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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>
23 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
24 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
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31 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
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 Sep 3rd, 2003: Authenticode; WSE
148 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
150 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
151 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
152 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
153 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
154 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
156 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
157 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
158 problems (you can see a <a
159 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
162 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
163 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
164 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
165 description of instructions for serializing data, these
166 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
167 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
168 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
169 compiler and improving the performance of it.
171 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
172 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
173 serialization process.
175 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
176 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
177 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
178 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
179 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
182 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
183 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
184 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
185 the ECMA provider even more.
187 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
189 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
190 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
191 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
192 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
194 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
195 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
196 compliance to the spec and more.
199 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
200 notes</a> for details.
202 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
205 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
206 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
207 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
208 Brian's site at <a href="
209 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
211 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
212 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
213 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
214 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
215 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
217 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
219 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
220 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
221 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
224 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
225 source code is available on the <a
226 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
228 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
230 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
231 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
232 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
233 href="download.html">download page</a>.
235 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
237 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
238 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
239 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
240 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
241 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
242 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
243 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
245 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
246 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
248 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
250 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
251 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
253 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
255 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
257 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
259 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
261 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
262 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
263 testing it with other ORBs.
265 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
266 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
267 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
268 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
269 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
270 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
271 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
272 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
275 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
277 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
278 are now available from our (<a
279 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
281 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
284 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
285 three distinct flavors:
288 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
289 contain everything necessary to setup a new
290 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
291 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
293 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
294 the assemblies built on that day.
296 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
297 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
298 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
299 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
302 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
304 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
306 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
308 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
309 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
310 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
311 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
313 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
314 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
315 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
316 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
317 engine is still incomplete.
319 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
320 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
321 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
322 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
323 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
324 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
326 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
327 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
328 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
329 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
332 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
333 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
335 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
337 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
338 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
339 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
340 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
341 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
344 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
345 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
346 various ECMA subsets).
348 Peter explains the new build system <a
349 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
351 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
352 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
355 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
357 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
358 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
359 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
360 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
361 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
364 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
365 <li> ref and out parameters.
366 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
367 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
370 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
372 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
373 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
374 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
375 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
377 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
378 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
379 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
382 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
383 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
384 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
385 `monocov'. Details are <a
386 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
387 version is available now.
389 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
391 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
393 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
394 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
396 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
397 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
399 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
401 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
402 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
403 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
404 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
405 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
406 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
408 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
409 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
410 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
411 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
414 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
415 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
416 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
417 added improvements to it).
419 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
420 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
421 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
423 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
424 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
425 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
427 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
428 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
431 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
432 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
433 for ease-of-authoring).
435 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
436 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
438 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
440 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
441 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
442 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
443 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
444 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
445 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
446 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
447 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
448 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
449 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
450 mixed-platform development organizations.
452 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
454 Some technical details are available <a
455 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
457 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
460 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
461 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
462 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
463 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
464 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
465 The patches are available <a
466 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
468 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
469 href="download.html">download page</a>.
471 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
473 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
474 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
475 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
477 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
478 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
480 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
482 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
483 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
484 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
486 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
487 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
488 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
490 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
492 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
493 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
494 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
495 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
496 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
498 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
499 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
500 and a demo is available <a
501 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
503 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
506 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
507 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
509 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
511 Atsushi has created a <a
512 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
513 validating XML reader.
515 There is activity on the <a
516 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
517 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
519 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
521 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
522 only available in German, you can find it <a
523 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
525 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
526 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
527 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
528 to include your information.
530 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
532 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
534 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
536 Zoltan has commited his <a
537 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
538 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
540 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
542 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
543 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
544 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
546 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
548 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
549 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
550 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
552 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
553 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
554 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
556 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
558 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
559 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
561 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
563 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
566 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
567 What do you think about Mono?
569 Is your company involved with the development and
570 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
571 important part of your company's business application
572 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
573 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
574 and the use of Linux in business critical
577 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
578 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
580 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
586 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
588 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
589 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
590 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
591 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
593 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
595 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
596 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
597 bug fix release. No new features.
599 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
601 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
602 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
605 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
606 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
608 Martin also announced a <a
609 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
610 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
612 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
614 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
615 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
616 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
619 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
620 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
621 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
622 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
623 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
626 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
628 A new mailing list for <a
629 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
630 Development</a> has been created.
632 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
634 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
635 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
637 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
639 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
641 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
642 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
643 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
645 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
646 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
647 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
649 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
650 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
651 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
653 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
654 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
656 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
658 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
659 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
660 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
661 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
662 and performance improvements.
665 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
667 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
668 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
669 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
671 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
673 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
674 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
675 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
677 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
678 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
679 how to complete this process <a
680 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
681 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
682 for further discussion.
684 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
686 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
687 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
688 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
689 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
690 straight binding to the C API.
693 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
694 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
697 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
698 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
700 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
702 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
703 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
704 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
705 advantage of Unix facilities.
707 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
709 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
710 If you want to contribute please read <a
711 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
714 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
715 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
716 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
717 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
718 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
719 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
720 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
722 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
724 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
725 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
726 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
728 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
731 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
732 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
734 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
736 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
738 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
739 World Expo. A description is <a
740 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
743 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
744 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
745 shipping that uses Mono.
747 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
749 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
750 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
751 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
752 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
753 and performance improvements.
755 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
756 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
757 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
758 progress on the documentation browser.
760 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
761 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
763 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
765 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
766 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
767 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
768 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
769 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
772 Details of the release are available in <a
773 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
775 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
776 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
777 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
778 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
781 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
783 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
785 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
786 distribution, and MCS works with it.
788 Zoltan has managed to get <a
789 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
790 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
793 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
795 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
796 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
797 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
799 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
801 A new issue of the <a
802 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
803 Weekly News</a> has been published.
805 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
806 that Sebastien has put together.
808 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
810 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
811 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
812 improved this to use implicit names as well.
814 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
815 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
816 per-thread basis now.
818 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
819 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
820 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
821 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
822 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
824 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
825 statements on the grammar.
827 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
828 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
830 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
832 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
833 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
834 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
837 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
838 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
839 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
841 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
842 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
843 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
844 of their product, also using Mono.
846 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
849 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
850 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
851 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
852 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
854 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
855 and its available from our <a
856 href="download.html">download</a> page.
858 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
860 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
862 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
863 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
864 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
866 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
867 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
868 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
869 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
870 asp.net has been released as well.
872 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
874 This release also includes a new exception handling system
875 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
876 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
878 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
880 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
881 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
882 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
883 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
886 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
887 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
888 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
890 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
893 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
896 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
897 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
898 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
899 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
901 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
902 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
903 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
904 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
905 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
906 server on Unix using Mono.
908 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
909 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
910 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
911 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
913 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
914 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
915 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
916 new test application that people can use to test their
917 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
918 you can participate in the <a
919 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
922 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
923 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
925 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
928 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
929 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
931 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
932 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
933 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
934 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
936 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
938 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
939 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
941 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
942 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
944 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
945 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
946 new technology are <a
947 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
948 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
950 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
951 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
952 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
954 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
955 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
958 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
959 see Windows screenshots for it <a
960 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
961 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
963 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
966 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
967 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
969 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
970 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
971 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
973 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
975 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
976 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
979 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
981 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
982 in Open Office file format.
984 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
986 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
987 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
989 Tim Coleman posted an <a
990 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
991 on the improvements in the System.Data
993 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
994 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
996 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
998 Tim's SqlClient is <a
999 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1000 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1001 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1002 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1004 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1006 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1007 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1008 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1009 been working on the Security classes.
1011 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1012 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1013 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1014 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1016 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1017 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1019 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1022 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1023 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1025 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1027 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1030 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1031 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1032 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1033 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1034 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1035 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1037 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1038 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1039 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1040 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1041 list</a> mailing list.
1043 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1044 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1045 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1046 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1047 data adapter is also coming soon.
1049 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1051 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1052 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1053 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1054 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1056 Last week we created a new <a
1057 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1058 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1060 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1061 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1064 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1066 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1067 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1068 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1069 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1070 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1071 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1072 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1073 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1074 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1075 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1077 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1078 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1079 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1080 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1081 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1082 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1083 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1084 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1087 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1089 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1090 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1091 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1093 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1094 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1096 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1097 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1098 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1099 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1100 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1101 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1102 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1104 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1105 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1106 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1107 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1108 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1111 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1112 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1113 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1114 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1115 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1116 Documentation Tools</a>.
1118 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1120 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1121 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1122 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1123 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1125 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1126 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1127 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1128 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1129 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1130 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1131 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1132 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1133 configuration file `machine.config'.
1135 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1137 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1139 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1140 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1141 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1144 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1145 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1146 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1147 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1148 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1150 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1152 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1153 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1155 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1156 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1157 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1158 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1159 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1160 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1163 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1165 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1166 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1167 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1169 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1170 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1171 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1172 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1175 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1177 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1178 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1181 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1183 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1184 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1185 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1188 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1189 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1190 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1191 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1192 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1193 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1196 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1198 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1199 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1200 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1201 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1202 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1203 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1205 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1206 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1207 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1209 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1210 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1211 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1212 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1213 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1214 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1215 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1216 on making a good UI in the future.
1218 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1219 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1220 This is the substrate for implementing the
1221 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1223 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1224 classes implementation.
1226 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1227 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1228 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1229 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1230 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1233 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1236 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1237 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1238 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1239 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1240 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1241 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1242 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1243 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1245 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1248 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1249 announced an Apache module that hosts
1250 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1251 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1254 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1256 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1257 released a fresh version of <a
1258 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1259 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1261 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1263 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1264 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1265 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1267 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1269 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1270 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1271 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1274 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1275 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1278 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1280 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1282 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1283 on par with the PPC port.
1285 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1286 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1287 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1289 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1290 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1293 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1295 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1296 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1297 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1298 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1300 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1301 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1302 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1303 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1305 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1306 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1307 for structure marshaling.
1309 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1310 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1311 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1312 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1314 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1315 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1316 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1318 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1321 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1323 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1324 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1325 a successful free software project.
1327 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1328 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1329 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1330 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1331 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1335 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.