Mono Project

Release Notes: This release updates the Task Parallel Library. SQLiteConnection can now set the threading mode. There is an improved debugger protocol. Basic support has been added for MSBuild 4.0. NuGet now runs on Mono. Phalanger 3.0 now runs with Mono. Support for some Azure libraries. Support for bundling profilers in a static binary. The profiler can now log its data to any file descriptor. SGen now has native support for object systems that implement ToggleRefs. Mobile Profile now contains System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles. PerformanceCounters for JIT statistics. Android CPU count. HashSet<T> can now be serialized.

Release Notes: SIMD constructors have been optimized. The polling code is no longer present and instead a cross-platform solution to the problem is being used, which provides support for Thread.Interrupt() and does not consume CPU cycles. The old JIT has been removed, and only the new linear IR based JIT is available. Support for Real Time Signals was added to Mono.Posix. Mono's ASP.NET stack can now run precompiled ASP.NET Web sites generated with Visual Studio or using the aspnet_compiler.

Release Notes: This release has a better code generation engine, called Linear IL. Generic sharing is now turned on in all cases. Support for monitoring the runtime internals is now available through a new PerformanceCounters implementation. This release introduces the Attach functionality, SIMD support, a more efficient regex interpreter, a new interactive shell for C#, plus many other improvements and bugfixes.

Release Notes: This release has compilers for C# 3.0 and VB.NET 8. It includes new bindings for GTK, Cairo, and SQLite, as well as several new Microsoft-compatible APIs, including ADO.NET 2, ASP.NET 2, and Windows.Forms 2, allowing Winforms applications to run on Linux and other Unix systems. Mono 2.0 adds a debugger and the Gendarme "lint" tool for C#.

Release Notes: Support for the ASP.NET AJAX APIs and controls has been added, ASP.NET can now be deployed on a multitude of servers that implement the FastCGI protocol, in addition to Apache. Windows.Forms now supports the WebControl on Windows and Linux using Mozilla. This version can now be used as an SDK for creating Silverlight 1.1 applications on all platforms.