+@item Dec 21st 2003: Mono on PowerPC Progress.
+
+ 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.
+
+ Zoltan has added support for modules to MCS (generation and
+ consumption).
+
+@item Dec 10th, 2003: Mono Debugger 0.5 released
+
+ Martin Baulig has <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/blog/archives/000231.html">released</a>
+ a new version of the Mono Debugger.
+
+@item Dec 2nd, 2003: Mono 0.29 has been released
+
+ Check out the <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.html">Release
+ notes</a> for details on Mono 0.29.
+
+ This release includes the PPC JIT engine running `Hello World'
+ and ASP.NET is considered feature-complete.
+
+@item Nov 25th, 2003: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices
+
+ Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">the Gtk# web site</a>.
+
+ Sunil has checked in the implementation of
+ System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap
+ code into Mono CVS.
+
+@item Nov 14th, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
+
+ Johannes created a Windows
+ Installer for GTK# 0.11+ and works
+ with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
+
+@item Oct 21st, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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 here (link got broken).
+
+ <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
Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
-@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
+@item Jun 26th, 2003: 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>.
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
<a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
-@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
+@item Mar 28th, 2003: Mono community site.
<a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
-@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
+@item Mar 25th, 2003: Second Mono Survey
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is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
-@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
+@item Mar 7th, 2003: Mono 0.23
A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
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