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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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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, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 <br>
74 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
75 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
79 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
82 All assemblies compile.
90 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
95 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
103 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
108 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
111 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
116 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
119 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
124 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
127 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
132 <img src="images/b2.png">
135 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
143 @item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
145 Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
146 substrate in Mono that uses the <a
147 href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International
148 Components for Unicode</a> library from IBM. This means that
149 we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
151 Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
152 System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
153 with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
154 implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
155 implementation on top of <a
156 href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> is used on Unix
157 systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
158 maintenance of System.Drawing.
160 There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
162 href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep
163 an eye on recent developments.
165 Bernie Solomon just <a
166 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked
167 in</a> 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
168 runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
170 @item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
172 Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
173 Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
174 href="download.html">download</a> page.
176 @item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
178 You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
179 href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
180 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
181 Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
182 href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
184 @item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
186 Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
187 href="download.html">download</a> page.
189 A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
190 is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
192 @item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
195 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release
196 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
197 completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
198 functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
200 @item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
202 The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
203 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>
204 in English. Originally available only in <a
205 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
206 The book technical review was done by <a
207 href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
208 architect at the Mono team.
210 @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
213 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
214 a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
217 <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a>
218 his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
220 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
222 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
223 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
224 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
225 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
226 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
227 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
228 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
230 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
231 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
233 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
234 been checked into CVS.
236 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
237 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
238 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
239 C-based libxslt that we used before.
241 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
242 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
243 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
244 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
245 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
247 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
248 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
249 file from an .asmx file.
251 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
252 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
253 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
254 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
257 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
258 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
259 Monodoc documentation. The <a
260 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
261 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
264 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
265 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
268 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
270 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
271 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
272 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
273 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
274 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
276 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
277 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
278 problems (you can see a <a
279 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
282 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
283 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
284 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
285 description of instructions for serializing data, these
286 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
287 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
288 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
289 compiler and improving the performance of it.
291 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
292 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
293 serialization process.
295 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
296 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
297 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
298 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
299 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
302 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
303 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
304 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
305 the ECMA provider even more.
307 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
309 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
310 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
311 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
312 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
314 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
315 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
316 compliance to the spec and more.
319 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
320 notes</a> for details.
322 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
325 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
326 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
327 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
328 Brian's site at <a href="
329 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
331 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
332 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
333 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
334 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
335 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
337 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
339 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
340 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
341 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
344 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
345 source code is available on the <a
346 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
348 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
350 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
351 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
352 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
353 href="download.html">download page</a>.
355 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
357 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
358 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
359 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
360 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
361 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
362 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
363 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
365 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
366 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
368 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
370 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
371 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
373 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
375 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
377 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
379 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
381 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
382 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
383 testing it with other ORBs.
385 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
386 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
387 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
388 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
389 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
390 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
391 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
392 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
395 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
397 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
398 are now available from our (<a
399 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
401 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
404 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
405 three distinct flavors:
408 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
409 contain everything necessary to setup a new
410 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
411 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
413 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
414 the assemblies built on that day.
416 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
417 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
418 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
419 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
422 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
424 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
426 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
428 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
429 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
430 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
431 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
433 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
434 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
435 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
436 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
437 engine is still incomplete.
439 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
440 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
441 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
442 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
443 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
444 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
446 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
447 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
448 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
449 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
452 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
453 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
455 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
457 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
458 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
459 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
460 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
461 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
464 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
465 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
466 various ECMA subsets).
468 Peter explains the new build system <a
469 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
471 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
472 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
475 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
477 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
478 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
479 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
480 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
481 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
484 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
485 <li> ref and out parameters.
486 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
487 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
490 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
492 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
493 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
494 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
495 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
497 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
498 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
499 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
502 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
503 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
504 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
505 `monocov'. Details are <a
506 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
507 version is available now.
509 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
511 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
513 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
514 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
516 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
517 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
519 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
521 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
522 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
523 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
524 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
525 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
526 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
528 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
529 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
530 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
531 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
534 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
535 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
536 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
537 added improvements to it).
539 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
540 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
541 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
543 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
544 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
545 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
547 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
548 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
551 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
552 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
553 for ease-of-authoring).
555 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
556 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
558 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
560 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
561 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
562 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
563 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
564 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
565 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
566 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
567 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
568 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
569 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
570 mixed-platform development organizations.
572 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
574 Some technical details are available <a
575 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
577 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
580 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
581 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
582 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
583 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
584 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
585 The patches are available <a
586 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
588 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
589 href="download.html">download page</a>.
591 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
593 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
594 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
595 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
597 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
598 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
600 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
602 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
603 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
604 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
606 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
607 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
608 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
610 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
612 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
613 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
614 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
615 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
616 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
618 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
619 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
620 and a demo is available <a
621 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
623 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
626 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
627 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
629 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
631 Atsushi has created a <a
632 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
633 validating XML reader.
635 There is activity on the <a
636 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
637 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
639 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
641 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
642 only available in German, you can find it <a
643 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
645 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
646 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
647 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
648 to include your information.
650 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
652 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
654 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
656 Zoltan has commited his <a
657 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
658 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
660 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
662 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
663 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
664 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
666 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
668 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
669 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
670 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
672 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
673 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
674 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
676 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
678 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
679 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
681 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
683 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
686 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
687 What do you think about Mono?
689 Is your company involved with the development and
690 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
691 important part of your company's business application
692 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
693 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
694 and the use of Linux in business critical
697 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
698 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
700 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
706 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
708 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
709 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
710 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
711 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
713 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
715 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
716 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
717 bug fix release. No new features.
719 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
721 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
722 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
725 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
726 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
728 Martin also announced a <a
729 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
730 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
732 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
734 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
735 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
736 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
739 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
740 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
741 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
742 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
743 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
746 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
748 A new mailing list for <a
749 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
750 Development</a> has been created.
752 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
754 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
755 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
757 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
759 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
761 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
762 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
763 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
765 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
766 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
767 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
769 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
770 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
771 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
773 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
774 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
776 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
778 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
779 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
780 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
781 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
782 and performance improvements.
785 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
787 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
788 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
789 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
791 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
793 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
794 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
795 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
797 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
798 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
799 how to complete this process <a
800 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
801 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
802 for further discussion.
804 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
806 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
807 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
808 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
809 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
810 straight binding to the C API.
813 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
814 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
817 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
818 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
820 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
822 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
823 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
824 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
825 advantage of Unix facilities.
827 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
829 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
830 If you want to contribute please read <a
831 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
834 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
835 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
836 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
837 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
838 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
839 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
840 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
842 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
844 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
845 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
846 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
848 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
851 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
852 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
854 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
856 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
858 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
859 World Expo. A description is <a
860 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
863 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
864 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
865 shipping that uses Mono.
867 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
869 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
870 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
871 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
872 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
873 and performance improvements.
875 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
876 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
877 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
878 progress on the documentation browser.
880 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
881 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
883 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
885 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
886 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
887 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
888 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
889 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
892 Details of the release are available in <a
893 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
895 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
896 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
897 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
898 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
901 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
903 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
905 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
906 distribution, and MCS works with it.
908 Zoltan has managed to get <a
909 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
910 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
913 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
915 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
916 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
917 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
919 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
921 A new issue of the <a
922 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
923 Weekly News</a> has been published.
925 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
926 that Sebastien has put together.
928 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
930 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
931 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
932 improved this to use implicit names as well.
934 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
935 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
936 per-thread basis now.
938 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
939 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
940 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
941 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
942 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
944 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
945 statements on the grammar.
947 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
948 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
950 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
952 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
953 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
954 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
957 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
958 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
959 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
961 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
962 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
963 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
964 of their product, also using Mono.
966 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
969 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
970 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
971 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
972 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
974 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
975 and its available from our <a
976 href="download.html">download</a> page.
978 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
980 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
982 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
983 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
984 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
986 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
987 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
988 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
989 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
990 asp.net has been released as well.
992 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
994 This release also includes a new exception handling system
995 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
996 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
998 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
1000 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
1001 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
1002 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
1003 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
1006 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
1007 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
1008 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
1010 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
1013 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
1016 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
1017 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
1018 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
1019 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
1021 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
1022 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
1023 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
1024 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
1025 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
1026 server on Unix using Mono.
1028 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
1029 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
1030 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
1031 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
1033 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
1034 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
1035 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
1036 new test application that people can use to test their
1037 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
1038 you can participate in the <a
1039 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
1042 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
1043 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
1045 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
1046 server</a> for Mono.
1048 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
1049 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
1051 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
1052 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
1053 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
1054 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
1056 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
1058 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
1059 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
1061 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
1062 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
1064 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
1065 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
1066 new technology are <a
1067 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
1068 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
1070 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
1071 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
1072 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
1074 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1075 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1078 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1079 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1080 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1081 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1083 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1086 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1087 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1089 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1090 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1091 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1093 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1095 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1096 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1099 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1101 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1102 in Open Office file format.
1104 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1106 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1107 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1109 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1110 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1111 on the improvements in the System.Data
1113 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1114 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1116 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1118 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1119 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1120 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1121 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1122 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1124 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1126 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1127 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1128 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1129 been working on the Security classes.
1131 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1132 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1133 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1134 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1136 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1137 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1139 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1142 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1143 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1145 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1147 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1150 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1151 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1152 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1153 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1154 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1155 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1157 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1158 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1159 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1160 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1161 list</a> mailing list.
1163 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1164 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1165 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1166 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1167 data adapter is also coming soon.
1169 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1171 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1172 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1173 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1174 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1176 Last week we created a new <a
1177 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1178 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1180 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1181 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1184 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1186 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1187 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1188 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1189 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1190 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1191 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1192 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1193 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1194 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1195 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1197 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1198 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1199 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1200 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1201 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1202 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1203 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1204 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1207 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1209 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1210 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1211 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1213 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1214 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1216 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1217 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1218 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1219 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1220 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1221 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1222 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1224 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1225 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1226 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1227 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1228 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1231 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1232 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1233 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1234 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1235 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1236 Documentation Tools</a>.
1238 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1240 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1241 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1242 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1243 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1245 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1246 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1247 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1248 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1249 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1250 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1251 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1252 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1253 configuration file `machine.config'.
1255 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1257 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1259 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1260 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1261 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1264 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1265 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1266 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1267 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1268 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1270 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1272 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1273 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1275 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1276 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1277 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1278 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1279 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1280 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1283 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1285 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1286 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1287 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1289 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1290 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1291 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1292 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1295 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1297 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1298 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1301 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1303 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1304 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1305 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1308 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1309 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1310 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1311 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1312 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1313 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1316 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1318 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1319 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1320 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1321 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1322 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1323 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1325 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1326 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1327 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1329 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1330 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1331 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1332 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1333 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1334 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1335 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1336 on making a good UI in the future.
1338 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1339 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1340 This is the substrate for implementing the
1341 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1343 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1344 classes implementation.
1346 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1347 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1348 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1349 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1350 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1353 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1356 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1357 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1358 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1359 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1360 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1361 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1362 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1363 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1365 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1368 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1369 announced an Apache module that hosts
1370 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1371 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1374 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1376 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1377 released a fresh version of <a
1378 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1379 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1381 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1383 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1384 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1385 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1387 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1389 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1390 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1391 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1394 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1395 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1398 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1400 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1402 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1403 on par with the PPC port.
1405 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1406 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1407 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1409 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1410 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1413 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1415 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1416 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1417 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1418 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1420 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1421 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1422 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1423 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1425 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1426 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1427 for structure marshaling.
1429 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1430 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1431 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1432 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1434 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1435 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1436 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1438 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1441 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1443 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1444 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1445 a successful free software project.
1447 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1448 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1449 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1450 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1451 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1455 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.