[Mono-list] [Mono-dev] Mono 2.11.1 is out

Sat Apr 21 16:55:21 UTC 2012

Thanks a lot! You guys rock.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com> wrote:
> Shipped as in "the source is shipped"
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Abe Gillespie <abe.gillespie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Miguel, are you sure MVC4 has shipped?  I'm only seeing references to
>> beta downloads.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> -Abe
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello guys,
>> >
>> >     New code drop of Mono 2.11.1 is out, this new release has a few
>> > changes:
>> >
>> > = New in 2.11.1 =
>> >
>> > == Integrates Microsoft's opensourced web stack ==
>> >
>> > The new stacks open sourced by Microsoft:
>> > http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Mar-28.html
>> >
>> > Have been integrated into Mono.   ASP.NET MVC4 is shipped, but not
>> > enabled,
>> > as it requires our own ASP.NET stack to be upgraded to support async
>> > programming, and we do not have that capability yet.
>> >
>> > But many other assemblies are now bundled and built:
>> >
>> >     * System.Json: Replaces our own implementation
>> >     * System.Net.Http.Formatting
>> >     * System.Web.Http
>> >     * System.Web.Razor
>> >     * System.Web.WebPages.Deployment
>> >     * System.Web.WebPages.Razor
>> >     * System.Web.WebPages
>> >
>> > There is still ongoing work to bring more of the assemblies they open
>> > sourced into the default build.
>> >
>> > == SGen GC ==
>> >
>> > Performance updates, and fine tuning.
>> >
>> > New option "minor-collector", the default value is "simple", but we have
>> > introduced a new "split" option that allows objects to live for longer
>> > in
>> > the nursery before being graduated to the major heap.
>> >
>> > The "split" mode can be further tuned with the "ration" and
>> > "promotion-age"
>> > settings
>> >
>> > == Soft Debugger Interface ==
>> >
>> > Now supports invocation of methods for PrimitiveValues
>> >
>> > == Cecil and IKVM Upgrades ==
>> >
>> > The version of Mono.Cecil bundled has the latest features from the
>> > upstream
>> > jbevain/Cecil
>> >
>> > Merged upstream IKVM.Reflection.
>> >
>> > == Updated System.Net.Http ==
>> >
>> > Work continues in this async-friendly API
>> >
>> > == C# Compiler as a Service ==
>> >
>> > Improved error recovery for IDEs.
>> >
>> > More visitors for more node types
>> >
>> > == MonoDoc ==
>> >
>> > Many improvements to our documentation infrastructure, handles generics,
>> > better lucene indexing
>> >
>> > == MVC 3 ==
>> >
>> > With the open sourcing of Microsoft's technologies, we can finally run
>> > MVC3
>> > out of the box in Mono.    We modified the existing MVC3 codebase to use
>> > the
>> > updated versions of Razor and other system libraries.
>> >
>> > = Bug Fixes and Updates =
>> >
>> > * C# compiler improvements
>> > * .NET 4.5 API updates.
>> > * System.Threading.Tasks updates for .NET 4.5
>> > * Ignore XmlIgnore attributes when importing members in
>> > XmlReflectionImporter. Fixes #4367.
>> > * Better check for missing dependencies for method overloads. Fixes
>> > #4457
>> > * System.Web caching bug
>> > * Parse floating point values with negative exponent correctly. Fix bug
>> > #4415
>> > * S390x: Fix long standing cast problem that truncated doubles
>> > * Fix parsing of invalid int* exponents. Fixes #4396.
>> > * Fix setting of byref variables in sdb. Fixes #4362.
>> > * Fix for bug #4135. Do not unescape request path in HttpRequest.Path,
>> > it's
>> > done by the worker
>> > * Don't evaluate an import unless the file actually exists. Fix for bug
>> > #4365
>> > * LLVM should load out of the box on OSX
>> > * Rework CancellationTokenSource to remove locking. Fix #4173.
>> > * Allow setting the name of threadpool threads. Fixes #4269.
>> > * Fix the domains of the objects returned by
>> > AssemblyMirror.GetAssemblyObject ()/TypeMirror.GetTypeObject (). Avoid
>> > caching empty strings in AppDomainMirror.FriendlyName. Fixes #4223.
>> > * Fix COM cctors
>> > * Fix MacOsNetworkInterface.ImplGetAllNetworkInterfaces()
>> > * C#    Emit callvirt for non-virtual object methods called over generic
>> > type parameter
>> > * Fix debugger invokes which return pointer types. Fixes #4214.
>> > * Fix x86 FP stack code to not break prev links in a BB.
>> > * Fix the IR class of OP_NEWARR to be of the array type and not
>> > element's.
>> > * Apply SHA256 optimizations (single buffer allocation, inlining and
>> > better
>> > locality) to SHA224 so their performance match
>> > * S390 threading bug fixes
>> > * Fix the addresses of handler clauses when using LLVM + thumb.
>> > * Fix hoisting of method parameters when both async and lambda
>> > expression
>> > use it
>> > * Fix eglib's canonicalize routine
>> > * Fixed logging profiler (previously it could abort unexpectedly)
>> > * Raise TypeLoadException for invalid StructLayout Pack size rather than
>> > aborting.
>> > * Add most of the Debug class (with related tracing types) to the mobile
>> > build. Fixes #3754.
>> > * Register vtables in runtime data structures after they have been
>> > completely initialized, since other threads can access them without
>> > locking.
>> > Fixes #3676.
>> > *  Fix a memory overwrite in mono_gc_bzero (). Fixes #4095.
>> > * Fix bug #4101 when using a deep hierarchy of directories in isolated
>> > storage.
>> > * Send thread end profiler message on thread detach.
>> > * Allow executables in Mono to not be built
>> > * Emit iterators finally block only once. Fixes #4052.
>> > * Fix debugger invokes when the runtime is suspended multiple times.
>> > Partly
>> > fixes #3927.
>> > * Allow binding of sockets on a specific IP address
>> > * If the window manager does not support _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW, fall back
>> > to
>> > XGetInputFocus
>> >
>> > Miguel
>> >
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