+ * 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
+ <blink> 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 <miguel@ximian.com>
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