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Moonlight 0.7 released

Posted 22 days ago by Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)

We have just released Moonlight 0.7 to the public.

Get your copy
here.

This
new version of Moonlight works on both Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 and
sports some significant changes from 0.6:

Webkit loads the plugin ... [More] (kangaroo, lewing)
The stream/downloader/request/response logic (used for
downloading media) has been been almost entirely moved from the
browser bridges into libmoon, with the browsers providing
subclasses. (kangaroo, sde)

Finally add argument checking to all wrapped plugin objects
(fejj).

Windowless mode fixes (lewing, toshok)

Plugin event handling fixes (lewing)

Engine

Many clock/animation framework fixes. We now pass both animation
matrix tests, and many, *many* other bugs (and regressions) have
been fixed. (mdk).

Bug fixes in the Stroke{Collection}.HitTest and
Stroke{Collection}.Bounds code (toshok, sde).

Namescope merging fixes (sde, jackson)

Parser fixes, and changes paving the way for 2.0 work (jackson)

Fix mouse event bubbling behavior (toshok)

Media

Big, big strides in our media framework and the various (file,
http, mms) downloaders, (fejj, rolf, kangaroo, fer)

MMS stream selection (kangaroo)

Performance
Shape caching and bounds computation reduction (spouliot)

Geometry bounds work (spouliot)

Fast path for position updates (Canvas.Left/Canvas.Top) (toshok)

Improved temporary cairo surface bounds (lewing)

Glyph rendering speedups (fejj)

Resort by ZIndex as a dirty pass (toshok)

Silverlight 2.0
work is progressing. A very simple 2.0 application successfully
ran. (miguel, jackson, sde). [Less]

Forums added to Mono Website

Posted 2 months ago by Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)

Web-based forums for Mono discussions have been added at
http://www.go-mono.com/forums

Most active Mono community members participate in on-line discussions
through our mailing lists; however, many Mono users have expressed a ... [More]
preference for web forums based discussions.

In order to address this demand for an official forums for Mono,
while keeping the community engaged in our mailing lists, we have
embedded nabble.com into our
site to create a bridge between the two groups. So, you can now use
whichever method you prefer participate in the community. [Less]

First Moonlight Source Code Release

Posted 2 months ago by Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)

To encourage users to try out Moonlight, we are doing a
source-code only release of Moonlight for developers to try
out Moonlight.

To try out Moonlight, you have two options:

Media codecs: you must do your own build ... [More] from
source code.

No-media codecs: we provide one-click addins for
Firefox that will install with no effort.

Firefox addins are available
from http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight.

Source code for Moonlight is available
from here.
To compile Moonlight from source code
follow these
instructions. [Less]

Mono 1.9.1 has been released

Posted 3 months ago by Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)

We have done a minor release of Mono 1.9, Mono 1.9.1 that
contains various bug fixes. Please see
the release
notes for details.

Mono 1.9.1 is available from
our downloads page.

Packaged .NET Software for Linux

Posted 3 months ago by Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)

As part of the QA process for Mono, our fabulous QA team
has been packaging various popular open source .NET
applications, Gnome, Gtk#, ASP.NET, libraries and
Windows.Forms in an easy-to-install fashion for various
Linux ... [More] distributions.

We are using
the OpenSUSE
Build Service to make the software available for various
Linux distributions.

Our repository is
available here,
for instructions on how to add the repository
see the
user manual. [Less]

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