+Hello everyone!
+
+ We are releasing a new version of Mono, Mono 0.22. A new release
+is made today because of the few recent bug-fixes that were committed
+to CVS.
+
+ Source code and binaries for this release can be found on the
+ web page,
+
+ http://www.go-mono.com/download.html
+
+ The URLs for the sources are:
+
+ * MCS package (the Class Libraries, C# and VB.NET compiler
+ and other assorted tools written in Managed code):
+
+ http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mcs-0.22.tar.gz
+
+ * Mono package (the Runtime engine and JIT compiler):
+
+ http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.22.tar.gz
+
+ RPM packages for this release can be downloaded from the web-page
+as well as from the 'Mono' channel on Red Carpet. Debian packages will
+appear on the download page later, as well as an installer for our
+Windows users.
+
+ Since last Thursday, 320 commits have been made to our CVS
+repository. These following hackers contributed to Mono since version
+0.21:
+
+ Aleksey Demakov, Alexandre Pigolkine, Atsushi Enomoto, Elan
+ Feingeld, Dick Porter, Dietmar Maurer, Duncan Mak, Gonzalo
+ Paniagua, Ian MacLean, Jackson Harper, Jean-Marc Andre, Jerome
+ Laban, Lluis Sanchez, Martin Baulig, Miguel de Icaza, Nick
+ Drochak, Paolo Molaro, Pedro Martinez, Per Ameng, Peter Williams,
+ Rafael Teixeira, Reggie Burnett, Sebastien Pouliot, Tim Coleman
+ and Zoltan Varga.
+
+Highlights:
+
+ * The "MemoryStream" bug.
+ This bug affected a lot of classes, and made them crashy,
+ database code, XML parsing and a few others were
+ crashing. Thanks to Gonzalo for fixing this bug.
+
+ * System.Data:
+ More bug fixes from Aleksey and Tim.
+
+ * Reflection:
+ Zoltan continues to provide fixes to our Reflection.Emit code
+ to host IKVM.
+
+ * Remoting:
+ Lluis added support for activation using activation
+ attributes.
+
+ * PEToolkit:
+ Jackson imported the PEAPI package from the Queensland
+ University of Technology in Australia. This will replace the
+ existing Mono.PEToolkit for our ILasm back-end.
+
+ * Windows Forms:
+ More fixes from Reggie and Alexandre.
+
+ * System.Web.Mail:
+ Per has been working on this namespace. He announces recently
+ that all major parts of System.Web.Mail has now been implemented.
+
+ * System.Web.Mobile:
+ Gaurav continues to make progress here.
+
+ * Misc:
+
+ Ian MacLean contributed a /compile flag to monoresgen and
+ assorted bug-fixes and improvements from the rest of the team.
+
+
+ My name is Duncan Mak, and I just made my first Mono release.
+
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