+Hello!
+
+ Version 0.17 of Mon ohas been released.
+
+ There are plenty of new features, bug fixes, new classes,
+ performance improvements, optimizations and much more
+ available on 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 separatedly). 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 also providing new ones: Oracle, and TDS are the big names
+ on this release. Many regression tests have been added as
+ well.
+
+* 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, Mail Delivery Subsystem,
+ mailman-owner@ximian.com, 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
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