+
+@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
@@ -242,7 +421,7 @@
well. Expect to see Todd Berman from MonoDevelop as well.
If you are coming, please notify edasque@ximian.com about it, so
+ href="mailto:edasque@ximian.com">edasque@ximian.com about it, so
we can add you to the security list, and use the `open house
confirmation' subject in your email.