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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
15 application. It implements of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
16 and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
18 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
19 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
20 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
21 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
23 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
24 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
25 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
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30 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
31 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
32 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
33 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
35 Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
36 and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
44 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
49 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
52 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
70 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
76 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
77 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
81 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
84 All assemblies compile.
92 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
97 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
105 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
110 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
113 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
118 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
121 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
126 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
129 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
134 <img src="images/b2.png">
137 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
145 @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
148 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
149 a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
152 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-September/015951.html">released</a>
153 his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
155 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
157 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
158 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
159 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
160 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
161 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
162 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
163 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
165 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
166 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
168 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
169 been checked into CVS.
171 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
172 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
173 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
174 C-based libxslt that we used before.
176 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
177 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
178 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
179 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
180 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
182 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
183 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
184 file from an .asmx file.
186 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
187 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
188 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
189 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
192 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
193 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
194 Monodoc documentation. The <a
195 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
196 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
199 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
200 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
203 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
205 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
206 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
207 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
208 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
209 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
211 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
212 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
213 problems (you can see a <a
214 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
217 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
218 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
219 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
220 description of instructions for serializing data, these
221 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
222 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
223 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
224 compiler and improving the performance of it.
226 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
227 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
228 serialization process.
230 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
231 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
232 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
233 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
234 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
237 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
238 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
239 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
240 the ECMA provider even more.
242 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
244 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
245 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
246 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
247 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
249 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
250 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
251 compliance to the spec and more.
254 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
255 notes</a> for details.
257 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
260 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
261 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
262 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
263 Brian's site at <a href="
264 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
266 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
267 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
268 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
269 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
270 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
272 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
274 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
275 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
276 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
279 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
280 source code is available on the <a
281 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
283 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
285 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
286 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
287 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
288 href="download.html">download page</a>.
290 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
292 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
293 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
294 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
295 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
296 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
297 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
298 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
300 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
301 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
303 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
305 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
306 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
308 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
310 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
312 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
314 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
316 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
317 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
318 testing it with other ORBs.
320 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
321 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
322 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
323 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
324 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
325 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
326 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
327 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
330 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
332 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
333 are now available from our (<a
334 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
336 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
339 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
340 three distinct flavors:
343 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
344 contain everything necessary to setup a new
345 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
346 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
348 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
349 the assemblies built on that day.
351 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
352 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
353 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
354 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
357 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
359 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
361 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
363 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
364 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
365 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
366 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
368 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
369 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
370 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
371 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
372 engine is still incomplete.
374 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
375 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
376 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
377 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
378 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
379 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
381 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
382 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
383 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
384 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
387 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
388 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
390 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
392 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
393 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
394 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
395 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
396 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
399 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
400 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
401 various ECMA subsets).
403 Peter explains the new build system <a
404 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
406 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
407 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
410 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
412 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
413 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
414 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
415 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
416 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
419 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
420 <li> ref and out parameters.
421 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
422 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
425 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
427 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
428 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
429 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
430 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
432 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
433 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
434 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
437 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
438 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
439 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
440 `monocov'. Details are <a
441 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
442 version is available now.
444 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
446 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
448 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
449 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
451 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
452 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
454 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
456 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
457 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
458 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
459 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
460 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
461 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
463 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
464 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
465 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
466 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
469 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
470 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
471 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
472 added improvements to it).
474 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
475 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
476 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
478 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
479 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
480 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
482 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
483 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
486 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
487 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
488 for ease-of-authoring).
490 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
491 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
493 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
495 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
496 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
497 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
498 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
499 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
500 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
501 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
502 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
503 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
504 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
505 mixed-platform development organizations.
507 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
509 Some technical details are available <a
510 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
512 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
515 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
516 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
517 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
518 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
519 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
520 The patches are available <a
521 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
523 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
524 href="download.html">download page</a>.
526 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
528 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
529 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
530 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
532 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
533 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
535 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
537 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
538 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
539 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
541 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
542 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
543 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
545 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
547 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
548 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
549 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
550 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
551 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
553 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
554 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
555 and a demo is available <a
556 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
558 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
561 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
562 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
564 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
566 Atsushi has created a <a
567 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
568 validating XML reader.
570 There is activity on the <a
571 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
572 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
574 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
576 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
577 only available in German, you can find it <a
578 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
580 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
581 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
582 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
583 to include your information.
585 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
587 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
589 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
591 Zoltan has commited his <a
592 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
593 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
595 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
597 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
598 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
599 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
601 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
603 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
604 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
605 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
607 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
608 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
609 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
611 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
613 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
614 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
616 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
618 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
621 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
622 What do you think about Mono?
624 Is your company involved with the development and
625 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
626 important part of your company's business application
627 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
628 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
629 and the use of Linux in business critical
632 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
633 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
635 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
641 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
643 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
644 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
645 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
646 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
648 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
650 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
651 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
652 bug fix release. No new features.
654 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
656 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
657 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
660 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
661 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
663 Martin also announced a <a
664 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
665 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
667 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
669 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
670 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
671 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
674 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
675 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
676 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
677 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
678 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
681 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
683 A new mailing list for <a
684 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
685 Development</a> has been created.
687 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
689 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
690 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
692 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
694 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
696 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
697 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
698 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
700 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
701 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
702 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
704 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
705 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
706 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
708 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
709 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
711 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
713 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
714 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
715 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
716 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
717 and performance improvements.
720 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
722 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
723 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
724 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
726 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
728 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
729 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
730 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
732 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
733 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
734 how to complete this process <a
735 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
736 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
737 for further discussion.
739 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
741 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
742 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
743 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
744 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
745 straight binding to the C API.
748 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
749 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
752 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
753 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
755 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
757 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
758 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
759 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
760 advantage of Unix facilities.
762 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
764 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
765 If you want to contribute please read <a
766 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
769 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
770 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
771 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
772 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
773 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
774 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
775 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
777 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
779 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
780 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
781 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
783 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
786 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
787 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
789 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
791 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
793 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
794 World Expo. A description is <a
795 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
798 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
799 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
800 shipping that uses Mono.
802 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
804 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
805 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
806 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
807 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
808 and performance improvements.
810 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
811 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
812 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
813 progress on the documentation browser.
815 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
816 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
818 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
820 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
821 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
822 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
823 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
824 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
827 Details of the release are available in <a
828 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
830 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
831 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
832 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
833 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
836 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
838 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
840 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
841 distribution, and MCS works with it.
843 Zoltan has managed to get <a
844 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
845 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
848 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
850 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
851 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
852 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
854 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
856 A new issue of the <a
857 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
858 Weekly News</a> has been published.
860 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
861 that Sebastien has put together.
863 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
865 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
866 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
867 improved this to use implicit names as well.
869 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
870 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
871 per-thread basis now.
873 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
874 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
875 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
876 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
877 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
879 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
880 statements on the grammar.
882 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
883 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
885 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
887 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
888 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
889 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
892 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
893 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
894 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
896 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
897 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
898 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
899 of their product, also using Mono.
901 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
904 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
905 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
906 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
907 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
909 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
910 and its available from our <a
911 href="download.html">download</a> page.
913 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
915 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
917 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
918 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
919 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
921 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
922 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
923 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
924 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
925 asp.net has been released as well.
927 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
929 This release also includes a new exception handling system
930 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
931 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
933 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
935 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
936 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
937 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
938 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
941 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
942 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
943 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
945 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
948 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
951 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
952 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
953 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
954 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
956 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
957 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
958 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
959 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
960 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
961 server on Unix using Mono.
963 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
964 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
965 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
966 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
968 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
969 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
970 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
971 new test application that people can use to test their
972 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
973 you can participate in the <a
974 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
977 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
978 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
980 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
983 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
984 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
986 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
987 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
988 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
989 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
991 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
993 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
994 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
996 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
997 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
999 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
1000 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
1001 new technology are <a
1002 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
1003 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
1005 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
1006 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
1007 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
1009 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1010 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1013 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1014 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1015 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1016 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1018 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1021 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1022 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1024 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1025 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1026 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1028 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1030 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1031 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1034 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1036 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1037 in Open Office file format.
1039 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1041 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1042 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1044 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1045 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1046 on the improvements in the System.Data
1048 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1049 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1051 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1053 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1054 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1055 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1056 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1057 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1059 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1061 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1062 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1063 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1064 been working on the Security classes.
1066 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1067 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1068 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1069 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1071 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1072 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1074 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1077 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1078 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1080 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1082 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1085 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1086 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1087 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1088 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1089 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1090 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1092 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1093 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1094 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1095 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1096 list</a> mailing list.
1098 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1099 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1100 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1101 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1102 data adapter is also coming soon.
1104 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1106 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1107 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1108 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1109 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1111 Last week we created a new <a
1112 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1113 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1115 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1116 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1119 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1121 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1122 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1123 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1124 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1125 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1126 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1127 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1128 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1129 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1130 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1132 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1133 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1134 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1135 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1136 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1137 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1138 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1139 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1142 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1144 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1145 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1146 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1148 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1149 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1151 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1152 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1153 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1154 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1155 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1156 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1157 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1159 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1160 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1161 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1162 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1163 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1166 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1167 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1168 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1169 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1170 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1171 Documentation Tools</a>.
1173 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1175 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1176 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1177 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1178 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1180 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1181 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1182 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1183 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1184 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1185 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1186 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1187 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1188 configuration file `machine.config'.
1190 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1192 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1194 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1195 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1196 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1199 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1200 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1201 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1202 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1203 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1205 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1207 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1208 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1210 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1211 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1212 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1213 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1214 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1215 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1218 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1220 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1221 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1222 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1224 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1225 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1226 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1227 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1230 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1232 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1233 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1236 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1238 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1239 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1240 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1243 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1244 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1245 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1246 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1247 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1248 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1251 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1253 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1254 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1255 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1256 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1257 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1258 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1260 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1261 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1262 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1264 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1265 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1266 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1267 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1268 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1269 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1270 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1271 on making a good UI in the future.
1273 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1274 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1275 This is the substrate for implementing the
1276 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1278 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1279 classes implementation.
1281 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1282 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1283 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1284 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1285 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1288 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1291 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1292 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1293 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1294 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1295 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1296 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1297 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1298 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1300 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1303 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1304 announced an Apache module that hosts
1305 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1306 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1309 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1311 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1312 released a fresh version of <a
1313 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1314 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1316 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1318 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1319 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1320 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1322 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1324 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1325 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1326 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1329 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1330 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1333 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1335 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1337 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1338 on par with the PPC port.
1340 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1341 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1342 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1344 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1345 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1348 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1350 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1351 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1352 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1353 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1355 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1356 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1357 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1358 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1360 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1361 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1362 for structure marshaling.
1364 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1365 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1366 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1367 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1369 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1370 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1371 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1373 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1376 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1378 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1379 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1380 a successful free software project.
1382 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1383 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1384 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1385 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1386 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1390 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.