X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?p=mono.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ec300ca2dcb0f5b13d93cd42eb011c5aad486211;hp=ad544b1a57015fc4d67378dd8101ee80913c4931;hb=HEAD;hpb=52b60d37b1d76edd60263140b89ac6d47a6e3a2b diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ad544b1a570..ec300ca2dcb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,1080 +1,3 @@ -Happy new year! +Release notes for Mono are hosted on the web, please see: - The Mono team is proud to release Mono 0.18, with plenty of bug - fixes and improvements. If you are a happy 0.17 user, this - release is a happiness extension release. Many bugs in the - runtime, class libraries and C# compiler have been fixed. - - Also, our special envoy in Japan has reported that there is - some naming confussion about the naming of Mono, as can be - seen in the following documentary material: - - Atsushi Enomoto shows the source of confussion: - - http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/gallery/Duncan-in-Tokyo/DSCN0702 - - Nick and Duncan echo it: - - http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/gallery/Duncan-in-Tokyo/DSCN0703 - -* Availability - - Mono 0.18 packages and source code is available for download from: - - http://www.go-mono.com/download.html - - Those using Red Carpet on Linux can install Mono 0.18 from - the Mono channel. The packages have already been pushed for - you. - - At release time we have packages for Red Hat 8.0, 7.3, - 7.2 and 7.1 and Mandrake 8.2. - -* Contributors to this release - - This release is brought to you by: - - Alejandro Sanchez, Alp Toker, Atsushi Enomoto, Cesar Octavio - Lopez Netaren, Daniel Lopez (mod_mono), Daniel Morgan, Dennis - Hayes, Dick Porter, Dietmar Maurer, Duncan Mak, Eduardo - Garcia, Gaurav Vaish, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson Harper, Jaime - Anguiano, Jeroen Janssen, Johannes Roith, Jonathan Pryor, Juli - Mallett, Lluis Sanchez, Marco Ridoni, Martin Baulig, Miguel de - Icaza, Nick Drochak, Paolo Molaro, Patrik Torstensson, Piers - Haken, Rachel Hestilow, Rafael Teixeira, Ravi Pratap, - Sebastian Pouliot, Tim Coleman, Tim Hayes, Ville Palo, Zoltan - Varga. - -* New in this release - - VB.NET compiler: - - Many improvements to the Mono VB.NET compiler. - - ASP.NET: - - Plenty of bug fixes in ASP.NET. Larger applications - can now be run with it. The authentication system has - been deployed, most changes are from Gonzalo. - - We have a modified IBuySpy running (without Xslt) - - If you want to run ASP.NET you can run it with either - our XSP proof-of-concept server, or with Daniel's - Apache module that can be fetched from CVS (module - name: mod_apache) - - Type Reflector: - - A Console, Gtk# and Windows.Forms tool to browse - compiled assemblies and examine the types on it, from - Jonathan Pryor. - - Moving to NUnit 2.0 - - Nick continues the work on moving our test suite to NUnit 2.0 - - Mobile.Controls: - - Gaurav has started work on the Mobile controls, which - are required to run some of the reference applications - in full-mode like IBuySpy. - - Remoting: - - The remoting infrastructure has got a big boost from - Lluis in this release. - - System.Data/XML - - Ville has been working on improving our System.Data - classes in the XML assembly. - - Crypto: - - Plenty of new crypto from Sebastien as well. A new - web page in our site can be used to track this. - - http://www.go-mono.com/crypto.html - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -Hello! - - Version 0.17 of Mono has been released. - - There are plenty of new features, bug fixes, new classes, - performance improvements, optimizations and much more - available in this release. - -* Stats - - 2605 cvs commits to the Mono repository since October 1st, an - average of 37 commits per day including weekends. - - 212 commits to the Mono module. - 1438 commits to the MCS module. - -* Mono Improvements: - - Work has begun to make the runtime run a finalizer thread and - invoke all the finalizers from this thread. This is the same - behavior as Java and the Microsoft runtime, but it is disabled - on this build. - - Integrated the s390 work from Neale Ferguson. - - Beginning of the work for pre-compiling code (Ahead of time - compilation) for Mono (based on the early work of Zoltan). - - New option `--noboundscheck' for benchmark purposes, it - disables array bound checks. - - Uses mmap instead of SysV shared memory for the Windows API - emulation layer. - - Plenty of bug fixes, improvements and integration with the - upper layer class libraries. - - New exception handling code uses the GCC native support for - stack-walking if available and gives big performance boost - (15% on mcs bootstrap). - - A lot of the work in the new release of Mono is required for - the Mono Debugger (which will be released separately). The - Mono debugger is interesting, because it can debug both - managed and unmanaged applications, but it only supports the - JITer for debugging. - - Dick, Dietmar, Gonzalo, Martin and Paolo were in charge of - most of these changes. - -* Compiler improvements: - - Many bug fixes as usual, better C# compliancy. - - Performance improvements. The new release of the Mono C# - compiler is 37% faster than the previous version (self-compile - is down to 8 seconds). On my P4 1.8Ghz machine, the Mono C# - compiler compiles (342,000 lines per minute). - - Thanks to go Ravi and Martin for helping out with the bug - fixing hunt. - -* Cryptography and Security classes - - Sebastien Pouliot and Andrew Birkett were extremely busy - during the past two months working on the cryptography - classes, many of the crypto providers are now working - - Jackson on the other hand helped us with the security - classes, he said about those: - - `Writing security classes is the most exciting thing I have - ever done, I can not wait to write more of them'. - -* ASP.NET: - - We have now moved the code from the XSP server (which was our - test bed for ASP.NET) into the right classes inside - System.Web, and now any web server that was built by using the - System.Web hosting interfaces can be used with Mono. - - The sample XSP server still exists, but it is now just a - simple implementation of the WorkerRequest and ApplicationHost - classes and can be used to test drive ASP.NET. A big thanks - goes to Gonzalo who worked on this night and day (mostly - night). - - Gaurav keeps helping us with the Web.Design classes, and - improving the existing web controls. - -* ADO.NET: - - New providers are available in this release. The relentless - System.Data team (Brian, Dan, Rodrigo, Tim and Ville) are - hacking non-stop on the databse code. Improving existing - providers, and new providers. - - The new providers on this release: - - * Oracle - * MS SQL - * ODBC - * Sybase - * Sqlite (for embedded use). - - Many regression tests have been added as well (Ville has been - doing a great job here). - - Brian also created a DB provider multiplexor (The ProviderFactory) - - Stuart Caborn contributed Writing XML from a DataSet. - Luis Fernandez contributed constraint handling code. - - Also there is new a Gtk# GUI tool from Dan that can be used to - try out various providers. - -* System.XML: - - Atsushi has taken the lead in fixing and plugging the missing - parts of the System.XML namespace, many fixes, many - improvements. - -* CodeDom and the C# provider. - - Jackson Harper has been helping us with the various interface - classes from the CodeDOM to the C# compiler, in this release - a new assembly joins us: Cscompmgd. It is a simple assembly, - and hence Microsoft decided not to waste an entire "System" - "dot" on it. - -* Testing - - Nick Drochak has integrated the new NUnit 2.0 system. - -* Monograph: - - Monograph now has a --stats option to get statistics on - assembly code. - - -CVS Contributors to this release: - - Alejandro Sanchez, Alp Toker, Andrew Birkett, Atsushi Enomoto, - Brian Ritchie, Cesar Octavio Lopez Nataren, Chris Toshok, - Daniel Morgan, Daniel Stodden, Dennis Hayes, Dick Porter, - Diego Sevilla, Dietmar Maurer, Duncan Mak, Eduardo Garcia, - Ettore Perazzoli, Gaurav Vaish, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson - Harper, Jaime Anguiano, Johannes Roith, John Sohn, Jonathan - Pryor, Kristian Rietveld, Mads Pultz, Mark Crichton, Martin - Baulig, Martin Willemoes Hansen, Miguel de Icaza, Mike - Kestner, Nick Drochak, Nick Zigarovich, Paolo Molaro, Patrik - Torstensson, Phillip Pearson, Piers Haken, Rachel Hestilow, - Radek Doulik, Rafael Teixeira, Ravi Pratap, Rodrigo Moya, - Sebastien Pouliot, Tim Coleman, Tim Haynes, Ville Palo, - Vladimir Vukicevic, and Zoltan Varga. - - (Am sorry, I could not track everyone from the ChangeLog - messages, I apologize in advance for the missing - contributors). - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Hello! - - Version 0.16 of Mono has been released! This is mostly a bug - fix release, a lot of work has been going on to make existing - features more robust and less buggy. Also, contributions are - too varied, so it is hard to classify them in groups. - -* Stats - - 795 commits to mono and mcs since August 23rd. - -* News - - The changes that got in this releases are mostly - bugfixes. Miguel, Martin and Ravi attacked lots of bugs in the - compiler, Dick fixed a bunch of bugs related to processes and - threads. Mark Crichton resumed his work on the SPARC port and - made lots of progress there. Juli Mallett has been working on - making sure Mono also builds on BSD systems. As usual, Dietmar - and Paolo supplied their continuous stream of fixes to the - runtime. - - Dietmar has completed the work on the runtime side for - remoting support and we ship now with a sample channel, the - System.Runtime.Remoting.Sample. This can be used as a - reference implementation for anyone interested in implementing - other channels (like a CORBA channel). - - Duncan got preliminary XSLT support done by using - libxslt. - - Gonzalo (with some help from Patrik) has been working hard - making our ASP.NET implementation work on both Mono and MS by - migrating the existing xsp code to the class library. Gaurav - started working on the classes in System.Design.dll and Chris - Toshok checked in Mono.Directory.LDAP, which will be the - foundation to implement the System.DirectoryServices assembly. - - Various fixes from Kral, Jason, Piers and Gonzalo were - committed to System.Xml; Martin Algiers reports that the - upcoming NAnt release will be fully compatible with Mono. - - Miguel imported Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ilasm code - to CVS. Nick, as always, continues to refine our testing - framework by improving our tests. Andrew Birkett continues to - improve the implementation of our security/cryptographic - classes. Jonathan Pryor contributed type-reflector the our - list of tools. - -* Other News From Behind de Curtain. - - While the above is pretty impressive on its own, various other - non-released portions of Mono have been undergoing: Adam Treat - has been leading the effort to document our class libraries - and produce the tools required for it. - - Martin Baulig has been working on the Mono Debugger which is - not being released yet. This debugger allows both native - Linux application as well as CIL applications to be debugged - at the same time (and in fact, you can use this to debug the - JIT engine). The debugger is written in C# with some C glue - - In the meant A new JIT engine is under development, focused on - adding more of the high-end optimizations which will be - integrated on an ahead-of-time-compiler. Dietmar and Paolo - have been working on this. - -* Contributors to this release - - * Non-Ximian developers: Adam Treat, Andrew Birkett, Dennis - Hayes, Diego Sevilla, Franklin Wise, Gaurav Vaish ,Jason - Diamond, Johannes Roith, John Sohn, Jonathan Pryor, Juli - Mallett, Kral Ferch, Mike Crichton, Nick Drochak, Nick - Zigarovich, Piers Haken, Rafael Teixeira, Ricardo Fernandez - Pascual, Sergey Chaban, Tim Coleman. - - * Ximian developers: Dietmar, Paolo, Dick, Duncan, Ravi, - Miguel, Martin, Chris, Joe, Gonzalo, Rodrigo. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - * Sergey Chaban added thread-safe support to - System.Collections.SortedList. - - * Fixes to the compiler by Andrew Birkett. - - * Tim Coleman contributed the OleDb provider for System.Data and started - work on System.Web.Services. - - * Radek fixed a lot of problems on the PPC side. [*] - - * Miguel and Martin committed the new type lookup system. - - * Dietmar rewrote the marshalling code. [*] - - * Peter Williams and Martin contributed the new Makefiles, with help - from Alp Toker as well. - -* Contributors to this release: - - * Non-Ximian developers: Nick Drochak, Martin Baulig, Tim - Coleman, Mike Kestner, Alp Toker, Jonathan Pryor, Jaime - Anguiano, Piers Haken, Rafael Teixeira, Mark Crichton, - Sergey Chabon, Ajay Kumar Dwivedi, Andrew Birkett, Dennis - Hayes (SWF), Adam Treat, Johannes Roith and Lawrence Pit. - - * Ximian developers: Duncan, Ravi, Dick, Dietmar, Paolo, - Gonzalo, Rachel, Radek, Rodrigo, Jeff, Peter Williams and - Miguel. - -Special thanks to Duncan for helping me put this release together. - -Hello! - - A new version of Mono (0.12), is out. - - Mono is an open source implementation of the Microsoft.NET - Framework, and ships with a C# compiler, a runtime engine - (with a JIT on x86 cpus) and a set of class libraries. - - Mono is know to work on a number of platforms: - x86/Linux, x86/Windows, x86/FreeBSD; sparc/solaris; - linuxppc/linux; strongarm/linux. - - There have been many changes since the last release of Mono in - late April, thanks to Duncan for assembling the list of new - features, any omissions are my fault. - -Changes since 0.11: - - It is hard to keep track of the changes, as there are 1632 - patches that were posted to the mailing list. One third of - the total number of patches since we opened mono-patches - list. I am sure I missed some stuff and probably missed some - contributors. I apologize in advance. - - Runtime: - - Paolo: New Reflection.Emit generation code generates - code that can be executed in Windows. Now binaries - generated by Mono/MCS will run on Windows. - - Paolo got Activator.CreateInstance to work. - - Sergey's CPU-optimization for CPBLK. - - Many many bug fixes to the runtime from Dick, Dan - Lewis, Dietmar, Gonzalo, Martin, Paolo, Radek and Sergey, - - Compiler: - - Many bug fixes: The compiler can now compile Gtk#, - Vorbis#, System.Data assembly and System.Xml assembly - which previously did not work (Dietmar, Miguel, Paolo, - Piers, Ravi, Miguel). Thanks to all the bug - reporters. - - Class Libraries: - - Mike started work on System.Xml.XPath - - Christian, Dennis, Daniel and friends got more stubs - for System.Windows.Forms in. - - Ajay revamped System.Xml.Schema. And Jason and Duncan - updated System.Xml - - Daniel also checked in a working CodeDOM - implementation and a C# provider. - - Many bug fixes by everyone. Thanks to Daniel, Duncan, - Jonathan, Lawrence, Martin Mike, Nick and Piers. I am - missing a lot of contributors that should be listed. - - ASP.NET support - - A lot of work from Gonzalo allows some small and - modest ASP.NET applications to run (you still need the - unreleased XSP code though). - - System.Data: - - Integrated the MySQL provider from Brad Merryl. - - Lots of work by Dan, Rodrigo, Tim. - - Microsoft.VisualBasic runtime support - - Rafael and Chris have been working on the VisualBasic - runtime support DLLs - -Hello everyone! - - Mono 0.11 is out! - - This new version has new features: - - * Massive: - - * Ultrich Kunitz implemented the whole calendar set of - classes. Yes, thats right. The whole thing, with a - complete test suite. Thanks Ultrich! - - * JIT/runtime features: - - * Martin's debugging framework is included (see web - site for details on how to use it). (Martin) - - * Transparent Proxy has been implemented for the - runtime (lets you run/debug/hack on remoting for Mono) (Dietmar) - - * Inline and constant folding/propagation support - in the JIT engine (Dietmar) - - * Profiling support for the JIT engine (--profile). - - * Cool runtime hacks, that made our compiler twice as fast: - - * New string rewrite: faster, speedier, leaner, cooler! - - Paolo had been talking about a new string rewrite, - and super hacker Patrik Torstensson started the - implementation, Dietmar then switched the object - layout and the Mono team helped iron out a few of - the details. - - * New array reprensetation: Dan Lewis contributed a new - faster and smaller array implementation. - - * Improved Reflection.Emit: Paolo improved our - reflection emit code. - - * ADO.NET - - * Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya have some pieces of the - Sql classes ready to run. he first signs of life - this week (we can connect, insert rows; do transactions: - commit/rollback; SQL errors and exceptions work). - - * Http Runtime - - * The HTTP runtime (to be used by our ASP.NET implementation) - was contributed by Patrik Torstensson. Patrik not only - contributed a massive ammount of classes, but he immediately - went on to implement ThreadPools and then helped out with the - new String rewrite. - - * XML improvements: - - * Kral Ferch and Duncan Mak contributed more - improvements to the XML implementation. - - * Work on Xml Serialization from John Donagher. - - * Documentation: - - * MonoDoc ships for the first time! - (John Barnette, Adam Treat and John Sohn) - - * New documentation stubs ready to be filled, and translated - included (thanks to our doc team!) - - * General fixes: - - * Piers Haken fixed many of our attributes and many - little problems that were exposed by his CorCompare tool - - * Many Mono C# compiler bug fixes. - - * Other improvements: - - * NUnit works on Linux! (Patrik Torstensson) - - * More NUnit tests (Nick Drochak) - - * Windows.Forms progress: Dennis Hayes and Christian - Meyer have been contributing stubs for the - Windows.Forms work. - - * Full Parse implementations and bug fixing by Gonzalo - - * Dan Lewis contributed some missing classes for the - Regexp implementation. - - * Jonathan's trace classes - -* This Month's Mono is brought to you by: - - Adam Treat, Chris Podugriel, Christian Meyer, Daniel Lewis, - Daniel Morgan, Dennis Hayes, Dick Porter, Dietmar Maurer, - Duncan Mak, Guarav Vaish, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jaime Anguiano, - Jason Diamond, Joe Shaw, John Barnette, John Donagher, John - Sohn, Jonathan Pryor, Kral Ferch, Martin Baulig, Miguel de - Icaza, Mike Kestner, Nick Drochak, Paolo Molaro, Patrik - Tostensson, Piers Haken, Ravi Pratap, Rodrigo Moya, Sergey - Chanben, Ultrich Kunitz, Wictor Wilen. - - I know that I missed some features, there is a lot of work - that happens in a month. I apologize in advance for any - features I omited by accident. - - Special thanks go to Duncan for helping out with all those - little details in the project. And also Nick who has been - keeping us in good shape by maintaining and helping new - contributors provide more test suites. - -* Reporting bugs - - If you find a bug in Mono, please file a bug here: - - http://bugzilla.ximian.com - - That way we wont loose your bug report, and will be able to - follow up properly with it. Also try to provide simple test - cases whenever possible and try as hard as possible to - identify the root of a problem (compiler, runtime, class - libraries). - -* Forum - - The mono-list-request@ximian.com mailing list is open for - those of you who want to discuss the future of Mono. - -Hello everyone! - - Mono "Self Hosting" 0.10 is out! (Alex insisted I used the - tag for "Self Hosting", but was dissapointed when he - realized most mailers dont support this). - - Too many things have happened since the the 0.9 release, - almost an entire month. The big news is that we are shipping - a the self-hosting Mono C# compiler. This has been tested on - Linux/x86 only. - - Also, we delayed the release for one reason or other, but it - turns out that as a extra bonus, Paolo fixed the last - outstanding bug in the JIT engine, so the compiler now runs in - the JIT engine instead of the interpreter. - - The mono-0.10 release includes the libraries required to run - the compiler as well as assorted .NET programs [1]. - -* What is new - - There is so much stuff in this release that is hard to keep - track of it. - - Jason, Kral and Duncan have done an amazing job with - System.Xml, up to the point that it is even being used by - gtk-sharp's code generator (and it all comes with great test - suites to verify that it works!). Ajay's XmlSchema code is - also shipped. - - Martin worked on our debugging infrastructure (the JIT can - load dwarf files, and our class libraries now generate dwarf - debugging info; we are in the process of adding this to the - compiler, the patch did not make it to this release though). - - For the first time the System.Web assembly has built without - all the excludes, so you can get your hands on Gaurav and - Lee's massive code base. - - Lots of new tests to the runtime, class libraries and compiler - are included. As always, big thanks go to Nick for continued - guidance to new developers, and writing new tests. - - Dan removed the System.PAL dependency, we now have moved to an - internalcall setup for all the System.IO calls, and dropped - the MonoWrapper shared library. - - Porting wise: Sergey's StrongARM port is included now; Jeff's - SPARC port and Radek's PowerPC port have been updated to - reflect the new changes in the engine. - - Runtime wise: Dietmar also got us asyncronous delegates - implemented. Dick continues his work on our foundation - classes, and has resumed his work on the IO layer. - - Paolo is the hero behind self hosting on Linux. Send your - congrats (and wine) to him. - - And without the help from Mike, Duco, David, Piers, Nick, - Sergey, Mark, Jonathan, John, Adam and Dennis this release - would have not been possible. - - This release is mostly ECMA compatible. I did not expect this - to happen so soon. I am very grateful to everyone who has - made this happen - -* The goods - - The runtime sources and binaries to the compiler/libraries: - - http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz - - The class and compiler sources: - - http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz - -* Requirements: - - You still need glib-2, and pkg-config. If you plan on - compiling large applications, getting the Boehm GC is a plus - (we will integrate this in a future version, for now it is an - external requirement). - - Boehm GC is available in packaged format for Debian and Red - Hat systems. - -* To compile on Linux - - Do your regular chores with mono-0.10.tar.gz, you know the - drill. In the end, after you reach the `make install' phase, - now you can do some cool stuff. - - If you want to compile the compiler (just to try it out), - untar the sources to the compiler (mcs-0.10.tar.gz) and do - manually: - - cd mcs-0.10 - (cd jay; make) - (cd mcs; make monomcs) - - Now you will end up with a nice mcs4.exe in the mcs/mcs - directory, that is the compiler. If you want to use that, - replace the mcs.exe we distribute with the mcs4.exe you got. - -* Gadgets - - Man pages for mcs, mono and mint are included for your - enjoyment. - - Particularly of interest is `mint --profile' which is awesome - to profile your application, the output is very useful. - - Also, if you want to impress your friends, you might want to - run the JIT with the `-d' flag, that shows you how the JITer - compiles the code (and shows the basic blocks and the forst of - trees as it goes). - -* Next steps - - More classes are missing. These are required so we can run - nant and nunit natively. Once we achieve that, we will be - able to ship a complete environment that compiles on Linux. - - Currently our makefiles still use csc, as we still need - nunit/nant to work. - -[1] Of course, .NET programs that try to use classes we have not yet -implemented, will be left wondering `why did this happen to me?'. - -Hello! - - I have just uploaded Mono 0.9 to the web server, you can get - the goodies here: - - http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz - http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz - - mono-0.9.tar.gz contains the source code to the runtime (JIT - and interpreter) as well as a pre-compiled version of the - compiler (mcs.exe) and the class libraries. - - To compile the compiler and the class libraries, you still - need Windows with the .NET SDK, as our runtime can not host - the compiler completely yet. - -* Improved Build System - - You can check http://www.go-mono.com/download.html for the - new and fresh compilation instructions. Same requirements as - the last version (pkg-config, glib 1.3.xx need to be - installed). - -* What is new: - - Compiler can compile about 75% of our regression test suite - on Linux. Most of this work is on the class libraries and - Paolo has been the magician behind the work here. - - JIT can run the compiler now (Dietmar) - - Mint works on Windows now (Dick). - - Application Domains have been implemented (Dietmar) - - * Two modes of operation are available, depending on - your needs: share code, or maximize speed (does not - share code). This is described by the the - LoaderOptimization enumeration in .NET. - - Corlib no longer has references to mscorlib (Daniel Lewis) - - Ports: - PowerPC has been updated (Radek Doulik) - New SPARC port (Jeffrey Stedfast) - - Documentation system: - Adam Treat has been working on finishing the Doctools - to maintain the Mono class library documentation. We - still need a GUI editor though. - - Tracking progress: - Nick's new tools to track progress are included in - this release. - - Many new more regression tests for the class library - (David Brandt, Mark Crichton, Nick Drochak, Bob Doan, - Duco Fijma). - - Lots of new code: - Gaurav Vaish (the hacking god behind System.Web), - Chris Podugriel (System.Data) and Mark Crichton (Crypto) - - Runtime: - Socket layer is finished (Dick Porter) - - Compiler has full support for unsafe code now (Miguel) - Still a few things missing: constant folding is not - finished everywhere and access permissions are not - enforced yet. - - Many many many bug fixes everywhere from everyone on the team: - - Paolo Molaro, Daniel Lewis, Daniel Stodden, Dietmar - Maurer, Jeff Stedfast, Nick Drochak, Duco Fijma, Ravi Pratap, - Dick Porter, Duncan Mak, Jeff Stedfast and Miguel de Icaza. - - I am sorry if I left a major component out of the - announcement, this were some intense 11 days of work. - -* What is obviously missing - - Currently our System.Reflection.Emit is lacking array and - pointer support, which is why many programs still do not - compile, but this should be taken care of next week. - -* How can you help - - There are many ways to help the project, check the details - documentation in: - - http://www.go-mono.com/contributing.html - - You might also want to stop by our IRC channel on - irc.gnome.org, channel #mono if you are interested in - contributing. - -Have a happy weekend! -Miguel. - -Hey guys! - - Mono 0.7 has been released. - - It has been a long time since the last release of Mono (almost -three weeks). We have made an incredible ammount of work in the past -three weeks. - -* Highlights of this release: - - * The monoburg: BURS-instruction selector implemented (for our - portable JIT engine). - - * JIT engine works for very simple programs (Fibonacci works - for instance). It is about 30% faster running than the - equivalent code compiled with Kaffe. - - The interesting part is that this was accomplished with the - a minimum register allocator, and very simple monoburg - rules, so there is a *lot* of room to improve here. - - * The Interpreter has madured a lot. Value Types are fully - supported now; We dropped the FFI dependency, as we now - have our own code generator. - - * The runtime has been expanded and extended as to support - real file I/O (including console I/O). So Hello World works - in there. - - * The compiler can generate code for most statements now; It - also performs semantic analysis on most expressions. - Creation of new objects is supported, access to parameters, - fields and local variables works. Method invocation works. - Implicit type conversions, assignments and much more. - - Operator overloading is implemented, but broken on this - release, hopefully this will be fixed soon. - - Delegates and Attributes are now declared and passed around, - but no code generation for those exist yet. - - * More classes (look for details). Sergey and Paolo have been - working on various classes in System.Reflection.Emit to get - the compiler self-hosting. - - * NUnit is now part of the distribution, so it should be - trivial to write test cases (and if you want to help out, - this is one way to do it, we really need more tests cases). - - I am going to try to switch to Nick's JB for C# this week or next -week. But the excitement of having the compiler deal with real C# -programs is too much to be contained, and I can not keep my hands of -the code generation in the compiler. - -* Availability: - - http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.7.tar.gz - http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mcs-0.7.tar.gz - -* Details - - Class Library Changes: - - Many enumerations have been revamped to have the same value -definitions as those in .NET as those cause problems. They were also -missing the [Flags] attributes, so we got that right too. - - * System - SerializableAttribute impl (Miguel) - String updates (Jeff) - System.Char (Ravi) - - * System.Configuration - ConfigurationSettings impl (Christopher Podurgiel) - SingleTagSectionHandler impl (Christopher Podurgiel) - DictionarySectionHandler impl (Christopher Podurgiel) - - * System.Collections.Specialized - NameObjectCollectionBase impl (Nick Drochak) - - * System.Diagnostics - StackFrame stubs (alexk) - StackTrace stubs (alexk) - - * System.IO - File stubs (Jim Richardson) - IOException impl (Paolo) - StreamWriter impl (Dietmar) - StreamReader stubs (Dietmar) - - * System.Net - ConnectionModes (Miguel) - ProxyUseType (Miguel) - WebStatus (Miguel) - - * System.Reflection - Assembly (stubs) (Paolo) - MethodBase (Paolo) - MethodInfo (Paolo) - - * System.Reflection.Emit - EventToken (Sergey) - FieldToken (Sergey) - FlowControl (Sergey) - ILGenerator (stubbed) (Paolo) - Label (Paolo) - MethodToken (Sergey) - OpCode.cs (Sergey) - OpCodeType (Sergey) - OpCodes.cs (Sergey) - OperandType (Sergey) - PEFileKinds (Paolo) - PackingSize (Sergey) - ParameterToken (Sergey) - PropertyToken (Sergey) - SignatureToken (Sergey) - StackBehaviour (Sergey) - StringToken (Sergey) - TypeToken (Sergey) - - * System.Threading - - Most classes stubbed out by Dick Porter (Dick) - - * System.Web - HttpWorkerRequest stubs (Bob Smith) - - * System.Web.Hosting (Bob Smith) - AppDomainFactory stubs (Bob Smith) - ApplicationHost stubs (Bob Smith) - IAppDomainFactory stubs (Bob Smith) - IISAPIRuntime stubs (Bob Smith) - ISAPIRuntime stubs (Bob Smith) - SimpleWorkerRequest stubs (Bob Smith) - - * System.Web.UI - LiteralControl implemented (Bob Smith) - HtmlContainerControl bugfixes (Bob Smith) - BuildMethod - BuildTemplateMethod - HtmlTextWriterAttribute - HtmlTextWriterStyle - HtmlTextWriterTag - IAttributeAccessor - IDataBindingsAccessor - INamingContainer - IParserAccessor - IPostBackDataHandler - IPostBackEventHandler - IStateManager - ITagNameToTypeMapper - ITemplate - IValidator - ImageClickEventHandler - OutputCacheLocation - PersistanceMode - StateItem - - * System.Web.UI.HtmlControls - HtmlAnchor impl (Leen Teolen) - HtmlTextArea impl (Leen Teolen) - - * System.Web.UI.WebControls - WebControl.cs (Gaurav Vaish) - - * System.XML - Lots of enumerations (Miguel) - (will add later) - - * Add loads of enumerations throughout (Sergey) - (will add later) - -Compiler Changes: - - * Assignment (Miguel) - - * expression semantic analysis (Miguel) - - * constructor creation, chaining (Miguel) - - * Unified error reporting (Ravi) - - * initial attribute support (Ravi) - - * calling convention support (Miguel) - - * loop construct code generation (Miguel) - - * conditional statement code generation (Miguel) - - * indexer declarations (Ravi) - - * event declarations (Ravi) - - * try/catch parsing fixed (Ravi) - - * initial delegate support (Ravi) - - * operator overload (Ravi) - -Tools Changes: - - * Add NUnit windows binaries to distribution (Nick Drochak, Miguel) - -Runtime Changes: - - * First JIT implementation (Dietmar, Paolo) - - * value type size calculation (Dietmar) - - * full value type support (Paolo) - - * frequently used types cache (Paolo) - - * FileStream support (Paolo) - - * Console input/output support (Dietmar) - - * print arguments and exception name in stack trace (Paolo) - - * beginnings of virtual call support (Paolo) - - * reimplement pinvoke support (Dietmar) - - * remove libffi dependency (Dietmar) - - * IBURG code generator implementation (Dietmar) - - * new opcodes implemented: starg.s, ldobj, isinst, (Paolo, Miguel) - ldarg, starg, ldloc, ldloca, stloc, initobj, - cpblk, sizeof, conv.i, conv.i1, conv.i2, conv.i4, - conv.i8, conv.u1, conv.u2, conv.u4, conv.r4, - conv.r8, ldelema, ceq, cgt, clt. - -* This list - - Parts of this list of features were compiled by Alex by following -the CVS mailing list. My deepest thanks to Alex for helping me out -with this. I want to apologize for the missing features that I did -not document here, Mono is moving too fast to keep track of all the -changes. - -2002-Feb-11 Miguel de Icaza - - New release, functional x86-JIT, x86 interpreter, ppc interpreter - - Class libraries ship. - - Limited compiler ships. - - Too many changes to list - -2001-07-12 Miguel de Icaza - - New XSLT file from Sergey Chaban for CIL opcodes - - Paolo got the beginning of an interpreter in. - - Further work on the dissasembler. - - Fix various parts of the metadata library - -2001-05-30 Miguel de Icaza - - Project started + http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/