Mono 1.2.3 is an update to Mono 1.2.2 in the Mono 1.2 series, it is a bug fix release for all the supported components, but also includes updates on the 2.0 stack.
All of the changes since 1.2 are documented in the
following release notes:
1.2.1 and
1.2.2.
This release contains major improvements to ASP.NET 2.0 and
Windows.Forms as well as many bug fixes to the C# compiler and
runtime libraries. Developers and users are encouraged to
upgrade to this release.
Stats:
This is the first release to ship the new Visual Basic
compiler from Rolf Bjarne, see below for details.
This release ships an API complete ASP.NET 2.0
implementation (except for WebParts).
This release also includes a critical fixes to the runtime
startup. Heavily multi-threaded applications would have
crashed otherwise.
Windows.Forms has had over 115 bugs fixed.
In this release, we are now shipping the IronPython
Community Edition (IPCE) from Seo Sanghyeon. IPCE
includes a number of preconfigured libraries with IronPython
to improve your IronPython developing experience.
TableLayout control (2.0) [Jonathan Pobst]
Significant updates to the 2.0 API (including most of the
*Strip classes) [Chris Toshok, Andreia Gaita, Jackson Harper,
Jonathan Pobst, Carlos Cortés, Daniel Nauck].
SendKeys (1.1) has been implemented [Andreia Gaita]
ListViewGroups, Autocompletion [Daniel Nauck]
Many performance optimizations have been implemented:
reduced buffers used for double buffering, reduced memory
usage by using standard event practices (use EventHandlerList
instead of compiler provider events).
This is the first release of Mono that includes the
self-hosting Visual Basic environment. This is a
preview of the Basic support, we will be releasing this
officially at a later date.
The source code is available on a separate download
(mono-basic package).
The environment includes Rolf Bjarne's Visual Basic 8
compiler written in Visual Basic 8, and Mainsoft's Visual
Basic runtime for 2.0. The compiler only targets the 2.0
framework API, the runtime supports both 1.0 and 2.0
profiles.
From Mainsoft: numberous bug fixes and improvements to the
ASP.NET implementation. ASP.NET 2.0 is now control-complete
(with the exception of WebParts).
During the development of the 2.0 support hundreds of bugs
have been fixed, and a number of key applications have been
ported to test the 2.0 support.
Mainsoft has ported the starter kits from www.asp.net with
their Grasshopper toolchain: Personal Web Site, Club site,
Small business, Classifieds and Time Tracker. These have not
been tested directly with Mono yet.
From Marek Habersack:
From Damien Churchill:
There is still a lot of work to do to improve the quality
and performance of the ASP.NET 2.0 implementation, testers are
welcomed.
The current status of ASP.NET 2.0 features is tracked here.
An implementation of the System.Media space is now
available for Linux (other operating systems will need special
support) [Paolo Molaro].
Now it supports SOAP 1.2 as well as the WS-BasicProfile 1.1
checker [Atsushi Enomoto].
Many fixes to the XmlSerializer as well to support the new
features [Atsushi Enomoto].
The mkbundle tool now allows the machine.config file to be
embedded as well [Tor Lillqvist].
HttpListener now also support HTTPS, to configure the
certificates use the httpcfg tool [Gonzalo Paniagua].
Completed the support for the 2.0 updates to the API in
System.Net.Sockets [Dick Porter].
System.Drawing.SystemIcons are now implemented [Sebastien Pouliot]
Alpha values for ColorMatrix are now correctly applied and
40% faster [Sebastien Pouliot]
PNG images with alpha channel are now displayed correctly
[Sebastien Pouliot]
New ICON format decoder (as transparent images); [Sebastien
Pouliot]
15/16bpp bitmaps are now supported by the BMP decoder
[Sebastien Pouliot].
Monodoc now is shipping stub documentation for the 2.0
APIs [Jonathan Pryor].
Authenticode: Signcode now generates valid signature on PE files with extra data
(e.g. debug information, installers) and for file length that aren't
multiple of eight [Sebastien Pouliot].
SSL/TLS: Fix negotiation cache and added configurable cache timeout
using the MONO_TLS_SESSION_CACHE_TIMEOUT environment variable
[Roy Versteeg].
XML Signature and XML Encryption: several bug fixes, it now
it support exclusive canonicalization (needed for ongoing
Olive work) [Atsushi Enomoto].
Support for inherited key parameters in DSA certificates
[Sebastien Pouliot]
Support for DSA certificates in PKCS#12 files [Sebastien
Pouliot].
Better support for X.509 CRL (including stores & certmgr
support) [Sebastien Pouliot].
xbuild (Marek Sieradzki's implementation of `msbuild' and
the supporting runtime) is now able to build projects and it
can now parse all of the msbuild project definitions
(VS2005).
Work remains in two areas: improving the API support for
MonoDevelop to use, and add batch support.
Details about xbuild are available here.
2.0 API support in the Sqlite provider [Marek Habersack].
Implemented support for generics in the remoting (2.0 APIs)
[Robert Jordan].
Optimizations: Multi-array access has been hand tuned in
the JIT; constant initialization and block initializations are
now handled by the JIT; [Paolo Molaro].
Support for SafeHandles has been added to Mono, for full
details about what is supported see the
safehandles page on the Mono Web Site [Miguel].
Header files for Mono are now versioned, this is in
preparation for having multiple runtime SDKs installed
side-by-side [Paolo Molaro].
Optimized initialization of arrays (30% to 100% increase
depending on the array size) and access to multi-dimentional
arrays (4 times faster for three dimensional arrays) [Paolo
Molaro].
Reduced runtime relocations and memory usage (20% less
allocations in libmono and 10-20kb less writable memory used)
[Paolo Molaro]
Alpha (Sergey), MIPS (Mark) and ARM (Paolo) ports have been
updated.
The SPARC port is now three times as fast (Zoltan Varga).
The 2.0 console is now lazily initialized, this means that
the overhead of switching from the standard console to
emulating a full-screen console will only happen if the new
2.0 features are used [Gonzalo Paniagua].
Tor Lilqvist, Andy Hume, Sridhar Kulkarni, Jensen Somers,
Sergey P. Kondratyev, Alp Toker, Radek Doulik, Damien
Churchill, Marek Habersack, George Giolfan, Konstantin Triger,
Vladimir Krasnov, Igor Zelmanovich, Adar Wesley, Ilya
Kharmatsky, Tal Klar, Hagit Yidov, Yoni Klain, Merav Soudri,
Noam Lampert
Binary Packages and Source Code Downloads:
Source code and pre-compiled packages for SUSE, SLES,
Fedora Core 3, 4, Solaris, RHEL, MacOS and Windows in a variety of
platforms available from our web site from the download
section.
Quick source code installation:
If we have no packages for your platform, installing from
source code is very simple.
mono: Then compile libgdiplus:
New in Mono 1.2.3
Windows.Forms
Visual Basic
ASP.NET
System.Media implementation
ASP.NET WebServices
MkBundle
HttpListener
System.Net.Sockets
System.Drawing and GDI+
Documentation
Security
X.509 Certificates
Microsoft.Build and Mono's xbuild
Sqlite Provider
Runtime
Ports
Console
Contributors to this Release
Installing Mono 1.2.3
$ ./configure --prefix=/devel
$ tar xzf mono-1.2.3.tar.gz
$ cd mono-1.2.3
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
$ tar xzf libgdiplus-1.2.3.tar.gz
$ cd libgdiplus-1.2.3
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install