Today we are releasing MonoDevelop 2.4, which includes plenty of new features and improvements.

The release highlights are:

• Workbench usability improvements, which include a new Navigate to Symbol dialog, Solution and Class pad zooming, better pad layout, and many other look & feel improvements.
• Improvements in project management, with support for standalone assembly projects, and external console support for Windows and Mac.
• Extensive text editor improvements, including in-line search, better code completion with new completion modes, editing support in block selection mode, and new refactoring operations.
• In the debugger, support for pinned quick watches, debug value visualizers, improved expression evaluation and a new exceptions dialog.
• Better support tools, such as a new Hex Editor, integrated T4 Templating and more Code Metrics.
• For web developers: code completion for C# regions in ASP.NET pages, and support for WCF web references.
• Improvements in many other add-ins: NUnit, MonoTouch, Vala and Mac OSX support.

Binaries and source are available from the MonoDevelop Download page.

The team is on #mono, #monodev and #monodevelop on irc.gnome.org fielding any questions you might have.