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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
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35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
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40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
119 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
122 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
127 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
130 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
135 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
138 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
143 <img src="images/b2.png">
146 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
154 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
156 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
158 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
159 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
160 testing it with other ORBs.
162 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
163 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
164 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
165 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
166 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
167 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
168 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
169 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
172 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
174 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
175 are now available from our (<a
176 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
178 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
181 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
182 three distinct flavors:
185 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
186 contain everything necessary to setup a new
187 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
188 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
190 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
191 the assemblies built on that day.
193 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
194 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
195 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
196 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
199 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
201 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
203 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
205 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
206 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
207 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
208 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
210 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
211 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
212 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
213 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
214 engine is still incomplete.
216 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
217 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
218 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
219 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
220 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
221 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
223 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
224 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
225 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
226 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
229 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
230 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
232 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
234 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
235 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
236 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
237 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
238 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
241 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
242 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
243 various ECMA subsets).
245 Peter explains the new build system <a
246 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
248 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
249 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
252 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
254 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
255 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
256 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
257 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
258 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
261 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
262 <li> ref and out parameters.
263 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
264 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
267 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
269 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
270 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
271 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
272 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
274 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
275 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
276 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
279 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
280 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
281 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
282 `monocov'. Details are <a
283 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
284 version is available now.
286 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
288 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
290 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
291 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
293 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
294 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
296 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
298 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
299 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
300 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
301 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
302 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
303 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
305 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
306 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
307 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
308 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
311 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
312 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
313 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
314 added improvements to it).
316 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
317 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
318 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
320 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
321 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
322 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
324 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
325 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
328 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
329 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
330 for ease-of-authoring).
332 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
333 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
335 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
337 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
338 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
339 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
340 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
341 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
342 development partnership under which Ximian® will provide
343 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
344 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
345 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
346 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
347 mixed-platform development organizations.
349 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
351 Some technical details are available <a
352 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
354 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
357 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
358 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
359 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
360 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
361 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
362 The patches are available <a
363 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
365 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
366 href="download.html">download page</a>.
368 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
370 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
371 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
372 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
374 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
375 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
377 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
379 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
380 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
381 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
383 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
384 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
385 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
387 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
389 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
390 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
391 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
392 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
393 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
395 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
396 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
397 and a demo is available <a
398 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
400 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
403 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
404 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
406 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
408 Atsushi has created a <a
409 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
410 validating XML reader.
412 There is activity on the <a
413 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
414 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
416 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
418 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
419 only available in German, you can find it <a
420 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
422 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
423 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
424 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
425 to include your information.
427 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
429 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
431 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
433 Zoltan has commited his <a
434 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
435 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
437 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
439 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
440 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
441 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
443 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
445 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
446 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
447 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
449 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
450 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
451 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
453 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
455 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
456 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
458 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
460 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
463 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
464 What do you think about Mono?
466 Is your company involved with the development and
467 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
468 important part of your company's business application
469 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
470 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
471 and the use of Linux in business critical
474 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
475 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
477 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
483 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
485 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
486 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
487 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
488 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
490 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
492 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
493 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
494 bug fix release. No new features.
496 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
498 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
499 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
502 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
503 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
505 Martin also announced a <a
506 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
507 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
509 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
511 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
512 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
513 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
516 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
517 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
518 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
519 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
520 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
523 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
525 A new mailing list for <a
526 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
527 Development</a> has been created.
529 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
531 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
532 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
534 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
536 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
538 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
539 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
540 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
542 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
543 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
544 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
546 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
547 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
548 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
550 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
551 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
553 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
555 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
556 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
557 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
558 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
559 and performance improvements.
562 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
564 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
565 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
566 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
568 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
570 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
571 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
572 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
574 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
575 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
576 how to complete this process <a
577 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
578 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
579 for further discussion.
581 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
583 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
584 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
585 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
586 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
587 straight binding to the C API.
590 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
591 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
594 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
595 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
597 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
599 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
600 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
601 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
602 advantage of Unix facilities.
604 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
606 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
607 If you want to contribute please read <a
608 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
611 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
612 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
613 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
614 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
615 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
616 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
617 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
619 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
621 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
622 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
623 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
625 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
628 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
629 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
631 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
633 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
635 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
636 World Expo. A description is <a
637 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
640 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
641 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
642 shipping that uses Mono.
644 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
646 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
647 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
648 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
649 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
650 and performance improvements.
652 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
653 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
654 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
655 progress on the documentation browser.
657 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
658 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
660 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
662 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
663 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
664 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
665 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
666 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
669 Details of the release are available in <a
670 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
672 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
673 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
674 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
675 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
678 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
680 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
682 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
683 distribution, and MCS works with it.
685 Zoltan has managed to get <a
686 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
687 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
690 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
692 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
693 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
694 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
696 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
698 A new issue of the <a
699 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
700 Weekly News</a> has been published.
702 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
703 that Sebastien has put together.
705 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
707 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
708 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
709 improved this to use implicit names as well.
711 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
712 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
713 per-thread basis now.
715 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
716 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
717 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
718 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
719 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
721 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
722 statements on the grammar.
724 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
725 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
727 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
729 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
730 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
731 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
734 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
735 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
736 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
738 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
739 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
740 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
741 of their product, also using Mono.
743 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
746 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
747 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
748 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
749 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
751 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
752 and its available from our <a
753 href="download.html">download</a> page.
755 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
757 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
759 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
760 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
761 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
763 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
764 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
765 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
766 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
767 asp.net has been released as well.
769 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
771 This release also includes a new exception handling system
772 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
773 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
775 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
777 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
778 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
779 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
780 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
783 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
784 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
785 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
787 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
790 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
793 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
794 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
795 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
796 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
798 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
799 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
800 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
801 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
802 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
803 server on Unix using Mono.
805 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
806 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
807 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
808 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
810 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
811 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
812 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
813 new test application that people can use to test their
814 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
815 you can participate in the <a
816 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
819 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
820 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
822 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
825 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
826 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
828 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
829 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
830 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
831 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
833 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
835 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
836 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
838 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
839 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
841 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
842 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
843 new technology are <a
844 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
845 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
847 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
848 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
849 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
851 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
852 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
855 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
856 see Windows screenshots for it <a
857 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
858 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
860 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
863 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
864 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
866 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
867 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
868 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
870 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
872 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
873 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
876 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
878 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
879 in Open Office file format.
881 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
883 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
884 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
886 Tim Coleman posted an <a
887 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
888 on the improvements in the System.Data
890 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
891 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
893 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
895 Tim's SqlClient is <a
896 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
897 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
898 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
899 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
901 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
903 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
904 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
905 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
906 been working on the Security classes.
908 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
909 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
910 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
911 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
913 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
914 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
916 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
919 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
920 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
922 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
924 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
927 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
928 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
929 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
930 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
931 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
932 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
934 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
935 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
936 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
937 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
938 list</a> mailing list.
940 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
941 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
942 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
943 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
944 data adapter is also coming soon.
946 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
948 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
949 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
950 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
951 are not supported by the .NET framework.
953 Last week we created a new <a
954 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
955 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
957 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
958 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
961 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
963 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
964 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
965 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
966 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
967 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
968 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
969 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
970 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
971 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
972 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
974 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
975 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
976 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
977 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
978 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
979 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
980 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
981 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
984 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
986 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
987 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
988 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
990 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
991 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
993 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
994 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
995 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
996 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
997 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
998 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
999 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1001 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1002 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1003 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1004 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1005 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1008 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1009 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1010 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1011 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1012 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1013 Documentation Tools</a>.
1015 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1017 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1018 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1019 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1020 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1022 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1023 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1024 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1025 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1026 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1027 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1028 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1029 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1030 configuration file `machine.config'.
1032 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1034 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1036 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1037 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1038 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1041 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1042 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1043 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1044 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1045 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1047 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1049 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1050 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1052 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1053 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1054 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1055 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1056 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1057 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1060 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1062 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1063 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1064 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1066 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1067 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1068 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1069 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1072 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1074 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1075 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1078 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1080 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1081 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1082 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1085 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1086 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1087 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1088 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1089 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1090 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1093 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1095 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1096 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1097 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1098 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1099 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1100 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1102 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1103 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1104 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1106 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1107 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1108 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1109 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1110 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1111 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1112 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1113 on making a good UI in the future.
1115 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1116 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1117 This is the substrate for implementing the
1118 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1120 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1121 classes implementation.
1123 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1124 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1125 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1126 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1127 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1130 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1133 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1134 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1135 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1136 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1137 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1138 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1139 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1140 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1142 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1145 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1146 announced an Apache module that hosts
1147 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1148 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1151 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1153 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1154 released a fresh version of <a
1155 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1156 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1158 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1160 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1161 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1162 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1164 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1166 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1167 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1168 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1171 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1172 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1175 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1177 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1179 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1180 on par with the PPC port.
1182 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1183 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1184 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1186 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1187 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1190 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1192 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1193 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1194 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1195 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1197 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1198 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1199 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1200 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1202 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1203 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1204 for structure marshaling.
1206 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1207 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1208 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1209 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1211 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1212 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1213 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1215 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1218 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1220 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1221 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1222 a successful free software project.
1224 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1225 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1226 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1227 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1228 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1232 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.