+Hello everyone!
+
+ We have made a new release of Mono available. Despite the fact
+that we just did Mono 0.18, this release is packed with new features.
+
+* Availability.
+
+ Mono 0.19 is available in package format from:
+
+ http://www.go-mono.com/download.html
+
+ We released packages for SuSE 8.0, Mandrake 8.2, Debian and various
+Red Hat releases. It is also available from Red Carpet on the Mono
+channel.
+
+ Source code for Mono, MCS, the Mono Debugger, XSP is available as
+well from that web page.
+
+* New in this release
+
+ * Remoting news:
+
+ Lluis has implemented and documented the Binary formatter
+ Woohoo! He has done a lot of work as well to support
+ remoting.
+
+ Patrik has also been working heavily on fixing a
+ number of remoting related bugs and missing features.
+
+ Ajay also implemented 1-d array serialization in System.Xml
+
+ * New database provider: IBM DB2
+
+ Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 data
+ provider for System.Data. We have a very complete
+ range of data providers.
+
+ * System.Web.Mobile
+
+ Gaurav has started work on this assembly, this will
+ allow us to run the unmodified reference ASP.NET
+ applications that were designed to support Mobile
+ browsing.
+
+ * System.Data and System.XML:
+
+ More implementation work on XmlDataDocument from Ville
+ and plenty of fixes from Atsushi.
+
+ * MacOS patches:
+
+ Paolo integrated John Duncan's and Benjamin Reed
+ patches to make Mono run on MacOS X out of the box.
+
+ * IsolatedStorage
+
+ The initial implementation of it was done by Jonathan
+ Pryor and included in this release.
+
+ * Compilers:
+
+ More work on the Mono Visual Basic compiler (it is now
+ included in the packages).
+
+ Plenty of bug fixes from Jackson, Miguel to the C#
+ compiler.
+
+ Patches from Francesco and Daniel to the VB.NET
+ support runtime.
+
+ * Debugger support
+
+ Plenty of updates to run the new Mono Debugger from Martin.
+
+* Main missing bits:
+
+ Some of everyone's favorite patches or code chunks have not yet
+been integrated, hopefully Mono 0.20 will have them:
+
+ * Zoltan's patch to run IKVM is not yet on this release
+
+ * Some parts of Patrik's remoting code did not make it to the
+ release either.
+
+ * Reggie's MySQL native provider is also missing.
+
+Enjoy!
+Miguel.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Happy new year!
+
+ The Mono team is proud to release Mono 0.18, with plenty of bug
+ fixes and improvements. If you are a happy 0.17 user, this
+ release is a happiness extension release. Many bugs in the
+ runtime, class libraries and C# compiler have been fixed.
+
+ Also, our special envoy in Japan has reported that there is
+ some naming confussion about the naming of Mono, as can be
+ seen in the following documentary material:
+
+ Atsushi Enomoto shows the source of confussion:
+
+ http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/gallery/Duncan-in-Tokyo/DSCN0702
+
+ Nick and Duncan echo it:
+
+ http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/gallery/Duncan-in-Tokyo/DSCN0703
+
+* Availability
+
+ Mono 0.18 packages and source code is available for download from:
+
+ http://www.go-mono.com/download.html
+
+ Those using Red Carpet on Linux can install Mono 0.18 from
+ the Mono channel. The packages have already been pushed for
+ you.
+
+ At release time we have packages for Red Hat 8.0, 7.3,
+ 7.2 and 7.1 and Mandrake 8.2.
+
+* Contributors to this release
+
+ This release is brought to you by:
+
+ Alejandro Sanchez, Alp Toker, Atsushi Enomoto, Cesar Octavio
+ Lopez Netaren, Daniel Lopez (mod_mono), Daniel Morgan, Dennis
+ Hayes, Dick Porter, Dietmar Maurer, Duncan Mak, Eduardo
+ Garcia, Gaurav Vaish, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson Harper, Jaime
+ Anguiano, Jeroen Janssen, Johannes Roith, Jonathan Pryor, Juli
+ Mallett, Lluis Sanchez, Marco Ridoni, Martin Baulig, Miguel de
+ Icaza, Nick Drochak, Paolo Molaro, Patrik Torstensson, Piers
+ Haken, Rachel Hestilow, Rafael Teixeira, Ravi Pratap,
+ Sebastian Pouliot, Tim Coleman, Tim Hayes, Ville Palo, Zoltan
+ Varga.
+
+* New in this release
+
+ VB.NET compiler:
+
+ Many improvements to the Mono VB.NET compiler.
+
+ ASP.NET:
+
+ Plenty of bug fixes in ASP.NET. Larger applications
+ can now be run with it. The authentication system has
+ been deployed, most changes are from Gonzalo.
+
+ We have a modified IBuySpy running (without Xslt)
+
+ If you want to run ASP.NET you can run it with either
+ our XSP proof-of-concept server, or with Daniel's
+ Apache module that can be fetched from CVS (module
+ name: mod_apache)
+
+ Type Reflector:
+
+ A Console, Gtk# and Windows.Forms tool to browse
+ compiled assemblies and examine the types on it, from
+ Jonathan Pryor.
+
+ Moving to NUnit 2.0
+
+ Nick continues the work on moving our test suite to NUnit 2.0
+
+ Mobile.Controls:
+
+ Gaurav has started work on the Mobile controls, which
+ are required to run some of the reference applications
+ in full-mode like IBuySpy.
+
+ Remoting:
+
+ The remoting infrastructure has got a big boost from
+ Lluis in this release.
+
+ System.Data/XML
+
+ Ville has been working on improving our System.Data
+ classes in the XML assembly.
+
+ Crypto:
+
+ Plenty of new crypto from Sebastien as well. A new
+ web page in our site can be used to track this.
+
+ http://www.go-mono.com/crypto.html
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello!
Version 0.17 of Mono has been released.
Many regression tests have been added as well (Ville has been
doing a great job here).
+ Brian also created a DB provider multiplexor (The ProviderFactory)
+
Stuart Caborn contributed Writing XML from a DataSet.
+ Luis Fernandez contributed constraint handling code.
+
+ Also there is new a Gtk# GUI tool from Dan that can be used to
+ try out various providers.
* System.XML:
projects / mono.git / blobdiff