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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
15 application. It implements of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
16 and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
18 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
19 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
20 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
21 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
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32 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
33 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
35 Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
36 and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
44 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
49 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
52 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
70 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
76 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
77 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
81 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
84 All assemblies compile.
92 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
97 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
105 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
110 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
113 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
118 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
121 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
126 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
129 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
134 <img src="images/b2.png">
137 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
145 @item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
147 Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
148 Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
149 href="download.html">download</a> page.
151 @item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
153 You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
154 href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
155 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
156 Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
157 href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
159 @item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
161 Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
162 href="download.html">download</a> page.
164 A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
165 is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
167 @item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
170 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release
171 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
172 completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
173 functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
175 @item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
177 The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
178 href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325799/qid=1064937318/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9624440-8714218?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">available</a>
179 in English. Originally available only in <a
180 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
181 The book technical review was done by <a
182 href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
183 architect at the Mono team.
185 @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
188 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
189 a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
192 <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a>
193 his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
195 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
197 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
198 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
199 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
200 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
201 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
202 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
203 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
205 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
206 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
208 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
209 been checked into CVS.
211 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
212 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
213 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
214 C-based libxslt that we used before.
216 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
217 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
218 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
219 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
220 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
222 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
223 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
224 file from an .asmx file.
226 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
227 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
228 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
229 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
232 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
233 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
234 Monodoc documentation. The <a
235 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
236 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
239 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
240 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
243 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
245 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
246 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
247 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
248 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
249 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
251 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
252 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
253 problems (you can see a <a
254 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
257 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
258 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
259 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
260 description of instructions for serializing data, these
261 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
262 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
263 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
264 compiler and improving the performance of it.
266 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
267 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
268 serialization process.
270 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
271 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
272 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
273 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
274 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
277 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
278 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
279 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
280 the ECMA provider even more.
282 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
284 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
285 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
286 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
287 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
289 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
290 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
291 compliance to the spec and more.
294 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
295 notes</a> for details.
297 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
300 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
301 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
302 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
303 Brian's site at <a href="
304 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
306 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
307 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
308 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
309 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
310 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
312 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
314 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
315 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
316 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
319 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
320 source code is available on the <a
321 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
323 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
325 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
326 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
327 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
328 href="download.html">download page</a>.
330 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
332 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
333 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
334 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
335 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
336 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
337 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
338 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
340 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
341 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
343 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
345 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
346 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
348 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
350 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
352 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
354 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
356 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
357 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
358 testing it with other ORBs.
360 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
361 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
362 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
363 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
364 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
365 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
366 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
367 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
370 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
372 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
373 are now available from our (<a
374 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
376 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
379 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
380 three distinct flavors:
383 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
384 contain everything necessary to setup a new
385 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
386 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
388 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
389 the assemblies built on that day.
391 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
392 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
393 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
394 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
397 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
399 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
401 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
403 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
404 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
405 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
406 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
408 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
409 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
410 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
411 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
412 engine is still incomplete.
414 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
415 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
416 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
417 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
418 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
419 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
421 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
422 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
423 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
424 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
427 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
428 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
430 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
432 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
433 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
434 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
435 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
436 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
439 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
440 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
441 various ECMA subsets).
443 Peter explains the new build system <a
444 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
446 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
447 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
450 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
452 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
453 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
454 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
455 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
456 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
459 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
460 <li> ref and out parameters.
461 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
462 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
465 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
467 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
468 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
469 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
470 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
472 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
473 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
474 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
477 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
478 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
479 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
480 `monocov'. Details are <a
481 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
482 version is available now.
484 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
486 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
488 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
489 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
491 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
492 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
494 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
496 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
497 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
498 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
499 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
500 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
501 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
503 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
504 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
505 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
506 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
509 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
510 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
511 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
512 added improvements to it).
514 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
515 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
516 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
518 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
519 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
520 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
522 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
523 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
526 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
527 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
528 for ease-of-authoring).
530 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
531 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
533 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
535 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
536 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
537 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
538 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
539 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
540 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
541 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
542 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
543 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
544 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
545 mixed-platform development organizations.
547 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
549 Some technical details are available <a
550 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
552 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
555 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
556 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
557 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
558 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
559 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
560 The patches are available <a
561 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
563 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
564 href="download.html">download page</a>.
566 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
568 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
569 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
570 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
572 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
573 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
575 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
577 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
578 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
579 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
581 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
582 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
583 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
585 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
587 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
588 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
589 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
590 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
591 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
593 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
594 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
595 and a demo is available <a
596 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
598 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
601 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
602 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
604 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
606 Atsushi has created a <a
607 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
608 validating XML reader.
610 There is activity on the <a
611 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
612 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
614 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
616 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
617 only available in German, you can find it <a
618 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
620 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
621 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
622 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
623 to include your information.
625 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
627 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
629 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
631 Zoltan has commited his <a
632 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
633 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
635 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
637 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
638 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
639 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
641 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
643 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
644 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
645 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
647 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
648 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
649 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
651 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
653 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
654 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
656 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
658 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
661 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
662 What do you think about Mono?
664 Is your company involved with the development and
665 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
666 important part of your company's business application
667 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
668 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
669 and the use of Linux in business critical
672 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
673 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
675 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
681 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
683 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
684 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
685 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
686 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
688 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
690 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
691 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
692 bug fix release. No new features.
694 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
696 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
697 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
700 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
701 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
703 Martin also announced a <a
704 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
705 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
707 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
709 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
710 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
711 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
714 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
715 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
716 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
717 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
718 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
721 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
723 A new mailing list for <a
724 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
725 Development</a> has been created.
727 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
729 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
730 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
732 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
734 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
736 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
737 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
738 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
740 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
741 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
742 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
744 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
745 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
746 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
748 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
749 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
751 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
753 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
754 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
755 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
756 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
757 and performance improvements.
760 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
762 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
763 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
764 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
766 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
768 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
769 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
770 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
772 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
773 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
774 how to complete this process <a
775 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
776 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
777 for further discussion.
779 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
781 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
782 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
783 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
784 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
785 straight binding to the C API.
788 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
789 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
792 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
793 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
795 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
797 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
798 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
799 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
800 advantage of Unix facilities.
802 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
804 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
805 If you want to contribute please read <a
806 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
809 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
810 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
811 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
812 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
813 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
814 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
815 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
817 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
819 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
820 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
821 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
823 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
826 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
827 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
829 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
831 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
833 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
834 World Expo. A description is <a
835 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
838 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
839 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
840 shipping that uses Mono.
842 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
844 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
845 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
846 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
847 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
848 and performance improvements.
850 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
851 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
852 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
853 progress on the documentation browser.
855 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
856 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
858 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
860 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
861 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
862 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
863 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
864 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
867 Details of the release are available in <a
868 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
870 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
871 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
872 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
873 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
876 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
878 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
880 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
881 distribution, and MCS works with it.
883 Zoltan has managed to get <a
884 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
885 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
888 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
890 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
891 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
892 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
894 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
896 A new issue of the <a
897 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
898 Weekly News</a> has been published.
900 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
901 that Sebastien has put together.
903 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
905 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
906 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
907 improved this to use implicit names as well.
909 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
910 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
911 per-thread basis now.
913 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
914 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
915 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
916 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
917 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
919 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
920 statements on the grammar.
922 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
923 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
925 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
927 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
928 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
929 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
932 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
933 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
934 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
936 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
937 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
938 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
939 of their product, also using Mono.
941 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
944 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
945 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
946 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
947 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
949 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
950 and its available from our <a
951 href="download.html">download</a> page.
953 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
955 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
957 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
958 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
959 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
961 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
962 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
963 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
964 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
965 asp.net has been released as well.
967 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
969 This release also includes a new exception handling system
970 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
971 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
973 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
975 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
976 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
977 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
978 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
981 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
982 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
983 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
985 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
988 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
991 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
992 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
993 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
994 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
996 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
997 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
998 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
999 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
1000 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
1001 server on Unix using Mono.
1003 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
1004 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
1005 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
1006 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
1008 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
1009 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
1010 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
1011 new test application that people can use to test their
1012 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
1013 you can participate in the <a
1014 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
1017 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
1018 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
1020 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
1021 server</a> for Mono.
1023 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
1024 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
1026 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
1027 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
1028 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
1029 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
1031 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
1033 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
1034 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
1036 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
1037 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
1039 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
1040 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
1041 new technology are <a
1042 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
1043 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
1045 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
1046 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
1047 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
1049 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1050 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1053 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1054 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1055 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1056 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1058 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1061 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1062 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1064 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1065 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1066 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1068 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1070 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1071 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1074 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1076 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1077 in Open Office file format.
1079 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1081 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1082 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1084 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1085 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1086 on the improvements in the System.Data
1088 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1089 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1091 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1093 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1094 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1095 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1096 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1097 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1099 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1101 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1102 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1103 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1104 been working on the Security classes.
1106 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1107 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1108 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1109 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1111 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1112 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1114 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1117 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1118 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1120 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1122 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1125 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1126 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1127 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1128 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1129 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1130 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1132 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1133 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1134 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1135 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1136 list</a> mailing list.
1138 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1139 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1140 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1141 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1142 data adapter is also coming soon.
1144 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1146 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1147 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1148 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1149 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1151 Last week we created a new <a
1152 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1153 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1155 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1156 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1159 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1161 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1162 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1163 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1164 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1165 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1166 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1167 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1168 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1169 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1170 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1172 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1173 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1174 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1175 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1176 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1177 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1178 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1179 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1182 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1184 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1185 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1186 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1188 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1189 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1191 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1192 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1193 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1194 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1195 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1196 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1197 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1199 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1200 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1201 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1202 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1203 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1206 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1207 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1208 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1209 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1210 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1211 Documentation Tools</a>.
1213 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1215 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1216 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1217 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1218 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1220 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1221 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1222 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1223 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1224 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1225 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1226 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1227 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1228 configuration file `machine.config'.
1230 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1232 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1234 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1235 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1236 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1239 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1240 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1241 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1242 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1243 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1245 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1247 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1248 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1250 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1251 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1252 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1253 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1254 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1255 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1258 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1260 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1261 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1262 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1264 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1265 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1266 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1267 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1270 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1272 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1273 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1276 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1278 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1279 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1280 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1283 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1284 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1285 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1286 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1287 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1288 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1291 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1293 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1294 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1295 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1296 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1297 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1298 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1300 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1301 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1302 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1304 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1305 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1306 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1307 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1308 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1309 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1310 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1311 on making a good UI in the future.
1313 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1314 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1315 This is the substrate for implementing the
1316 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1318 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1319 classes implementation.
1321 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1322 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1323 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1324 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1325 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1328 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1331 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1332 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1333 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1334 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1335 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1336 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1337 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1338 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1340 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1343 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1344 announced an Apache module that hosts
1345 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1346 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1349 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1351 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1352 released a fresh version of <a
1353 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1354 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1356 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1358 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1359 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1360 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1362 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1364 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1365 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1366 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1369 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1370 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1373 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1375 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1377 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1378 on par with the PPC port.
1380 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1381 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1382 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1384 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1385 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1388 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1390 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1391 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1392 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1393 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1395 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1396 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1397 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1398 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1400 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1401 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1402 for structure marshaling.
1404 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1405 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1406 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1407 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1409 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1410 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1411 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1413 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1416 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1418 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1419 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1420 a successful free software project.
1422 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1423 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1424 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1425 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1426 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1430 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.