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7 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
12 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler:</a></b>
15 Self hosting on Linux and .NET
25 PowerPC: MacOS and Linux.<br>
35 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
39 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
40 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
44 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
47 All assemblies compile.
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60 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
66 <b>Beta 1 Press Coverage</b>
69 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target="blank">May 2004</a>: Mono Beta 1 rallies the press
78 <a href="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/5375/4/">May 3rd, 2004</a>: And then there's Mono
87 <a href="http://tools.devchannel.org/devtoolschannel/04/04/21/169234.shtml?tid=46">Apr 26th, 2004</a>: What is Mono and why should you care ?
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96 <a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award.
101 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
105 <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
110 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
113 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
118 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
121 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
126 <img src="images/b2.png">
129 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
136 The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by <a
137 href="http://novell.com">Novell</a> to create a free
138 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
142 Mono includes <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
143 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">Common Language
144 Runtime</a> (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a
145 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
146 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
147 application. It implements both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
148 and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
151 If you have questions about the project, read <a
152 href="rationale.html">the project launch statement</a>
153 or visit our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
158 For details on the project's future direction, read the
159 <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>, and <a
160 href="download.html">download</a> the latest software version.
161 You can also get a <a href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our
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167 To participate in discussion and development, <a
168 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe to our mailing lists</a>.
169 You can also visit the <a
170 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
171 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a> or the <a
172 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk#</a> and
173 <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
177 @item Jun 23rd, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes John Luke, Dan Morgan and Tim Coleman.
179 The <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
180 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
181 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
184 John Luke, Dan Morgan and Tim Coleman are now part of the Mono
185 Hackers Hall of Fame.
187 @item Jun 15th, 2004: Mono Beta 3 has been released
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195 Our third beta has been released.
197 Packages and source code are available <a
198 href="download.html">on our download</a> page.
203 @item Jun 1st, 2004: Mono Beta 2 has been released
209 <td>Mono Beta 2 has been released. See our <a
210 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta2/beta2.html">Release
211 Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
216 @item May 17th, 2004: Huge press response for Mono 1.0 Beta 1
218 Two weeks after the release of Mono 1.0 Beta 1, we take a
219 look at the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target='_blank'>press coverage</a> that followed the
222 @item May 10th, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes Todd Berman
224 The <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
225 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
226 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
229 Todd Berman is a steady contributor to Mono. He has worked
230 everywhere: from the Class Libraries, to the early implementation of
231 the GAC and most recently has lead the effort to develop, port and
232 maintain MonoDevelop an IDE for the Mono environment. His help has
233 been key to the development of Mono.
235 @item May 4th, 2004: Mono Beta 1 available
241 src="http://www.go-mono.com/images/beta1-anim.gif"></td>
242 <td>Mono Beta 1 has been released. See our <a
243 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta1/beta1.html">Release
244 Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
249 @item May 2nd, 2004: mDnsResponder.Net; Global Assembly Cache.
251 Brady Anderson has released the first version of his <a href=
252 "http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mdnsresponder">multicast
253 DNS responder</a> written in C# for the Mono and .NET
254 platforms. This is the foundation for implementing
255 rendezvous-like functionality in your applications.
257 The tree has started to stabilize after all the changes last
258 week to integrate the Global Assembly Cache work that Jackson,
259 Sebastien, Todd and all the volunteers helped us deploy.
261 @item Apr 22nd, 2004: XSP 0.12 released.
263 A new release of XSP is available. It fixes a bug that made Web Services
264 unusable from client proxies. You can download it from <a
265 href="/archive/xsp-0.12.tar.gz">here</a>.
267 @item Apr 21st, 2004: XSP 0.11 and mod_mono 0.8 released.
269 Gonzalo has made new releases of XSP and mod_mono (The ASP.NET
270 hosting service for Mono).
272 Check the XSP/mod_mono <a href="archive/xsp-0.10.html">
273 Release Notes</a> to see what is new and to obtain the source
276 @item Apr 20, 2004: S390 port; Interpreted Updated; Identity classes; System.Drawing; Mono Debugger.
278 Neale who originally wrote the S390 interpreter support for
279 Mono has checked into CVS his port of the S390 JIT engine.
280 Now, if we could only have one of those in our living room.
282 Bernie has checked into CVS a new interpreter for the Mono
283 runtime. This new interpreter translates the CIL opcodes into
284 a new intermediate representation. The new IL representation
285 avoids doing costly lookups during interpretation which means that the
286 interpreter is a lot faster now.
288 Performance wise, the new interpreter is three times faster
289 than the old one when doing a compiler bootstrap.
291 Sebastien has recently completed the identity classes in the
292 Mono Runtime, you can see more details on his <a
293 href="http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/poupou.html">blog</a>
295 New progress on the GDI+ front: Jordi has completed the region
296 code; Ravindra the various brushes that we must support;
297 Sanjay the Icon and BMP loaders (with Mark) and Vladimir has
298 contributed various codecs and a new fresh implementation of
301 Lluis and Atsushi in the meantime has been in charge of
302 completing various pending items from our class libraries:
303 basically an API audit of the things missing for the Mono 1.0
304 release, small but important things.
306 Martin has replaced the old command-line language in the
307 debugger with our home-grown "Command Line" language, a
308 TCL-like command line language that we built for it (its a
309 tiny .NETized Tcl-like language). The interaction process is
310 a lot smoother than it used to be and we are focusing on the
311 usability of the command line language to improve the
312 debugging experience.
314 @item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft.
316 Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding
317 support to the C# compiler to support the various checks required
318 by the Common Language Specification (CLS).
320 In the past the C# compiler was unable to flag any problems
321 related to the creation of cross-language libraries. Today
322 with this patch the compiler will properly flag errors in CLS
323 compliance. Tests for all of the errors have also been
326 <a href="http://www.mainsoft.com">Mainsoft</a> has contributed
327 an implementation of their Basic runtime to the project. The
328 runtime they wrote is written in Java and we are translating
329 this into C# code. The code will reach CVS within the next
332 Mainsoft also contributed an extensive regression test suite
333 for the Basic runtime, a port of the NIST XML tests and their
334 own in-house developed XML tests.
336 @item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released
338 New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released.
340 Gtk# is available from <a
341 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# home page</a> and MonoDoc 0.13
342 is available from our <a href="download.html">download</a>
345 Gtk# now features [ConnectBefore] attribute for hooking up
346 signals; An automake/autoconf setup; the System.Drawing
347 dependency has been dropped and many more docs.
349 And <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/">MonoDevelop 0.2</a>
352 @item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released
354 We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features
355 and improvements are described in our <a
356 href="archive/mono-0.31.html">Mono 0.31 Release Notes</a>.
358 You can download Mono 0.31 packages using Red Carpet, or pick
359 the individual packages from our <a
360 href="download.html">download</a> page.
362 @item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono.
364 Gonzalo has completed the implementation of Async I/O for Mono
365 using the kernel aio_* interfaces. If your operating system supports
366 the aio_ POSIX interface, the FileStream methods that
367 expose asynchronous methods will use this facility instead of
368 emulating it with threads as we have done in the past.
370 We had this request come to us from various people in the
371 past, and we are now looking for your help to test and debug
374 @item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC.
376 Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono
377 JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for
378 this amazing development.
380 @item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston.
382 The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: <a
383 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/MonoMeet.html">Mono Meeting
386 @item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston.
388 On March 5th-6th (Friday and Saturday) there will be an
389 open-house meeting for people interested in Mono to get
390 together with the Mono developers at the Novell offices in
391 in Cambridge Massachusetts (<a
392 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/contact/">directions</a>).
394 The whole Novell Mono team will be here (Atsushi Enomoto, Dick
395 Porter, Duncan Mak, Erik Dasque, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson
396 Harper, Jordi Mas, Lluis Sanches, Manjula, Martin Baulig,
397 Miguel de Icaza, Mike Kestner, Paolo Molaro, Peter Bartok,
398 Sebastien Pouliot, Sachin Kumar) and hopefully Joe Shaw, Nat
399 Friedman, Peter Williams and Ravi Pratap will be joining us as
400 well. Expect to see Todd Berman from MonoDevelop as well.
402 If you are coming, please notify <a
403 href="mailto:edasque@ximian.com">edasque@ximian.com</a> about it, so
404 we can add you to the security list, and use the `open house
405 confirmation' subject in your email.
407 @item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released
409 We have released a small bug-fix release of Mono, the release
410 notes are available <a
411 href="archive/mono-0.30.1.html">here</a> and you can download
412 it from our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
414 @item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization
416 We have a new document that describes some <a
417 href="performance.html">common tricks to improve the
418 performance</a> of your Mono or .NET application. These are a
419 summary of techniques that we employed to tune our own C#
422 @item Feb 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released
425 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.30.html">Release
426 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.30. Or go directly to our <a
427 href="download.html">download</a> section
429 @item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial.
431 Sunil Kumar has written an <a
432 href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/cooldev/features/a_net_cplus_ldap_library_cdev.html">introduction
433 to Novell.LDAP</a> class libraries, which are part of Mono.
435 @item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released.
437 A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from:
438 <a href="archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz">archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz</a>
440 @item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories
442 If you have a success story about using Mono or one of the Mono
443 components in any way, we want to hear about you. Please mail
444 your details to miguel@ximian.com
446 @item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
448 There is a <a href="archive/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows
449 Installer for Mono 0.29</a> available now.
453 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see older news.