# New code generation engine: The new code generation engine is the core of
the Mono JIT, and now also features a code pre-compiler.
# Runtime: Mono now provides the GC system with object maps, providing better
collection and improving applications speed. Also debugging information
works across application domains.
# ASP.NET: WebForms parser has been rewritten.
# Remoting: Plenty of updates to the remoting infrastructure.
# C# compiler: Various speed improvements, plus support for C# 2.0 iterators.
# XML: XML deserialization, RELAX NG validating XmlReader, improved
XmlNodeReader, XmlTextReader non-UTF8 stream support by default, plus a
primitive DTD parser.
# Windows.Forms: Lots of updates, and System.Drawing progress.
# Globalization: Data files for supporting the various cultures are in,
Chinese encoding support.
# New tools: Binding generator for C programs, security tools, mono-xsd.
# Ongoing development: ILASM, JScript, Soap, XmlSerialization.
# Mono Basic: Many improvements.
# Security: Uses new BigInteger, many new classes.
# 152 bugs closed, 3397 individual CVS commits.
The full announcement and list of changes can be found at:
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1104
* The "MemoryStream" bug:
This bug affected a lot of classes, and made them crashy,
database code, XML parsing and a few others were
crashing. Thanks to Gonzalo for fixing this bug.
* System.Data:
More bug fixes from Aleksey and Tim.
* Reflection:
Zoltan continues to provide fixes to our Reflection.Emit code
to host IKVM.
* Remoting:
Lluis added support for activation using activation
attributes.
* PEToolkit:
Jackson imported the PEAPI package from the Queensland
University of Technology in Australia. This will replace the
existing Mono.PEToolkit for our ILasm back-end.
* Windows Forms:
More fixes from Reggie and Alexandre.
* System.Web.Mail:
Per has been working on this namespace. He announces recently
that all major parts of System.Web.Mail has now been implemented.
* System.Web.Mobile:
Gaurav continues to make progress here.
* Misc:
Ian MacLean contributed a /compile flag to monoresgen and
assorted bug-fixes and improvements from the rest of the team.
Patch provided in PR pkg/20677 by Marc Recht.
The Mono Project is an open development initiative sponsored by Ximian
that is working to develop an open source, Unix version of the Microsoft
.NET development platform. Its objective is to enable Unix developers to
build and deploy cross-platform .NET Applications. The project will
implement various technologies developed by Microsoft that have now been
submitted to the ECMA for standardization.
Package for version 0.20 provided in PR pkg/20500 by Marc Recht.
