November 11, 2005

Mono 1.1.10 Now Available

Mono 1.1.10: Release Notes.

From the Mono Project Downloads page you will discover the following entry:

Current Stable Version: Mono 1.1.10 (Release notes Nov 11th, 2005 (http://go-mono.com/archive/1.1.10))

From the above linked release notes:

We consider Mono 1.1.10 stable to recommend it for all users. Those upgrading from the 1.0.x series should note that these notes only contain the differences between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10. All of the changes since 1.0 are documented in the following release notes: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.7, 1.1.8 and 1.1.9.

There a quite a few updates and feature additions that are fairly significant. However those that jumped out at me the most (setting aside the fact that they are listed first on the release notes... I promise, I read the whole page :) are contained in the mod_mono headings and the Windows.Forms heading:

mod_mono Auto Configuration

mod_mono 1.1.10 features a new auto-configuration system which allows ASP.NET applications to work without having to make any configuration changes to Apache.

The experience of the new auto-configuration system is similar to PHP: any file that has one of the ASP.NET extensions will automatically be handled by Mono.

mod_mono and virtual hosts

Mod_mono now works correctly with virtual hosts, and it is possible to use the mod_mono control panel to restart individual servers.

Windows.Forms

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Drag and Drop for X11 has been implemented.

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Nice! I can tell you from experience that the Auto-Configuration of mod_mono with Apache coupled with the auto-detection of an ASP.NET extension being passed to the proper handler is a gift straight from the Mono-God's (whomever or whatever they might be :) and Drag-and-Drop capabilties for X11/Windows.Forms implementation... It might seem trivial, but I'll venture out on-a-limb on this one and state that this capability alone will be the cause of some extensive Windows.Forms-based applications being developed for Linux-based X11 systems.

One other update that caught my eye (again, there are quite a few more than this, but I mentioned the Mono JavaScript compiler once before and the updated Mozilla test-suite numbers are interesting to say the least)

JavaScript Compiler

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Status 6981 successful tests out of 7229 from Mozilla's test suite.

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If I've done my math correctly (: I'm 99.100% certain that I have :) that's just over 96.5% of the 7229 tests contained in the Mozilla test suite successfully passing (: given Brendan Eich, JavaScripts creator, just so happens to run the technical show for the Mozilla Foundation/Corp I think its probably safe to place the Mozilla JavaScript test suite into the "this is the test suite that matters most" position, wouldn't ya' think? ;) At last check a couple of months back it was just over 70% in regards to passed tests. That's a pretty significant increase made in a pretty small space of time. My hat goes off to whomever did the work in this space... Very nice!

Things are really beginning to get even more interesting over in the land of Mono.