Mono 0.18

Release date: 12 Jan 2003

Happy new year!

The Mono team is proud to release Mono 0.18, with plenty of bug fixes and improvements. If you are a happy 0.17 user, this release is a happiness extension release. Many bugs in the runtime, class libraries and C# compiler have been fixed.

Also, our special envoy in Japan has reported that there is some naming confussion about the naming of Mono, as can be seen in the following documentary material:

Atsushi Enomoto shows the source of confussion:

http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/gallery/Duncan-in-Tokyo/DSCN0702

Nick and Duncan echo it:

http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/gallery/Duncan-in-Tokyo/DSCN0703

Availability

Mono 0.18 packages and source code is available for download from:

http://www.mono-project.com/download/

Those using Red Carpet on Linux can install Mono 0.18 from the Mono channel. The packages have already been pushed for you.

At release time we have packages for Red Hat 8.0, 7.3, 7.2 and 7.1 and Mandrake 8.2.

Contributors to this release

This release is brought to you by:

Alejandro Sanchez, Alp Toker, Atsushi Enomoto, Cesar Octavio Lopez Netaren, Daniel Lopez (mod_mono), Daniel Morgan, Dennis Hayes, Dick Porter, Dietmar Maurer, Duncan Mak, Eduardo Garcia, Gaurav Vaish, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson Harper, Jaime Anguiano, Jeroen Janssen, Johannes Roith, Jonathan Pryor, Juli Mallett, Lluis Sanchez, Marco Ridoni, Martin Baulig, Miguel de Icaza, Nick Drochak, Paolo Molaro, Patrik Torstensson, Piers Haken, Rachel Hestilow, Rafael Teixeira, Ravi Pratap, Sebastian Pouliot, Tim Coleman, Tim Hayes, Ville Palo, Zoltan Varga.

New in this release

VB.NET compiler

Many improvements to the Mono VB.NET compiler.

ASP.NET

Plenty of bug fixes in ASP.NET. Larger applications can now be run with it. The authentication system has been deployed, most changes are from Gonzalo.

We have a modified IBuySpy running (without Xslt)

If you want to run ASP.NET you can run it with either our XSP proof-of-concept server, or with Daniel’s Apache module that can be fetched from CVS (module name: mod_apache)

Type Reflector

A Console, Gtk# and Windows.Forms tool to browse compiled assemblies and examine the types on it, from Jonathan Pryor.

Moving to NUnit 2.0

Nick continues the work on moving our test suite to NUnit 2.0

Mobile.Controls

Gaurav has started work on the Mobile controls, which are required to run some of the reference applications in full-mode like IBuySpy.

Remoting

The remoting infrastructure has got a big boost from Lluis in this release.

System.Data/XML

Ville has been working on improving our System.Data classes in the XML assembly.

Crypto

Plenty of new crypto from Sebastien as well. A new web page in our site can be used to track this.

/docs/faq/security/