Mono 2.4.2 has been released, this is a maintenance release for Mono 2.4 and contains over 150 bug fixes. It can be downloaded from our downloads page.

This version is the first version to integrate Microsoft's open source ASP.NET MVC stack.

Check the release notes for more details.

Mono Tools for Visual Studio have been released to a limited number of developers for a closed preview cycle.

This first release of the Mono tools integrates four major pieces of new functionality into Visual Studio:

• Scan for Mono Compatibility (MoMA integration) - The integrated Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) can scan open projects for incompatibilities and guide you to directly to them, making it easy to find and work through issues as you develop.
• Run on Mono on Windows - Testing against Mono on Windows can help isolate issues arising from differences between Mono and .NET.
• Run on Mono on Linux - Testing against Mono on Linux helps work through issues that could be caused by differences in Windows and Linux.
• Debug on Mono on Linux - Often, the best way to work through an issue will be to debug the application on the target environment. Debug on Mono on Linux brings this functionality to Visual Studio developers by enabling remote debugging of Mono applications running on Linux.

If you are interested in joining the program during the next wave of invitations, please visit the Mono Tools for Visual Studio website, and follow the "Sign Up!" link.

Novell has released a new product based on Mono 2.4, the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension, which provides commercial support for running .NET applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

This includes hosting your ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC applications on an Apache web server allowing your .NET code to run side-by-side with other Web stack and open source technologies.

The Enterprise Mono Extension provides access to both commercial and open source databases including Microsoft's SQL server, Oracle, PostgresSQL, MySQL, Sqlite and VistaDB.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension is available for x86 and x86-64 platforms as well as the IBM s390x mainframe.

More details can be found on Novell's Mono product page

Telerik is one of the most famous provider of controls for .NET. We have been working for the past few months with Telerik to make sure that their RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX product worked out of the box with Mono:

Today Telerik announced the availability of their product officially for Mono-based customers on Linux systems. From their press release:

Telerik, the leading vendor of development tools and components for the Microsoft .NET platform announced that RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX fully supports the Mono runtime environment, an open source .NET framework sponsored by Novell, tailored for development of Linux applications. The Telerik AJAX UI components is the first major commercial user interface (UI) suite to go cross-platform and allows developers to build rich .NET applications in a Linux environment.

“This has been a long-awaited feature, which we have been quietly working on for quite some time. Over the past few months, we have been actively testing the compatibility of our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX offering with Mono", said Hristo Kosev, Telerik CTO. "We are extremely happy that our joint work with Novell will allow customers to build compelling high-performance ASP.NET AJAX-based applications and run them on Linux using Mono 2.4.”

The decision to work with Novell to extend the capabilities of RadControls over other platforms is in direct response to customer feedback and interest in Mono. Telerik and Novell are optimistic about the effect their partnership will have on the industry and the benefits it will bring to .NET developers.

Telerik is a major player in the control space in the .NET world and many developers turn to them for ready to use controls for their applications. Developers that were previously using Telerik products can now host their products on Linux servers.

Special thanks go to Marek Habersack in the Mono team who worked tirelessly to fix Mono's ASP.NET stack. Working with the Telerik folks was a pleasure. Telerik helped us by providing us access to their source code, their test suite and their QA team that made sure that their thousands of tests ran equally well on Mono as they did on Microsoft's .NET.

You can try the Telerik controls running on Mono at http://mono.telerik.com/.

Mono's 2.4 grand release has finally arrived.

See our detailed release notes covering both the 2.4 launch and the changes since Mono 2.2.

Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.4 for your platform.

Today we announced the release of both the Mono 2.4 platform and the MonoDevelop 2.0.

Mono's 2.2 grand release has finally arrived.

See our detailed release notes covering both the 2.2 launch and the changes since Mono 2.0.

Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.2 for your platform.

The Gtk# GUI toolkit version 2.12.6 is now available for .NET on Windows and can be downloaded from http://mono-project.com/Downloads.

With the new installers, it is possible to run on Windows/.NET applications created with Gtk# on Linux and MacOS X.

We have released the first beta of Moonlight 1.0.

This release supports the Microsoft Media Pack for playing back video and audio files. These are the same video and audio decoders that Microsoft uses in Silverlight 2.0.

Check our Moonlight roadmap for details on upcoming versions.

You can try some of the sites tests that we used to test Moonlight.

At the Microsoft PDC we demostrated for the first time the upcoming the hardware accelerated Vector types using the processor SIMD instructions in Mono (SSE1, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4). You can read more on Miguel's blog or you can check the API documentation.

This feature will be available in our upcoming Mono 2.2.

We've release Mono 2.0.1 as a minor bugfix update to Mono 2.0

See our detailed release notes covering the changes since Mono 2.0.

Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.0.1 for your platform.

If you are targeting MacOS X, we would appreciate if you could fill the Mono on MacOS X survey to better understand how you would like us to improve Mono.

Mono's 2.0 grand release has finally arrived.

See our detailed release notes covering both the 2.0 launch and the changes since Mono 1.9.

Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.0 for your platform.

Jim Purbrick (Babbage) from Linden Labs has announced on the SecondLife Blog that they have started the rollout of their Mono-enabled servers.

They are using Mono as an engine that accelerates the execution of user provided scripts by translating LSL scripts into ECMA CIL bytecodes and in turn letting Mono turn that into x86 machine code.

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Marc Christiensen has announced the release of our first preview for Mono 2.0. You can read our preliminary release notes for this release.

The preview release is available from our preview download directory. The source code for this release is available here.

Please report any bugs that you may find using our Bugs page, AND reply to this thread with the bug numbers so we can track them! http://www.mono-project.com/Bugs

You can see the bugs we're tracking for Mono 2.0 here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.go-mono.com%2Farchive%2F2.0%2F&order=bugs.bug_status%20

The earlier you file the bugs and reply to this message, the more likely your bugs will get fixed.

Special attention is given to regressions, so if you can tell us a version of Mono where the bug worked and you tag the summary of the bug with [Regression], then it is much more likely your bug will get fixed.

Please help the Mono team to make 2.0 the best ever.