Mono Updates

Another Mono has been released 152 less bugs. :-)

"A new release of the Mono runtime and SDK is available for UNIX and Windows. Mono 0.24 represents a significant advance in many areas of the Mono platform, including:

  • 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. "
    [Project Mono]

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