+<table>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
<a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source
implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
- source</a> for our work so far. Or you can grab a <a
- href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work.
+ source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
+ href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
+ href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
+ the sources</a>
You might want to <a
- href="resources.html#mailing">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
+ href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
and mono-announce-list
You can contact the team at: <a
href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <table border=1 bgcolor>
+ <tr>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
+ Self hosting on .NET.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>JIT</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Linux/x86 working.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>Interpreter</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Working:<br>
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
+ In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Corlib is self hosting.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+** Apr 26, 2002
+
+ Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
+ href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
+ (Thanks to Guenther Roith) and for
+ <a
+ href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
+ to BaseLabs).
+
+ We have started a little document that aims to be a complete
+ introduction to how to contribute to Mono without having to search
+ a lot through Google, mailing lists or the CVS. It is <a href="mono-contribution-howto">here</a>
+
+** Apr 24, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
+ fixes and more classes are included.
+
+ A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
+ been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
+ included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
+ are available.
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+
+** Apr 23, 2002
+
+ SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
+
+ Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
+ their new release.
+
+** Apr 20, 2002
+
+ Some updates from the hacking lines:
+
+ <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
+ http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
+ is part of the ASP.NET support.
+
+ <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
+ hacking on MonoDoc.
+
+ <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
+ working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
+ the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
+ rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
+ exceptions work). Check <a
+ href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
+ goodies.
+
+ <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
+ made the compiler twice as fast this week:
+
+ Early this week Patrik started the string
+ rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
+ constructors and deployed the new layout.
+
+ Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
+ turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
+
+ Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
+ with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
+ representation.
+
+ At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
+ implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
+ together are very powerful.
+
+ <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
+ with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
+ Ravi, Sergey)
+
+
+** Apr 18, 2002
+
+ Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
+ CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
+
+ Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
+ our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
+ on CVS as well.
+
+** Apr 11, 2002
+
+ Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
+
+ Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
+ href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
+ people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
+
+** Apr 6, 2002
+
+ <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
+ Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
+ helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
+ resource for anyone interested in remoting.
+
+** Apr 5, 2002
+
+ Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
+ Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
+ This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
+ Mono.
+
+** Mar 28, 2002
+
+ Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
+ to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
+ single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
+ the details.
+
+** Mar 27, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
+ been released.
+
+ A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
+ been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
+ included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
+ are available.
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+
+** Mar 26, 2002
+
+ Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
+ us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
+ CVS.
+
+ <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
+ World</a>. Mike posted some <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
+
+
+** Mar 19, 2002
+
+ Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
+ on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
+ the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
+ debugging information).
+
+ Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
+ allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
+
+ The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
+ also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
+ chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
+
+ Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
+ support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
+ internal calls.
+
+ Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
+ environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
+ us to run the compiler on Linux.
+
+ Remember to post your bug reports.
+
+ The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
+ endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
+ report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
+ in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
+
+** Mar 12, 2002
+
+ At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
+ host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
+ hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
+
+ A release will follow up shortly.
+
+** Mar 9, 2002
+
+ Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
+ it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
+ assembly.
+
+** Mar 7, 2002
+
+ MCS compiles on Linux!
+
+ Today Paolo got the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
+ compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
+ completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
+ some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
+ and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
+ speed was improved in 400%
+
+ We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
+
+ Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
+ we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
+
+** Mar 5, 2002
+
+ The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>
+
+ Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
+ classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
+ the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
+
+ Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
+ revamped regression test suite.
+
+ Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
+ status</a> page again, with even more information available.
+
+ The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
+ killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>
+
+** Mar 1, 2002
+
+ RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
+
+** Feb 28, 2002
+
+ <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
+ has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
+ shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
+
+ RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
+
+** Feb 27, 2002
+
+ New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
+ provides detailed information about missing functionality in
+ our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
+ did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
+
+ More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
+ enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
+ Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
+
+** Feb 26, 2002
+
+ Paolo posted a list of <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
+ you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
+ <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
+ suggestions.
+
+** Feb 25, 2002
+
+ StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
+
+** Feb 24, 2002
+
+ SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
+
+ Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
+
+** Feb 22, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
+
+ A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
+ been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+
+** Feb 21, 2002
+
+ Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
+ Self hosting is closer every day.
+
+ Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
+
+** Feb 20, 2002
+
+ Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
+
+ C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
+
+ New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
+ is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
+ Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
+ above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
+
+ There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
+ use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
+ you will get one of the machines.
+
+** Feb 19, 2002
+
+ Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
+
+** Feb 18, 2002
+
+ Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
+ modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
+ this with the --share-code command line option.
+
+ Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
+ libraries.
+
+ PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
+
+** Feb 13, 2002
+
+ Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
+
+ AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
+ (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
+ comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
+ regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
+ New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
+
+ Miguel is off to the <a
+ href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
+
+** Feb 11, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
+
+ A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
+ been packaged for your download pleasure.
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
+
+** Feb 11, 2002
+
+ We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
+ joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
+ are rapidly moving.
+
+ An explanation of the relationship between <a
+ href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
+ and Mono</a>.
+
+ Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
+ stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
+ for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
+ stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
+
+ We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
+ non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
+ for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
+ other systems.
+
+ There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
+ a set of web server classes for <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
+ ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
+
+ Paolo also <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
+ posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
+
+** Feb 10, 2002
+
+ Mike Kestner has posted an <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
+ on his Gtk#</a> activities.
+
+** Feb 4, 2002
+
+ Adam has done <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
+ bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
+
+** Jan 29, 2002
+
+ Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
+ Mono: <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
+ System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
+
+ This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
+ fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
+ was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
+ set of the Perl regex engine).
+
+** Jan 28, 2002
+
+ The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
+ the terms of the
+ <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
+
+ This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
+ (most notably, the XFree86 project).
+
+ The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
+ the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
+
+ Our <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
+ Release</a>
+
+ Press coverage: <a
+ href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
+ href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
** Jan 23, 2002
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