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<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="index.rss"/>
<table align="right" border=1 padding=0 width=25%>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor=lightgrey>
<b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
</td>
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<td>
<b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler:</a></b>
</td>
<td>
Self hosting on Linux and .NET
</td>
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<tr>
<td>
<b>JIT:</b>
</td>
<td>
Linux/x86<br>
Solaris/SPARC<br>
PowerPC: MacOS and Linux.<br>
S390: Linux.
</td>
</tr>
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<td>
<b>Interpreter:</b>
</td>
<td>
Works for
Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
</td>
</tr>
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<td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
<td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
</tr>
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<td>
<b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
</td>
<td>
All assemblies compile.
</td>
</tr>
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RSS feed:
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<a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
</td>
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<tr>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor=lightgrey>
<b><center>In the news</center></b>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="images/oranet_logo.jpg">
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/03/11/mono.html">Mar 18th, 2004</a>: Will Mono become?
</td>
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<td>
<img src="images/2003osdirwinnerbadge.gif">
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="images/netmagazine.png">
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
</td>
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<td>
<img src="images/infoworld.png">
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
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<img src="images/infoworld.png">
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
</td>
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<img src="images/b2.png">
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
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</tr>
</table>
<p>
The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by <a
href="http://novell.com">Novell</a> to create a free
implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
</p>
<p>
Mono includes <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">Common Language
Runtime</a> (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) 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 both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you have questions about the project, read <a
href="rationale.html">the project launch statement</a>
or visit our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
Questions</a>.
</p>
<p>
For details on the project's future direction, read the
<a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>, and <a
href="download.html">download</a> the latest software version.
You can also get 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 source tree.</a>
</p>
<p>
To participate in discussion and development, <a
href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe to our mailing lists</a>.
You can also visit the <a
href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a> or the <a
href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk#</a> and
<a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
</a> Wikis.
</p>
@item May 2nd, 2004: mDnsResponder.Net; Global Assembly Cache.
Brady Anderson has released the first version of his <a href=
"http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mdnsresponder">multicast
DNS responder</a> written in C# for the Mono and .NET
platforms. This is the foundation for implementing
rendezvous-like functionality in your applications.
The tree has started to stabilize after all the changes last
week to integrate the Global Assembly Cache work that Jackson,
Sebastien, Todd and all the volunteers helped us deploy.
@item Apr 22nd, 2004: XSP 0.12 released.
A new release of XSP is available. It fixes a bug that made Web Services
unusable from client proxies. You can download it from <a
href="/archive/xsp-0.12.tar.gz">here</a>.
@item Apr 21st, 2004: XSP 0.11 and mod_mono 0.8 released.
Gonzalo has made new releases of XSP and mod_mono (The ASP.NET
hosting service for Mono).
Check the XSP/mod_mono <a href="archive/xsp-0.10.html">
Release Notes</a> to see what is new and to obtain the source
packages.
@item Apr 20, 2004: S390 port; Interpreted Updated; Identity classes; System.Drawing; Mono Debugger.
Neale who originally wrote the S390 interpreter support for
Mono has checked into CVS his port of the S390 JIT engine.
Now, if we could only have one of those in our living room.
Bernie has checked into CVS a new interpreter for the Mono
runtime. This new interpreter translates the CIL opcodes into
a new intermediate representation. The new IL representation
avoids doing costly lookups during interpretation which means that the
interpreter is a lot faster now.
Performance wise, the new interpreter is three times faster
than the old one when doing a compiler bootstrap.
Sebastien has recently completed the identity classes in the
Mono Runtime, you can see more details on his <a
href="http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/poupou.html">blog</a>
New progress on the GDI+ front: Jordi has completed the region
code; Ravindra the various brushes that we must support;
Sanjay the Icon and BMP loaders (with Mark) and Vladimir has
contributed various codecs and a new fresh implementation of
Image.LockBits.
Lluis and Atsushi in the meantime has been in charge of
completing various pending items from our class libraries:
basically an API audit of the things missing for the Mono 1.0
release, small but important things.
Martin has replaced the old command-line language in the
debugger with our home-grown "Command Line" language, a
TCL-like command line language that we built for it (its a
tiny .NETized Tcl-like language). The interaction process is
a lot smoother than it used to be and we are focusing on the
usability of the command line language to improve the
debugging experience.
@item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft.
Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding
support to the C# compiler to support the various checks required
by the Common Language Specification (CLS).
In the past the C# compiler was unable to flag any problems
related to the creation of cross-language libraries. Today
with this patch the compiler will properly flag errors in CLS
compliance. Tests for all of the errors have also been
included on CVS.
<a href="http://www.mainsoft.com">Mainsoft</a> has contributed
an implementation of their Basic runtime to the project. The
runtime they wrote is written in Java and we are translating
this into C# code. The code will reach CVS within the next
few weeks.
Mainsoft also contributed an extensive regression test suite
for the Basic runtime, a port of the NIST XML tests and their
own in-house developed XML tests.
@item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released
New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released.
Gtk# is available from <a
href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# home page</a> and MonoDoc 0.13
is available from our <a href="download.html">download</a>
page.
Gtk# now features [ConnectBefore] attribute for hooking up
signals; An automake/autoconf setup; the System.Drawing
dependency has been dropped and many more docs.
And <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/">MonoDevelop 0.2</a>
has been released.
@item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released
We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features
and improvements are described in our <a
href="archive/mono-0.31.html">Mono 0.31 Release Notes</a>.
You can download Mono 0.31 packages using Red Carpet, or pick
the individual packages from our <a
href="download.html">download</a> page.
@item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono.
Gonzalo has completed the implementation of Async I/O for Mono
using the kernel aio_* interfaces. If your operating system supports
the aio_ POSIX interface, the FileStream methods that
expose asynchronous methods will use this facility instead of
emulating it with threads as we have done in the past.
We had this request come to us from various people in the
past, and we are now looking for your help to test and debug
this.
@item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC.
Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono
JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for
this amazing development.
@item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston.
The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: <a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/MonoMeet.html">Mono Meeting
Agenda</a>
@item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston.
On March 5th-6th (Friday and Saturday) there will be an
open-house meeting for people interested in Mono to get
together with the Mono developers at the Novell offices in
in Cambridge Massachusetts (<a
href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/contact/">directions</a>).
The whole Novell Mono team will be here (Atsushi Enomoto, Dick
Porter, Duncan Mak, Erik Dasque, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson
Harper, Jordi Mas, Lluis Sanches, Manjula, Martin Baulig,
Miguel de Icaza, Mike Kestner, Paolo Molaro, Peter Bartok,
Sebastien Pouliot, Sachin Kumar) and hopefully Joe Shaw, Nat
Friedman, Peter Williams and Ravi Pratap will be joining us as
well. Expect to see Todd Berman from MonoDevelop as well.
If you are coming, please notify <a
href="edasque@ximian.com">edasque@ximian.com</a> about it, so
we can add you to the security list, and use the `open house
confirmation' subject in your email.
@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released
We have released a small bug-fix release of Mono, the release
notes are available <a
href="archive/mono-0.30.1.html">here</a> and you can download
it from our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization
We have a new document that describes some <a
href="performance.html">common tricks to improve the
performance</a> of your Mono or .NET application. These are a
summary of techniques that we employed to tune our own C#
compiler.
@item Feb 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released
Check out the <a
href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.30.html">Release
notes</a> for details on Mono 0.30. Or go directly to our <a
href="download.html">download</a> section
@item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial.
Sunil Kumar has written an <a
href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/cooldev/features/a_net_cplus_ldap_library_cdev.html">introduction
to Novell.LDAP</a> class libraries, which are part of Mono.
@item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released.
A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from:
<a href="archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz">archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz</a>
@item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories
If you have a success story about using Mono or one of the Mono
components in any way, we want to hear about you. Please mail
your details to miguel@ximian.com
@item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
There is a <a href="archive/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows
Installer for Mono 0.29</a> available now.
<h2>Older News</h2>
Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see older news.