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	<a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
	launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source
	implementation of the .NET Development Framework.  

	Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
	C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
	Common Language Infrastructure and a set of <a
	href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.  

	You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
	this project.  If you have questions about the project, please
	read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
	Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>

	You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
	source</a> for our work so far.  Or you can grab a <a
	href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work. 

	You might want to <a
	href="resources.html#mailing">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
	and mono-announce-list

	You can contact the team at: <a
	href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>

** Jan 28, 2002

	The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
	the terms of the
	<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.

	This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
	(most notably, the XFree86 project).   

	The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
	the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.

	Our <a
	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
	Release</a>

	Press coverage: <a
	href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
	href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>, 
	<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>, 
	<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.

** Jan 23, 2002

	New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
	This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
	to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.

	This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
	code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail.  It should also
	expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.

** Jan 21, 2002

	Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
	Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
	<a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>

	Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on 
	non-Windows platforms.  

	C# compiler front:  A lot of focus in the past weeks after
	the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
	tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
	reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
	has begun.

** Jan 8, 2002

	Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd.  In
	the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
	Linux.  Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
	the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
	Linux.

** Jan 4, 2002

	Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch.  Class libraries and
	runtimes are now fully Unicode aware.  The details are <a href=
	"http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
	here</a>

	Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
	compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
	ChangeLog entries.   

** Jan 4, 2002

	Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
	year, new direction</i></a>.

	Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
	System.Windows.Forms.  

** Jan 3, 2002

	Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient.  We can now continue
	development of the compiler with itself.  

	Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
	self hosting system.  We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
	on Linux before the end of the month.

	Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
	href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
	<a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.

** Dec 28, 2001

	After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
	There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
	being fixed quickly.

	We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!

** Dec 18, 2001

	JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick). 

	JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)

	System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
	PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.

	C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
	the outstanding issues.  More bug fixing allows it to compile
	more programs.

** Dec 14, 2001

	Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
	two to three times as fast as it did yesterday.  Amazing.

	The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
	implementation is there.

** Dec 11, 2001

	The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as 
	well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
	recently.  Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
	allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
	and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
	reduce spills and reloads. 

	On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
	much complete.  The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
	visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
	analysis.  There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.

	You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>

	More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
	libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
	`make test' going.

** Dec 1, 2001

	AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour).  Thanks
	to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
	Climent for helping to set this up.

** Nov 30, 2001

	All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
	(Dietmar).

	Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
	working now (Ravi).

	More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).

** Nov 28, 2001

	JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
	Dietmar added exceptions support to it.

	The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
	switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs.  Many
	new more tests.
	
	Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.

	Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.

** Nov 16, 2001

<blockquote>
	Mike Kestner has posted an <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
	on Gtk# development.
</blockquote>

** Nov 14, 2001

<blockquote>
	Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
	Linux</a>.  It compiles a sample program and then the sample
	program is executed.

	Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
	functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
	are complete.

	To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
	uses the .NET classes to get its work done.  To make this work
	on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
<ul>
		* The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
		  many programs now (our test suite at this point is 
		  made up of 40 tests).

		* The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
		  the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is 
		  what Paolo has been working on lately). 

	  	  The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
		  .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>

		* The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
		  compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
</ul>

	At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
	replace our interpreter in production.
</blockquote>

** Nov 12, 2001

<blockquote>
	Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine.  Sean has
	got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).

	More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.

	Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries. 
</blockquote>

** Nov 8, 2001

<blockquote>
	Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.

	Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
</blockquote>

** Nov 5, 2001

<blockquote>
	Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
	tests running now.
</blockquote>

** Nov 4, 2001

<blockquote>
	Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
	update</a> on his work on Gtk#.  

	Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
	compiler. 

	Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.

	Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
	System.Reflection.Emit implementations.  He has been working
	steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now.  This is the
	foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
	important piece of the puzzle.
</blockquote>

** Nov 3, 2001

<blockquote>
	Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak. 

	Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
	for the JITer. 

	A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
	new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
</blockquote>

** Nov 1, 2001

<blockquote>
	Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
	variable length arguments.  Now he depends on Miguel finishing
	the array handling support. 
</blockquote>

** Oct 27, 2001

<blockquote>
	Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
	morning.

	Some large recent developments:

	The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
	partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
	place now and compile and link the decimal code).

	Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
	the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
	engine that we can finally use all over the place. 

	Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
	Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
	optimize foreach for the array case).   

	Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
	previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong.  Paolo
	has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
	support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
	week.  Dick on the other hand is still working on the
	WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code.  WaitAll is like select on
	steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
	mutexes, events and a couple of others.

	Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
	.defs files to quickly wrap the API.
</blockquote>

** Oct 18, 2001

<blockquote>
	Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
	properties.  <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
	days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.  

	Ximian users around the world <!--a
	href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
	recent C# compiler progress.
</blockquote>

** Oct 17, 2001

<blockquote>
	Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
	(definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
</blockquote>

** Oct 15, 2001

<blockquote>
	JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
	creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).  

	The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
	missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
	delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
	try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.

	System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
	classes.
</blockquote>

** Oct 5, 2001

<blockquote>
	Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
	assembler written in C#.  You can get it from his web page:
	<a
	href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.

	The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon.  This
	component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
	eventually.
</blockquote>

** Oct 4, 2001

<blockquote>
	Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
	executable today.  This means that a very simple .NET program
	that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
	while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.

	The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
	the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
	basically focusing on completeness now.  
</blockquote>

** Sep 28, 2001

<blockquote>
	<a
	href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
	Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
</blockquote>

** Sep 26, 2001

<blockquote>
	More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
	runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
	(both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
	type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
	Ant (Sean and Sergey);  Refactored and documented the
	internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar);  StatementExpressions
	handled correctly (Miguel).
</blockquote>

** Sep 21, 2001

<blockquote>
	A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
	support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
	got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
	the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
	got i++ working.   All in tonight's snapshot
</blockquote>

** Sep 19, 2001

<blockquote>
	Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
	Mono</a> to othre architectures.
</blockquote>

** Sep 18, 2001

<blockquote>
	<A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
	released (runtime engine, class libraries
	and C# compiler).  Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
	0.7 announcement</a> for details
</blockquote>

** Sep 17, 2001

<blockquote>
	Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
	repository.  Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
	The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
	C#.  You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>

	Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
</blockquote>

** Sep 10, 2001

<blockquote>
	Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
	importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
</blockquote>


** Sep 5, 2001

<blockquote>
	The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
	application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!

	This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
	August 28)
</blockquote>

** Sep 4, 2001

<blockquote>
	Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
	independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
</blockquote>

** Aug 28, 2001

<blockquote>
	<b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b>  The latest snapshots
	will let you run it.   

	Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions, 
        performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll

	Good work Mono team!
</blockquote>

** Aug 23, 2001

<blockquote>
	Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
	are available here: <a
	href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
</blockquote>

** Aug 22, 2001

<blockquote>
	New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
	<a
	href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
	href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
</blockquote>
	
** Aug 20, 2001

<blockquote>
	A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
	service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
	without access to the <a
	href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
</blockquote>

** Aug 3, 2001

<blockquote>
	Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
	run every night at 10pm Boston time.  
</blockquote>

** Jul 29, 2001

<blockquote>
	Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
	href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
	href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
</blockquote>

** Jul 25, 2001

<blockquote>
	The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
	presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
	Open Source Software Convention</a>
</blockquote>

** Jul 22, 2001

<blockquote>
	Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
	href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>.  You can
	get the new class libraries from <a
	href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
</blockquote>

** Jul 19, 2001

<blockquote>
	Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
	href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>.  You can
	get the new class libraries from <a
	href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
</blockquote>
	
** Jul 17, 2001

<blockquote>
	Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
	href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>.  You can
	get the new class libraries from <a
	href="download.html#july-17">here</a>

	Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.

	Got Sean's new <a href="class-status/index.html">Class
	Status</a> web pages up.  These are a lot better than mine, and
	we are now keeping better track of contributors.
</blockquote>

** Jul 15, 2001

<blockquote>
	Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
	href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>.  Get it <a
	href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
</blockquote>

** Jul 14, 2001

<blockquote>
	A <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
	release</a> of the
	runtime, compiler and classes has been made.  Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
</blockquote>

** Jul 12, 2001

<blockquote>
	I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
	Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it.  I finally <a
	href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
</blockquote>

** Jul 9, 2001

<blockquote>
	Project launched.
</blockquote>

** O'Reilly

<blockquote>
	Brian posted a story on <a
	href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>
</blockquote>