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@@ -9,8 +9,13 @@
 
 	Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
 	C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
-	Common Language Infrastructure (also refered as the CLR) and a
-	set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.  
+	Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
+	set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.  The
+	runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
+	application.
+
+	Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
+	and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
 
 	You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
 	this project.  If you have questions about the project, please
@@ -20,15 +25,26 @@
 	You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
 	source</a> for our work so far.  Grab a <a
 	href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
-	href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
+	href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
 	the sources</a>
 
 	You might want to <a
 	href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
-	and mono-announce-list
+	and mono-announce-list.  There is also a <a
+	href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
+	href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
 
 	You can contact the team at: <a
 	href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
+
+	In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
+	about the team members we have created the <a 
+	href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
+	Which archives can be found <a 
+	href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
+	We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
+	and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
+
     </td>
     <td>
 	<table border=1>
@@ -60,17 +76,21 @@
 	    </td>
 	    <td>
 	      Working:<br>
-	      Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
+	      Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
 	      In progress:<br>
-	      StrongARM, SPARC.
+	      SPARC.
 	    </td>
 	  </tr>
+	  <tr>
+	    <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
+	    <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
+	  </tr>
 	  <tr>
 	    <td>
 	      <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
 	    </td>
 	    <td>
-	      Corlib is self hosting.
+	      All assemblies compile.
 	    </td>
 	  </tr>
 	  <tr>
@@ -81,1685 +101,1107 @@
 	      <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
 	    </td>
 	  </tr>
+	 <tr>
+	    <td>
+	      <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
+	    </td>
+	  </tr>
 	</table>
+
+	<table border=1>
+	  <tr>
+	    <td colspan="3">
+	      <b><center>In the news</center></b>
+	    </td>
+	  </tr>
+	  <tr>
+	    <td>
+	      <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
+	    </td>
+	    <td>
+	      <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
+	    </td>
+	  </tr>
+	  <tr>
+	    <td>
+	      <img src="images/infoworld.png">
+	    </td>
+	    <td>
+	      <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
+	    </td>
+	  </tr>
+	  <tr>
+	    <td>
+	      <img src="images/infoworld.png">
+	    </td>
+	    <td>
+	      <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
+	    </td>
+	  </tr>
+	  <tr>
+	    <td>
+	      <img src="images/b2.png">
+	    </td>
+	    <td>
+	      <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
+	    </td>
+	  </tr>
+ 	</table>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
 
-<h3>Events</h3>
-
-<ul>
-	<li><b><a
-	href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
-	ONE 2002:</a></b> Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.</ul>
-</ul>
+@item Jul 27th, 2003: Daily Snapshots
 
-@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released
+	We're now building daily snapshots of Mono.  They come in
+	three distinct flavors:
 
-	Mono 0.16 has been released.  Source and RPMs are <a
-	href="download.html">available</a>.  The release notes are <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.  
+	<ul>
+		* 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.
 
-@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
+		* monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
+		  the assemblies built on that day.
 
-	Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
-	Survey</a>
+		* monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
+		  'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe' and 'System.dll'. They can be used to
+		  re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
+	</ul>
 
-@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban 
+	The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
+
+If you find that the builds are broken, please notify me.
+@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 <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
+	of WSDL</a> 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 <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
+
+	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:
+	<ul>
+		<li> .asmx files.
+		<li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
+		<li> ref and out parameters.
+		<li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
+		<li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
+	</ul>
 
-	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
-	continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
-	contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
-	software project.
+	For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
 
-	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. 
+	GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> 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.
 
-	
-@item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
+	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.
 
-	Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again.  We
-	have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
-	chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
-	inline</a>).  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.
+	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 <a
+	href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>.  A fresh Gtk#
+	version is available 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.
+	Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
 
-	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.
+@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
 
-	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.
+	We have released Mono 0.25.  A list of the new features is
+	available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.  
 
-	Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
-	classes implemetation.
+	Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
+	available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
 
-	After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
-	href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
-	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 Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
 
-@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
+	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.  
 
-	The <a
-	href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
-	ONE 2002</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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.
+	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.
 
-@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
+	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).
 
-	<a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
-	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.
+	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.
 
-@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
+	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.
 
-	Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
-	released a fresh version of <a
-	href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
+	On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
+	checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
+	and bounds.
 
-@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
+	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).
 
-	Mono 0.15 has been released.  Source and RPMs are <a
-	href="download.html">available</a>.  The release notes are <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
+	Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
+	for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
 
-@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
+@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
 
-	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.
+	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.
 
-	His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
-	that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
-	circumstances.  
+	<a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
 
-@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
+	Some technical details are available <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
 
-	Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
-	on par with the PPC port.
+@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
 
-	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.  
+	OpenLink <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
+	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 <a
+	href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
 
-	More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
-	providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
-	their first query.
+	Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
+	href="download.html">download page</a>.
 
-@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
+@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
 
-	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. 
+	Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
+	href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
+	of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.  
 
-	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 <a
-	href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
+	A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
+	href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
 
-	On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
-	support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
-	for structure marshaling.  
+@item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
 
-	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.
+	We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
+	generation engine.  A list of the new features is available <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.  
 
-	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.
+	Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
+	available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
+	We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
 
-	A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
-	checked into CVS.
+@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
 
-@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
+	<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
+	their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
+	3.0</a> 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.
 
-	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
-	to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
-	a successful free software project.
+	Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
+	href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
+	and a demo is available <a
+	href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
 
-	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.
+	OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
+	an ongoing basis. 
 
-@item Looking for volunteers
+	Jon Udell wrote a small <a
+	href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
 
-	We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
-	of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
-	contributions to:
+@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
 
-	<ul>
-		* More tests to the existing class libraries.
-	
-		* Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
-		href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
-		all the missing things.  There are open tasks all over
-		the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
-		configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
+	Atsushi has created a <a
+	href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
+	validating XML reader.
 
-		* Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to 
-		create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
-		library documentation.
-
-		We have some special needs (read them <a
-	 	href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>).     There is a
-		prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
-		it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
-		it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
-
-		* Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
-		to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
-		applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
-		Mono.
-
-		* We need people to help write the documentation: you
-		can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
-		have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that. 
-	</ul> 
+	There is activity on the <a
+	href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
+	href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
 
-@item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
-
-	Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
-	MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
-	assignment in the C# language.
-
-@item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
+@item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out;  Team pages.
 
-	Gonzalo <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
-	an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending.  Patrik is back, and he is 
-	working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
+	The first book to cover Mono is out.  This book is currently
+	only available in German, you can find it <a
+	href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
 
-	Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
-	structures (very important for Gtk#).  This uses extensively
-	the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
+	We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
+	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.
 
-	Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
-	intermediate representation.  Another step to share more code, and 
-	simplify the porting and maintenance process. 
+@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
 
-@item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
+	The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
+	details are <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
 
-	Zoltan <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
-	the availability of his CIL to C compiler.  This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
-	and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code. 
+	Zoltan has commited his <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
+	allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
 
-@item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
+@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI;  GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
 
-	<b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>).  Get
-	your sources for the <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
-	<a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
-	<p>
-	Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
-	href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>.  Cristophe made
-	packages for Red Hat and they are <a
-	href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
-	And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
+	Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
+	<a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool.  Screenshots are <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
+	and <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
+
+	Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
+	module name: `GtkMozEmbed'.  Read the <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
+
+	The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>.  Screenshots are
+	<a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>. 
+
+@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
+
+	<a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
+	openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
+
+@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
+
+	<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
+	   <tr>
+	     <td valign="top">
+	       <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
+		 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 <a
+		 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
+	       </div>
+	     </td>
+	   </tr>
+	</table>
 
-@item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
+@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
 
-	Mono now has a verifier.  It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to 
-	verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
+	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.
 
-	Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
-	assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
-	Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
-	associated web service tools.  
+@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
 
-	Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS. 
+	A new freshly baked release of Mono is available.  Release
+	notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>.   This is mostly a
+	bug fix release.  No new features.
 
-@item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
+@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22;  MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
 
-	A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
-	href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
-	Also the <a
-	href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
-	has been translated as well.
+	Mono 0.22 has been released.  See the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>.  This is a bug fix
+	release.
 
-@item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
+	A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
+	has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
 
-	Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
-	now landed on the CVS repository.
+	Martin also announced a <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
+	release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line). 
 
-	The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
-	(also known as "CLR hosting").  See the sample in
-	mono/samples/embed.  This allows your application to link with
-	the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
-	universe and back.
+@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
 
-	Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
-	compile all of Mono on Linux.  Details are <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
+	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+	continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+	contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
+	software project.
 
-@item Jul 17th, 2002
+	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 <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual 
+	machine.
 
-	The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
-	available online, from young director <a
-	href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
-	href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
-	Monkey At Work"</a>.
+@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
 
-	A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
-	href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
+	A new mailing list for <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
+	Development</a> has been created.
 
-	More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
-	now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
-	from www.asp.net.  Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
-	(this implements the .aspx compiler).
+@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
 
-	Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
-	some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
-	<a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
+	Mono 0.21 has been released.  This is only a bug fix release.
+	The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
 
-@item Jul 16th, 2002
+	Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
 
-	Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux.  This
-	means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
-	compiler and the Mono runtime.
+@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released;   New Apache module released.
 
-	Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
-	the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
-	from the source code it is compiling.  
+	Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
+	Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
 
-	After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
-	the remaining bugs.  Now the next step is to update the makefiles
-	to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
+	Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
+	handles ASP.NET.  The code is available at <a
+	href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
 
-	A recapitulation:
-	<ul>
-		* The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
-		  The resulting image contained errors though.
+	Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
+	tests</a>.  We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
 
-		* The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
-		  January 3rd, 2002.  Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
+	Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
+	momentum is picking up!  See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
 
-		* The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
-		  was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
-		  This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
+@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
 
-		* On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
-		  run the compiler on Linux.
+	Mono 0.20 has been released.  Check out the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
+	the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+	There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
+	and performance improvements.  
 
-		* Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
-	 	  compiling the `corlib'.  The resuling image still contained errors though.
+	Gtk# 0.8 has been <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
 
-		* On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
-		  the C# compiler.  This is important, because it exposed
-	  	  various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
+	<b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
+	binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus.  Please read <a
+	href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
 
-		* Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
-		  and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux.  The process is complete.
-	</ul>
+@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
 
-	In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
-	pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime.   This is very
-	important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
+	With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
+	looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
+	of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
 
-	To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
-	architecture specific code generation for trampolines
-	(delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
-	use CIL.  This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
-	Compiler engine.  By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
-	port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
-	code is cross platform.
+	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 <a
+	href="documentation.html">here</a>.  Mail the <a
+	href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
+	for further discussion.
 
-@item Jul 9th, 2002
+@item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono;  Mono Basic updates.
 
-	Ajay was the first to notice <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
-	Mono's first birthday</a>.
+	Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
+	Gnome.  A screenshot can be seen <a
+	href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>.  The bindings are available
+	on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'.  This is a
+	straight binding to the C API. 
 
-	In a year, we have achieved plenty:
-	<ul>
-		* 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
-		* A complete CLI implementation:
-		<ul>
-			<li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
-			<li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
-		</ul>
-		* A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
-		* 37,140 file changes in CVS.
-		* 92,000 lines of C code.
-		* 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
-		* A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
-		* Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
-		  System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
-		* The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
-	</ul>
+	Marco has <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
+	an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
+	for Mono.
 
-	Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
-	feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
-	list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
-	countless hours of bug hunting.  This project would not have
-	been possible without every contribution.  
-
-	It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
-	project.  I think we have built a new and exciting community.
-
-	Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
-	looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
-	Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
-	`library' to be linked with applications that want to get
-	scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
-	GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
-	to integrate with other object systems.
-
-	Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
-	year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
-	all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
-	code generation.
-
-	A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
-	to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
-	regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
-	down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
-	track for so long.
-
-@item Jul 8th, 2002
-
-	Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
-	Linux/PowerPC.
-
-	Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
-	href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
-	player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
-	technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
-	Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
-	applications like these in the near future.
-
-	Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
-	code in the JIT engine to our internal representation.  This
-	means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
-	architecture-specific code to maintain.  The inliner, constant
-	folder and constant propagation are also done at the
-	architecture independent layer.
-
-	Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
-	Linux with the Mono runtime.  It still needs polishing though,
-	and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
-	appreciated.  The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
-	PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
-	do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
-	most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
-	thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
-	the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
-	Linux.
-
-	Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
-	implements the Win32 semantics.  Now only redirection is
-	missing.
-
-@item Jul 3rd, 2002
-
-	Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
-	conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday.  Details are
-	<a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
-
-	You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
-	<a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
-
-	Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
-	conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
-	applications with it.  Details are <a
-	href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
-	and <a
-	href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
+	We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
+	JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
 
-@item Jun 30, 2002
+@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
 
-	Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
-	compile our corlib.  The compilation was tricky because of the way
-	MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
-	being defined at that point to perform compares).
+	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.
 
-	Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
-	remaining issues.  Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
-	our resulting corlib.
+	A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
 
-	Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
+	Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
+	If you want to contribute please read <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
+	message</a>
 
-	I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS.  The
-	interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
-	using MCS itself.  Which is a good test that the compiler is 
-	now a good development tool.
+	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).
 
-	Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
-	there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
-	Evolution's composer).  And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
-	bindings, that should simplify application development.
+@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
 
-	A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
-	Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms. 
+	<a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
+	Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
+	announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
 
-@item Jun 25, 2002
+@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
 
-	I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
-	Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
-	to promote free software is going very well.
+	A <a
+	href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
+	release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
+	Release <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
+
+@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 <a
+	href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
+
+	Open Link has a <a
+	href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
+	release</a> 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 <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
+	the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+	There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
+	and performance improvements.
+
+	We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
+	screenshots</a> of various Mono applications.  You can see
+	there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
+	progress on the documentation browser.
+
+        <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
+
+@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 <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>. 
+
+	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
 
-	Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
+	Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client. 
 
-	Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
-	this is using GtkHTML 2.0.  
+	MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
+	distribution, and MCS works with it.
 
-	On Monday Piers Haken <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
-	the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
-	implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
+	Zoltan has managed to get <a
+	href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
+	for .NET) to run with Mono.  The HelloWorld.class runs with
+	the Mono runtime.
 
-	Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
-	process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
-	query status.  This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
-	environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
-	This means for example that any process can check on the
-	status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
+@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
 
-	Of course, those interested
-	in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
+	Mono 0.18 has been released.  Check out the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
+	the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
 
-@item Jun 24, 2002
+@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
 
+	A new issue of the <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
+	Weekly News</a> has been published.
 
-        Duncan has written a few sample <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
-	applications</a> (<a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
-	shot</a>, <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
+	Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
+	that Sebastien has put together.
 
-	Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
-	She also got some <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
-	up now.
+@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
 
-@item Jun 22, 2002
+	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.
 
-	Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
-	first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).  
+	Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
+	debugging.  Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
+	per-thread basis now.
 
-	Also, we are getting close to
-	self hosting.  Paolo posted a <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
-	of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
+	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). 
 
-	Steam is picking up in <a
-	href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
-	complete and small applications are starting to emerge.  Gtk#
-	now compiles completely on Linux.  This uses a lot of the XML
-	libraries, which is nice to see.
+	Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
+	statements on the grammar.
 
-@item Jun 20, 2002
+	Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
+	his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
 
-	Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
-	Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls.  Session tracking is
-	next.  Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
+@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
 
-	Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
-	XmlSerialization code.  All fields had to be re-ordered to
-	match the Microsoft implementation.
+	<a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
+	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
+	their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
+	to run on Mono.
 
-@item Jun 19, 2002
+	<a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
+	href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
+	availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
 
-	You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS 
-	compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
-	website</a>.
-      
-	New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
-	http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
+	Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
+	href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
+	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
+	of their product, also using Mono.
 
-@item Jun 10, 2002
+@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released;  Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
 
-	Ajay <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
-	today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
+	Mike Kestner <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
+	Gtk# 0.6</a>.  This new release includes many new features and
+	bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
 
-@item Jun 7, 2002
+	Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
+	and its available from our <a
+	href="download.html">download</a> page.
 
-	<b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes!  More working code!
-	Better compiler!  Faster runtime!  Less bugs! 
+	Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
 
-	You can get it <a
-	href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
-	href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
 
-@item Jun 3rd, 2002
+	Mono 0.17 has been released.  Check out the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
+	list.   You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
 
-	CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
+	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 <a
+	href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
+	asp.net has been released as well.
 
-@item May 31, 2002
+	This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
 
-	Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
-	.aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
-	It is currently on its infancy.  But very good news, now we need to 
-	upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
+	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).   
 
-	Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
-	been checked into CVS.
+@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
 
-	Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
-	PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
+	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.
 
-	<a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
-	a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad.  And Rodrigo
-	started the OleDB using LibGDA.
+	Screenshots: <a
+	href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
+	Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
+	href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
 
-@item May 27, 2002
+	Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
+	repository as well.
 
-	An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
-	Mono news.  I find it surprising that there are so many tools
-	that process this data.  
+@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
 
-	Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
-	now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
+	<a
+	href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
+	Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
+	Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
+	href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
+
+	<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
+	href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
+	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
+	announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
+	href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
+	server on Unix using Mono.
+
+	Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
+	tutorial</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
+
+	Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
+	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 <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
+	mailing list</a>
+
+	Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
+	href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
+	layer</a> and an <a
+	href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
+	server</a> 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 <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
+	as well as RSA <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
+	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 <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
+	It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
+
+	Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
+	Thinking in C#</a>.  The book is Mono-friendly.
+
+	Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
+	href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
+	here</a>.
+
+	Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
+	see Windows screenshots for it <a
+	href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
+	href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
+
+	Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
+	<ul>
+		<li><a
+		href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
+		Mono Keynote presentation</a>
 
-@item May 26, 2002
+		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
+		The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
+		href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
 
-	Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
-	System.Data class library.
+		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
 
-@item May 24, 2002
+		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
+		Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
+	</ul>
 
-	Ajay <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
-	checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
+	A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
+	are available <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
+	in Open Office file format.
 
-	Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
-	templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
-	and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
-	ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
+@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
 
-@item May 22, 2002
+	Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
+	packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
 
-	<a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
-	on the Mono runtime.  This <a
-	href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
-	MonoLogo running Gtk#.
+	Tim Coleman posted an <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
+	on the improvements in the System.Data
 
-@item May 21, 2002
+	The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
+	virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
 
-	Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
-	it is possible to get <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
-	number</a> information on stack traces.
+@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
 
-@item May 20, 2002
+	Tim's SqlClient is <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
+	capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
+	using the TDS protocol.  A screenshot showing a sample client
+	running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
+	Windows is shown <a
+	href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
 
-	XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
-	available on the AnonCVS servers.  This is part of the ASP.NET
-	support in Mono.  Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
+	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 updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
-	implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.  
+	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.
 
-	Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
-	compiling most of our regression test suite.
+	Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls.  Gonzalo migrated
+	the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
 
-	Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
-	polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
+	In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
+	bindings.
 
-	The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
-	VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
+	Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
+	out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
 
-	Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
+@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
 
-@item May 9, 2002
+	Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
+	into CVS.
 
-	Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
-	engine.  Read <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
-	it</a>
+	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.
 
-@item May 5, 2002
+	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 <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
+	list</a> mailing list. 
 
-	We are able to retrieve simple data from the database 
-	using our ADO.NET like functionality.  Only string and integer data
-	types are supported right now but more are in the works.
+	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.
 	
-	You can find more information 
-	at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
-	
-	Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim, 
-	and others for these bits.
+@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 <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
+	list</a> 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 <a
+	href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
+	unique</a> 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 (<a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
+	simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
+	configuration to backend keys, following the <a
+	href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
+	Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
+
+	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 (<a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
+	shot</a>) 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 <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
+	Brian posted <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
+	about the ODBC.NET</a> 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 <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
+	Documentation Tools</a>. 
+
+@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 <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
+	and <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
+	Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
+	working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
+	the screenshot).  
+
+	<a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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 <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
+
+	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.
 
-@item May 4th, 2002
+	Mono 0.16 has been released.  Source and RPMs are <a
+	href="download.html">available</a>.  The release notes are <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.  
 
-	Rodrigo Moya announced <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
-	LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
-	This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
-	should make it easier to use and compile. 
+	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).
 
-	This is another milestone for our <a
-	href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
+@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
 
-	We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
+	Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
+	Survey</a>
 
-@item May 2nd, 2002
+@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban 
 
-	Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
-	Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
-	on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
+	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+	continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+	contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
+	software project.
 
-	Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
-	simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
-	we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono.  This is needed to fully
-	emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
-	expose to applications.
+	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. 
 
-	News from the <a
-	href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
-	href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
-	support</a>, Mike <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
-	the story</a>	
+	
+@item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
 
-@item May 1st, 2002
+	Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again.  We
+	have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
+	chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
+	inline</a>).  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.
 
-	Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
-	<a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
+	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.
 
-@item Apr 26, 2002
+	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.
 
-	Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
-	href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
-	(Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
-	<a
-	href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
-	to BaseLabs).
+	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.
 
-@item Apr 24, 2002
+	Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
+	classes implementation.
 
-	<b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
-	fixes and more classes are included.
+	After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
+	href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
+	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. 
 
-	A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
-	been packaged for your download pleasure.  Binaries are
-	included.  The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
-	are available.
+@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
 
-	You can get it <a
-	href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
-	href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+	The <a
+	href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
+	ONE 2002</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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 Apr 23, 2002
+@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
 
-	SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
+	<a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
+	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.
 
-	Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
-	their new release.
+@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
 
-@item Apr 20, 2002
+	Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
+	released a fresh version of <a
+	href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
 
-	Some updates from the hacking lines:
+@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
 
-	<b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
-	http runtime support and started work on thread pools.  This
-	is part of the ASP.NET support.
-
-	<b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
-	hacking on MonoDoc.
-
-	<b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
-	working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
-	the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
-	rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
-	exceptions work).  Check <a
-	href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
-	goodies.
-
-	<b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
-	made the compiler twice as fast this week:
-
-	Early this week Patrik started the string
-	rewrite in the runtime.  Today Dietmar finished the
-	constructors and deployed the new layout. 
-
-	Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
-	turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
-
-	Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
-	with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
-	representation.
-
-	At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
-	implemented constant propagation.  These two optimizations
-	together are very powerful.
-
-	<b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
-	with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
-	Ravi, Sergey)
-
-
-@item Apr 18, 2002
-
-	Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
-	CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
-
-	Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
-	our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
-	on CVS as well.
-
-@item Apr 11, 2002
-
-	Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
-
-	Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
-	href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
-	people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
-
-@item Apr 6, 2002
-
-	<a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
-	Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
-	helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
-	resource for anyone interested in remoting.
-
-@item Apr 5, 2002
-
-	Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
-	Dietmar.  Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
-	This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
-	Mono.
-
-@item Mar 28, 2002
-
-        Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
-        to Martin's work.  The resulting dwarf file can be used to
-        single step C# code in GDB.  A document will be shortly published with
-        the details.
-
-@item Mar 27, 2002
-
-	<b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
-	been released.
-
-	A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
-	been packaged for your download pleasure.  Binaries are
-	included.  The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
-	are available.
-
-	You can get it <a
-	href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
-	href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@item Mar 26, 2002
-
-	Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
-	us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler.  Goodies are on
-	CVS.
-
-	<a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
-	href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
-	World</a>.  Mike posted some <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
-
-
-@item Mar 19, 2002
-
-	Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
-	on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
-	the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
-	debugging information).
-	
-	Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
-	allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.  
-
-	The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
-	also part of the class status now).  Ajay contributed a large
-	chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
-
-	Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
-	support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
-	internal calls.
-
-	Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
-	environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
-	us to run the compiler on Linux.
-
-	Remember to post your bug reports.
-
-	The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
-	endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick.  These status
-	report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
-	in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
-
-@item Mar 12, 2002
-
-        At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
-        host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
-        hostingness.  We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
-
-        A release will follow up shortly.
-
-@item Mar 9, 2002
-
-	Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
-	it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
-	assembly.
-
-@item Mar 7, 2002
-
-	MCS compiles on Linux!   
-
-	Today Paolo got the <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
-	compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
-	completely for the first time!  The resulting image still contains
-	some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now.  Later in the day
-	and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
-	speed was improved in 400%
-
-	We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
-
-	Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
-	we deploy the more advanced ORP one. 
-
-@item Mar 5, 2002
-
-	The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>
-
-	Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
-	classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
-	the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.   
-
-	Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
-	revamped regression test suite.
-
-	Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
-	status</a> page again, with even more information available.
-
-	The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
-	killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>
-
-@item Mar 1, 2002
-
-	RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
-
-@item Feb 28, 2002
-
-	<a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
-	has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which 
-	shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
-
-	RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
-
-@item Feb 27, 2002
-
-	New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
-	provides detailed information about missing functionality in
-	our class libraries.  Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
-	did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
-
-	More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
-	enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
-	Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
-
-@item Feb 26, 2002
-
-	Paolo posted a list of <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
-	you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now.  Sergey followed up with 
-	<a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
-	suggestions.
-
-@item Feb 25, 2002
-
-	StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.  
-
-@item Feb 24, 2002
-
-	SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
-
-	Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
-
-@item Feb 22, 2002
-
-	<b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
-
-	A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
-	been packaged for your download pleasure.  The <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
-
-	You can get it <a
-	href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
-	href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@item Feb 21, 2002
-
-	Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
-	Self hosting is closer every day.
-
-	Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
-
-@item Feb 20, 2002
-
-	Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
-
-	C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing). 
-
-	New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
-	is <a href="download.html">available</a>.  We can now easily compile
-	Mono on Windows and Linux.  If you had trouble before, use the
-	above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
-
-	There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
-	use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
-	you will get one of the machines.
-
-@item Feb 19, 2002
-
-	Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
-
-@item Feb 18, 2002
-
-	Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
-	modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
-	this with the --share-code command line option.
-
-	Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
-	libraries.
-
-	PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
-
-@item Feb 13, 2002
-
-	Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
-
-	AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar).  Socket work is done
-	(Dick).  Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan).  New
-	comprehensive tests for colib bits (David).  Nick is driving the
-	regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
-	New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
-
-	Miguel is off to the <a
-	href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
-
-@item Feb 11, 2002
-
-	<b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
-
-	A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
-	been packaged for your download pleasure.  
-
-	You can get it <a
-	href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
-	href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
-
-@item Feb 11, 2002
-
-	We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
-	joined the project in the last couple of days.  The classes
-	are rapidly moving.
-
-	An explanation of the relationship between <a
-	href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
-	and Mono</a>.  
-
-	Nick is still leading our test suite platform.  I can not
-	stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
-	for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
-	stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
-
-	We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
-	non-Linux systems.  Work is moving on native code generation
-	for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
-	other systems.
-
-	There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
-	a set of web server classes for <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
-	ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
-
-	Paolo also <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
-	posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
-
-@item Feb 10, 2002
-
-	Mike Kestner has posted an <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
-	on his Gtk#</a> activities.
-
-@item Feb 4, 2002
-
-	Adam has done <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
-	bindings</a> for .NET.  Adam is cool.
-
-@item Jan 29, 2002
-
-	Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
-	Mono: <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
-	System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
-
-	This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
-	fully Unicode aware.  This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
-	was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
-	set of the Perl regex engine). 
-
-@item Jan 28, 2002
-
-	The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
-	the terms of the
-	<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
-
-	This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
-	(most notably, the XFree86 project).   
-
-	The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
-	the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
-
-	Our <a
-	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
-	Release</a>
-
-	Press coverage: <a
-	href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
-	href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>, 
-	<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>, 
-	<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
-
-@item Jan 23, 2002
-
-	New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
-	This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
-	to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
-
-	This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
-	code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail.  It should also
-	expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
-
-@item Jan 21, 2002
-
-	Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
-	Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
-	<a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
-
-	Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on 
-	non-Windows platforms.  
-
-	C# compiler front:  A lot of focus in the past weeks after
-	the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
-	tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
-	reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
-	has begun.
-
-@item Jan 8, 2002
-
-	Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd.  In
-	the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
-	Linux.  Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
-	the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
-	Linux.
-
-@item Jan 4, 2002
-
-	Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch.  Class libraries and
-	runtimes are now fully Unicode aware.  The details are <a href=
-	"http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
-	here</a>
-
-	Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
-	compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
-	ChangeLog entries.   
-
-@item Jan 4, 2002
-
-	Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
-	year, new direction</i></a>.
-
-	Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
-	System.Windows.Forms.  
-
-@item Jan 3, 2002
-
-	Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient.  We can now continue
-	development of the compiler with itself.  
-
-	Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
-	self hosting system.  We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
-	on Linux before the end of the month.
-
-	Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
-	href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
-	<a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
-
-@item Dec 28, 2001
-
-	After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
-	There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
-	being fixed quickly.
-
-	We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
-
-@item Dec 18, 2001
-
-	JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick). 
-
-	JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
-
-	System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
-	PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
-
-	C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
-	the outstanding issues.  More bug fixing allows it to compile
-	more programs.
-
-@item Dec 14, 2001
-
-	Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
-	two to three times as fast as it did yesterday.  Amazing.
-
-	The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
-	implementation is there.
-
-@item Dec 11, 2001
-
-	The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as 
-	well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
-	recently.  Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
-	allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
-	and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
-	reduce spills and reloads. 
-
-	On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
-	much complete.  The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
-	visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
-	analysis.  There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
-
-	You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
-
-	More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
-	libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
-	`make test' going.
-
-@item Dec 1, 2001
-
-	AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour).  Thanks
-	to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
-	Climent for helping to set this up.
-
-@item Nov 30, 2001
-
-	All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
-	(Dietmar).
-
-	Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
-	working now (Ravi).
-
-	More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
-
-@item Nov 28, 2001
-
-	JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
-	Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
-
-	The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
-	switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs.  Many
-	new more tests.
-	
-	Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
-
-	Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
-
-@item Nov 16, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Mike Kestner has posted an <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
-	on Gtk# development.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 14, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
-	Linux</a>.  It compiles a sample program and then the sample
-	program is executed.
-
-	Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
-	functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
-	are complete.
-
-	To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
-	uses the .NET classes to get its work done.  To make this work
-	on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
-<ul>
-		* The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
-		  many programs now (our test suite at this point is 
-		  made up of 40 tests).
-
-		* The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
-		  the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is 
-		  what Paolo has been working on lately). 
-
-	  	  The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
-		  .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
-
-		* The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
-		  compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
-</ul>
-
-	At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
-	replace our interpreter in production.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 12, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine.  Sean has
-	got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
-
-	More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
-
-	Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries. 
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 8, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
-
-	Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 5, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
-	tests running now.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 4, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
-	update</a> on his work on Gtk#.  
-
-	Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
-	compiler. 
-
-	Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
-
-	Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
-	System.Reflection.Emit implementations.  He has been working
-	steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now.  This is the
-	foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
-	important piece of the puzzle.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 3, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak. 
-
-	Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
-	for the JITer. 
-
-	A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
-	new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 1, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
-	variable length arguments.  Now he depends on Miguel finishing
-	the array handling support. 
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 27, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
-	morning.
-
-	Some large recent developments:
-
-	The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
-	partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
-	place now and compile and link the decimal code).
-
-	Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
-	the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
-	engine that we can finally use all over the place. 
-
-	Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
-	Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
-	optimize foreach for the array case).   
-
-	Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
-	previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong.  Paolo
-	has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
-	support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
-	week.  Dick on the other hand is still working on the
-	WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code.  WaitAll is like select on
-	steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
-	mutexes, events and a couple of others.
-
-	Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
-	.defs files to quickly wrap the API.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 18, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
-	properties.  <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
-	days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.  
-
-	Ximian users around the world <!--a
-	href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
-	recent C# compiler progress.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 17, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
-	(definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 15, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
-	creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).  
-
-	The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
-	missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
-	delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
-	try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
-
-	System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
-	classes.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 5, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
-	assembler written in C#.  You can get it from his web page:
-	<a
-	href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
-
-	The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon.  This
-	component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
-	eventually.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 4, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
-	executable today.  This means that a very simple .NET program
-	that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
-	while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
-
-	The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
-	the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
-	basically focusing on completeness now.  
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 28, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	<a
-	href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
-	Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 26, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
-	runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
-	(both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
-	type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
-	Ant (Sean and Sergey);  Refactored and documented the
-	internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar);  StatementExpressions
-	handled correctly (Miguel).
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 21, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
-	support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
-	got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
-	the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
-	got i++ working.   All in tonight's snapshot
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 19, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
-	Mono</a> to othre architectures.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 18, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	<A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
-	released (runtime engine, class libraries
-	and C# compiler).  Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
-	0.7 announcement</a> for details
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 17, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
-	repository.  Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
-	The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
-	C#.  You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
-
-	Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 10, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
-	importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
-</blockquote>
-
-
-@item Sep 5, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
-	application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
-
-	This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
-	August 28)
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 4, 2001
+	Mono 0.15 has been released.  Source and RPMs are <a
+	href="download.html">available</a>.  The release notes are <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
 
-<blockquote>
-	Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
-	independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
-</blockquote>
+@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
 
-@item Aug 28, 2001
+	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.
 
-<blockquote>
-	<b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b>  The latest snapshots
-	will let you run it.   
+	His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
+	that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
+	circumstances.  
 
-	Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions, 
-        performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
+@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
 
-	Good work Mono team!
-</blockquote>
+	<b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th.  Linux World Expo.
 
-@item Aug 23, 2001
+	Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
+	on par with the PPC port.
 
-<blockquote>
-	Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
-	are available here: <a
-	href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
-</blockquote>
+	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.  
 
-@item Aug 22, 2001
+	More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
+	providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
+	their first query.
 
-<blockquote>
-	New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
-	<a
-	href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
-</blockquote>
-	
-@item Aug 20, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
-	service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
-	without access to the <a
-	href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Aug 3, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
-	run every night at 10pm Boston time.  
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 29, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
-	href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 25, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
-	presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
-	Open Source Software Convention</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 22, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
-	href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>.  You can
-	get the new class libraries from <a
-	href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 19, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
-	Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
-	href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>.  You can
-	get the new class libraries from <a
-	href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
-</blockquote>
-	
-@item Jul 17, 2001
+@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
 
-<blockquote>
-	Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
-	href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>.  You can
-	get the new class libraries from <a
-	href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
+	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. 
 
-	Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
+	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 <a
+	href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
 
-	Got Sean's new Class
-	Status web pages up.  These are a lot better than mine, and
-	we are now keeping better track of contributors.
-</blockquote>
+	On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
+	support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
+	for structure marshaling.  
 
-@item Jul 15, 2001
+	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.
 
-<blockquote>
-	Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>.  Get it <a
-	href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
-</blockquote>
+	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.
 
-@item Jul 14, 2001
+	A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
+	checked into CVS.
 
-<blockquote>
-	A <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
-	release</a> of the
-	runtime, compiler and classes has been made.  Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
-</blockquote>
+@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
 
-@item Jul 12, 2001
+	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
+	to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
+	a successful free software project.
 
-<blockquote>
-	I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
-	Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it.  I finally <a
-	href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
-</blockquote>
+	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.
 
-@item Jul 9, 2001
+<h2>Older News</h2>
 
-<blockquote>
-	Project launched.
-</blockquote>
+	Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.
 
-@item O'Reilly
 
-<blockquote>
-	Brian posted a story on <a
-	href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>
-</blockquote>