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- <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.
-
- Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
- C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
- Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
- set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
- runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
- application. It implements of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
- and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
-
- You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
- this project. If you have questions about the project, please
- read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
- Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact
- us.</a> The project <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>.
-
- You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
- 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="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
- and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
- href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
- href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
-
- Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
- and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
- Wiki</a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <table border=1>
- <tr>
- <td colspan="3">
+ <table align="right" border=1 padding=0 width=25%>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan="2" bgcolor=lightgrey>
<b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
- <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
+ <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler:</a></b>
</td>
<td>
- <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
- Self hosting on .NET.
+ Self hosting on Linux and .NET
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
- <b>JIT</b>
+ <b>JIT:</b>
</td>
<td>
- Linux/x86 working.
+ Linux/x86<br>
+ Solaris/SPARC<br>
+ PowerPC: MacOS and Linux.<br>
+ S390: Linux.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
- <b>Interpreter</b>
+ <b>Interpreter:</b>
</td>
<td>
- Working:<br>
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 <br>
+ Works for
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
</td>
</tr>
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<a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
</td>
</tr>
- <tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan="2" bgcolor=lightgrey>
+ <b><center>In the news</center></b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>Beta 1 Press Coverage</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target="blank">May 2004</a>: Mono Beta 1 rallies the press
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+
<td>
- <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
+ <b>Linux Planet</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/5375/4/">May 3rd, 2004</a>: And then there's Mono
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
- <table border=1>
<tr>
- <td colspan="3">
- <b><center>In the news</center></b>
+ <td>
+ <b>DevChannel</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://tools.devchannel.org/devtoolschannel/04/04/21/169234.shtml?tid=46">Apr 26th, 2004</a>: What is Mono and why should you care ?
</td>
+</tr><tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="images/netmagazine.png">
</td>
<td>
- <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
+
+ <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- </td>
- </tr>
-</table>
-@item Jan 13th, 2004: Monodoc 0.9 released.
- A new edition of Monodoc has been released, available in source form from:
- <a href="archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz">archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz</a>
+<p>
+ The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by <a
+ href="http://novell.com">Novell</a> to create a free
+ implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
+</p>
-@item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories
+<p>
+ Mono includes <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
+ C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">Common Language
+ Runtime</a> (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a
+ set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
+ runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
+ application. It implements both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
+ and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
+</p>
+<p>
+ If you have questions about the project, read <a
+ href="rationale.html">the project launch statement</a>
+ or visit our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
+ Questions</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ For details on the project's future direction, read the
+ <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>, and <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> the latest software version.
+ You can also get 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 source tree.</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+ To participate in discussion and development, <a
+ href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe to our mailing lists</a>.
+ You can also visit the <a
+ href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
+ href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a> or the <a
+ href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk#</a> and
+ <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
+ </a> Wikis.
+</p>
+
+@item Jun 30th, 2004: Mono 1.0
+
+ <table>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img
+ src="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.0/mono1.gif"></td>
+ <td>
+ <b>Mono 1.0 has been released!</b><br/>
+
+ <p>Be the first kid in your block to install the
+ <i>it-took-us-three-years-but-we-did-it</i> development platform.
+
+ <p>Read the <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.0/index.html">release notes</a>
+ or <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/download.html">download it</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+@item Jun 23rd, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes John Luke, Dan Morgan and Tim Coleman.
+
+ The <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+ continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+ contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
+ software project.
+
+ John Luke, Dan Morgan and Tim Coleman are now part of the Mono
+ Hackers Hall of Fame.
+
+@item Jun 15th, 2004: Mono Beta 3 has been released
+
+ <table>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img
+ src="http://www.go-mono.com/images/beta3.gif"></td>
+ <td>
+ Our third beta has been released.
+
+ Packages and source code are available <a
+ href="download.html">on our download</a> page.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- If you have a success story about using Mono or one of the Mono
- components in any way, we want to hear about you. Please mail
- your details to miguel@ximian.com
+@item Jun 1st, 2004: Mono Beta 2 has been released
+
+ <table>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+</td>
+ <td>Mono Beta 2 has been released. See our <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta2/beta2.html">Release
+ Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
-@item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
+@item May 17th, 2004: Huge press response for Mono 1.0 Beta 1
+
+ Two weeks after the release of Mono 1.0 Beta 1, we take a
+ look at the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target='_blank'>press coverage</a> that followed the
+ beta release.
+
+@item May 10th, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes Todd Berman
+
+ The <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+ continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+ contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
+ software project.
+
+ Todd Berman is a steady contributor to Mono. He has worked
+ everywhere: from the Class Libraries, to the early implementation of
+ the GAC and most recently has lead the effort to develop, port and
+ maintain MonoDevelop an IDE for the Mono environment. His help has
+ been key to the development of Mono.
+
+@item May 4th, 2004: Mono Beta 1 available
+
+ <table>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img
+ src="http://www.go-mono.com/images/beta1-anim.gif"></td>
+ <td>Mono Beta 1 has been released. See our <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta1/beta1.html">Release
+ Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- There is a <a href="archive/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows
- Intaller for Mono 0.29</a> available now.
-
-@item Dec 21st: Mono on PowerPC Progress.
+@item May 2nd, 2004: mDnsResponder.Net; Global Assembly Cache.
- Paolo reports today that the Mono JIT on the PowerPC was able
- to successfully run the Mono C# compiler to build its first
- programs. This is by no means complete (exception handling is
- missing, and Boehm GC seems to fail on MacOS X), this shows
- the excellent progress Paolo has been making.
+ Brady Anderson has released the first version of his <a href=
+ "http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mdnsresponder">multicast
+ DNS responder</a> written in C# for the Mono and .NET
+ platforms. This is the foundation for implementing
+ rendezvous-like functionality in your applications.
- Zoltan has added support for modules to MCS (generation and
- consumption).
+ The tree has started to stabilize after all the changes last
+ week to integrate the Global Assembly Cache work that Jackson,
+ Sebastien, Todd and all the volunteers helped us deploy.
-@item Dec 10th: Mono Debugger 0.5 released
+@item Apr 22nd, 2004: XSP 0.12 released.
- Martin Baulig has <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/blog/archives/000231.html">released</a>
- a new version of the Mono Debugger.
+ A new release of XSP is available. It fixes a bug that made Web Services
+ unusable from client proxies. You can download it from <a
+ href="/archive/xsp-0.12.tar.gz">here</a>.
+
+@item Apr 21st, 2004: XSP 0.11 and mod_mono 0.8 released.
-@item Dec 2nd: Mono 0.29 has been released
+ Gonzalo has made new releases of XSP and mod_mono (The ASP.NET
+ hosting service for Mono).
- Check out the <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.html">Release
- notes</a> for details on Mono 0.29.
+ Check the XSP/mod_mono <a href="archive/xsp-0.10.html">
+ Release Notes</a> to see what is new and to obtain the source
+ packages.
- This release includes the PPC JIT engine running `Hello World'
- and ASP.NET is considered feature-complete.
-
-@item Nov 25th: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices
+@item Apr 20, 2004: S390 port; Interpreted Updated; Identity classes; System.Drawing; Mono Debugger.
- Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">the Gtk# web site</a>.
+ Neale who originally wrote the S390 interpreter support for
+ Mono has checked into CVS his port of the S390 JIT engine.
+ Now, if we could only have one of those in our living room.
- Sunil has checked in the implementation of
- System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap
- code into Mono CVS.
+ Bernie has checked into CVS a new interpreter for the Mono
+ runtime. This new interpreter translates the CIL opcodes into
+ a new intermediate representation. The new IL representation
+ avoids doing costly lookups during interpretation which means that the
+ interpreter is a lot faster now.
-@item Nov 14th: Gtk# 0.13 released.
+ Performance wise, the new interpreter is three times faster
+ than the old one when doing a compiler bootstrap.
- Mike Kestner has <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016943.html">announced</a>
- the release of the <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
- GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono.
+ Sebastien has recently completed the identity classes in the
+ Mono Runtime, you can see more details on his <a
+ href="http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/poupou.html">blog</a>
-@item Nov 13th: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET
+ New progress on the GDI+ front: Jordi has completed the region
+ code; Ravindra the various brushes that we must support;
+ Sanjay the Icon and BMP loaders (with Mark) and Vladimir has
+ contributed various codecs and a new fresh implementation of
+ Image.LockBits.
- Sunil Kumar at Novell has <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016907.html">announced</a>
- the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for
- Mono and the .NET Framework.
+ Lluis and Atsushi in the meantime has been in charge of
+ completing various pending items from our class libraries:
+ basically an API audit of the things missing for the Mono 1.0
+ release, small but important things.
- You can obtain the library from <a
- href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> <a
- href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/cvs/cvsbrowse.php/ldapcsharp/CsharpLDAP">CSharpLDAP</a>
- module.
+ Martin has replaced the old command-line language in the
+ debugger with our home-grown "Command Line" language, a
+ TCL-like command line language that we built for it (its a
+ tiny .NETized Tcl-like language). The interaction process is
+ a lot smoother than it used to be and we are focusing on the
+ usability of the command line language to improve the
+ debugging experience.
-@item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced.
+@item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft.
- The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a
- href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> have
- been released.
+ Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding
+ support to the C# compiler to support the various checks required
+ by the Common Language Specification (CLS).
-@item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
+ In the past the C# compiler was unable to flag any problems
+ related to the creation of cross-language libraries. Today
+ with this patch the compiler will properly flag errors in CLS
+ compliance. Tests for all of the errors have also been
+ included on CVS.
- We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
- 28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
- notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
- folks.
+ <a href="http://www.mainsoft.com">Mainsoft</a> has contributed
+ an implementation of their Basic runtime to the project. The
+ runtime they wrote is written in Java and we are translating
+ this into C# code. The code will reach CVS within the next
+ few weeks.
- We will bring Mono t-shirts.
+ Mainsoft also contributed an extensive regression test suite
+ for the Basic runtime, a port of the NIST XML tests and their
+ own in-house developed XML tests.
- Mike Kestner released <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
- and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
-
-@item Oct 26th: Last Minute Mono BOF
+@item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released
- The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
- place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
- to plot the evolution.
+ New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released.
+ Gtk# is available from <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# home page</a> and MonoDoc 0.13
+ is available from our <a href="download.html">download</a>
+ page.
-@item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
+ Gtk# now features [ConnectBefore] attribute for hooking up
+ signals; An automake/autoconf setup; the System.Drawing
+ dependency has been dropped and many more docs.
- Johannes created a <a href="http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/gtk-sharp/gtk-sharp-0.11-cvs.exe">Windows Installer for GTK# 0.11+</a> and works
- with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
+ And <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/">MonoDevelop 0.2</a>
+ has been released.
-@item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge
+@item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released
- Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
- hosting their projects can now use <a
- href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts
- a <a
- href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono
- Community</a>.
+ We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features
+ and improvements are described in our <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.31.html">Mono 0.31 Release Notes</a>.
- Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
- tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
- you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
- repository, and using our <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS
- servers</a>
+ You can download Mono 0.31 packages using Red Carpet, or pick
+ the individual packages from our <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> page.
-@item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
+@item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono.
- Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
- substrate in Mono that uses the <a
- href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International
- Components for Unicode</a> library from IBM. This means that
- we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
+ Gonzalo has completed the implementation of Async I/O for Mono
+ using the kernel aio_* interfaces. If your operating system supports
+ the aio_ POSIX interface, the FileStream methods that
+ expose asynchronous methods will use this facility instead of
+ emulating it with threads as we have done in the past.
- 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 <a
- href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> is used on Unix
- systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
- maintenance of System.Drawing.
+ We had this request come to us from various people in the
+ past, and we are now looking for your help to test and debug
+ this.
- There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
- to read the <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep
- an eye on recent developments.
+@item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC.
- Bernie Solomon just <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked
- in</a> 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
- runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
+ Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono
+ JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for
+ this amazing development.
-@item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
+@item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston.
- Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
- Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
- href="download.html">download</a> page.
+ The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/MonoMeet.html">Mono Meeting
+ Agenda</a>
-@item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
+@item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston.
- You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
- href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
- <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
-
Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
- href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
+ On March 5th-6th (Friday and Saturday) there will be an
+ open-house meeting for people interested in Mono to get
+ together with the Mono developers at the Novell offices in
+
in Cambridge Massachusetts (<a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/contact/">directions</a>).
-@item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
+ The whole Novell Mono team will be here (Atsushi Enomoto, Dick
+ Porter, Duncan Mak, Erik Dasque, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson
+ Harper, Jordi Mas, Lluis Sanches, Manjula, Martin Baulig,
+ Miguel de Icaza, Mike Kestner, Paolo Molaro, Peter Bartok,
+ Sebastien Pouliot, Sachin Kumar) and hopefully Joe Shaw, Nat
+ Friedman, Peter Williams and Ravi Pratap will be joining us as
+ well. Expect to see Todd Berman from MonoDevelop as well.
- Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
- href="download.html">download</a> page.
+ If you are coming, please notify <a
+ href="mailto:edasque@ximian.com">edasque@ximian.com</a> about it, so
+ we can add you to the security list, and use the `open house
+ confirmation' subject in your email.
- A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
- is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
+@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released
-@item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
+ We have released a small bug-fix release of Mono, the release
+ notes are available <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.30.1.html">here</a> and you can download
+ it from our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
- Check out the <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.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://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.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.
+@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization
+
+ We have a new document that describes some <a
+ href="performance.html">common tricks to improve the
+ performance</a> of your Mono or .NET application. These are a
+ summary of techniques that we employed to tune our own C#
+ compiler.
+
+@item Feb 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released
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).
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.30.html">Release
+ notes</a> for details on Mono 0.30. Or go directly to our <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> section
-<h2>Older News</h2>
+@item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial.
+
+ Sunil Kumar has written an <a
+ href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/cooldev/features/a_net_cplus_ldap_library_cdev.html">introduction
+ to Novell.LDAP</a> class libraries, which are part of Mono.
+
+@item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released.
+
+ A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from:
+ <a href="archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz">archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz</a>
+
+@item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories
- Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.
+ If you have a success story about using Mono or one of the Mono
+ components in any way, we want to hear about you. Please mail
+ your details to miguel@ximian.com
+
+@item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
+
+ There is a <a href="archive/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows
+ Installer for Mono 0.29</a> available now.
+
+<h2>Older News</h2>
+ Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see older news.
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