[Mono-list] Two patches for go-mono.net

Aaron Weber aaron@ximian.com
Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:33:48 -0500


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Hello,

What do you think? I can't get the makefiles sorted so I can't push, and
I'm hesitant even to commit... 

The 1st diff adjusts the position of the top paragraph to align top,
rather than center and delete a bunch of old news from the index page.
(index-diff.diff) The second patch adds the removed old news to the
oldnews page.







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Index: index
===================================================================
RCS file: /mono/mono/doc/index,v
retrieving revision 1.308
diff -u -r1.308 index
--- index	11 Jan 2004 21:53:03 -0000	1.308
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <table>
   <tr>
-    <td>
+    <td valign="top">
 	<a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
 	launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
 	implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
@@ -591,986 +591,8 @@
 	build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
 	NET_1_1 build).
 
-@item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
-
-	Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
-	authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
-	(which shipped in Mono 0.25).  This works using our ASP.NET
-	runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
-	new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
-	<ul>
-		<li> .asmx files.
-		<li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
-		<li> ref and out parameters.
-		<li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
-		<li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
-	</ul>
-
-	For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
-
-	GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
-	implement System.Drawing continues.  This will provide a full
-	GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
-	Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
-
-	MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
-	coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
-	extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
-	their web browsers.
-
-	Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
-	With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
-	code paths are missing regression tests.  The module is
-	`monocov'.  Details are <a
-	href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>.  A fresh Gtk#
-	version is available now.
-
-	Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
-
-@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
-
-	We have released Mono 0.25.  A list of the new features is
-	available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.  
-
-	Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
-	available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
-
-@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
-
-	Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
-	services in the Mono runtime.  This allows Mono to work as a
-	web services client.  We still require a WSDL compiler to
-	compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
-	compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
-	experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.  
-
-	As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
-	increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
-	specs.  Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
-	arbitrary limits.  This was done as part of our collaboration
-	with SourceGear.
-
-	Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
-	runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
-	coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
-	added improvements to it).
-
-	Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
-	migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
-	advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
-
-	Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
-	regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
-	the Mono toolkit.  One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
-
-	On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
-	checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
-	and bounds.
-
-	Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
-	of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
-	for ease-of-authoring).
-
-	Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
-	for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
-
-@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
-
-	Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
-	solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
-	that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
-	technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
-	products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
-	development partnership under which Ximian will provide
-	custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
-	products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
-	both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
-	code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
-	mixed-platform development organizations.
-
-	<a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
-
-	Some technical details are available <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
-
-@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
-
-	OpenLink <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
-	the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
-	that can be used dynamically from Mono.  This work simplifies
-	the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
-	have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
-	The patches are available <a
-	href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
-
-	Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
-	href="download.html">download page</a>.
-
-@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
-
-	Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
-	href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
-	of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.  
-
-	A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
-	href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
-
-@item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
-
-	We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
-	generation engine.  A list of the new features is available <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.  
-
-	Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
-	available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
-	We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
-
-@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
-
-	<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
-	their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
-	3.0</a> database system.  Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
-	On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
-	ASP.NET.  Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
-
-	Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
-	href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
-	and a demo is available <a
-	href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
-
-	OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
-	an ongoing basis. 
-
-	Jon Udell wrote a small <a
-	href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
-
-@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
-
-	Atsushi has created a <a
-	href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
-	validating XML reader.
-
-	There is activity on the <a
-	href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
-	href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
-
-@item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out;  Team pages.
-
-	The first book to cover Mono is out.  This book is currently
-	only available in German, you can find it <a
-	href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
-
-	We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
-	where we include a list of some of the people who have made
-	Mono possible.  If you have CVS access, please update the page
-	to include your information.
-
-@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
-
-	The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
-	details are <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
-
-	Zoltan has commited his <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
-	allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
-
-@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI;  GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
-
-	Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
-	<a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool.  Screenshots are <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
-	and <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
-
-	Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
-	module name: `GtkMozEmbed'.  Read the <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
-
-	The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>.  Screenshots are
-	<a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>. 
-
-@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
-
-	<a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
-	openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
-
-@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
-
-	<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
-	   <tr>
-	     <td valign="top">
-	       <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
-		 What do you think about Mono?
-
-		 Is your company involved with the development and
-		 deployment of web applications?  Is Linux becoming an
-		 important part of your company's business application
-		 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
-		 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
-		 and the use of Linux in business critical
-		 applications?
-
-		 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
-		 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
-		 email us at <a
-		 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
-	       </div>
-	     </td>
-	   </tr>
-	</table>
-
-@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
-
-	Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
-	that will work with and Mono.  See the mono-winforms-list.  It
-	is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
-	Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
-
-@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
-
-	A new freshly baked release of Mono is available.  Release
-	notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>.   This is mostly a
-	bug fix release.  No new features.
-
-@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22;  MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
-
-	Mono 0.22 has been released.  See the <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>.  This is a bug fix
-	release.
-
-	A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
-	has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
-
-	Martin also announced a <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
-	release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line). 
-
-@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
-
-	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
-	continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
-	contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
-	software project.
-
-	Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug 
-	fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
-	and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
-	and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the 
-	point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual 
-	machine.
-
-@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
-
-	A new mailing list for <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
-	Development</a> has been created.
-
-@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
-
-	Mono 0.21 has been released.  This is only a bug fix release.
-	The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
-
-	Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
-
-@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released;   New Apache module released.
-
-	Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
-	Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
-
-	Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
-	handles ASP.NET.  The code is available at <a
-	href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
-
-	Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
-	tests</a>.  We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
-
-	Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
-	momentum is picking up!  See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
-
-@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
-
-	Mono 0.20 has been released.  Check out the <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
-	the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
-	There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
-	and performance improvements.  
-
-	Gtk# 0.8 has been <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
-
-	<b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
-	binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus.  Please read <a
-	href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
-
-@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
-
-	With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
-	looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
-	of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
-
-	Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory.  We have
-	checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
-	how to complete this process <a
-	href="documentation.html">here</a>.  Mail the <a
-	href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
-	for further discussion.
-
-@item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono;  Mono Basic updates.
-
-	Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
-	Gnome.  A screenshot can be seen <a
-	href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>.  The bindings are available
-	on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'.  This is a
-	straight binding to the C API. 
-
-	Marco has <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
-	an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
-	for Mono.
-
-	We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
-	JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
-
-@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
-
-	Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
-	as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32.  The
-	Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
-	advantage of Unix facilities.
-
-	A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
-
-	Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
-	If you want to contribute please read <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
-	message</a>
-
-	Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
-	improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
-	has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
-	source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
-	(compiler) and Daniel (runtime).  Also Jackson has resumed
-	work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
-	generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
-
-@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
-
-	<a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
-	Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
-	announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
-
-@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
-
-	A <a
-	href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
-	release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
-	Release <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
-
-@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
-
-	Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
-	World Expo.  A description is <a
-	href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
-
-	Open Link has a <a
-	href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
-	release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
-	shipping that uses Mono.
-
-@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released;  Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
-
-	Mono 0.19 has been released.  Check out the <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
-	the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
-	There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
-	and performance improvements.
-
-	We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
-	screenshots</a> of various Mono applications.  You can see
-	there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
-	progress on the documentation browser.
-
-        <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
-
-@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
-
-	After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
-	released the first version of the Mono debugger.  The Mono
-	debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
-	unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
-	applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
-	platforms.  
-
-	Details of the release are available in <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>. 
-
-	The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
-	The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
-	by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
-	applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
-	flag to gcc).
-	
-@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
-
-	Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client. 
-
-	MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
-	distribution, and MCS works with it.
-
-	Zoltan has managed to get <a
-	href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
-	for .NET) to run with Mono.  The HelloWorld.class runs with
-	the Mono runtime.
-
-@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
-
-	Mono 0.18 has been released.  Check out the <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
-	the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
-
-@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
-
-	A new issue of the <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
-	Weekly News</a> has been published.
-
-	Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
-	that Sebastien has put together.
-
-@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
-
-	Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
-	the designed widgets is now easier than ever.  Alp has
-	improved this to use implicit names as well.
-
-	Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
-	debugging.  Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
-	per-thread basis now.
-
-	Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
-	Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module.  Gonzalo
-	has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
-	are now shared between XSP and mod_mono).  You can get the
-	mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono). 
-
-	Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
-	statements on the grammar.
-
-	Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
-	his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
-
-@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
-
-	<a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
-	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
-	their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
-	to run on Mono.
-
-	<a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
-	href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
-	availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
-
-	Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
-	href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
-	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
-	of their product, also using Mono.
-
-@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released;  Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
-
-	Mike Kestner <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
-	Gtk# 0.6</a>.  This new release includes many new features and
-	bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
-
-	Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
-	and its available from our <a
-	href="download.html">download</a> page.
-
-	Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
-
-@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
-
-	Mono 0.17 has been released.  Check out the <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
-	list.   You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
-
-	Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes.  Many new
-	System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
-	which can now be hosted in any web server.  A simple <a
-	href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
-	asp.net has been released as well.
-
-	This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
-
-	This release also includes a new exception handling system
-	that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
-	our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).   
-
-@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
-
-	Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
-	classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
-	invocation, local variables, and some statements).  The
-	compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
-
-	Screenshots: <a
-	href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
-	Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
-	href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
-
-	Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
-	repository as well.
-
-@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
-
-	<a
-	href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
-	Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
-	Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
-	href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
-
-	<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
-	href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
-	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
-	announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
-	href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
-	server on Unix using Mono.
-
-	Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
-	tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site.  This
-	tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
-	use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
-
-	Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
-	on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono.  There is a
-	new test application that people can use to test their
-	controls.  If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
-	you can participate in the <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
-	mailing list</a>
-
-	Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
-	href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
-	layer</a> and an <a
-	href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
-	server</a> for Mono.
-
-	Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
-	continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes. 
-
-	The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
-	runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries.  Also,
-	compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
-	number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
-
-@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
-
-	Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
-	as well as RSA <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
-	We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
-
-	Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
-	can be found in the Mono.Data assembly.  The details of this
-	new technology are <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
-	It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
-
-	Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
-	Thinking in C#</a>.  The book is Mono-friendly.
-
-	Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
-	href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
-	here</a>.
-
-	Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
-	see Windows screenshots for it <a
-	href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
-	href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
-
-	Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
-	<ul>
-		<li><a
-		href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
-		Mono Keynote presentation</a>
-
-		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
-		The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
-		href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
-
-		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
-
-		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
-		Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
-	</ul>
-
-	A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
-	are available <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
-	in Open Office file format.
-
-@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
-
-	Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
-	packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
-
-	Tim Coleman posted an <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
-	on the improvements in the System.Data
-
-	The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
-	virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
-
-@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
-
-	Tim's SqlClient is <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
-	capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
-	using the TDS protocol.  A screenshot showing a sample client
-	running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
-	Windows is shown <a
-	href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
-
-	Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
-	supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
-	present and the X590 certificates are now in too.  Jackson has
-	been working on the Security classes.
-
-	Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
-	Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
-	compiler, runtime engine.  A big thank goes for everyone who
-	has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
-
-	Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls.  Gonzalo migrated
-	the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
-
-	In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
-	bindings.
-
-	Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
-	out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
-
-@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
-
-	Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
-	into CVS.
-
-	The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
-	System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
-	interfaces in Mono.  This means that it is possible to embed
-	ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
-	easily embed it with Apache for example.  The XSP module has
-	now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
-
-	We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
-	to the Windows.Forms implementation.  If you want to help
-	write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
-	list</a> mailing list. 
-
-	Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
-	servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
-	connection pooling.  Currently it can connect, run
-	transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types.  A
-	data adapter is also coming soon.
-	
-@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
-
-	Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
-	DES and TripleDES have been fixed;  Rijndael and CFB modes
-	still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
-	are not supported by the .NET framework.
-
-	Last week we created a new <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
-	list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
-
-	Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
-	and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
-	binding.  
-
-	Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf.  This
-	binding <a
-	href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
-	unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
-	complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
-	representation of the types instead of two (the master types
-	is defined in CLI-land).  Also Property Editors (<a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
-	simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
-	configuration to backend keys, following the <a
-	href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
-	Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
-
-	Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
-	number of documents detailing the state of the debugger.  The
-	major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
-	applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types).  We
-	will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
-	shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
-	users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
-	time as Mono 0.17.
-
-@item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
-
-	Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
-	provider for Mono.  Daniel posted some <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
-	Brian posted <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
-	about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
-
-	Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
-	cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
-	in quite some time.  We are looking for a way to handle
-	big-nums.  We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
-	classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
-	expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
-	assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
-
-	Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
-	file/line combos.  This was more complex than generic
-	breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
-	routines that probably have not been JITed just yet.  Martin's
-	focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
-	release of it.
-
-	We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
-	module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
-	necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
-	browser for Mono.  This together with the work from Adam will
-	be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
-	Documentation Tools</a>. 
-
-@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
-
-	Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
-	been working on various database providers.  The MySQL has
-	seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
-	more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
-
-	Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
-	low-level bugs in the portability layer.  Now the Mono handle
-	daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
-	regions.  Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
-	into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
-	complete HttpRuntime implementation.  This means that you are
-	able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
-	want.  This also includes support for the system-wide
-	configuration file `machine.config'.
-
-	Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
-	it looks <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
-	and <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
-	Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
-	working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
-	the screenshot).  
-
-	<a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
-	activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
-	Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
-	Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
-	mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
-	Gtk# is seen <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
-
-	Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
-	work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
-
-	Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
-	new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
-	The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
-	more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
-	chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
-	processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
-	performance.
-
-@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released;  Debugger updates.
-
-	Mono 0.16 has been released.  Source and RPMs are <a
-	href="download.html">available</a>.  The release notes are <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.  
-
-	Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
-	Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
-	breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
-	debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
-	single-stepping).
-
-@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
-
-	Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
-	Survey</a>
-
-@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban 
-
-	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
-	continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
-	contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
-	software project.
-
-	This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban.  Sergey has
-	been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
-	work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
-	origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
-	Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
-	engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit. 
-
-	
-@item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
-
-	Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again.  We
-	have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
-	chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
-	inline</a>).  This includes the use of a master reference file
-	that will hold the entry points to document.  All master files
-	for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
-
-	Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
-	checked into CVS.  Although ILASM is old and will soon be
-	updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
-
-	Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
-	but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
-	(including the Mono runtime).  Dwarf-2 is required to compile
-	your code.  The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
-	step and step-into are supported.  And comes with a Gtk#
-	UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
-	code.  Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
-	on making a good UI in the future.
-
-	Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
-	Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
-	This is the substrate for implementing the
-	System.DirectoryServices assembly.
-
-	Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
-	classes implementation.
-
-	After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
-	href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
-	Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
-	going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself.  So
-	the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
-	implementation. 
-
-@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
-
-	The <a
-	href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
-	ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available.  Paolo
-	will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
-	runtime in your Windows and Linux applications.  Mike Kestner
-	will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
-	the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
-	be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
-	the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
-
-@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
-
-	<a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
-	announced an Apache module that hosts
-	Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
-	module access to the Apache runtime.  This uses the Mono embedding
-	API.
-
-@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
-
-	Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
-	released a fresh version of <a
-	href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
-	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
-
-@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
-
-	Mono 0.15 has been released.  Source and RPMs are <a
-	href="download.html">available</a>.  The release notes are <a
-	href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
-
-@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
-
-	Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
-	the Mono class libraries.  This is a great step towards
-	cooperation between these projects.  Thanks to Paolo for doing the
-	merger on our side.
-
-	His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
-	that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
-	circumstances.  
-
-@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
-
-	<b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th.  Linux World Expo.
-
-	Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
-	on par with the PPC port.
-
-	Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
-	to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
-	code for the remoting infrastructure.  
-
-	More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
-	providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
-	their first query.
-
-@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
-
-	Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
-	compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
-	speed and the generated code quality of MCS.  Today we got a
-	50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds. 
-
-	Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
-	corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
-	well as using the tree widget.  Here is a shot of <a
-	href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
-
-	On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
-	support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
-	for structure marshaling.  
-
-	Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
-	is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
-	into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
-	to integrate with Patrik's code.
-
-	Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
-	implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
-	cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
-
-	A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
-	checked into CVS.
-
-@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
-
-	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
-	to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
-	a successful free software project.
-
-	The first, deserved, entry goes to
-	Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing 
-	infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured 
-	himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
-	Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
-
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+@item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
+
+	Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
+	authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
+	(which shipped in Mono 0.25).  This works using our ASP.NET
+	runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
+	new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
+	<ul>
+		<li> .asmx files.
+		<li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
+		<li> ref and out parameters.
+		<li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
+		<li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
+	</ul>
+
+	For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
+
+	GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
+	implement System.Drawing continues.  This will provide a full
+	GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
+	Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
+
+	MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
+	coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
+	extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
+	their web browsers.
+
+	Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
+	With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
+	code paths are missing regression tests.  The module is
+	`monocov'.  Details are <a
+	href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>.  A fresh Gtk#
+	version is available now.
+
+	Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
+
+@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
+
+	We have released Mono 0.25.  A list of the new features is
+	available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.  
+
+	Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
+	available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
+
+	Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
+	services in the Mono runtime.  This allows Mono to work as a
+	web services client.  We still require a WSDL compiler to
+	compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
+	compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
+	experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.  
+
+	As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
+	increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
+	specs.  Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
+	arbitrary limits.  This was done as part of our collaboration
+	with SourceGear.
+
+	Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
+	runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
+	coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
+	added improvements to it).
+
+	Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
+	migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
+	advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
+
+	Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
+	regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
+	the Mono toolkit.  One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
+
+	On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
+	checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
+	and bounds.
+
+	Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
+	of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
+	for ease-of-authoring).
+
+	Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
+	for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
+
+@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
+
+	Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
+	solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
+	that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
+	technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
+	products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
+	development partnership under which Ximian will provide
+	custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
+	products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
+	both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
+	code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
+	mixed-platform development organizations.
+
+	<a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
+
+	Some technical details are available <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
+
+@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
+
+	OpenLink <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
+	the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
+	that can be used dynamically from Mono.  This work simplifies
+	the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
+	have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
+	The patches are available <a
+	href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
+
+	Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
+	href="download.html">download page</a>.
+
+@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
+
+	Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
+	href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
+	of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.  
+
+	A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
+	href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
+
+@item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
+
+	We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
+	generation engine.  A list of the new features is available <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.  
+
+	Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
+	available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
+	We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
+
+@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
+
+	<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
+	their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
+	3.0</a> database system.  Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
+	On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
+	ASP.NET.  Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
+
+	Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
+	href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
+	and a demo is available <a
+	href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
+
+	OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
+	an ongoing basis. 
+
+	Jon Udell wrote a small <a
+	href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
+
+@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
+
+	Atsushi has created a <a
+	href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
+	validating XML reader.
+
+	There is activity on the <a
+	href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
+	href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
+
+@item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out;  Team pages.
+
+	The first book to cover Mono is out.  This book is currently
+	only available in German, you can find it <a
+	href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
+
+	We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
+	where we include a list of some of the people who have made
+	Mono possible.  If you have CVS access, please update the page
+	to include your information.
+
+@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
+
+	The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
+	details are <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
+
+	Zoltan has commited his <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
+	allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
+
+@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI;  GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
+
+	Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
+	<a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool.  Screenshots are <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
+	and <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
+
+	Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
+	module name: `GtkMozEmbed'.  Read the <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
+
+	The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>.  Screenshots are
+	<a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>. 
+
+@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
+
+	<a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
+	openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
+
+@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
+
+	<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
+	   <tr>
+	     <td valign="top">
+	       <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
+		 What do you think about Mono?
+
+		 Is your company involved with the development and
+		 deployment of web applications?  Is Linux becoming an
+		 important part of your company's business application
+		 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
+		 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
+		 and the use of Linux in business critical
+		 applications?
+
+		 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
+		 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
+		 email us at <a
+		 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
+	       </div>
+	     </td>
+	   </tr>
+	</table>
+
+@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
+
+	Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
+	that will work with and Mono.  See the mono-winforms-list.  It
+	is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
+	Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
+
+@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
+
+	A new freshly baked release of Mono is available.  Release
+	notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>.   This is mostly a
+	bug fix release.  No new features.
+
+@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22;  MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
+
+	Mono 0.22 has been released.  See the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>.  This is a bug fix
+	release.
+
+	A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
+	has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
+
+	Martin also announced a <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
+	release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line). 
+
+@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
+
+	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+	continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+	contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
+	software project.
+
+	Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug 
+	fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
+	and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
+	and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the 
+	point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual 
+	machine.
+
+@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
+
+	A new mailing list for <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
+	Development</a> has been created.
+
+@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
+
+	Mono 0.21 has been released.  This is only a bug fix release.
+	The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
+
+	Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
+
+@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released;   New Apache module released.
+
+	Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
+	Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
+
+	Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
+	handles ASP.NET.  The code is available at <a
+	href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
+
+	Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
+	tests</a>.  We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
+
+	Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
+	momentum is picking up!  See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
+
+@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
+
+	Mono 0.20 has been released.  Check out the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
+	the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+	There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
+	and performance improvements.  
+
+	Gtk# 0.8 has been <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
+
+	<b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
+	binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus.  Please read <a
+	href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
+
+@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
+
+	With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
+	looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
+	of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
+
+	Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory.  We have
+	checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
+	how to complete this process <a
+	href="documentation.html">here</a>.  Mail the <a
+	href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
+	for further discussion.
+
+@item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono;  Mono Basic updates.
+
+	Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
+	Gnome.  A screenshot can be seen <a
+	href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>.  The bindings are available
+	on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'.  This is a
+	straight binding to the C API. 
+
+	Marco has <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
+	an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
+	for Mono.
+
+	We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
+	JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
+
+@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
+
+	Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
+	as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32.  The
+	Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
+	advantage of Unix facilities.
+
+	A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
+
+	Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
+	If you want to contribute please read <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
+	message</a>
+
+	Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
+	improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
+	has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
+	source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
+	(compiler) and Daniel (runtime).  Also Jackson has resumed
+	work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
+	generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
+
+@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
+
+	<a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
+	Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
+	announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
+
+@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
+
+	A <a
+	href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
+	release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
+	Release <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
+
+@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
+
+	Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
+	World Expo.  A description is <a
+	href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
+
+	Open Link has a <a
+	href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
+	release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
+	shipping that uses Mono.
+
+@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released;  Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
+
+	Mono 0.19 has been released.  Check out the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
+	the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+	There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
+	and performance improvements.
+
+	We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
+	screenshots</a> of various Mono applications.  You can see
+	there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
+	progress on the documentation browser.
+
+        <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
+
+@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
+
+	After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
+	released the first version of the Mono debugger.  The Mono
+	debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
+	unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
+	applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
+	platforms.  
+
+	Details of the release are available in <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>. 
+
+	The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
+	The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
+	by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
+	applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
+	flag to gcc).
+	
+@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
+
+	Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client. 
+
+	MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
+	distribution, and MCS works with it.
+
+	Zoltan has managed to get <a
+	href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
+	for .NET) to run with Mono.  The HelloWorld.class runs with
+	the Mono runtime.
+
+@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
+
+	Mono 0.18 has been released.  Check out the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
+	the changes.  You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+
+@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
+
+	A new issue of the <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
+	Weekly News</a> has been published.
+
+	Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
+	that Sebastien has put together.
+
+@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
+
+	Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
+	the designed widgets is now easier than ever.  Alp has
+	improved this to use implicit names as well.
+
+	Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
+	debugging.  Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
+	per-thread basis now.
+
+	Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
+	Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module.  Gonzalo
+	has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
+	are now shared between XSP and mod_mono).  You can get the
+	mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono). 
+
+	Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
+	statements on the grammar.
+
+	Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
+	his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
+
+@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
+
+	<a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
+	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
+	their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
+	to run on Mono.
+
+	<a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
+	href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
+	availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
+
+	Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
+	href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
+	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
+	of their product, also using Mono.
+
+@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released;  Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
+
+	Mike Kestner <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
+	Gtk# 0.6</a>.  This new release includes many new features and
+	bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
+
+	Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
+	and its available from our <a
+	href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+	Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
+
+@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
+
+	Mono 0.17 has been released.  Check out the <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
+	list.   You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+
+	Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes.  Many new
+	System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
+	which can now be hosted in any web server.  A simple <a
+	href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
+	asp.net has been released as well.
+
+	This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
+
+	This release also includes a new exception handling system
+	that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
+	our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).   
+
+@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
+
+	Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
+	classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
+	invocation, local variables, and some statements).  The
+	compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
+
+	Screenshots: <a
+	href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
+	Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
+	href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
+
+	Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
+	repository as well.
+
+@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
+
+	<a
+	href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
+	Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
+	Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
+	href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
+
+	<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
+	href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
+	href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
+	announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
+	href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
+	server on Unix using Mono.
+
+	Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
+	tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site.  This
+	tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
+	use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
+
+	Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
+	on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono.  There is a
+	new test application that people can use to test their
+	controls.  If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
+	you can participate in the <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
+	mailing list</a>
+
+	Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
+	href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
+	layer</a> and an <a
+	href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
+	server</a> for Mono.
+
+	Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
+	continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes. 
+
+	The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
+	runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries.  Also,
+	compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
+	number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
+
+@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
+
+	Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
+	as well as RSA <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
+	We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
+
+	Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
+	can be found in the Mono.Data assembly.  The details of this
+	new technology are <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
+	It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
+
+	Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
+	Thinking in C#</a>.  The book is Mono-friendly.
+
+	Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
+	href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
+	here</a>.
+
+	Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
+	see Windows screenshots for it <a
+	href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
+	href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
+
+	Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
+	<ul>
+		<li><a
+		href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
+		Mono Keynote presentation</a>
+
+		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
+		The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
+		href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
+
+		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
+
+		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
+		Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
+	</ul>
+
+	A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
+	are available <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
+	in Open Office file format.
+
+@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
+
+	Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
+	packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
+
+	Tim Coleman posted an <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
+	on the improvements in the System.Data
+
+	The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
+	virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
+
+@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
+
+	Tim's SqlClient is <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
+	capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
+	using the TDS protocol.  A screenshot showing a sample client
+	running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
+	Windows is shown <a
+	href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
+
+	Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
+	supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
+	present and the X590 certificates are now in too.  Jackson has
+	been working on the Security classes.
+
+	Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
+	Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
+	compiler, runtime engine.  A big thank goes for everyone who
+	has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
+
+	Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls.  Gonzalo migrated
+	the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
+
+	In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
+	bindings.
+
+	Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
+	out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
+
+@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
+
+	Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
+	into CVS.
+
+	The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
+	System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
+	interfaces in Mono.  This means that it is possible to embed
+	ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
+	easily embed it with Apache for example.  The XSP module has
+	now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
+
+	We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
+	to the Windows.Forms implementation.  If you want to help
+	write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
+	list</a> mailing list. 
+
+	Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
+	servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
+	connection pooling.  Currently it can connect, run
+	transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types.  A
+	data adapter is also coming soon.
+	
+@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
+
+	Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
+	DES and TripleDES have been fixed;  Rijndael and CFB modes
+	still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
+	are not supported by the .NET framework.
+
+	Last week we created a new <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
+	list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
+
+	Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
+	and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
+	binding.  
+
+	Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf.  This
+	binding <a
+	href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
+	unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
+	complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
+	representation of the types instead of two (the master types
+	is defined in CLI-land).  Also Property Editors (<a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
+	simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
+	configuration to backend keys, following the <a
+	href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
+	Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
+
+	Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
+	number of documents detailing the state of the debugger.  The
+	major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
+	applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types).  We
+	will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
+	shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
+	users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
+	time as Mono 0.17.
+
+@item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
+
+	Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
+	provider for Mono.  Daniel posted some <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
+	Brian posted <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
+	about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
+
+	Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
+	cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
+	in quite some time.  We are looking for a way to handle
+	big-nums.  We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
+	classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
+	expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
+	assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
+
+	Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
+	file/line combos.  This was more complex than generic
+	breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
+	routines that probably have not been JITed just yet.  Martin's
+	focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
+	release of it.
+
+	We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
+	module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
+	necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
+	browser for Mono.  This together with the work from Adam will
+	be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
+	Documentation Tools</a>. 
+
+@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
+
+	Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
+	been working on various database providers.  The MySQL has
+	seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
+	more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
+
+	Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
+	low-level bugs in the portability layer.  Now the Mono handle
+	daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
+	regions.  Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
+	into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
+	complete HttpRuntime implementation.  This means that you are
+	able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
+	want.  This also includes support for the system-wide
+	configuration file `machine.config'.
+
+	Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
+	it looks <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
+	and <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
+	Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
+	working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
+	the screenshot).  
+
+	<a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
+	activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
+	Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
+	Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
+	mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
+	Gtk# is seen <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
+
+	Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
+	work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
+
+	Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
+	new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
+	The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
+	more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
+	chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
+	processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
+	performance.
+
+@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released;  Debugger updates.
+
+	Mono 0.16 has been released.  Source and RPMs are <a
+	href="download.html">available</a>.  The release notes are <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.  
+
+	Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
+	Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
+	breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
+	debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
+	single-stepping).
+
+@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
+
+	Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
+	Survey</a>
+
+@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban 
+
+	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+	continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+	contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
+	software project.
+
+	This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban.  Sergey has
+	been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
+	work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
+	origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
+	Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
+	engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit. 
+
+	
+@item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
+
+	Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again.  We
+	have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
+	chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
+	inline</a>).  This includes the use of a master reference file
+	that will hold the entry points to document.  All master files
+	for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
+
+	Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
+	checked into CVS.  Although ILASM is old and will soon be
+	updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
+
+	Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
+	but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
+	(including the Mono runtime).  Dwarf-2 is required to compile
+	your code.  The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
+	step and step-into are supported.  And comes with a Gtk#
+	UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
+	code.  Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
+	on making a good UI in the future.
+
+	Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
+	Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
+	This is the substrate for implementing the
+	System.DirectoryServices assembly.
+
+	Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
+	classes implementation.
+
+	After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
+	href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
+	Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
+	going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself.  So
+	the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
+	implementation. 
+
+@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
+
+	The <a
+	href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
+	ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available.  Paolo
+	will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
+	runtime in your Windows and Linux applications.  Mike Kestner
+	will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
+	the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
+	be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
+	the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
+
+@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
+
+	<a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
+	announced an Apache module that hosts
+	Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
+	module access to the Apache runtime.  This uses the Mono embedding
+	API.
+
+@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
+
+	Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
+	released a fresh version of <a
+	href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
+	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
+
+@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
+
+	Mono 0.15 has been released.  Source and RPMs are <a
+	href="download.html">available</a>.  The release notes are <a
+	href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
+
+@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
+
+	Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
+	the Mono class libraries.  This is a great step towards
+	cooperation between these projects.  Thanks to Paolo for doing the
+	merger on our side.
+
+	His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
+	that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
+	circumstances.  
+
+@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
+
+	<b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th.  Linux World Expo.
+
+	Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
+	on par with the PPC port.
+
+	Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
+	to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
+	code for the remoting infrastructure.  
+
+	More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
+	providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
+	their first query.
+
+@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
+
+	Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
+	compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
+	speed and the generated code quality of MCS.  Today we got a
+	50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds. 
+
+	Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
+	corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
+	well as using the tree widget.  Here is a shot of <a
+	href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
+
+	On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
+	support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
+	for structure marshaling.  
+
+	Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
+	is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
+	into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
+	to integrate with Patrik's code.
+
+	Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
+	implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
+	cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
+
+	A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
+	checked into CVS.
+
+@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
+
+	The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
+	to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
+	a successful free software project.
+
+	The first entry goes to
+	Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing 
+	infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured 
+	himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
+	Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
+
+
 @item Looking for volunteers
 
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