[Mono-list] Mono 2.11.1 is out

[Andres G. Aragoneses]

Congrats!

I don't find the "xsp" package in the SUSE repo:

http://download.mono-project.com/archive/2.11.1/linux/x86-64/

Am I missing something?

Thanks


On 04/20/2012 11:33 PM, Miguel de Icaza 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 <http://ASP.NET> MVC4 is
> shipped, but not enabled, as it requires our own ASP.NET
> <http://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
>