Mono

MonoDevelop 0.12 is now available. This release main features are: an action-based menu and toolbar editor in the Gtk# designer plus a new contextual toolbar for editing; It is now also possible to use MonoDevelop to edit ASP.NET web pages ... [More] from MonoDevelop. Other features include: a Deployment system to generate packages and tarballs; suppotr for the autotools toolchain (generate autoconf, automake templates); Support for multiple file name encodings and many bug fixes. Complete release notes are here. Directions for the packages are in the Download page. [Less]

Mono 1.1.17 has been released, it contains many significant updates and bug fixes, please see the above link for details. Packages are available from our downloads page.

We will be hosting a public Mono User and Developers meeting in Cambrdige, MA on October 23rd and 24th. We plan on having informative sessions on the project status from different maintainers in the project and also on projects related to Mono. ... [More] The meeting web site is here. If you would like to attend, please try to register soon so we can finalize the venue details. [Less]

We have created a Mono VMware image that people can use with the free VMware player. The image is a SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, and it includes the latest version of Mono, the development tools, documentation and samples for Windows.Forms ... [More] and ASP.NET. The MonoDevelop IDE is included in the image for developers, and Postgress and MySQL are installed to test your application with a database. The image is available from our downloads page. [Less]

RemObjects has announced their new Object Pascal Compiler. Chrome 1.5, with complete support for both Mono and .NET. The Mono compiler is available for free.

A minor update for a couple of bugs has been released, it fixes IronPython and some Windows.Forms bugs. See the release notes. Packages are available in our downloads page.

Status and tests for ASP.NET 2.x support in Mono is now available on this page.

This is the longest gap we have had between Mono releases (1.1.15 to 1.1.16), but the wait was worth it. The inlining optimization is now turned on as well as a number of other small optimizations that enhance inlining and the results are ... [More] excellent. Thanks go to Massi that tuned the optimizations and hunt down every bug until it was ready. There is a lot of new stuff, in particular, Windows.Forms is better than ever in every possible way. The full release notes are here. [Less]

Ubiquity Hosting announced support for web hosting of .NET applications using Mono.

An installer for Mono on OSX/Intel has been posted to our downloads page. Mono was previously available on OSX/Intel, this is the first time that we publish a supported installer from Novell.