a
383 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
386 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
387 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
388 shipping that uses Mono.
390 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
392 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
393 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
394 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
395 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
396 and performance improvements.
398 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
399 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
400 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
401 progress on the documentation browser.
403 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
404 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
406 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
408 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
409 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
410 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
411 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
412 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
415 Details of the release are available in <a
416 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
418 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
419 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
420 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
421 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
424 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
426 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
428 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
429 distribution, and MCS works with it.
431 Zoltan has managed to get <a
432 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
433 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
436 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
438 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
439 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
440 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
442 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
444 A new issue of the <a
445 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
446 Weekly News</a> has been published.
448 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
449 that Sebastien has put together.
451 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
453 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
454 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
455 improved this to use implicit names as well.
457 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
458 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
459 per-thread basis now.
461 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
462 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
463 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
464 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
465 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
467 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
468 statements on the grammar.
470 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
471 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
473 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
475 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
476 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
477 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
480 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
481 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
482 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
484 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
485 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
486 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
487 of their product, also using Mono.
489 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
492 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
493 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
494 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
495 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
497 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
498 and its available from our <a
499 href="download.html">download</a> page.
501 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
503 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
505 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
506 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
507 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
509 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
510 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
511 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
512 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
513 asp.net has been released as well.
515 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
517 This release also includes a new exception handling system
518 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
519 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
521 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
523 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
524 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
525 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
526 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
529 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
530 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
531 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
533 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
536 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
539 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
540 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
541 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
542 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
544 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
545 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
546 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
547 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
548 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
549 server on Unix using Mono.
551 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
552 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
553 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
554 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
556 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
557 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
558 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
559 new test application that people can use to test their
560 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
561 you can participate in the <a
562 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
565 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
566 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
568 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
571 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
572 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
574 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
575 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
576 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
577 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
579 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
581 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
582 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
584 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
585 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
587 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
588 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
589 new technology are <a
590 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
591 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
593 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
594 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
595 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
597 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
598 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
601 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
602 see Windows screenshots for it <a
603 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
604 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
606 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
609 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
610 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
612 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
613 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
614 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
616 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
618 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
619 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
622 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
624 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
625 in Open Office file format.
627 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
629 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
630 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
632 Tim Coleman posted an <a
633 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
634 on the improvements in the System.Data
636 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
637 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
639 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
641 Tim's SqlClient is <a
642 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
643 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
644 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
645 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
647 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
649 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
650 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
651 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
652 been working on the Security classes.
654 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
655 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
656 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
657 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
659 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
660 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
662 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
665 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
666 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
668 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
670 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
673 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
674 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
675 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
676 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
677 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
678 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
680 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
681 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
682 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
683 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
684 list</a> mailing list.
686 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
687 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
688 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
689 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
690 data adapter is also coming soon.
692 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
694 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
695 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
696 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
697 are not supported by the .NET framework.
699 Last week we created a new <a
700 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
701 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
703 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
704 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
707 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
709 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
710 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
711 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
712 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
713 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
714 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
715 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
716 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
717 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
718 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
720 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
721 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
722 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
723 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
724 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
725 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
726 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
727 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
730 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
732 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
733 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
734 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
736 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
737 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
739 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
740 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
741 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
742 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
743 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
744 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
745 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
747 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
748 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
749 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
750 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
751 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
754 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
755 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
756 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
757 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
758 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
759 Documentation Tools</a>.
761 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
763 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
764 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
765 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
766 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
768 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
769 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
770 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
771 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
772 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
773 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
774 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
775 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
776 configuration file `machine.config'.
778 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
780 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
782 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
783 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
784 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
787 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
788 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
789 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
790 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
791 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
793 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
795 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
796 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
798 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
799 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
800 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
801 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
802 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
803 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
806 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
808 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
809 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
810 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
812 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
813 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
814 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
815 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
818 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
820 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
821 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
824 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
826 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
827 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
828 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
831 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
832 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
833 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
834 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
835 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
836 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
839 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
841 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
842 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
843 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
844 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
845 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
846 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
848 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
849 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
850 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
852 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
853 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
854 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
855 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
856 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
857 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
858 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
859 on making a good UI in the future.
861 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
862 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
863 This is the substrate for implementing the
864 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
866 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
867 classes implementation.
869 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
870 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
871 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
872 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
873 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
876 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
879 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
880 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
881 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
882 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
883 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
884 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
885 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
886 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
888 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
891 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
892 announced an Apache module that hosts
893 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
894 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
897 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
899 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
900 released a fresh version of <a
901 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
902 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
904 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
906 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
907 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
908 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
910 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
912 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
913 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
914 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
917 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
918 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
921 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
923 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
925 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
926 on par with the PPC port.
928 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
929 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
930 code for the remoting infrastructure.
932 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
933 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
936 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
938 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
939 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
940 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
941 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
943 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
944 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
945 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
946 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
948 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
949 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
950 for structure marshaling.
952 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
953 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
954 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
955 to integrate with Patrik's code.
957 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
958 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
959 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
961 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
964 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
966 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
967 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
968 a successful free software project.
970 The first, deserved, entry goes to
971 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
972 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
973 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
974 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
978 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.