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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
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38 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
39 about the team members we have created the <a
40 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
41 Which archives can be found <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
48 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
53 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
56 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
74 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
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 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News
107 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
108 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
109 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
111 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
114 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
115 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
117 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
119 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
121 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
122 World Expo. A description is <a
123 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
126 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
127 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
128 shipping that uses Mono.
130 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
132 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
133 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
134 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
135 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
136 and performance improvements.
138 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
139 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
140 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
141 progress on the documentation browser.
143 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
144 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
146 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
148 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
149 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
150 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
151 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
152 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
155 Details of the release are available in <a
156 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
158 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
159 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
160 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
161 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
164 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
166 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
168 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
169 distribution, and MCS works with it.
171 Zoltan has managed to get <a
172 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
173 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
176 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
178 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
179 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
180 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
182 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
184 A new issue of the <a
185 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
186 Weekly News</a> has been published.
188 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
189 that Sebastien has put together.
191 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
193 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
194 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
195 improved this to use implicit names as well.
197 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
198 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
199 per-thread basis now.
201 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
202 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
203 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
204 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
205 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
207 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
208 statements on the grammar.
210 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
211 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
213 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
215 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
216 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
217 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
220 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
221 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
222 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
224 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
225 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
226 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
227 of their product, also using Mono.
229 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
232 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
233 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
234 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
235 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
237 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
238 and its available from our <a
239 href="download.html">download</a> page.
241 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
243 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
245 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
246 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
247 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
249 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
250 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
251 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
252 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
253 asp.net has been released as well.
255 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
257 This release also includes a new exception handling system
258 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
259 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
261 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
263 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
264 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
265 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
266 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
269 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
270 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
271 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
273 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
276 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
279 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
280 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
281 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
282 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
284 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
285 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
286 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
287 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
288 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
289 server on Unix using Mono.
291 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
292 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
293 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
294 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
296 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
297 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
298 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
299 new test application that people can use to test their
300 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
301 you can participate in the <a
302 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
305 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
306 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
308 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
311 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
312 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
314 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
315 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
316 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
317 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
319 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
321 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
322 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
324 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
325 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
327 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
328 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
329 new technology are <a
330 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
331 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
333 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
334 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
335 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
337 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
338 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
341 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
342 see Windows screenshots for it <a
343 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
344 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
346 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
349 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
350 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
352 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
353 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
354 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
356 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
358 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
359 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
362 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
364 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
365 in Open Office file format.
367 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
369 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
370 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
372 Tim Coleman posted an <a
373 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
374 on the improvements in the System.Data
376 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
377 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
379 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
381 Tim's SqlClient is <a
382 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
383 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
384 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
385 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
387 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
389 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
390 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
391 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
392 been working on the Security classes.
394 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
395 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
396 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
397 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
399 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
400 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
402 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
405 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
406 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
408 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
410 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
413 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
414 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
415 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
416 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
417 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
418 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
420 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
421 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
422 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
423 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
424 list</a> mailing list.
426 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
427 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
428 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
429 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
430 data adapter is also coming soon.
432 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
434 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
435 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
436 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
437 are not supported by the .NET framework.
439 Last week we created a new <a
440 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
441 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
443 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
444 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
447 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
449 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
450 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
451 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
452 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
453 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
454 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
455 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
456 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
457 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
458 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
460 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
461 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
462 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
463 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
464 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
465 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
466 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
467 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
470 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
472 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
473 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
474 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
476 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
477 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
479 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
480 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
481 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
482 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
483 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
484 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
485 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
487 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
488 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
489 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
490 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
491 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
494 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
495 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
496 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
497 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
498 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
499 Documentation Tools</a>.
501 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
503 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
504 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
505 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
506 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
508 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
509 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
510 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
511 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
512 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
513 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
514 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
515 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
516 configuration file `machine.config'.
518 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
520 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
522 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
523 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
524 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
527 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
528 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
529 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
530 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
531 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
533 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
535 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
536 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
538 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
539 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
540 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
541 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
542 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
543 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
546 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
548 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
549 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
550 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
552 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
553 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
554 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
555 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
558 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
560 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
561 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
564 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
566 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
567 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
568 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
571 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
572 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
573 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
574 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
575 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
576 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
579 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
581 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
582 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
583 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
584 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
585 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
586 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
588 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
589 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
590 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
592 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
593 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
594 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
595 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
596 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
597 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
598 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
599 on making a good UI in the future.
601 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
602 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
603 This is the substrate for implementing the
604 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
606 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
607 classes implementation.
609 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
610 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
611 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
612 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
613 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
616 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
619 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
620 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
621 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
622 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
623 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
624 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
625 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
626 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
628 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
631 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
632 announced an Apache module that hosts
633 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
634 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
637 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
639 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
640 released a fresh version of <a
641 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
642 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
644 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
646 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
647 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
648 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
650 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
652 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
653 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
654 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
657 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
658 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
661 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
663 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
665 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
666 on par with the PPC port.
668 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
669 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
670 code for the remoting infrastructure.
672 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
673 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
676 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
678 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
679 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
680 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
681 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
683 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
684 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
685 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
686 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
688 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
689 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
690 for structure marshaling.
692 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
693 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
694 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
695 to integrate with Patrik's code.
697 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
698 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
699 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
701 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
704 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
706 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
707 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
708 a successful free software project.
710 The first, deserved, entry goes to
711 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
712 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
713 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
714 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
716 @item Looking for volunteers
718 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
719 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
723 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
725 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
726 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
727 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
728 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
729 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
731 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
732 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
733 library documentation.
735 We have some special needs (read them <a
736 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
737 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
738 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
739 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
741 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
742 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
743 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
746 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
747 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
748 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
751 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
753 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
754 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
755 assignment in the C# language.
757 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
760 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
761 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
762 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
764 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
765 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
766 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
768 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
769 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
770 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
772 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
775 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
776 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
777 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
779 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
781 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
782 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
783 your sources for the <a
784 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
785 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
787 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
788 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
789 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
790 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
791 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
793 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
795 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
796 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
798 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
799 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
800 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
801 associated web service tools.
803 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
805 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
807 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
808 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
810 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
811 has been translated as well.
813 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
815 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
816 now landed on the CVS repository.
818 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
819 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
820 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
821 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
824 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
825 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
826 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
830 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
831 available online, from young director <a
832 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
833 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
836 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
837 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
839 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
840 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
841 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
842 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
844 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
845 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
846 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
850 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
851 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
852 compiler and the Mono runtime.
854 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
855 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
856 from the source code it is compiling.
858 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
859 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
860 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
864 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
865 The resulting image contained errors though.
867 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
868 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
870 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
871 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
872 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
874 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
875 run the compiler on Linux.
877 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
878 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
880 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
881 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
882 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
884 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
885 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
888 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
889 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
890 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
892 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
893 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
894 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
895 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
896 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
897 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
898 code is cross platform.
902 Ajay was the first to notice <a
903 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
904 Mono's first birthday</a>.
906 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
908 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
909 * A complete CLI implementation:
911 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
912 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
914 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
915 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
916 * 92,000 lines of C code.
917 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
918 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
919 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
920 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
921 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
924 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
925 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
926 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
927 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
928 been possible without every contribution.
930 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
931 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
933 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
934 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
935 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
936 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
937 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
938 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
939 to integrate with other object systems.
941 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
942 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
943 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
946 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
947 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
948 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
949 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
954 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
957 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
958 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
959 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
960 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
961 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
962 applications like these in the near future.
964 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
965 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
966 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
967 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
968 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
969 architecture independent layer.
971 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
972 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
973 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
974 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
975 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
976 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
977 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
978 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
979 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
982 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
983 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
988 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
989 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
990 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
992 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
993 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
995 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
996 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
997 applications with it. Details are <a
998 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
1000 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
1004 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
1005 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
1006 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
1007 being defined at that point to perform compares).
1009 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
1010 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
1011 our resulting corlib.
1013 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
1015 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
1016 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
1017 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
1018 now a good development tool.
1020 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
1021 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
1022 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
1023 bindings, that should simplify application development.
1025 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
1026 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
1030 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
1031 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
1032 to promote free software is going very well.
1034 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
1036 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
1037 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
1039 On Monday Piers Haken <a
1040 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
1041 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
1042 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
1044 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
1045 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
1046 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
1047 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
1048 This means for example that any process can check on the
1049 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
1051 Of course, those interested
1052 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
1057 Duncan has written a few sample <a
1058 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
1059 applications</a> (<a
1060 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
1062 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
1064 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
1065 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
1066 She also got some <a
1067 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
1072 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
1073 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
1075 Also, we are getting close to
1076 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
1077 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
1078 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
1080 Steam is picking up in <a
1081 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
1082 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
1083 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
1084 libraries, which is nice to see.
1088 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
1089 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
1090 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
1092 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
1093 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
1094 match the Microsoft implementation.
1098 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
1099 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
1102 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
1103 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
1108 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
1109 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
1113 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
1114 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1117 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1118 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1119 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1123 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1127 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1128 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1129 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1130 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1132 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1133 been checked into CVS.
1135 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1136 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1138 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1139 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1140 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1144 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1145 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1146 that process this data.
1148 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1149 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1153 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1154 System.Data class library.
1159 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1160 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1162 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1163 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1164 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1165 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1169 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1170 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1171 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1172 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1176 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1177 it is possible to get <a
1178 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1179 number</a> information on stack traces.
1183 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1184 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1185 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1187 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1188 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1190 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1191 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1193 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1194 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1196 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1197 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1199 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1203 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1205 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1210 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1211 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1212 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1214 You can find more information
1215 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1217 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1218 and others for these bits.
1222 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1223 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1224 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1225 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1226 should make it easier to use and compile.
1228 This is another milestone for our <a
1229 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1231 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1235 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1236 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1237 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1239 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1240 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1241 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1242 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1243 expose to applications.
1246 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1247 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1248 support</a>, Mike <a
1249 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1254 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1255 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1259 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1260 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1261 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1263 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1268 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1269 fixes and more classes are included.
1271 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1272 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1273 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1277 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1278 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1279 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1283 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1285 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1290 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1292 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1293 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1294 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1296 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1299 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1300 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1301 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1302 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1303 exceptions work). Check <a
1304 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1307 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1308 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1310 Early this week Patrik started the string
1311 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1312 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1314 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1315 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1317 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1318 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1321 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1322 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1323 together are very powerful.
1325 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1326 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1332 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1333 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1335 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1336 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1341 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1342 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1344 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1345 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1346 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1350 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1351 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1352 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1353 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1357 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1358 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1359 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1364 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1365 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1366 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1371 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1374 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1375 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1376 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1380 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1381 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1382 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1386 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1387 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1390 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1391 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1392 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1393 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1398 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1399 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1400 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1401 debugging information).
1403 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1404 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1406 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1407 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1408 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1410 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1411 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1414 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1415 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1416 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1418 Remember to post your bug reports.
1420 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1421 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1422 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1423 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1427 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1428 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1429 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1431 A release will follow up shortly.
1435 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1436 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1441 MCS compiles on Linux!
1443 Today Paolo got the <a
1444 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1445 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1446 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1447 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1448 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1449 speed was improved in 400%
1451 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1453 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1454 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1458 The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>
1460 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1461 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1462 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1464 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1465 revamped regression test suite.
1467 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1468 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1470 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1471 killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>
1475 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1480 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1481 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1482 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1484 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1488 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1489 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1490 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1491 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1493 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1494 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1495 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1499 Paolo posted a list of <a
1500 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1501 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1502 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1507 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1511 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1513 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1517 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1519 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1520 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1521 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1524 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1525 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1526 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1530 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1531 Self hosting is closer every day.
1533 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1537 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1539 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1541 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1542 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1543 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1544 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1546 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1547 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1548 you will get one of the machines.
1552 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1556 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1557 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1558 this with the --share-code command line option.
1560 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1563 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1567 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1569 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1570 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1571 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1572 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1573 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1575 Miguel is off to the <a
1576 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1580 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1582 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1583 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1586 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1587 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1588 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1592 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1593 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1596 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1597 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1600 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1601 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1602 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1603 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1605 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1606 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1607 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1610 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1611 a set of web server classes for <a
1612 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1613 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1616 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1617 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1621 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1622 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1623 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1628 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1629 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1633 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1635 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1636 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1638 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1639 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1640 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1641 set of the Perl regex engine).
1645 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1647 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1649 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1650 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1652 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1653 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1656 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1660 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1661 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1662 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1663 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1667 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1668 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1669 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1671 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1672 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1673 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1677 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1678 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1679 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1681 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1682 non-Windows platforms.
1684 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1685 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1686 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1687 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1692 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1693 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1694 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1695 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1700 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1701 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1702 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1705 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1706 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1711 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1712 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1713 year, new direction</i></a>.
1715 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1716 System.Windows.Forms.
1720 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1721 development of the compiler with itself.
1723 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1724 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1725 on Linux before the end of the month.
1727 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1728 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1729 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1733 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1734 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1735 being fixed quickly.
1737 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1741 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1743 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1745 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1746 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1748 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1749 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1754 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1755 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1757 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1758 implementation is there.
1762 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1763 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1764 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1765 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1766 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1767 reduce spills and reloads.
1769 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1770 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1771 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1772 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1774 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1776 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1777 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1782 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1783 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1784 Climent for helping to set this up.
1788 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1791 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1794 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1798 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1799 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1801 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1802 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1805 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1807 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1812 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1813 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1814 on Gtk# development.
1820 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1821 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1822 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1823 program is executed.
1825 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1826 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1829 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1830 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1831 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1833 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1834 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1835 made up of 40 tests).
1837 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1838 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1839 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1841 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1842 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1844 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1845 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1848 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1849 replace our interpreter in production.
1855 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1856 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1858 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1860 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1866 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1868 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1874 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1881 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1882 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1883 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1885 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1888 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1890 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1891 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1892 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1893 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1894 important piece of the puzzle.
1900 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1902 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1905 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1906 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1912 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1913 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1914 the array handling support.
1920 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1923 Some large recent developments:
1925 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1926 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1927 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1929 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1930 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1931 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1933 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1934 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1935 optimize foreach for the array case).
1937 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1938 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1939 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1940 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1941 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1942 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1943 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1944 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1946 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1947 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1953 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1954 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1955 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1957 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1958 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1959 recent C# compiler progress.
1965 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1966 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1972 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1973 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1975 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1976 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1977 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1978 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1980 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1987 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1988 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1990 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1992 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1993 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
2000 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
2001 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
2002 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
2003 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
2005 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
2006 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
2007 basically focusing on completeness now.
2014 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
2015 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
2021 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
2022 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
2023 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
2024 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
2025 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
2026 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
2027 handled correctly (Miguel).
2033 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
2034 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
2035 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
2036 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
2037 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
2043 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
2044 Mono</a> to other architectures.
2050 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
2051 released (runtime engine, class libraries
2052 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
2053 0.7 announcement</a> for details
2059 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
2060 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
2061 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
2062 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
2064 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
2070 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
2071 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
2078 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
2079 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
2081 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
2088 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
2089 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
2095 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
2096 will let you run it.
2098 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
2099 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
2101 Good work Mono team!
2107 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
2108 are available here: <a
2109 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2115 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2117 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2118 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2124 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2125 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2126 without access to the <a
2127 href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
2133 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2134 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2140 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2141 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2142 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2148 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2149 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2150 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2156 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2157 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2158 get the new class libraries from <a
2159 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2165 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2166 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2167 get the new class libraries from <a
2168 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2174 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2175 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2176 get the new class libraries from <a
2177 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2179 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2181 Got Sean's new Class
2182 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2183 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2189 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2190 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2191 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2198 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2200 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2206 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2207 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2208 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2220 Brian posted a story on <a
2221 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>