Hello!
Version 0.17 of Mono has been released.
There are plenty of new features, bug fixes, new classes,
performance improvements, optimizations and much more
available in this release.
* Availability
* Source code:
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.17.tar.gz
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mcs-0.17.tar.gz
To install mono from source code you only need the
first one (mono), as it contains pre-compiled versions
of the compiler and the class libraries.
* Packages for Linux:
Precompiled packages with full debugging information
in Dwarf-2 format (so you can use the soon to be
released Mono debugger with it) is available for
various distributions.
Packages are available either on the `Mono' Red Carpet
channel, or you can download your rpms, and source
rpms from www.go-mono.com/download.html
* XSP ASP.NET Web server
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz
No packages were made of the XSP server, but its so
small that you should have no problem compiling and
running it.
Sadly the Mono BASIC compiler patches did not make it to this
release, but will be available on the next release.
* Stats
2605 cvs commits to the Mono repository since October 1st, an
average of 37 commits per day including weekends.
212 commits to the Mono module.
1438 commits to the MCS module.
* Mono Improvements:
Work has begun to make the runtime run a finalizer thread and
invoke all the finalizers from this thread. This is the same
behavior as Java and the Microsoft runtime, but it is disabled
on this build.
Integrated the Linux/s390 work from Neale Ferguson.
Beginning of the work for pre-compiling code (Ahead of time
compilation) for Mono (based on the early work of Zoltan).
New option `--noboundscheck' for benchmark purposes, it
disables array bound checks.
Uses mmap instead of SysV shared memory for the Windows API
emulation layer.
Plenty of bug fixes, improvements and integration with the
upper layer class libraries.
New exception handling code uses the GCC native support for
stack-walking if available and gives big performance boost
(15% on mcs bootstrap).
A lot of the work in the new release of Mono is required for
the Mono Debugger (which will be released separately). The
Mono debugger is interesting, because it can debug both
managed and unmanaged applications, but it only supports the
JITer for debugging.
Dick, Dietmar, Gonzalo, Martin and Paolo were in charge of
most of these changes.
* Compiler improvements:
Many bug fixes as usual, better C# compliancy.
Performance improvements. The new release of the Mono C#
compiler is 37% faster than the previous version (self-compile
is down to 8 seconds). On my P4 1.8Ghz machine, the Mono C#
compiler compiles (342,000 lines per minute).
Thanks to go Ravi and Martin for helping out with the bug
fixing hunt.
* Cryptography and Security classes
Sebastien Pouliot and Andrew Birkett were extremely busy
during the past two months working on the cryptography
classes, many of the crypto providers are now working
Jackson on the other hand helped us with the security
classes, he said about those:
`Writing security classes is the most exciting thing I have
ever done, I can not wait to write more of them'.
* ASP.NET:
We have now moved the code from the XSP server (which was our
test bed for ASP.NET) into the right classes inside
System.Web, and now any web server that was built by using the
System.Web hosting interfaces can be used with Mono.
The sample XSP server still exists, but it is now just a
simple implementation of the WorkerRequest and ApplicationHost
classes and can be used to test drive ASP.NET. A big thanks
goes to Gonzalo who worked on this night and day (mostly
night).
Gaurav keeps helping us with the Web.Design classes, and
improving the existing web controls.
* ADO.NET:
New providers are available in this release. The relentless
System.Data team (Brian, Dan, Rodrigo, Tim and Ville) are
hacking non-stop on the databse code. Improving existing
providers, and new providers.
The new providers on this release:
* Oracle
* MS SQL
* ODBC
* Sybase
* Sqlite (for embedded use).
Many regression tests have been added as well (Ville has been
doing a great job here).
Brian also created a DB provider multiplexor (The ProviderFactory)
Stuart Caborn contributed Writing XML from a DataSet.
Luis Fernandez contributed constraint handling code.
Also there is new a Gtk# GUI tool from Dan that can be used to
try out various providers.
* System.XML:
Atsushi has taken the lead in fixing and plugging the missing
parts of the System.XML namespace, many fixes, many
improvements.
* CodeDom and the C# provider.
Jackson Harper has been helping us with the various interface
classes from the CodeDOM to the C# compiler, in this release
a new assembly joins us: Cscompmgd. It is a simple assembly,
and hence Microsoft decided not to waste an entire "System"
"dot" on it.
* Testing
Nick Drochak has integrated the new NUnit 2.0 system.
* Monograph:
Monograph now has a --stats option to get statistics on
assembly code.
CVS Contributors to this release:
Alejandro Sanchez, Alp Toker, Andrew Birkett, Atsushi Enomoto,
Brian Ritchie, Cesar Octavio Lopez Nataren, Chris Toshok,
Daniel Morgan, Daniel Stodden, Dennis Hayes, Dick Porter,
Diego Sevilla, Dietmar Maurer, Duncan Mak, Eduardo Garcia,
Ettore Perazzoli, Gaurav Vaish, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson
Harper, Jaime Anguiano, Johannes Roith, John Sohn, Jonathan
Pryor, Kristian Rietveld, Mads Pultz, Mark Crichton, Martin
Baulig, Martin Willemoes Hansen, Miguel de Icaza, Mike
Kestner, Nick Drochak, Nick Zigarovich, Paolo Molaro, Patrik
Torstensson, Phillip Pearson, Piers Haken, Rachel Hestilow,
Radek Doulik, Rafael Teixeira, Ravi Pratap, Rodrigo Moya,
Sebastien Pouliot, Tim Coleman, Tim Haynes, Ville Palo,
Vladimir Vukicevic, and Zoltan Varga.
(Am sorry, I could not track everyone from the ChangeLog
messages, I apologize in advance for the missing
contributors).
Enjoy,
Miguel.
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