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- implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
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- Mono includes: a compiler for the
- C# language, a runtime for the
- Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
- set of class libraries. The
- runtime can be embedded into your
- application. It implements of both ADO.NET
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- read our list of Frequently Asked
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- the sources
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- You might want to subscribe to our mono-list
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-@item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC
-
- 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 ;-)
-
-@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.
+
+ The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by Novell to create a free
+ implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
+
-@item Oct 25th: 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: Mono Community at Novell Forge
-
- Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
- hosting their projects can now use Novell Forge's which hosts
- a Mono
- Community.
+
+ Mono includes a compiler for the
+ C# language, a Common Language
+ Runtime (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a
+ set of class libraries. The
+ runtime can be embedded into your
+ application. It implements both ADO.NET
+ and ASP.NET.
+
+
+ If you have questions about the project, read the project launch statement
+ or visit our list of Frequently Asked
+ Questions.
+
+
+
+ For details on the project's future direction, read the
+ roadmap, and download the latest software version.
+ You can also get a snapshot of our
+ current work, or browse
+ the source tree.
+
+
+ To participate in discussion and development, subscribe to our mailing lists.
+ You can also visit the forum at GotMono or the Gtk# and
+ Mono
+ Wikis.
+
+
+
- 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 anonymous CVS
- servers
+@item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft.
-@item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
+ 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).
- Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
- substrate in Mono that uses the International
- Components for Unicode library from IBM. This means that
- we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
+ 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.
- 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 Cairo is used on Unix
- systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
- maintenance of System.Drawing.
+ Mainsoft 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.
- There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
- to read the Monologue to keep
- an eye on recent developments.
+@item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released
- Bernie Solomon just checked
- in 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
- runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
+ New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released.
-@item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
+ Gtk# is available from Gtk# home page and MonoDoc 0.13
+ is available from our download
+ page.
- Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
- Linux/s390. You can get them from the download page.
+ Gtk# now features [ConnectBefore] attribute for hooking up
+ signals; An automake/autoconf setup; the System.Drawing
+ dependency has been dropped and many more docs.
-@item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
+ And MonoDevelop 0.2
+ has been released.
- You can now read an aggregated view of the blogs maintained by Mono developers in
- Monologue.
- Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an RSS feed.
+@item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released
-@item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
+ We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features
+ and improvements are described in our Mono 0.31 Release Notes.
- Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our download page.
- A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
- is available here
+@item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono.
-@item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
+ 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.
- Check out the Release
- notes 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 available
- in English. Originally available only in German.
- The book technical review was done by Dietmar Maurer JIT
- architect at the Mono team.
-
-@item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
-
- Mike Kestner has released
- a new version of Gtk#.
-
- Martin has also
- released
- his binding to DiaCanvas for C#.
-
-@item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
-
- WineLib: 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:
- here, here, here and here.
-
- Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
- screenshot here
-
- Security: New authenticode support from Sebastien has
- been checked into CVS.
+ 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.
- Xslt: 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.
+@item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC.
- Generics: 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.
+ Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono
+ JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for
+ this amazing development.
- Wsdl: 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.
+@item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston.
- AOT: 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.
+ The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: Mono Meeting
+ Agenda
- Dogfooding: We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
- go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
- Monodoc documentation. The Apache module
- version and the XSP
- version.
+@item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston.
- WSE: The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
- The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
- checked into CVS.
+ 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 (directions).
-@item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
+ 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.
- Ice: Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
- implementation of ZeroC's
- ICE protocol. It
- is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
- efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
+ If you are coming, please notify edasque@ximian.com about it, so
+ we can add you to the security list, and use the `open house
+ confirmation' subject in your email.
- 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 list of
- differences).
+@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released
- XmlSerializer: 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.
+ We have released a small bug-fix release of Mono, the release
+ notes are available here and you can download
+ it from our download page.
- Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
- serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
- serialization process.
+@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization
- MonoDoc: New providers! Thanks to Jon Jagger 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.
+ We have a new document that describes some common tricks to improve the
+ performance of your Mono or .NET application. These are a
+ summary of techniques that we employed to tune our own C#
+ compiler.
- 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:
- Cairo support, Remoting.Corba
- 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 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released
Check out the Release
- notes for details.
-
-@item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
-
- Brian Lloyd has announced
- the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
- with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
- Brian's site at http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/
-
- We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
- libraries and Gtk#) to http://mono.ximian.com:8080.
- The site is running the ASP.NET edition of MonoDoc 0.6 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 WineSamples
- page on the Mono Wiki.
-
- 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 download page.
-
-@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 Novell acquired Ximian. The press release is
- available here.
-
- 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 Remoting.CORBA:
- 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 Ben's
- post
-
-@item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
-
- MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
- are now available from our (download page). You can track the
- progress on our Wiki
- page.
-
- We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
- three distinct flavors:
-
-
- * 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.
-
-
- The daily builds are availble here: http://go-mono.com/daily
-
- 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 state
- of WSDL 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 here
-
- 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
- authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
- (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
- runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
- new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
-
- - .asmx files.
-
- Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
-
- ref and out parameters.
-
- Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
-
- Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
-
-
- For more details, see Lluis post
-
- GUI-wise: Work on Xr to
- implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
- GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
- Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
-
- MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
- coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
- extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
- their web browsers.
-
- Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
- With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
- code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
- `monocov'. Details are here. A fresh Gtk#
- version is available now.
-
- Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
-
-@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
-
- We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
- available here.
-
- Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
- available on our download page.
-
-@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
-
- Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
- services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
- web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
- compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
- compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
- experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
-
- As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
- increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
- specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
- arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
- with SourceGear.
-
- Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
- runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
- coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
- added improvements to it).
-
- Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
- migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
- advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
-
- Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
- regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
- the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
-
- On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
- checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
- and bounds.
-
- Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
- of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
- for ease-of-authoring).
-
- Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
- for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
-
-@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
-
- Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
- solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
- 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
- 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
- code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
- mixed-platform development organizations.
-
- Read more...
-
- Some technical details are available here.
-
-@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
-
- OpenLink announced
- the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
- that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
- the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
- have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
- The patches are available here.
-
- Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the download page.
-
-@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
-
- Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the Eclipse IDE running on top
- of Mono+IKVM.
-
- A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found here
-
-@item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
-
- We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
- generation engine. A list of the new features is available here.
-
- Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
- available on our download page.
- We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
-
-@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
-
- OpenLink's released
- their Virtuoso
- 3.0 database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
- On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
- ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
-
- Virtuoso can be downloaded here
- and a demo is available here.
-
- OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
- an ongoing basis.
-
- Jon Udell wrote a small entry
-
-@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
-
- Atsushi has created a RelaxNG
- validating XML reader.
-
- There is activity on the GotMono forums and the Gtk# Wiki
-
-@item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
-
- The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
- only available in German, you can find it here
-
- We now have a page for the Mono Team
- where we include a list of some of the people who have made
- Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
- to include your information.
-
-@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
-
- The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
- details are here
-
- Zoltan has commited his typed
- allocation patches to CVS as well.
-
-@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
-
- Gonzalo has checked in his Gtk#-based
- NUnit tool. Screenshots are here
- and here
-
- Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
- module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the details
-
- The SWT port to C# using Gtk is progressing. Screenshots are
- here.
-
-@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
-
- www.gotmono.com has
- openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
-
-@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
-
-
-
-
-
- What do you think about Mono?
-
- Is your company involved with the development and
- deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
- important part of your company's business application
- strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
- project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
- and the use of Linux in business critical
- applications?
-
- If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
- would like to talk with you. If interested, please
- email us at mbadgett@ximian.com.
- |
-
-
-
-@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
-
- Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
- that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
- is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
- Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
-
-@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
-
- A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
- notes are here. This is mostly a
- bug fix release. No new features.
-
-@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
-
- Mono 0.22 has been released. See the release notes. This is a bug fix
- release.
-
- A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
- has been released.
-
- Martin also announced a new
- release of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
-
-@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
-
- The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame
- continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
- contributors that make mono:: a successful free
- software project.
-
- Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
- fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
- and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
- and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
- point of running the IKVM Java virtual
- machine.
-
-@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
-
- A new mailing list for Mono
- Development has been created.
-
-@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
-
- Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
- The release notes are available.
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.30.html">Release
+ notes for details on Mono 0.30. Or go directly to our download section
- Windows binary is available here
+@item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial.
-@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
+ Sunil Kumar has written an introduction
+ to Novell.LDAP class libraries, which are part of Mono.
- Packages of Mono for Windows have been released.
- Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
+@item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released.
- Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
- handles ASP.NET. The code is available at here
+ A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from:
+ archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz
- Nick has posted an update on the progress on our regression
- tests. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
+@item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories
- Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
- momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
+ 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 Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
+@item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
- Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of
- the changes. You can get it here.
- There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
- and performance improvements.
-
- Gtk# 0.8 has been released
-
- Important: The contributed binaries for Windows
- binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read this if you installed the binary.
-
-@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
-
- With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
- looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
- of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
-
- Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
- checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
- how to complete this process here. Mail the mono-docs-list@ximian.com
- for further discussion.
-
-@item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
-
- Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
- Gnome. A screenshot can be seen here. The bindings are available
- on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
- straight binding to the C API.
-
- Marco has posted
- an update on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
- for Mono.
-
- We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
- JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
-
-@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
-
- Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
- as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
- Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
- advantage of Unix facilities.
-
- A Mono site in Poland.
-
- Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
- If you want to contribute please read this
- message
-
- Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
- improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
- has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
- source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
- (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
- work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
- generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
-
-@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
-
- Mono
- Weekly News: Includes a new interview, software
- announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
-
-@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
-
- A preliminary
- release of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
- Release notes
-
-@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
-
- Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
- World Expo. A description is here
-
- Open Link has a press
- release about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
- shipping that uses Mono.
-
-@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
-
- Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of
- the changes. You can get it here.
- There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
- and performance improvements.
-
- We have now a new section with
- screenshots of various Mono applications. You can see
- there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
- progress on the documentation browser.
-
- Gtk# 0.7 has been released
-
-@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
-
- After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
- released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
- debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
- unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
- applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
- platforms.
-
- Details of the release are available in post.
-
- The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
- The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
- by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
- applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
- flag to gcc).
-
-@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
-
- Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
-
- MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
- distribution, and MCS works with it.
-
- Zoltan has managed to get IKVM (a Java VM
- for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
- the Mono runtime.
-
-@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
-
- Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of
- the changes. You can get it here.
-
-@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
-
- A new issue of the Mono
- Weekly News has been published.
-
- Check out the Crypto status page
- that Sebastien has put together.
-
-@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
-
- Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
- the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
- improved this to use implicit names as well.
-
- Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
- debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
- per-thread basis now.
-
- Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
- Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
- has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
- are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
- mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
-
- Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
- statements on the grammar.
-
- Zoltan has posted
- his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
-
-@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
-
- Tipic today announced
- their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
- to run on Mono.
-
- Winfessor also announced the
- availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
-
- Also two weeks ago we mentioned OpenLink Software's announcement
- of their product, also using Mono.
-
-@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
-
- Mike Kestner announced
- Gtk# 0.6. This new release includes many new features and
- bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the Mono 0.17 release.
-
- Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
- and its available from our download page.
-
- Alp Toker has Debian packages
-
-@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
-
- Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the release notes for a more detailed
- list. You can get it here.
-
- Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
- System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
- which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple test web server to host
- asp.net has been released as well.
-
- This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
-
- This release also includes a new exception handling system
- that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
- our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
-
-@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
-
- Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
- classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
- invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
- compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
-
- Screenshots: in
- Windows doing Windows.Forms and in Linux doing VB with Gtk# (courtesy of Alp).
-
- Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
- repository as well.
-
-@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
-
- The
- Penguin Takes Flight: an article written by Erick
- Schonfeld appears on the December issue of Business 2.0 magazine.
-
- OpenLink and Ximian made joint
- announcement on the plans of OpenLink to ship their Virtuoso
- server on Unix using Mono.
-
- Martin Willemoes's GNOME.NET
- tutorial is now available from the main Mono site. This
- tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
- use Mono to create Mono applications using Gtk#
-
- Dennis Hayes has posted and update
- on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
- new test application that people can use to test their
- controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
- you can participate in the mono-winforms
- mailing list
-
- Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET data
- layer and an application
- server for Mono.
-
- Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
- continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
-
- The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
- runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
- compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
- number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
-
-@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
-
- Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures working
- as well as RSA encryption.
- We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
-
- Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
- can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
- new technology are here.
- It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
-
- Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for
- Thinking in C#. The book is Mono-friendly.
-
- Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is
- here.
-
- Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
- see Windows screenshots for it here and here.
-
- Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
-
-
- A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
- are available here
- in Open Office file format.
-
-@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
-
- Neale Ferguson has contributed RPM
- packages of Mono for the Linux/s390.
-
- Tim Coleman posted an update
- on the improvements in the System.Data
-
- The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
- virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
-
-@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
-
- Tim's SqlClient is now
- capable of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
- using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
- running with Gtk# on
- Windows is shown here
-
- Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
- supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
- present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
- been working on the Security classes.
-
- Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
- Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
- compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
- has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
-
- Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
- the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
-
- In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
- bindings.
-
- Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
- out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
-
-@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
-
- Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
- into CVS.
-
- The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
- System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
- interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
- ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
- easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
- now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
-
- We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
- to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
- write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
- list mailing list.
-
- Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
- servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
- connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
- transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
- data adapter is also coming soon.
+ There is a Windows
+ Installer for Mono 0.29 available now.
-@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
-
- Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
- DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
- still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
- are not supported by the .NET framework.
-
- Last week we created a new mailing
- list to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
-
- Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
- and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
- binding.
-
- Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
- binding is
- unique in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
- complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
- representation of the types instead of two (the master types
- is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (shot)
- simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
- configuration to backend keys, following the GNOME
- Human Interface Guidelines.
-
- Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
- number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
- major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
- applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
- will do some polishing of the user interface (new
- shot) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
- users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
- time as Mono 0.17.
-
-@item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
-
- Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
- provider for Mono. Daniel posted some updates.
- Brian posted details
- about the ODBC.NET provider.
-
- Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
- cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
- in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
- big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
- classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
- expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
- assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
-
- Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
- file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
- breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
- routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
- focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
- release of it.
-
- We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
- module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
- necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
- browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
- be the foundation for the Mono
- Documentation Tools.
-
-@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
-
- Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
- been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
- seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
- more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
-
- Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
- low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
- daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
- regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
- into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
- complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
- able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
- want. This also includes support for the system-wide
- configuration file `machine.config'.
-
- Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
- it looks here
- and here.
- Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
- working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
- the screenshot).
-
- Gtk# has seen a lot of
- activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
- Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
- Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
- mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
- Gtk# is seen here.
-
- Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
- work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
-
- Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
- new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
- The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
- more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
- chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
- processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
- performance.
-
-@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
-
- Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are available. The release notes are here.
-
- Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
- Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
- breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
- debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
- single-stepping).
-
-@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
-
- Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the First Mono
- Survey
-
-@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
-
- The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame
- continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
- contributors that made mono:: a successful free
- software project.
-
- This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
- been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
- work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
- origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
- Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
- engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
-
-
-@item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
-
- Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
- have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
- chosen not to document the code
- inline). This includes the use of a master reference file
- that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
- for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
-
- Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
- checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
- updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
-
- Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
- but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
- (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
- your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
- step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
- UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
- code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
- on making a good UI in the future.
-
- Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
- Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
- This is the substrate for implementing the
- System.DirectoryServices assembly.
-
- Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
- classes implementation.
-
- After much public debate, we have chosen a new strategy to implement winforms.
- Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
- going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
- the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
- implementation.
-
-@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
-
- The .NET
- ONE 2002 conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
- will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
- runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
- will talk about Gtk# and
- the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
- be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
- the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
-
-@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
-
- Sterling
- announced an Apache module that hosts
- Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
- module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
- API.
-
-@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
-
- Shortly after Mono 0.15 was
- released a fresh version of Gtk# was announced.
-
-@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
-
- Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are available. The release notes are here
-
-@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
-
- Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
- the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
- cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
- merger on our side.
-
- His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
- that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
- circumstances.
-
-@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
-
- San Francisco: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
-
- Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
- on par with the PPC port.
-
- Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
- to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
- code for the remoting infrastructure.
-
- More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
- providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
- their first query.
-
-@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
-
- Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
- compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
- speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
- 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
-
- Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
- corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
- well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of MonoCIL.
-
- On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
- support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
- for structure marshaling.
-
- Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
- is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
- into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
- to integrate with Patrik's code.
-
- Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
- implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
- cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
-
- A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
- checked into CVS.
-
-@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
-
- The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame has been started
- to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made mono::
- a successful free software project.
-
- The first, deserved, entry goes to
- Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
- infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
- himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
- Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
-
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