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