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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
27 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
28 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
32 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
33 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
34 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
37 You can contact the team at: <a
38 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
116 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
117 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
118 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
119 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
120 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
122 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
123 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
124 and a demo is available <a
125 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
127 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
130 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
131 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
133 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
135 Atsushi has created a <a
136 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
137 validating XML reader.
139 There is activity on the <a
140 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
141 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
143 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
145 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
146 only available in German, you can find it <a
147 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
149 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
150 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
151 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
152 to include your information.
154 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
156 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
158 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
160 Zoltan has commited his <a
161 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
162 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
164 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
166 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
167 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
168 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
170 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
172 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
173 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
174 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
176 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
177 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
178 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
180 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
182 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
183 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
185 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
187 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
190 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
191 What do you think about Mono?
193 Is your company involved with the development and
194 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
195 important part of your company's business application
196 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
197 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
198 and the use of Linux in business critical
201 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
202 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
204 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
210 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
212 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
213 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
214 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
215 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
217 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
219 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
220 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
221 bug fix release. No new features.
223 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
225 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
226 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
229 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
230 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
232 Martin also announced a <a
233 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
234 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
236 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
238 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
239 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
240 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
243 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
244 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
245 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
246 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
247 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
250 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
252 A new mailing list for <a
253 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
254 Development</a> has been created.
256 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
258 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
259 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
261 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
263 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
265 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
266 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
267 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
269 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
270 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
271 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
273 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
274 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
275 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
277 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
278 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
280 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
282 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
283 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
284 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
285 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
286 and performance improvements.
289 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
291 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
292 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
293 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
295 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
297 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
298 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
299 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
301 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
302 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
303 how to complete this process <a
304 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
305 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
306 for further discussion.
308 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
310 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
311 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
312 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
313 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
314 straight binding to the C API.
317 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
318 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
321 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
322 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
324 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
326 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
327 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
328 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
329 advantage of Unix facilities.
331 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
333 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
334 If you want to contribute please read <a
335 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
338 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
339 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
340 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
341 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
342 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
343 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
344 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
346 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
348 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
349 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
350 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
352 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
355 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
356 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
358 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
360 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
362 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
363 World Expo. A description is <a
364 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
367 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
368 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
369 shipping that uses Mono.
371 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
373 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
374 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
375 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
376 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
377 and performance improvements.
379 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
380 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
381 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
382 progress on the documentation browser.
384 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
385 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
387 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
389 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
390 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
391 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
392 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
393 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
396 Details of the release are available in <a
397 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
399 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
400 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
401 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
402 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
405 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
407 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
409 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
410 distribution, and MCS works with it.
412 Zoltan has managed to get <a
413 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
414 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
417 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
419 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
420 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
421 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
423 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
425 A new issue of the <a
426 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
427 Weekly News</a> has been published.
429 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
430 that Sebastien has put together.
432 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
434 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
435 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
436 improved this to use implicit names as well.
438 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
439 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
440 per-thread basis now.
442 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
443 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
444 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
445 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
446 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
448 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
449 statements on the grammar.
451 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
452 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
454 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
456 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
457 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
458 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
461 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
462 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
463 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
465 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
466 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
467 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
468 of their product, also using Mono.
470 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
473 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
474 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
475 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
476 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
478 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
479 and its available from our <a
480 href="download.html">download</a> page.
482 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
484 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
486 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
487 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
488 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
490 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
491 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
492 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
493 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
494 asp.net has been released as well.
496 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
498 This release also includes a new exception handling system
499 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
500 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
502 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
504 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
505 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
506 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
507 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
510 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
511 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
512 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
514 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
517 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
520 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
521 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
522 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
523 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
525 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
526 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
527 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
528 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
529 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
530 server on Unix using Mono.
532 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
533 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
534 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
535 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
537 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
538 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
539 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
540 new test application that people can use to test their
541 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
542 you can participate in the <a
543 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
546 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
547 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
549 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
552 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
553 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
555 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
556 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
557 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
558 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
560 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
562 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
563 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
565 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
566 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
568 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
569 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
570 new technology are <a
571 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
572 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
574 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
575 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
576 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
578 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
579 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
582 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
583 see Windows screenshots for it <a
584 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
585 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
587 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
590 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
591 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
593 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
594 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
595 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
597 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
599 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
600 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
603 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
605 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
606 in Open Office file format.
608 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
610 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
611 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
613 Tim Coleman posted an <a
614 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
615 on the improvements in the System.Data
617 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
618 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
620 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
622 Tim's SqlClient is <a
623 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
624 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
625 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
626 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
628 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
630 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
631 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
632 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
633 been working on the Security classes.
635 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
636 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
637 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
638 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
640 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
641 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
643 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
646 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
647 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
649 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
651 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
654 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
655 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
656 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
657 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
658 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
659 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
661 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
662 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
663 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
664 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
665 list</a> mailing list.
667 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
668 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
669 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
670 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
671 data adapter is also coming soon.
673 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
675 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
676 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
677 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
678 are not supported by the .NET framework.
680 Last week we created a new <a
681 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
682 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
684 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
685 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
688 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
690 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
691 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
692 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
693 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
694 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
695 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
696 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
697 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
698 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
699 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
701 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
702 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
703 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
704 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
705 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
706 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
707 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
708 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
711 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
713 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
714 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
715 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
717 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
718 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
720 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
721 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
722 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
723 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
724 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
725 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
726 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
728 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
729 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
730 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
731 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
732 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
735 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
736 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
737 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
738 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
739 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
740 Documentation Tools</a>.
742 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
744 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
745 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
746 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
747 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
749 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
750 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
751 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
752 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
753 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
754 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
755 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
756 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
757 configuration file `machine.config'.
759 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
761 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
763 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
764 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
765 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
768 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
769 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
770 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
771 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
772 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
774 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
776 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
777 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
779 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
780 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
781 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
782 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
783 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
784 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
787 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
789 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
790 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
791 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
793 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
794 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
795 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
796 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
799 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
801 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
802 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
805 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
807 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
808 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
809 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
812 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
813 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
814 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
815 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
816 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
817 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
820 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
822 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
823 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
824 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
825 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
826 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
827 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
829 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
830 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
831 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
833 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
834 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
835 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
836 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
837 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
838 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
839 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
840 on making a good UI in the future.
842 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
843 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
844 This is the substrate for implementing the
845 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
847 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
848 classes implementation.
850 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
851 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
852 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
853 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
854 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
857 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
860 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
861 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
862 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
863 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
864 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
865 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
866 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
867 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
869 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
872 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
873 announced an Apache module that hosts
874 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
875 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
878 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
880 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
881 released a fresh version of <a
882 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
883 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
885 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
887 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
888 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
889 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
891 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
893 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
894 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
895 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
898 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
899 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
902 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
904 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
906 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
907 on par with the PPC port.
909 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
910 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
911 code for the remoting infrastructure.
913 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
914 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
917 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
919 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
920 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
921 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
922 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
924 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
925 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
926 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
927 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
929 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
930 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
931 for structure marshaling.
933 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
934 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
935 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
936 to integrate with Patrik's code.
938 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
939 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
940 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
942 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
945 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
947 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
948 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
949 a successful free software project.
951 The first, deserved, entry goes to
952 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
953 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
954 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
955 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
959 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.