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Aug 22nd, 2005: Gtk# 2.4 Beta1 Released

Packages are now available for gtk-sharp-2.3.90, aka Beta1. Application porting is underway in many of the popular applications. This release is parallel-installable with the stable 1.0.x series and comes with the same API stability guarantee as 1.0.x. Port your applications now.

Jul 20th, 2005: Application Guidelines

A new set of guidelines for developers distributting applications and libraries is available here

Jun 28th, 2005: Summer of Code Begins

Google's sponsored Open Source Summer of Code has started. Thanks a lot to Chris DiBona and Greg Stein at Google for driving the whole process forward and to Google for funding this effort.

The Mono project will be mentoring sixteen students during the summer, for more information see our Summer 2005 page.

If you were not selected as part of the Summer of Code, you can still join the project and contribute. Let us know if you are interested.

June 16th, 2005: Mono 1.1.8 has been released

Mono 1.1.8 has been released, see the release notes here, get it while its fresh from Downloads.

June 1st, 2005: Summer of Code

Google is sponsoring Mono development for students this summer with awards of $4,500 dollars for tasks approved. For details see the Summer of Code web site.

See the list of Mono Ideas

May 24th, 2005: Live Mono CDs; Mainsoft's Grasshopper Released

Mono Live has launched, the brainchild of Joseph Hill. They are offering a Live CD of Mono for folks to try out the Mono development platform. It includes Mono, various Mono-based applications and .NET applications that you can take for a spin:

• Development tools: Mono, MonoDoc, MonoDevelop.
• Web portals: ASP.NET Forums, mojoPortal, IBuySpy.
• Desktop Applications: Beagle, F-Spot, Tomboy, Muine

The ISO is here.

Mainsoft's Grasshopper

Mainsoft unveiled today Grasshopper, a technology to run your .NET applications on a Java Virtual Machine. Mainsoft's Grasshopper and Mono share the same class library to deliver the functionality, check out Mainsoft's developer site

They have various tutorials like Create your first Linux application with the Visual Studio .NET IDE in 10 minutes."

May 14th, 2005: Latest Installers: Windows, Linux, S390

We have new installers in our Downloads page for Windows, Linux (all distributions, Debian included) and SLES running on the S390 architecture.

May 11th, 2005: New Tutorials, OSX, Third Party Announcements

A couple of new tutorials: Using GConf in your Mono application and Using Notification Icons with Gtk# from Milen Dzhumerov.

Fresh OSX package for Mono 1.1.7 is now available from the downloads page

RemObjects announced its Chrome compiler, an object-oriented Pascal compiler for .NET and Mono. It consumes Gtk# out of the box.

Omnicore announced X-Develop, its cross platform Mono, .NET and Java IDE. It supports Windows, Linux and MacOS X. They offer a 30 day trial of their product. They have a showcase of features on their main page.

May 4th 2005: Mono 1.1.7 released

Mono 1.1.7 has been released, the major highlights of this Release are:

• Revamped IO layer and http stack, this will give Up to three times performance boost on networking applications.
• Significant Windows.Forms progress, lots of new Widgets and improved widgets.

• 2.0 progress: compiler bug fixes, eight new aSP.NET 2.x controls (including databound widgets).

• New working assemblies: Configuration.Install and ServiceProcess.

• Upgrades to JScript and VB Alpha compilers.

For a detailed list, see the Mono 1.1.7 release notes

Apr 11 2005: Binding GLib-based libraries; Understanding Versions

Zac Bowling has written an article on how to use bind your favorite GLib/Gnome-based libraries for consumption in Mono. See his article here.

Jon Pryor wrote an article on understanding the Mono versioning scheme and how it related to the .NET Framework. here

Apr 07 2005: New Mono on OSX Mailing List

We have opened a new mailing list for users of Mono on OSX. You can find the details here

Apr 02 2005: Articles

A new article explainig ThreadPool deadlocks is available.

Gonzalo has written a document on Generating class status pages to track changes in your APIs.

31 Mar 2005: Mono 1.1.6

Mono 1.1.6 has been released, packages are available from our Downloads page.

The release notes are here

24 Mar 2005: Mono 1.1.5

Mono 1.1.5 has been released; Major highlights include Nullable Types and Fixed Size Buffer features in the C# compiler; Much more improved Windows.Forms implementations; Increased performance, reduced memory usage.

See the detailed release notes here

18 Feb 2005: DB4 Objects, Installers

The db4objects object persistence system is now available for Mono, for more information see DB4O documentation on the Mono site.

Installers: Installers are now available to install the latest versions of Mono with a single click from our download page. Thanks to Daniel from BitRock.

17 Feb 2004: Mono 1.1.4 and 1.0.6 released.

As of this version, Mono 1.1.4 has received more testing and more scrutiny that Mono 1.0.6, and we strongly recommend that people switch to the 1.1.4 release.

We will continue to support 1.0.x for those who can not do a larger change, but keep in mind that 1.1.4 at this point is stabler, has many less bugs, faster, better tested and more complete than the 1.0.6 series.

There are significant changes: make sure you read the release notes as there are many exiting features in monodoc, xsp, apache support, xml, relaxng, the C# compiler, the VM and more.

Detailed release notes:

• Release notes for Mono 1.0.6, xsp, mod_mono, monodoc
• Release notes for Mono 1.1.4

pre-built packages for Linux, MacOS and Windows, are available from: downloads

Web Site Migration

Mono Web Developers

Learning how to edit the Wiki: Wiki Markup

Web Site TODO list

Wiki Reference

Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.