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8 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
13 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler:</a></b>
16 Self hosting on Linux and .NET
26 PowerPC: MacOS and Linux.<br>
36 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
40 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
41 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
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48 All assemblies compile.
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61 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
67 <b>Beta 1 Press Coverage</b>
70 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target="blank">May 2004</a>: Mono Beta 1 rallies the press
79 <a href="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/5375/4/">May 3rd, 2004</a>: And then there's Mono
88 <a href="http://tools.devchannel.org/devtoolschannel/04/04/21/169234.shtml?tid=46">Apr 26th, 2004</a>: What is Mono and why should you care ?
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97 <a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award.
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106 <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
111 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
114 <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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122 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
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130 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
137 The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by <a
138 href="http://novell.com">Novell</a> to create a free
139 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
143 Mono includes <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
144 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">Common Language
145 Runtime</a> (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a
146 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
147 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
148 application. It implements both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
149 and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
152 If you have questions about the project, read <a
153 href="rationale.html">the project launch statement</a>
154 or visit our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
159 For details on the project's future direction, read the
160 <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>, and <a
161 href="download.html">download</a> the latest software version.
162 You can also get a <a href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our
164 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
168 To participate in discussion and development, <a
169 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe to our mailing lists</a>.
170 You can also visit the <a
171 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
172 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a> or the <a
173 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk#</a> and
174 <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
178 @item Jun 30th, 2004: Mono 1.0
184 src="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.0/mono1.gif"></td>
186 <b>Mono 1.0 has been released!</b><br/>
188 <p>Be the first kid in your block to install the
189 <i>it-took-us-three-years-but-we-did-it</i> development platform.
192 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.0/index.html">release notes</a>
193 or <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/download.html">download it</a></p>
198 @item Jun 23rd, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes John Luke, Dan Morgan and Tim Coleman.
200 The <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
201 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
202 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
205 John Luke, Dan Morgan and Tim Coleman are now part of the Mono
206 Hackers Hall of Fame.
208 @item Jun 15th, 2004: Mono Beta 3 has been released
214 src="http://www.go-mono.com/images/beta3.gif"></td>
216 Our third beta has been released.
218 Packages and source code are available <a
219 href="download.html">on our download</a> page.
224 @item Jun 1st, 2004: Mono Beta 2 has been released
230 <td>Mono Beta 2 has been released. See our <a
231 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta2/beta2.html">Release
232 Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
237 @item May 17th, 2004: Huge press response for Mono 1.0 Beta 1
239 Two weeks after the release of Mono 1.0 Beta 1, we take a
240 look at the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target='_blank'>press coverage</a> that followed the
243 @item May 10th, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes Todd Berman
245 The <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
246 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
247 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
250 Todd Berman is a steady contributor to Mono. He has worked
251 everywhere: from the Class Libraries, to the early implementation of
252 the GAC and most recently has lead the effort to develop, port and
253 maintain MonoDevelop an IDE for the Mono environment. His help has
254 been key to the development of Mono.
256 @item May 4th, 2004: Mono Beta 1 available
262 src="http://www.go-mono.com/images/beta1-anim.gif"></td>
263 <td>Mono Beta 1 has been released. See our <a
264 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta1/beta1.html">Release
265 Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
270 @item May 2nd, 2004: mDnsResponder.Net; Global Assembly Cache.
272 Brady Anderson has released the first version of his <a href=
273 "http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mdnsresponder">multicast
274 DNS responder</a> written in C# for the Mono and .NET
275 platforms. This is the foundation for implementing
276 rendezvous-like functionality in your applications.
278 The tree has started to stabilize after all the changes last
279 week to integrate the Global Assembly Cache work that Jackson,
280 Sebastien, Todd and all the volunteers helped us deploy.
282 @item Apr 22nd, 2004: XSP 0.12 released.
284 A new release of XSP is available. It fixes a bug that made Web Services
285 unusable from client proxies. You can download it from <a
286 href="/archive/xsp-0.12.tar.gz">here</a>.
288 @item Apr 21st, 2004: XSP 0.11 and mod_mono 0.8 released.
290 Gonzalo has made new releases of XSP and mod_mono (The ASP.NET
291 hosting service for Mono).
293 Check the XSP/mod_mono <a href="archive/xsp-0.10.html">
294 Release Notes</a> to see what is new and to obtain the source
297 @item Apr 20, 2004: S390 port; Interpreted Updated; Identity classes; System.Drawing; Mono Debugger.
299 Neale who originally wrote the S390 interpreter support for
300 Mono has checked into CVS his port of the S390 JIT engine.
301 Now, if we could only have one of those in our living room.
303 Bernie has checked into CVS a new interpreter for the Mono
304 runtime. This new interpreter translates the CIL opcodes into
305 a new intermediate representation. The new IL representation
306 avoids doing costly lookups during interpretation which means that the
307 interpreter is a lot faster now.
309 Performance wise, the new interpreter is three times faster
310 than the old one when doing a compiler bootstrap.
312 Sebastien has recently completed the identity classes in the
313 Mono Runtime, you can see more details on his <a
314 href="http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/poupou.html">blog</a>
316 New progress on the GDI+ front: Jordi has completed the region
317 code; Ravindra the various brushes that we must support;
318 Sanjay the Icon and BMP loaders (with Mark) and Vladimir has
319 contributed various codecs and a new fresh implementation of
322 Lluis and Atsushi in the meantime has been in charge of
323 completing various pending items from our class libraries:
324 basically an API audit of the things missing for the Mono 1.0
325 release, small but important things.
327 Martin has replaced the old command-line language in the
328 debugger with our home-grown "Command Line" language, a
329 TCL-like command line language that we built for it (its a
330 tiny .NETized Tcl-like language). The interaction process is
331 a lot smoother than it used to be and we are focusing on the
332 usability of the command line language to improve the
333 debugging experience.
335 @item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft.
337 Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding
338 support to the C# compiler to support the various checks required
339 by the Common Language Specification (CLS).
341 In the past the C# compiler was unable to flag any problems
342 related to the creation of cross-language libraries. Today
343 with this patch the compiler will properly flag errors in CLS
344 compliance. Tests for all of the errors have also been
347 <a href="http://www.mainsoft.com">Mainsoft</a> has contributed
348 an implementation of their Basic runtime to the project. The
349 runtime they wrote is written in Java and we are translating
350 this into C# code. The code will reach CVS within the next
353 Mainsoft also contributed an extensive regression test suite
354 for the Basic runtime, a port of the NIST XML tests and their
355 own in-house developed XML tests.
357 @item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released
359 New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released.
361 Gtk# is available from <a
362 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# home page</a> and MonoDoc 0.13
363 is available from our <a href="download.html">download</a>
366 Gtk# now features [ConnectBefore] attribute for hooking up
367 signals; An automake/autoconf setup; the System.Drawing
368 dependency has been dropped and many more docs.
370 And <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/">MonoDevelop 0.2</a>
373 @item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released
375 We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features
376 and improvements are described in our <a
377 href="archive/mono-0.31.html">Mono 0.31 Release Notes</a>.
379 You can download Mono 0.31 packages using Red Carpet, or pick
380 the individual packages from our <a
381 href="download.html">download</a> page.
383 @item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono.
385 Gonzalo has completed the implementation of Async I/O for Mono
386 using the kernel aio_* interfaces. If your operating system supports
387 the aio_ POSIX interface, the FileStream methods that
388 expose asynchronous methods will use this facility instead of
389 emulating it with threads as we have done in the past.
391 We had this request come to us from various people in the
392 past, and we are now looking for your help to test and debug
395 @item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC.
397 Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono
398 JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for
399 this amazing development.
401 @item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston.
403 The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: <a
404 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/MonoMeet.html">Mono Meeting
407 @item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston.
409 On March 5th-6th (Friday and Saturday) there will be an
410 open-house meeting for people interested in Mono to get
411 together with the Mono developers at the Novell offices in
412 in Cambridge Massachusetts (<a
413 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/contact/">directions</a>).
415 The whole Novell Mono team will be here (Atsushi Enomoto, Dick
416 Porter, Duncan Mak, Erik Dasque, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson
417 Harper, Jordi Mas, Lluis Sanches, Manjula, Martin Baulig,
418 Miguel de Icaza, Mike Kestner, Paolo Molaro, Peter Bartok,
419 Sebastien Pouliot, Sachin Kumar) and hopefully Joe Shaw, Nat
420 Friedman, Peter Williams and Ravi Pratap will be joining us as
421 well. Expect to see Todd Berman from MonoDevelop as well.
423 If you are coming, please notify <a
424 href="mailto:edasque@ximian.com">edasque@ximian.com</a> about it, so
425 we can add you to the security list, and use the `open house
426 confirmation' subject in your email.
428 @item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released
430 We have released a small bug-fix release of Mono, the release
431 notes are available <a
432 href="archive/mono-0.30.1.html">here</a> and you can download
433 it from our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
435 @item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization
437 We have a new document that describes some <a
438 href="performance.html">common tricks to improve the
439 performance</a> of your Mono or .NET application. These are a
440 summary of techniques that we employed to tune our own C#
443 @item Feb 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released
446 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.30.html">Release
447 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.30. Or go directly to our <a
448 href="download.html">download</a> section
450 @item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial.
452 Sunil Kumar has written an <a
453 href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/cooldev/features/a_net_cplus_ldap_library_cdev.html">introduction
454 to Novell.LDAP</a> class libraries, which are part of Mono.
456 @item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released.
458 A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from:
459 <a href="archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz">archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz</a>
461 @item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories
463 If you have a success story about using Mono or one of the Mono
464 components in any way, we want to hear about you. Please mail
465 your details to miguel@ximian.com
467 @item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
469 There is a <a href="archive/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows
470 Installer for Mono 0.29</a> available now.
474 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see older news.