+
+@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.
+
+
+
+
+@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 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.
+
+
+
+
+@item May 2nd, 2004: mDnsResponder.Net; Global Assembly Cache.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Apr 22nd, 2004: XSP 0.12 released.
+
+ 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.
+
+ Gonzalo has made new releases of XSP and mod_mono (The ASP.NET
+ hosting service for Mono).
+
+ Check the XSP/mod_mono
+ Release Notes to see what is new and to obtain the source
+ packages.
+
+@item Apr 20, 2004: S390 port; Interpreted Updated; Identity classes; System.Drawing; Mono Debugger.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ Performance wise, the new interpreter is three times faster
+ than the old one when doing a compiler bootstrap.
+
+ Sebastien has recently completed the identity classes in the
+ Mono Runtime, you can see more details on his blog
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft.
+
+ 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).
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released
+
+ New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released.
+
+ Gtk# is available from Gtk# home page and MonoDoc 0.13
+ is available from our 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.
+
+ And MonoDevelop 0.2
+ has been released.
+
+@item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released
+
+ We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features
+ and improvements are described in our Mono 0.31 Release Notes.
+
+ You can download Mono 0.31 packages using Red Carpet, or pick
+ the individual packages from our download page.
+
+@item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC.
+
+ Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono
+ JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for
+ this amazing development.
+
+@item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston.
+
+ The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: Mono Meeting
+ Agenda
+
+@item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston.
+
+ 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).
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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 Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released