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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
22 us.</a> The project <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>.
24 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
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36 Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
37 and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
45 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
50 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
53 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
71 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 <br>
75 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
76 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
80 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
83 All assemblies compile.
91 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
96 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
104 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
109 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
112 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
117 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
120 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
125 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
128 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
133 <img src="images/b2.png">
136 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
144 @item Nov 14th: Gtk# 0.13 released.
147 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016943.html">announced</a>
148 the release of the <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
149 GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono.
151 @item Nov 13th: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET
153 Sunil Kumar at Novell has <a
154 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016907.html">announced</a>
155 the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for
156 Mono and the .NET Framework.
158 You can obtain the library from <a
159 href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> <a
160 href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/cvs/cvsbrowse.php/ldapcsharp/CsharpLDAP">CSharpLDAP</a>
163 @item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced.
165 The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a
166 href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> have
169 @item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
171 We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
172 28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
173 notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
176 We will bring Mono t-shirts.
178 Mike Kestner released <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
179 and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
181 @item Oct 26th: Last Minute Mono BOF
183 The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
184 place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
185 to plot the evolution.
188 @item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
190 Johannes created a <a href="http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/gtk-sharp/gtk-sharp-0.11-cvs.exe">Windows Installer for GTK# 0.11+</a> and works
191 with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
193 @item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge
195 Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
196 hosting their projects can now use <a
197 href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts
199 href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono
202 Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
203 tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
204 you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
205 repository, and using our <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS
208 @item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
210 Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
211 substrate in Mono that uses the <a
212 href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International
213 Components for Unicode</a> library from IBM. This means that
214 we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
216 Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
217 System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
218 with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
219 implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
220 implementation on top of <a
221 href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> is used on Unix
222 systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
223 maintenance of System.Drawing.
225 There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
227 href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep
228 an eye on recent developments.
230 Bernie Solomon just <a
231 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked
232 in</a> 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
233 runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
235 @item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
237 Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
238 Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
239 href="download.html">download</a> page.
241 @item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
243 You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
244 href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
245 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
246 Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
247 href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
249 @item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
251 Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
252 href="download.html">download</a> page.
254 A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
255 is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
257 @item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
260 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release
261 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
262 completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
263 functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
265 @item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
267 The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
268 href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325799/qid=1064937318/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9624440-8714218?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">available</a>
269 in English. Originally available only in <a
270 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
271 The book technical review was done by <a
272 href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
273 architect at the Mono team.
275 @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
278 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
279 a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
282 <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a>
283 his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
285 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
287 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
288 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
289 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
290 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
291 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
292 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
293 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
295 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
296 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
298 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
299 been checked into CVS.
301 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
302 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
303 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
304 C-based libxslt that we used before.
306 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
307 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
308 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
309 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
310 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
312 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
313 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
314 file from an .asmx file.
316 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
317 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
318 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
319 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
322 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
323 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
324 Monodoc documentation. The <a
325 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
326 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
329 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
330 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
333 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
335 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
336 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
337 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
338 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
339 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
341 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
342 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
343 problems (you can see a <a
344 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
347 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
348 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
349 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
350 description of instructions for serializing data, these
351 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
352 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
353 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
354 compiler and improving the performance of it.
356 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
357 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
358 serialization process.
360 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
361 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
362 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
363 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
364 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
367 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
368 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
369 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
370 the ECMA provider even more.
372 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
374 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
375 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
376 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
377 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
379 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
380 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
381 compliance to the spec and more.
384 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
385 notes</a> for details.
387 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
390 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
391 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
392 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
393 Brian's site at <a href="
394 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
396 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
397 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
398 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
399 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
400 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
402 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
404 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
405 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
406 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
409 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
410 source code is available on the <a
411 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
413 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
415 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
416 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
417 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
418 href="download.html">download page</a>.
420 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
422 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
423 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
424 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
425 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
426 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
427 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
428 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
430 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
431 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
433 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
435 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
436 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
438 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
440 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
442 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
444 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
446 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
447 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
448 testing it with other ORBs.
450 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
451 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
452 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
453 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
454 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
455 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
456 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
457 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
460 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
462 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
463 are now available from our (<a
464 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
466 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
469 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
470 three distinct flavors:
473 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
474 contain everything necessary to setup a new
475 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
476 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
478 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
479 the assemblies built on that day.
481 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
482 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
483 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
484 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
487 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
489 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
491 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
493 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
494 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
495 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
496 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
498 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
499 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
500 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
501 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
502 engine is still incomplete.
504 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
505 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
506 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
507 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
508 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
509 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
511 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
512 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
513 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
514 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
517 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
518 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
520 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
522 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
523 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
524 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
525 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
526 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
529 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
530 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
531 various ECMA subsets).
533 Peter explains the new build system <a
534 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
536 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
537 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
540 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
542 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
543 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
544 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
545 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
546 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
549 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
550 <li> ref and out parameters.
551 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
552 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
555 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
557 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
558 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
559 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
560 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
562 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
563 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
564 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
567 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
568 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
569 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
570 `monocov'. Details are <a
571 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
572 version is available now.
574 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
576 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
578 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
579 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
581 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
582 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
584 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
586 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
587 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
588 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
589 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
590 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
591 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
593 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
594 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
595 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
596 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
599 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
600 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
601 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
602 added improvements to it).
604 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
605 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
606 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
608 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
609 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
610 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
612 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
613 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
616 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
617 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
618 for ease-of-authoring).
620 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
621 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
623 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
625 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
626 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
627 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
628 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
629 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
630 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
631 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
632 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
633 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
634 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
635 mixed-platform development organizations.
637 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
639 Some technical details are available <a
640 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
642 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
645 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
646 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
647 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
648 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
649 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
650 The patches are available <a
651 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
653 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
654 href="download.html">download page</a>.
656 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
658 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
659 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
660 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
662 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
663 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
665 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
667 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
668 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
669 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
671 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
672 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
673 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
675 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
677 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
678 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
679 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
680 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
681 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
683 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
684 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
685 and a demo is available <a
686 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
688 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
691 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
692 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
694 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
696 Atsushi has created a <a
697 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
698 validating XML reader.
700 There is activity on the <a
701 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
702 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
704 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
706 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
707 only available in German, you can find it <a
708 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
710 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
711 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
712 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
713 to include your information.
715 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
717 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
719 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
721 Zoltan has commited his <a
722 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
723 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
725 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
727 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
728 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
729 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
731 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
733 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
734 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
735 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
737 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
738 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
739 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
741 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
743 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
744 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
746 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
748 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
751 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
752 What do you think about Mono?
754 Is your company involved with the development and
755 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
756 important part of your company's business application
757 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
758 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
759 and the use of Linux in business critical
762 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
763 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
765 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
771 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
773 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
774 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
775 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
776 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
778 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
780 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
781 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
782 bug fix release. No new features.
784 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
786 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
787 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
790 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
791 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
793 Martin also announced a <a
794 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
795 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
797 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
799 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
800 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
801 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
804 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
805 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
806 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
807 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
808 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
811 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
813 A new mailing list for <a
814 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
815 Development</a> has been created.
817 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
819 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
820 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
822 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
824 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
826 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
827 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
828 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
830 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
831 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
832 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
834 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
835 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
836 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
838 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
839 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
841 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
843 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
844 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
845 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
846 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
847 and performance improvements.
850 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
852 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
853 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
854 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
856 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
858 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
859 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
860 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
862 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
863 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
864 how to complete this process <a
865 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
866 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
867 for further discussion.
869 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
871 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
872 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
873 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
874 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
875 straight binding to the C API.
878 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
879 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
882 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
883 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
885 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
887 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
888 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
889 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
890 advantage of Unix facilities.
892 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
894 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
895 If you want to contribute please read <a
896 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
899 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
900 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
901 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
902 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
903 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
904 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
905 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
907 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
909 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
910 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
911 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
913 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
916 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
917 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
919 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
921 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
923 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
924 World Expo. A description is <a
925 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
928 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
929 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
930 shipping that uses Mono.
932 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
934 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
935 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
936 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
937 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
938 and performance improvements.
940 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
941 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
942 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
943 progress on the documentation browser.
945 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
946 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
948 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
950 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
951 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
952 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
953 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
954 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
957 Details of the release are available in <a
958 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
960 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
961 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
962 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
963 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
966 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
968 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
970 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
971 distribution, and MCS works with it.
973 Zoltan has managed to get <a
974 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
975 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
978 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
980 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
981 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
982 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
984 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
986 A new issue of the <a
987 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
988 Weekly News</a> has been published.
990 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
991 that Sebastien has put together.
993 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
995 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
996 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
997 improved this to use implicit names as well.
999 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
1000 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
1001 per-thread basis now.
1003 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
1004 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
1005 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
1006 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
1007 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
1009 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
1010 statements on the grammar.
1012 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
1013 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
1015 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
1017 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
1018 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
1019 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
1022 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
1023 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
1024 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
1026 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
1027 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
1028 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
1029 of their product, also using Mono.
1031 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
1034 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
1035 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
1036 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
1037 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
1039 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
1040 and its available from our <a
1041 href="download.html">download</a> page.
1043 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
1045 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
1047 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
1048 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
1049 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
1051 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
1052 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
1053 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
1054 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
1055 asp.net has been released as well.
1057 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
1059 This release also includes a new exception handling system
1060 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
1061 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
1063 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
1065 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
1066 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
1067 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
1068 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
1071 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
1072 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
1073 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
1075 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
1078 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
1081 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
1082 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
1083 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
1084 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
1086 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
1087 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
1088 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
1089 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
1090 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
1091 server on Unix using Mono.
1093 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
1094 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
1095 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
1096 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
1098 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
1099 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
1100 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
1101 new test application that people can use to test their
1102 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
1103 you can participate in the <a
1104 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
1107 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
1108 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
1110 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
1111 server</a> for Mono.
1113 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
1114 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
1116 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
1117 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
1118 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
1119 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
1121 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
1123 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
1124 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
1126 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
1127 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
1129 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
1130 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
1131 new technology are <a
1132 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
1133 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
1135 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
1136 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
1137 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
1139 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1140 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1143 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1144 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1145 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1146 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1148 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1151 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1152 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1154 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1155 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1156 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1158 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1160 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1161 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1164 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1166 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1167 in Open Office file format.
1169 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1171 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1172 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1174 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1175 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1176 on the improvements in the System.Data
1178 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1179 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1181 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1183 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1184 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1185 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1186 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1187 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1189 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1191 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1192 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1193 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1194 been working on the Security classes.
1196 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1197 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1198 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1199 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1201 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1202 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1204 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1207 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1208 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1210 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1212 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1215 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1216 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1217 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1218 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1219 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1220 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1222 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1223 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1224 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1225 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1226 list</a> mailing list.
1228 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1229 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1230 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1231 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1232 data adapter is also coming soon.
1234 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1236 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1237 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1238 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1239 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1241 Last week we created a new <a
1242 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1243 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1245 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1246 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1249 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1251 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1252 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1253 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1254 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1255 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1256 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1257 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1258 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1259 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1260 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1262 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1263 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1264 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1265 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1266 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1267 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1268 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1269 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1272 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1274 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1275 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1276 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1278 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1279 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1281 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1282 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1283 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1284 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1285 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1286 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1287 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1289 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1290 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1291 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1292 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1293 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1296 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1297 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1298 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1299 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1300 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1301 Documentation Tools</a>.
1303 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1305 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1306 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1307 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1308 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1310 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1311 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1312 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1313 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1314 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1315 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1316 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1317 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1318 configuration file `machine.config'.
1320 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1322 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1324 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1325 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1326 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1329 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1330 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1331 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1332 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1333 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1335 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1337 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1338 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1340 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1341 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1342 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1343 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1344 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1345 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1348 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1350 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1351 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1352 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1354 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1355 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1356 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1357 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1360 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1362 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1363 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1366 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1368 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1369 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1370 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1373 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1374 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1375 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1376 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1377 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1378 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1381 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1383 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1384 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1385 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1386 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1387 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1388 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1390 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1391 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1392 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1394 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1395 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1396 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1397 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1398 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1399 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1400 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1401 on making a good UI in the future.
1403 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1404 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1405 This is the substrate for implementing the
1406 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1408 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1409 classes implementation.
1411 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1412 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1413 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1414 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1415 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1418 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1421 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1422 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1423 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1424 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1425 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1426 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1427 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1428 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1430 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1433 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1434 announced an Apache module that hosts
1435 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1436 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1439 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1441 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1442 released a fresh version of <a
1443 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1444 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1446 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1448 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1449 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1450 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1452 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1454 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1455 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1456 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1459 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1460 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1463 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1465 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1467 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1468 on par with the PPC port.
1470 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1471 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1472 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1474 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1475 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1478 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1480 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1481 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1482 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1483 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1485 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1486 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1487 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1488 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1490 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1491 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1492 for structure marshaling.
1494 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1495 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1496 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1497 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1499 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1500 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1501 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1503 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1506 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1508 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1509 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1510 a successful free software project.
1512 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1513 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1514 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1515 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1516 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1520 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.