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

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

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

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

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

        You can contact the team at: <a
        href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
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              <b><a href="c-sharp.html">Compiler</a></b>
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              Self hosting on .NET.<br>
              Classes need work to run on Mono.
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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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              Linux/PPC working<br>
              In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
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              <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
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              Corlib for self hosting mostly done
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** 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>).

** 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.

** 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.

** Feb 19, 2002

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

** 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)

** 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.

** 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>)

** 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

** 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.

** 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.

** 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). 

** Jan 28, 2002

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

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

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

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

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

** Jan 23, 2002

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

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

** Jan 21, 2002

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

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

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

** Jan 8, 2002

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

** Jan 4, 2002

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

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

** Jan 4, 2002

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

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

** Jan 3, 2002

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

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

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

** Dec 28, 2001

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

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

** Dec 18, 2001

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

        JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)

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

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

** Dec 14, 2001

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

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

** Dec 11, 2001

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

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

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

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

** Dec 1, 2001

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

** Nov 30, 2001

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

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

        More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).

** Nov 28, 2001

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

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

        Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.

** Nov 16, 2001

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

** Nov 14, 2001

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

** Nov 12, 2001

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

        More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.

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

** Nov 8, 2001

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

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

** Nov 5, 2001

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

** Nov 4, 2001

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

        Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
        compiler. 

        Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.

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

** Nov 3, 2001

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

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

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

** Nov 1, 2001

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

** Oct 27, 2001

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

        Some large recent developments:

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

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

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

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

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

** Oct 18, 2001

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

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

** Oct 17, 2001

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

** Oct 15, 2001

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

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

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

** Oct 5, 2001

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

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

** Oct 4, 2001

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

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

** Sep 28, 2001

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

** Sep 26, 2001

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

** Sep 21, 2001

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

** Sep 19, 2001

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

** Sep 18, 2001

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

** Sep 17, 2001

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

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

** Sep 10, 2001

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


** Sep 5, 2001

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

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

** Sep 4, 2001

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

** Aug 28, 2001

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

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

        Good work Mono team!
</blockquote>

** Aug 23, 2001

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

** Aug 22, 2001

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

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

** Aug 3, 2001

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

** Jul 29, 2001

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

** Jul 25, 2001

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

** Jul 22, 2001

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

** Jul 19, 2001

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

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

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

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

** Jul 15, 2001

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

** Jul 14, 2001

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

** Jul 12, 2001

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

** Jul 9, 2001

<blockquote>
        Project launched.
</blockquote>

** O'Reilly

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