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.
-
- Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
- and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
+ 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>
+ 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="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
- You can contact the team at: <a
- href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
-
- In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
- about the team members we have created the <a
- href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
- Which archives can be found <a
- href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
- We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
- and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</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>
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</td>
<td>
Working:<br>
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
- In progress:<br>
- SPARC.
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 <br>
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</table>
+@item Nov 14th: Gtk# 0.13 released.
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Nov 13th: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced.
+
+ The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a
+ href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> have
+ been released.
+
+@item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
+
+ 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.
+
+ We will bring Mono t-shirts.
+
+ 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
+
+ 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.
+
+
+@item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge
+
+ 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>.
+
+ 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>
+
+@item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
+
+ Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
+ Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+@item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
+
+ 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>.
+
+@item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
+
+ Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+ A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
+ is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
+
+@item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
+
+ 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:
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
+ 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
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