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@item Dec 21st 2003: Mono on PowerPC Progress.
Paolo reports today that the Mono JIT on the PowerPC was able
to successfully run the Mono C# compiler to build its first
programs. This is by no means complete (exception handling is
missing, and Boehm GC seems to fail on MacOS X), this shows
the excellent progress Paolo has been making.
Zoltan has added support for modules to MCS (generation and
consumption).
@item Dec 10th, 2003: Mono Debugger 0.5 released
Martin Baulig has <a
href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/blog/archives/000231.html">released</a>
a new version of the Mono Debugger.
@item Dec 2nd, 2003: Mono 0.29 has been released
Check out the <a
href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.html">Release
notes</a> for details on Mono 0.29.
This release includes the PPC JIT engine running `Hello World'
and ASP.NET is considered feature-complete.
@item Nov 25th, 2003: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices
Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from <a
href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">the Gtk# web site</a>.
Sunil has checked in the implementation of
System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap
code into Mono CVS.
@item Nov 14th, 2003: Gtk# 0.13 released.
Mike Kestner has <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016943.html">announced</a>
the release of the <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono.
@item Nov 13th, 2003: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET
Sunil Kumar at Novell has <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016907.html">announced</a>
the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for
Mono and the .NET Framework.
You can obtain the library from <a
href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> <a
href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/cvs/cvsbrowse.php/ldapcsharp/CsharpLDAP">CSharpLDAP</a>
module.
@item Nov 4th, 2003: Mono Roadmap announced.
The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a
href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> have
been released.
@item Oct 28th, 2003: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
folks.
We will bring Mono t-shirts.
Mike Kestner released <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
@item Oct 26th, 2003: Last Minute Mono BOF
The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
to plot the evolution.
@item Oct 25th, 2003: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
Johannes created a Windows
Installer for GTK# 0.11+ and works
with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
@item Oct 21st, 2003: Mono Community at Novell Forge
Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
hosting their projects can now use <a
href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts
a <a
href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono
Community</a>.
Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
repository, and using our <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS
servers</a>
@item Oct 13th, 2003: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
substrate in Mono that uses the <a
href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International
Components for Unicode</a> library from IBM. This means that
we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
implementation on top of <a
href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> is used on Unix
systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
maintenance of System.Drawing.
There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
to read the <a
href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep
an eye on recent developments.
Bernie Solomon just <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked
in</a> 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
@item Oct 6th, 2003: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
href="download.html">download</a> page.
@item Oct 5th, 2003: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
<a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
@item Oct 2nd, 2003: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
href="download.html">download</a> page.
A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
@item Oct 1st, 2003: Mono 0.28 has been released.
Check out the <a
href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release
notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
@item Sep 30th, 2003: Mono Kick Start book available
The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325799/qid=1064937318/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9624440-8714218?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">available</a>
in English. Originally available only in <a
href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
The book technical review was done by <a
href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
architect at the Mono team.
@item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
Mike Kestner has <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
Martin has also
<a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a>
his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
@item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
<b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
<a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
screenshot here (link got broken).
<b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
been checked into CVS.
<b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
C-based libxslt that we used before.
<b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
<b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
file from an .asmx file.
<b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
avoid deadlocks.
<b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
Monodoc documentation. The <a
href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
version</a>.
<b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
checked into CVS.
@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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: Second Mono Survey
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<tr>
<td valign="top">
<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>
</td>
</tr>
</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, 2003: 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