+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.
+
+
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* Sergey Chaban added thread-safe support to
System.Collections.SortedList.
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