Mono Project News

SecondLife Launches Mono-based servers

Jim Purbrick (Babbage) from Linden Labs has announced on the SecondLife Blog that they have started the rollout of their Mono-enabled servers.

They are using Mono as an engine that accelerates the execution of user provided scripts by translating LSL scripts into ECMA CIL bytecodes and in turn letting Mono turn that into x86 machine code.

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First Preview for Mono 2.0 is out

Marc Christiensen has announced the release of our first preview for Mono 2.0. You can read our preliminary release notes for this release.

The preview release is available from our preview download directory. The source code for this release is available here.

Please report any bugs that you may find using our Bugs page, AND reply to this thread with the bug numbers so we can track them! http://www.mono-project.com/Bugs

You can see the bugs we're tracking for Mono 2.0 here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.go-mono.com%2Farchive%2F2.0%2F&order=bugs.bug_status%20

The earlier you file the bugs and reply to this message, the more likely your bugs will get fixed.

Special attention is given to regressions, so if you can tell us a version of Mono where the bug worked and you tag the summary of the bug with [Regression], then it is much more likely your bug will get fixed.

Please help the Mono team to make 2.0 the best ever.

Moonlight 0.7 released

We have just released Moonlight 0.7 to the public.

Get your copy here.

This new version of Moonlight works on both Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 and sports some significant changes from 0.6:

• Webkit loads the plugin (kangaroo, lewing)
• The stream/downloader/request/response logic (used for downloading media) has been been almost entirely moved from the browser bridges into libmoon, with the browsers providing subclasses. (kangaroo, sde)
• Finally add argument checking to all wrapped plugin objects (fejj).
• Windowless mode fixes (lewing, toshok)
• Plugin event handling fixes (lewing)

Engine

• Many clock/animation framework fixes. We now pass both animation matrix tests, and many, *many* other bugs (and regressions) have been fixed. (mdk).
• Bug fixes in the Stroke{Collection}.HitTest and Stroke{Collection}.Bounds code (toshok, sde).
• Namescope merging fixes (sde, jackson)
• Parser fixes, and changes paving the way for 2.0 work (jackson)
• Fix mouse event bubbling behavior (toshok)

Media

• Big, big strides in our media framework and the various (file, http, mms) downloaders, (fejj, rolf, kangaroo, fer)
• MMS stream selection (kangaroo)

Performance

• Shape caching and bounds computation reduction (spouliot)
• Geometry bounds work (spouliot)
• Fast path for position updates (Canvas.Left/Canvas.Top) (toshok)
• Improved temporary cairo surface bounds (lewing)
• Glyph rendering speedups (fejj)
• Resort by ZIndex as a dirty pass (toshok)

Silverlight 2.0

• work is progressing. A very simple 2.0 application successfully ran. (miguel, jackson, sde).

Forums added to Mono Website

Web-based forums for Mono discussions have been added at http://www.go-mono.com/forums

Most active Mono community members participate in on-line discussions through our mailing lists; however, many Mono users have expressed a preference for web forums based discussions.

In order to address this demand for an official forums for Mono, while keeping the community engaged in our mailing lists, we have embedded nabble.com into our site to create a bridge between the two groups. So, you can now use whichever method you prefer participate in the community.

First Moonlight Source Code Release

To encourage users to try out Moonlight, we are doing a source-code only release of Moonlight for developers to try out Moonlight.

To try out Moonlight, you have two options:

• Media codecs: you must do your own build from source code.
• No-media codecs: we provide one-click addins for Firefox that will install with no effort.

Firefox addins are available from http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight.

Source code for Moonlight is available from here. To compile Moonlight from source code follow these instructions.

Mono 1.9.1 has been released

We have done a minor release of Mono 1.9, Mono 1.9.1 that contains various bug fixes. Please see the release notes for details.

Mono 1.9.1 is available from our downloads page.