- </td>
- </tr>
-</table>
-
-@item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
-
- Check out the <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
- notes</a> 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 <a
- 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>
- in English. Originally available only in <a
- href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
- The book technical review was done by <a
- href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
- architect at the Mono team.
-
-@item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
-
- Mike Kestner has <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
- a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
-
- Martin has also <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-September/015951.html">released</a>
- his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
-
-@item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
-
- <b>WineLib:</b> 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:
- <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
- href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
- href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
- href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
-
- Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
- screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
-
- <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
- been checked into CVS.
-
- <b>Xslt:</b> 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.
-
- <b>Generics:</b> 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.
-
- <b>Wsdl:</b> 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.
-
- <b>AOT:</b> 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.
-
- <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
- go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
- Monodoc documentation. The <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
- version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
- version</a>.
-
- <b>WSE:</b> 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.
-
- <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
- implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
- <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> 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 <a
- href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
- differences</a>).
-
- <b>XmlSerializer</b>: 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.
-
- <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
- href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> 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:
- <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
- href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
- 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 <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
- notes</a> for details.
-
-@item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
-
- Brian Lloyd has <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
- the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
- with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
- Brian's site at <a href="
- http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
-
- We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
- libraries and Gtk#) to <a
- href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
- The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
- href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> 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 <a
- href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
- page on the <a
- href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
-
- 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 <a
- href="download.html">download page</a>.
-
-@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 <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
- available <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
-
- 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 <a
- href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
- post</a>
-
-@item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
-
- MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
- are now available from our (<a
- href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
- progress on our <a
- href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
- page.</a>
-
- We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
- three distinct flavors:
-
- <ul>
- * 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.
- </ul>
-
- The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
-
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
- of WSDL</a> 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
-
- 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:
- <ul>
- <li> .asmx files.
- <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
- <li> ref and out parameters.
- <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
- <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
- </ul>
-
- For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
-
- GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> 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 <a
- href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. 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 <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
-
- Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
- available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> 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.
-
- <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
-
- Some technical details are available <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
-
-@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
-
- OpenLink <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
- 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 <a
- href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
-
- Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
- href="download.html">download page</a>.
-
-@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
-
- Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
- href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
- of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
-
- A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
- href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
-
-@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 <a
- href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
-
- Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
- available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
- We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
-
-@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
-
- <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
- their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
- 3.0</a> 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 <a
- href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
- and a demo is available <a
- href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
-
- OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
- an ongoing basis.
-
- Jon Udell wrote a small <a
- href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
-
-@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.