Mono Weekly News. Mar 6th, 2003

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1.1 Mono 0.21 released

Mono 0.21 has been released. It is only a bug fix release. You can read the release notes here. You can get the Windows binaries This week we have also seen the another bug fix release, the 0.22

1.2 New Apache module released

Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that handles ASP.NET. The code is available at modmono

1.3 New mailing list for developers

A new mailing list for Mono Development has been created. Feel free to post or subscribe to it at the following page

1.4 Test progress and call for volunteers

Nick has posted an update on the progress on our regression tests. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.

1.5 SMTP status page

Per Arneng has started a SMTP status page: http://p.rsn.bth.se/smtp To show how his implementation of the SMTP support for Mono goes. Even it's in an early stage, it works!. You should be able to do things as handling attachments!.

1.6 Monodoc 0.2 released

Monodoc 0.2, "the new moment of Zen" for those who want a new version of the monodoc browser has arrived. The new version includes vastly improved rendering and namespace rendering, which will be very useful for those of you who want to document, as it is easy to spot what is missing. You can read the release notes to learn more.

1.7 Zoltan Varga in the Mono Hall of Fame

The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame continues to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that make mono:: 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 IKVM Java virtual machine.

2. Mailing List Activity

• Jason Perkins found some time to work on the Bitmap class, and have implemented:
  • Bitmap(Stream)
  • Width, Height
  • PixelFormat
  • LockBits (partially - doesn't work on subsections yet)
  • UnlockBits
• Gonzalo wrote a little recipe for those who need to call methods in managed mode from unmanaged code:
  • Create an instance of a CrossAppDomainDelegate in the application host domain.
  • Add a C function to the delegate. The C function does the invoke on the application host.
  • Invoke domain.DoCallBack with the delegate (domain is the default domain).
  • The C callback will be called from the appropriate thread/appdomain.
• Rafael Teixeira explained why they didn't include the VB6 support in Mono in a very interesting email.
• Marting announced a new version of his Mono Debugger. Go and test it!. Here you can get more information.
• Paolo Molaro remind us the thread about how to write a daemon with Mono in a reply. It's a nice point to remember that focus the list attention sometime ago.

3. CVS Activity

Starting March 1st, Ends March 5th.

Authors: Total 21 Total commits: 226