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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 (the CLR) 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.  Grab a <a
	href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
	href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
	the sources</a>

	You might want to <a
	href="mailing-lists.html">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>
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	      <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
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	      <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
	      Self hosting on .NET.
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	      <b>JIT</b>
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	      Linux/x86 working.
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	      <b>Interpreter</b>
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	      Working:<br>
	      Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
	      In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
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	      <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
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	      Corlib is self hosting.
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@item Jun 20, 2002

	Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
	Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls.  Session tracking is
	next.  Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.

	Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
	XmlSerialization code.  All fields had to be re-ordered to
	match the Microsoft implementation.

@item Jun 19, 2002

	You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS 
	compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
	website</a>.
      
	New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
	http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.

@item Jun 10, 2002

	Ajay <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
	today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.

@item Jun 7, 2002

	<b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes!  More working code!
	Better compiler!  Faster runtime!  Less bugs! 

	You can get it <a
	href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
	href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
	href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).

@item Jun 3rd, 2002

	CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.

@item May 31, 2002

	Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
	.aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
	It is currently on its infancy.  But very good news, now we need to 
	upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.

	Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
	been checked into CVS.

	Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
	PInvoke dlls to other libraries).

	<a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
	a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad.  And Rodrigo
	started the OleDB using LibGDA.

@item May 27, 2002

	An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
	Mono news.  I find it surprising that there are so many tools
	that process this data.  

	Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
	now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.

@item May 26, 2002

	Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
	System.Data class library.

@item May 24, 2002

	Ajay <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
	checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.

	Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
	templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
	and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
	ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.

@item May 22, 2002

	<a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
	on the Mono runtime.  This <a
	href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
	MonoLogo running Gtk#.

@item May 21, 2002

	Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
	it is possible to get <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
	number</a> information on stack traces.

@item May 20, 2002

	XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
	available on the AnonCVS servers.  This is part of the ASP.NET
	support in Mono.  Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.

	Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
	implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.  

	Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
	compiling most of our regression test suite.

	Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
	polishing the underlying network infrastructure.

	The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
	VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.

	Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter

@item May 9, 2002

	Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
	engine.  Read <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
	it</a>

@item May 5, 2002

	We are able to retrieve simple data from the database 
	using our ADO.NET like functionality.  Only string and integer data
	types are supported right now but more are in the works.
	
	You can find more information 
	at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
	
	Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim, 
	and others for these bits.

@item May 4th, 2002

	Rodrigo Moya announced <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
	LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
	This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
	should make it easier to use and compile. 

	This is another milestone for our <a
	href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>

	We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)

@item May 2nd, 2002

	Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
	Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
	on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.

	Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
	simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
	we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono.  This is needed to fully
	emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
	expose to applications.

	News from the <a
	href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
	href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
	support</a>, Mike <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
	the story</a>	

@item May 1st, 2002

	Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
	<a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>

@item Apr 26, 2002

	Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
	href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
	(Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
	<a
	href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
	to BaseLabs).

@item Apr 24, 2002

	<b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
	fixes and more classes are included.

	A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
	been packaged for your download pleasure.  Binaries are
	included.  The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
	are available.

	You can get it <a
	href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
	href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
	href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).

@item Apr 23, 2002

	SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>

	Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
	their new release.

@item Apr 20, 2002

	Some updates from the hacking lines:

	<b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
	http runtime support and started work on thread pools.  This
	is part of the ASP.NET support.

	<b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
	hacking on MonoDoc.

	<b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
	working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
	the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
	rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
	exceptions work).  Check <a
	href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
	goodies.

	<b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
	made the compiler twice as fast this week:

	Early this week Patrik started the string
	rewrite in the runtime.  Today Dietmar finished the
	constructors and deployed the new layout. 

	Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
	turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.

	Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
	with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
	representation.

	At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
	implemented constant propagation.  These two optimizations
	together are very powerful.

	<b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
	with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
	Ravi, Sergey)


@item Apr 18, 2002

	Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
	CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.

	Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
	our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
	on CVS as well.

@item Apr 11, 2002

	Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>

	Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
	href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
	people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.

@item Apr 6, 2002

	<a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
	Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
	helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
	resource for anyone interested in remoting.

@item Apr 5, 2002

	Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
	Dietmar.  Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
	This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
	Mono.

@item Mar 28, 2002

        Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
        to Martin's work.  The resulting dwarf file can be used to
        single step C# code in GDB.  A document will be shortly published with
        the details.

@item Mar 27, 2002

	<b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
	been released.

	A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
	been packaged for your download pleasure.  Binaries are
	included.  The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
	are available.

	You can get it <a
	href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
	href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
	href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).

@item Mar 26, 2002

	Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
	us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler.  Goodies are on
	CVS.

	<a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
	href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
	World</a>.  Mike posted some <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>


@item Mar 19, 2002

	Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
	on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
	the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
	debugging information).
	
	Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
	allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.  

	The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
	also part of the class status now).  Ajay contributed a large
	chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace

	Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
	support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
	internal calls.

	Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
	environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
	us to run the compiler on Linux.

	Remember to post your bug reports.

	The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
	endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick.  These status
	report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
	in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)

@item Mar 12, 2002

        At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
        host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
        hostingness.  We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.

        A release will follow up shortly.

@item Mar 9, 2002

	Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
	it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
	assembly.

@item Mar 7, 2002

	MCS compiles on Linux!   

	Today Paolo got the <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
	compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
	completely for the first time!  The resulting image still contains
	some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now.  Later in the day
	and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
	speed was improved in 400%

	We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.

	Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
	we deploy the more advanced ORP one. 

@item Mar 5, 2002

	The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>

	Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
	classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
	the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.   

	Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
	revamped regression test suite.

	Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
	status</a> page again, with even more information available.

	The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
	killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>

@item Mar 1, 2002

	RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>

@item Feb 28, 2002

	<a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
	has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which 
	shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.

	RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>

@item Feb 27, 2002

	New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
	provides detailed information about missing functionality in
	our class libraries.  Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
	did the XSLT and DHTML magic.

	More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
	enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
	Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)

@item Feb 26, 2002

	Paolo posted a list of <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
	you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now.  Sergey followed up with 
	<a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
	suggestions.

@item Feb 25, 2002

	StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.  

@item Feb 24, 2002

	SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)

	Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)

@item Feb 22, 2002

	<b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>

	A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
	been packaged for your download pleasure.  The <a
	href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>

	You can get it <a
	href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
	href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
	href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).

@item Feb 21, 2002

	Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
	Self hosting is closer every day.

	Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.

@item Feb 20, 2002

	Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.

	C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing). 

	New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
	is <a href="download.html">available</a>.  We can now easily compile
	Mono on Windows and Linux.  If you had trouble before, use the
	above scripts which will get the setup right for you.

	There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
	use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
	you will get one of the machines.

@item Feb 19, 2002

	Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>

@item Feb 18, 2002

	Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
	modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
	this with the --share-code command line option.

	Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
	libraries.

	PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)

@item Feb 13, 2002

	Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:

	AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar).  Socket work is done
	(Dick).  Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan).  New
	comprehensive tests for colib bits (David).  Nick is driving the
	regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
	New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)

	Miguel is off to the <a
	href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.

@item Feb 11, 2002

	<b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>

	A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
	been packaged for your download pleasure.  

	You can get it <a
	href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
	href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
	href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)

@item Feb 11, 2002

	We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
	joined the project in the last couple of days.  The classes
	are rapidly moving.

	An explanation of the relationship between <a
	href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
	and Mono</a>.  

	Nick is still leading our test suite platform.  I can not
	stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
	for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
	stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.

	We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
	non-Linux systems.  Work is moving on native code generation
	for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
	other systems.

	There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
	a set of web server classes for <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
	ASP.NET</a> on Mono.

	Paolo also <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
	posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux

@item Feb 10, 2002

	Mike Kestner has posted an <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
	on his Gtk#</a> activities.

@item Feb 4, 2002

	Adam has done <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
	bindings</a> for .NET.  Adam is cool.

@item Jan 29, 2002

	Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
	Mono: <a
	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
	System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.

	This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
	fully Unicode aware.  This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
	was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
	set of the Perl regex engine). 

@item 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>.

@item 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.

@item 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.

@item 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.

@item 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.   

@item 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.  

@item 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>.

@item 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!

@item 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.

@item 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.

@item 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.

@item 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.

@item 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).

@item 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.

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item Nov 5, 2001

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

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item Oct 17, 2001

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

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item Sep 28, 2001

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

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item Sep 19, 2001

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

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item Sep 10, 2001

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


@item 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>

@item Sep 4, 2001

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

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item 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>
	
@item 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>

@item Aug 3, 2001

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

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item 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>
	
@item 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 Class
	Status web pages up.  These are a lot better than mine, and
	we are now keeping better track of contributors.
</blockquote>

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item 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>

@item Jul 9, 2001

<blockquote>
	Project launched.
</blockquote>

@item O'Reilly

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