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+Happy new year!
+
+        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.
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        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: