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- Ximian announced the - launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source - implementation of the .NET Development Framework. - - 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 - and ASP.NET. - - You can read our rationale for - this project. If you have questions about the project, please - read our list of Frequently Asked - Questions or contact - us. The project roadmap. - - You might also want to Download the - source for our work so far. Grab a snapshot of our current work, or browse - the sources - - You might want to subscribe to our mono-list - and mono-announce-list. There is also a forum at GotMono. - - Wikis: Gtk# Wiki - and Mono - Wiki - - - - - -
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Mono Status
- C# Compiler + C# Compiler: - Self hosting on Linux
- Self hosting on .NET. + Self hosting on Linux and .NET
- JIT + JIT: - Linux/x86 working. + Linux/x86
+ Solaris/SPARC
+ PowerPC: MacOS and Linux.
+ S390: Linux.
- Interpreter + Interpreter: - Working:
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
+ Works for + Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
+
In the news
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+ Beta 1 Press Coverage + + May 2004: Mono Beta 1 rallies the press +
+ Linux Planet + - Screenshots + May 3rd, 2004: And then there's Mono
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In the news
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+ DevChannel + + Apr 26th, 2004: What is Mono and why should you care ?
@@ -117,7 +102,8 @@ - May 31st, 2003: CLI integration. + + May 31st, 2003: CLI integration.
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-@item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial. - Sunil Kumar has written an introduction - to Novell.LDAP class libraries, which are part of Mono. +

+ The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by Novell to create a free + implementation of the .NET Development Framework. +

-@item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released. +

+ 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. +

+ +@item Jun 30th, 2004: Mono 1.0 + + + + + + +
+ + Mono 1.0 has been released!
+ +

Be the first kid in your block to install the + it-took-us-three-years-but-we-did-it development platform. + +

Read the release notes + or download it

+
+ +@item Jun 23rd, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes John Luke, Dan Morgan and Tim Coleman. + + The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame + continues to show our appreciation to the excellent + contributors that make mono:: 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 + + + + + + +
+ + Our third beta has been released. + + Packages and source code are available on our download page. +
- A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from: - archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz +@item Jun 1st, 2004: Mono Beta 2 has been released + + + + + + +
+Mono Beta 2 has been released. See our Release + Notes, or go directly to the download page. +
-@item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories +@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 press coverage that followed the + beta release. + +@item May 10th, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes Todd Berman + + The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame + continues to show our appreciation to the excellent + contributors that make mono:: 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 + + + + + + +
+ Mono Beta 1 has been released. See our Release + Notes, or go directly to the download page. +
- 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 May 2nd, 2004: mDnsResponder.Net; Global Assembly Cache. -@item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29 + Brady Anderson has released the first version of his multicast + DNS responder written in C# for the Mono and .NET + platforms. This is the foundation for implementing + rendezvous-like functionality in your applications. - There is a Windows - Installer for Mono 0.29 available now. - -@item Dec 21st: Mono on PowerPC Progress. + 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. - 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. +@item Apr 22nd, 2004: XSP 0.12 released. - Zoltan has added support for modules to MCS (generation and - consumption). + A new release of XSP is available. It fixes a bug that made Web Services + unusable from client proxies. You can download it from here. + +@item Apr 21st, 2004: XSP 0.11 and mod_mono 0.8 released. -@item Dec 10th: Mono Debugger 0.5 released + Gonzalo has made new releases of XSP and mod_mono (The ASP.NET + hosting service for Mono). - Martin Baulig has released - a new version of the Mono Debugger. + Check the XSP/mod_mono + Release Notes to see what is new and to obtain the source + packages. -@item Dec 2nd: Mono 0.29 has been released +@item Apr 20, 2004: S390 port; Interpreted Updated; Identity classes; System.Drawing; Mono Debugger. - Check out the Release - notes for details on Mono 0.29. + 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. - 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 + 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. - Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from the Gtk# web site. + Performance wise, the new interpreter is three times faster + than the old one when doing a compiler bootstrap. - Sunil has checked in the implementation of - System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap - code into Mono CVS. + Sebastien has recently completed the identity classes in the + Mono Runtime, you can see more details on his blog -@item Nov 14th: Gtk# 0.13 released. + 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. - Mike Kestner has announced - the release of the Gtk# - GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono. + 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. -@item Nov 13th: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET + 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. - Sunil Kumar at Novell has announced - the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for - Mono and the .NET Framework. +@item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft. - You can obtain the library from Novell Forge's CSharpLDAP - module. + 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 Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced. + 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. - The Mono Roadmap and Mono Hackers Roadmap have - been released. + 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. -@item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released. + 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. - 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. +@item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released - We will bring Mono t-shirts. + New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released. - Mike Kestner released Gtk# 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 + Gtk# is available from Gtk# home page and MonoDoc 0.13 + is available from our download + page. - 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. + Gtk# now features [ConnectBefore] attribute for hooking up + signals; An automake/autoconf setup; the System.Drawing + dependency has been dropped and many more docs. + And MonoDevelop 0.2 + has been released. -@item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available +@item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released - Johannes created a Windows Installer for GTK# 0.11+ and works - with Mono 0.28 for Windows. + We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features + and improvements are described in our Mono 0.31 Release Notes. -@item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge + You can download Mono 0.31 packages using Red Carpet, or pick + the individual packages from our download page. - Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for - hosting their projects can now use Novell Forge's which hosts - a Mono - Community. +@item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono. - 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 + 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. -@item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus + 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. - 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. +@item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC. - 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. + Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono + JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for + this amazing development. - There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you - to read the Monologue to keep - an eye on recent developments. +@item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston. - Bernie Solomon just checked - in 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono - runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support. + The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: Mono Meeting + Agenda -@item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available. +@item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston. - Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the - Linux/s390. You can get them from the download page. + 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 Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs + 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. - 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. + 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. -@item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7 +@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released - Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our download page. + 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. - A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version - is available here +@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization -@item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released. + 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. - 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. - - 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. - - 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. - - 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. - - 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. - - 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. - - WSE: 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. - - 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. - - 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). - - 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. - - Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL - serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard - serialization process. - - 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. - - 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). + 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 -

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+@item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial. - Click here to see the olds news. + Sunil Kumar has written an introduction + to Novell.LDAP 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: + archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz + +@item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories + + 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 Windows + Installer for Mono 0.29 available now. + +

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