X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=6ed1da714c16d18894d23f9ef6ce334337d89737;hb=afdfb230058d6c806e388c4e8073236c76884cd3;hp=1f39da7d165aa30ec17268873389120ccf8dcb3c;hpb=842499ec02dd6e9fca21dc0e2d41b5c4ef96f19a;p=mono.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1f39da7d165..6ed1da714c1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,193 @@ +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. @@ -93,9 +283,26 @@ Hello! New providers are available in this release. The relentless System.Data team (Brian, Dan, Rodrigo, Tim and Ville) are hacking non-stop on the databse code. Improving existing - providers, and also providing new ones: Oracle, MS SQL, ODBC - and Sybase are the big names on this release. Many regression - tests have been added as well. + providers, and new providers. + + The new providers on this release: + + * Oracle + * MS SQL + * ODBC + * Sybase + * Sqlite (for embedded use). + + 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: