Ximian announced the launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source implementation of the .NET Development Framework. Mono includes: a compiler for the C# language, a runtime for the Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a set of class libraries. The runtime can be embedded into your application. It implements of both ADO.NET and ASP.NET. You can read our rationale for this project. If you have questions about the project, please read our list of Frequently Asked Questions or contact us. You might also want to Download the source for our work so far. Grab a snapshot of our current work, or browse the sources You might want to subscribe to our mono-list and mono-announce-list. There is also a forum at GotMono. Wikis: Gtk# Wiki and Mono Wiki

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C# Compiler	Self hosting on Linux Self hosting on .NET.
JIT	Linux/x86 working.
Interpreter	Working: Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
ASP.NET	Webforms and WebServices working
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	May 31st, 2003: CLI integration.
	May 22nd, 2003: Mono 1.0 plans.
	Mar 14th, 2003: Whither Mono?
	Dec, 2002: The Penguin takes flight.

@item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international substrate in Mono that uses the International Components for Unicode library from IBM. This means that we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now. Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+ implementation on top of Cairo is used on Unix systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and maintenance of System.Drawing. There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you to read the Monologue to keep an eye on recent developments. Bernie Solomon just checked in 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support. @item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available. Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the Linux/s390. You can get them from the download page. @item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs You can now read an aggregated view of the blogs maintained by Mono developers in Monologue. Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an RSS feed. @item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7 Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our download page. A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version is available here @item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released. Check out the Release notes for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the completion of the SourceGear project to add web services functionality to Mono and improve its reliability. @item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available The Mono Kick Start book is now available in English. Originally available only in German. The book technical review was done by Dietmar Maurer JIT architect at the Mono team. @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released. Mike Kestner has released a new version of Gtk#. Martin has also released his binding to DiaCanvas for C#. @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE. WineLib: Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots: here, here, here and here. Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme, screenshot here Security: New authenticode support from Sebastien has been checked into CVS. Xslt: Plenty of conformance updates to the managed implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the C-based libxslt that we used before. Generics: Work continues on generics support, feel free to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module. Wsdl: We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl file from an .asmx file. AOT: Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to avoid deadlocks. Dogfooding: We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our Monodoc documentation. The Apache module version and the XSP version. WSE: The Web Services Enhancements season has begun. The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now checked into CVS. @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress. Ice: Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an implementation of ZeroC's ICE protocol. It is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it. ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its problems (you can see a list of differences). XmlSerializer: Lluis has checked in a new technology for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a description of instructions for serializing data, these instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a compiler and improving the performance of it. Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard serialization process. MonoDoc: New providers! Thanks to Jon Jagger for providing us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors in the help system. Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up the ECMA provider even more. @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released A new version of Mono is available, the new features include: Cairo support, Remoting.Corba support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation. Existing features have been improved vastly: better Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better compliance to the spec and more. Check out the Release notes for details. @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up. Brian Lloyd has announced the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see Brian's site at http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/ We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core libraries and Gtk#) to http://mono.ximian.com:8080. The site is running the ASP.NET edition of MonoDoc 0.6 on XSP. @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono implementation. The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the source code is available on the WineSamples page on the Mono Wiki. A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples, you can install the WineLib packages available from our download page. @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms. The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase. The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and now requires an XSP installation to be available. @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell. Today Novell acquired Ximian. The press release is available here. Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy. @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT. Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to run Remoting.CORBA: both client and server channels work; We are interested in people testing it with other ORBs. Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed. Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is implementation is not completed yet, we still support the libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to try the new XSLT implementation, see Ben's post @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software are now available from our (download page). You can track the progress on our Wiki page. We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in three distinct flavors:

* mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and contain everything necessary to setup a new installation from scratch. This includes the Mono runtime and all the assemblies we distribute. * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only the assemblies built on that day. * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation. The daily builds are availble here: http://go-mono.com/daily If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan. @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the work-in-progress projects that are progressing. Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first generic program. Support for handling images with generics has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT engine is still incomplete. On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it. Lluis recently posted an update on the state of WSDL in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a development tool. Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support. @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support. Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for Windows. This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the various ECMA subsets). Peter explains the new build system here Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the NET_1_1 build). @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools. Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:

.asmx files.
Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
ref and out parameters.
Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).

For more details, see Lluis post GUI-wise: Work on Xr to implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms. MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative extension to allow people to contribute documentation through their web browsers. Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS. With this tool it is now possible to find which class library code paths are missing regression tests. The module is `monocov'. Details are here. A fresh Gtk# version is available now. Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing. @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released. We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is available here. Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are available on our download page. @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator. As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration with SourceGear. Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already added improvements to it). Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS. Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK. On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps and bounds. Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later for ease-of-authoring). Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time. @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project technology to offer cross-platform versions of its products. In addition, the companies have entered into a development partnership under which Ximian will provide custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in mixed-platform development organizations. Read more... Some technical details are available here. @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches. OpenLink announced the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program. The patches are available here. Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the download page. @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the Eclipse IDE running on top of Mono+IKVM. A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found here @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code generation engine. A list of the new features is available here. Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are available on our download page. We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time. @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships. OpenLink's released their Virtuoso 3.0 database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux. On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release. Virtuoso can be downloaded here and a demo is available here. OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on an ongoing basis. Jon Udell wrote a small entry @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities. Atsushi has created a RelaxNG validating XML reader. There is activity on the GotMono forums and the Gtk# Wiki @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages. The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently only available in German, you can find it here We now have a page for the Mono Team where we include a list of some of the people who have made Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page to include your information. @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine. The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the details are here Zoltan has commited his typed allocation patches to CVS as well. @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT# Gonzalo has checked in his Gtk#-based NUnit tool. Screenshots are here and here Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS, module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the details The SWT port to C# using Gtk is progressing. Screenshots are here. @item Mar 28th: Mono community site. www.gotmono.com has openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site. @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey

What do you think about Mono? Is your company involved with the development and deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an important part of your company's business application strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono and the use of Linux in business critical applications? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we would like to talk with you. If interested, please email us at mbadgett@ximian.com.

@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine. Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux. @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release notes are here. This is mostly a bug fix release. No new features. @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama. Mono 0.22 has been released. See the release notes. This is a bug fix release. A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser has been released. Martin also announced a new release of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line). @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame continues to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that make mono:: a successful free software project. Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the point of running the IKVM Java virtual machine. @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list. A new mailing list for Mono Development has been created. @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release. The release notes are available. Windows binary is available here @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released. Packages of Mono for Windows have been released. Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up. Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that handles ASP.NET. The code is available at here Nick has posted an update on the progress on our regression tests. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them. Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort, momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details. @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released. Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of the changes. You can get it here. There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes and performance improvements. Gtk# 0.8 has been released Important: The contributed binaries for Windows binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read this if you installed the binary. @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk# With the availability of a documentation browser, we are looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation of the Gtk# binding for Mono. Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to how to complete this process here. Mail the mono-docs-list@ximian.com for further discussion. @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates. Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for Gnome. A screenshot can be seen here. The bindings are available on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a straight binding to the C API. Marco has posted an update on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler for Mono. We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the JavaScript compiler as well (Janet) @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking advantage of Unix facilities. A Mono site in Poland. Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS. If you want to contribute please read this message Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit). @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies. Mono Weekly News: Includes a new interview, software announcements and the PHP/Mono integration. @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1 A preliminary release of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble. Release notes @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso. Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux World Expo. A description is here Open Link has a press release about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product shipping that uses Mono. @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of the changes. You can get it here. There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes and performance improvements. We have now a new section with screenshots of various Mono applications. You can see there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in progress on the documentation browser. Gtk# 0.7 has been released @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released. After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded applications and should be relatively easy to port to new platforms. Details of the release are available in post. The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces. The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2 flag to gcc). @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client. MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the distribution, and MCS works with it. Zoltan has managed to get IKVM (a Java VM for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with the Mono runtime. @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of the changes. You can get it here. @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News. A new issue of the Mono Weekly News has been published. Check out the Crypto status page that Sebastien has put together. @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger. Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has improved this to use implicit names as well. Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a per-thread basis now. Daniel L�pez has checked in his Apache module to integrate Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono). Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more statements on the grammar. Zoltan has posted his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono. @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses. Tipic today announced their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform to run on Mono. Winfessor also announced the availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono. Also two weeks ago we mentioned OpenLink Software's announcement of their product, also using Mono. @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian. Mike Kestner announced Gtk# 0.6. This new release includes many new features and bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the Mono 0.17 release. Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17, and its available from our download page. Alp Toker has Debian packages @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the release notes for a more detailed list. You can get it here. Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET) which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple test web server to host asp.net has been released as well. This version also integrates Neale's s390 port. This release also includes a new exception handling system that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times). @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider. Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method invocation, local variables, and some statements). The compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS. Screenshots: in Windows doing Windows.Forms and in Linux doing VB with Gtk# (courtesy of Alp). Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS repository as well. @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine. The Penguin Takes Flight: an article written by Erick Schonfeld appears on the December issue of Business 2.0 magazine. OpenLink and Ximian made joint announcement on the plans of OpenLink to ship their Virtuoso server on Unix using Mono. Martin Willemoes's GNOME.NET tutorial is now available from the main Mono site. This tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to use Mono to create Mono applications using Gtk# Dennis Hayes has posted and update on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a new test application that people can use to test their controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms, you can participate in the mono-winforms mailing list Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET data layer and an application server for Mono. Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes. The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also, compilation speed has increased recently by performing a number of simple optimizations in the compiler. @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures working as well as RSA encryption. We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes. Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this new technology are here. It works in Mono and the .NET Framework. Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for Thinking in C#. The book is Mono-friendly. Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is here. Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can see Windows screenshots for it here and here. Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:

Mono Keynote presentation
Hosting the Mono Runtime
The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available here
The Mono JIT compiler
Mono C# Compiler Overview

A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe are available here in Open Office file format. @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates. Neale Ferguson has contributed RPM packages of Mono for the Linux/s390. Tim Coleman posted an update on the improvements in the System.Data The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week. @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes. Tim's SqlClient is now capable of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client running with Gtk# on Windows is shown here Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has been working on the Security classes. Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick, Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip), compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who has been providing bug reports for us to track down. Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction. In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer bindings. Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check out the status pages for areas of collaboration. @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS. Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked into CVS. The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes. We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new mono-winforms-list@ximian.com list mailing list. Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A data adapter is also coming soon. @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger. Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes still have problems in some configurations and some areas that are not supported by the .NET framework. Last week we created a new mailing list to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation. Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC binding. Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This binding is unique in that it uses some features in the CLI to support complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one representation of the types instead of two (the master types is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (shot) simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their configuration to backend keys, following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We will do some polishing of the user interface (new shot) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same time as Mono 0.17. @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation. Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC provider for Mono. Daniel posted some updates. Brian posted details about the ODBC.NET provider. Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers). Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at file/line combos. This was more complex than generic breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public release of it. We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will be the foundation for the Mono Documentation Tools. @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates. Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have been working on various database providers. The MySQL has seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and more extensive regression tests have been checked in. Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you want. This also includes support for the system-wide configuration file `machine.config'. Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how it looks here and here. Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on the screenshot). Gtk# has seen a lot of activity specially as we start to build larger applications. Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it. mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and Gtk# is seen here. Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation. Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress. The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular processor, or use profile-based information to improve the performance. @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates. Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are available. The release notes are here. Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code. Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level single-stepping). @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey. Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the First Mono Survey @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame continues to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made mono:: a successful free software project. This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has been a long time contributor to the project, from the early work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit. @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have chosen not to document the code inline). This includes the use of a master reference file that will hold the entry points to document. All master files for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now. Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out. Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages, but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk# UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working on making a good UI in the future. Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries. This is the substrate for implementing the System.DirectoryServices assembly. Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic classes implementation. After much public debate, we have chosen a new strategy to implement winforms. Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based implementation. @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available The .NET ONE 2002 conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner will talk about Gtk# and the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday. @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration Sterling announced an Apache module that hosts Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding API. @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released Shortly after Mono 0.15 was released a fresh version of Gtk# was announced. @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are available. The release notes are here @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono. Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the merger on our side. His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach that mono used, which was unreliable under certain circumstances. @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET San Francisco: August 14th. Linux World Expo. Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port on par with the PPC port. Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support code for the remoting infrastructure. More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed their first query. @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C# compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds. Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of MonoCIL. On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting support, exception handling, as well as completing the support for structure marshaling. Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP into our main class library and providing the missing pieces to integrate with Patrik's code. Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again. A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been checked into CVS. @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame has been started to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made mono:: a successful free software project. The first, deserved, entry goes to Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.

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