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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 (also referred as the CLR) and a
set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
application. It implements of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</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. Grab a <a
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You might want to <a
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Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
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<a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
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@item Sep 3rd, 2003: Authenticode; WSE
@item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
<b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
<a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
problems (you can see a <a
href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
differences</a>).
<b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
description of instructions for serializing data, these
instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
compiler and improving the performance of it.
Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
serialization process.
<b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
in the help system.
Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
the ECMA provider even more.
@item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
<a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
Existing features have been improved vastly: better
Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
compliance to the spec and more.
Check out the <a
href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
notes</a> for details.
@item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
Brian Lloyd has <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
Brian's site at <a href="
http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
libraries and Gtk#) to <a
href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
@item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
implementation.
The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
source code is available on the <a
href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
page on the <a
href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
href="download.html">download page</a>.
@item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
now requires an XSP installation to be available.
@item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
available <a
href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
@item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
run <a
href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
testing it with other ORBs.
Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
post</a>
@item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
are now available from our (<a
href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
progress on our <a
href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
page.</a>
We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
three distinct flavors:
<ul>
* mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
contain everything necessary to setup a new
installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
* monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
the assemblies built on that day.
* monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
</ul>
The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
@item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
generic program. Support for handling images with generics
has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
engine is still incomplete.
On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
development tool.
Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
@item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
Windows.
This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
various ECMA subsets).
Peter explains the new build system <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
NET_1_1 build).
@item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
(which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
<ul>
<li> .asmx files.
<li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
<li> ref and out parameters.
<li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
<li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
</ul>
For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
their web browsers.
Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
`monocov'. Details are <a
href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
version is available now.
Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
with SourceGear.
Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
added improvements to it).
Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
and bounds.
Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
for ease-of-authoring).
Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
development partnership under which Ximian will provide
custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
mixed-platform development organizations.
<a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
Some technical details are available <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
OpenLink <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
The patches are available <a
href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
href="download.html">download page</a>.
@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
@item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
and a demo is available <a
href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
an ongoing basis.
Jon Udell wrote a small <a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
Atsushi has created a <a
href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
validating XML reader.
There is activity on the <a
href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
@item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
only available in German, you can find it <a
href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
where we include a list of some of the people who have made
Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
to include your information.
@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
details are <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
Zoltan has commited his <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
<a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
and <a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
<a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
<a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
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<div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
What do you think about Mono?
Is your company involved with the development and
deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
important part of your company's business application
strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
and the use of Linux in business critical
applications?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
would like to talk with you. If interested, please
email us at <a
href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
</div>
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</table>
@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
bug fix release. No new features.
@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
release.
A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
Martin also announced a <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
software project.
Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
machine.
@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
A new mailing list for <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
Development</a> has been created.
@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
and performance improvements.
Gtk# 0.8 has been <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
<b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
how to complete this process <a
href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
for further discussion.
@item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
straight binding to the C API.
Marco has <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
for Mono.
We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
advantage of Unix facilities.
A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
If you want to contribute please read <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
message</a>
Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
(compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
<a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
A <a
href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
Release <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
World Expo. A description is <a
href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
Open Link has a <a
href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
shipping that uses Mono.
@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
and performance improvements.
We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
progress on the documentation browser.
<a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
platforms.
Details of the release are available in <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
flag to gcc).
@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
distribution, and MCS works with it.
Zoltan has managed to get <a
href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
the Mono runtime.
@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
A new issue of the <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
Weekly News</a> has been published.
Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
that Sebastien has put together.
@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
improved this to use implicit names as well.
Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
per-thread basis now.
Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
statements on the grammar.
Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
<a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
to run on Mono.
<a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
of their product, also using Mono.
@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
Mike Kestner <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
and its available from our <a
href="download.html">download</a> page.
Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
asp.net has been released as well.
This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
This release also includes a new exception handling system
that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
Screenshots: <a
href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
repository as well.
@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
<a
href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
server on Unix using Mono.
Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
new test application that people can use to test their
controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
you can participate in the <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
mailing list</a>
Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
layer</a> and an <a
href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
server</a> for Mono.
Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
as well as RSA <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
new technology are <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
here</a>.
Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
see Windows screenshots for it <a
href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
Mono Keynote presentation</a>
<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
</ul>
A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
are available <a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
in Open Office file format.
@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
Tim Coleman posted an <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
on the improvements in the System.Data
The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
Tim's SqlClient is <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
Windows is shown <a
href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
been working on the Security classes.
Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
bindings.
Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
into CVS.
The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
list</a> mailing list.
Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
data adapter is also coming soon.
@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
are not supported by the .NET framework.
Last week we created a new <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
binding.
Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
binding <a
href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
representation of the types instead of two (the master types
is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
configuration to backend keys, following the <a
href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
time as Mono 0.17.
@item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
Brian posted <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
release of it.
We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
Documentation Tools</a>.
@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
want. This also includes support for the system-wide
configuration file `machine.config'.
Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
it looks <a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
and <a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
the screenshot).
<a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
Gtk# is seen <a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
performance.
@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
single-stepping).
@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
Survey</a>
@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
software project.
This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
@item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
(including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
on making a good UI in the future.
Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
This is the substrate for implementing the
System.DirectoryServices assembly.
Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
classes implementation.
After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
implementation.
@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
The <a
href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
<a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
announced an Apache module that hosts
Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
API.
@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
released a fresh version of <a
href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
merger on our side.
His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
circumstances.
@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
<b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
on par with the PPC port.
Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
code for the remoting infrastructure.
More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
their first query.
@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
for structure marshaling.
Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
to integrate with Patrik's code.
Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
checked into CVS.
@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
a successful free software project.
The first, deserved, entry goes to
Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
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