Mono Project Roadmap

Last update: June, 2010

Per-component Plans are available, you can also check our Compatibility page that gives an overview of what is supported as of the latest public release of Mono.

Table of contents

Versioning

Mono releases are versioned like this: 

MAJOR.MINOR.SUBRELEASE
  • Even-numbered MINOR releases are stable releases.
  • Odd-numbered MINOR releases are unstable releases (development/daily builds).
  • SUBRELEASE indicates a minor update to a specific release.

Current Releases

 Mono 2.10 Released: February 15th, 2011

Major changes (see release notes for details):

Mono 2.10 Release Notes

  • Feb 15th, 2011: First 2.10 release





 Mono 2.6 (LTS) Released: December 14th, 2009
  • Support for Silverlight 2.0 subset of WCF
  • LLVM support
  • Co-routine framework Mono.Tasklets
  • Preview of LINQ to SQL using DbLinq
  • New Soft Debugger, integrated with MonoDevelop
  • Joint release with MonoDevelop 2.2
  • System.IO.Packaging
  • csharp shell now supports auto-completion
  • xbuild can now build most msbuild projects
  • Support for CoreCLR security:
    • Mono debuts a full metadata and IL verifier
  • Moonlight 2.0 released
  • Core WCF support.

The 2.6 series replaced 2.4 as our Long Term Supported version in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension product.

Mono 2.6 Release Notes

Mono 2.6-2.6.7 release notes

  • Dec 14th, 2009: First 2.6 release
  • Jul 20th, 2010: 2.6.7 released.


Upcoming Releases

These are some of the the major themes planned for upcoming Mono releases. It indicates our current goals, which may be adjusted as needed.

We will be doing 2.xx upgrade releases from our master branch to continue updating Mono 2.8 rapidly until we reach our next stable release: Mono 3.0


 Mono 2.12 Fall 2011

Confirmed features:

  • C# 5.0
  • IKVM Reflection or Cecil powered C# compiler
  • SGen: Precise stack scanning
  • Tuned Parallel Frameworks
  • Complete .NET 4.0 Core Support
  • Complete WCF/Silverlight support.
  • Tail call optimizations for F#

Features that have already shipped out of band:

  • MonoMac and MonoMac bundler
  • IronPython, IronRuby and F# bundled with Mono

Mono 2.10 Release Notes




 Mono 3.0 Planned Release: TBD
  • New Generational GC becomes the default

Subprojects projects

Other projects like the debugger, the documentation browser, Java integration through IKVM, Olive and Gtk# will remain on their own schedules. This page will be updated to contain that information when it becomes available.

Mono and Silverlight

See our page on Moonlight for details on the work underway to support Silverlight with Mono.

Partial Implementations

The following APIs and technologies have partial implementations and are under development.

  • Cardspace/Infocard.

Unsupported technologies

Some of the .NET technologies have been either deprecated, are too Windows-specific or are very large efforts and our community is unable to produce viable implementations for them.

If someone cares deeply about these APIs and implements them, we would likely bundle them with Mono, but they are not actively being worked on. There might be some code for these on our SVN repository, but the code is not suitable for production use nor do we recommend that developers building cross platform applications depend on it.

Too large stacks:

  • Windows Presentation Foundation

We are not working on any of the following deprecated APIs:

  • System.EnterpriseServices
  • WSE - Extensions to System.Web.Services.
  • Workflow Foundation 3 (WF3)
  • Code Access Security (.NET 1.0).

The following do not map to operating systems other than Windows, and we are unlike going to spend time to support them even on Windows:

  • System.Management

Nobody has shown enough interest in the following:

  • PowerShell

Comments

Feel free to send us your comments or questions about the roadmap.

Roadmap History

For our previous roadmap information, please see Roadmap History.