Mono 0.24 has been released
Hello everyone,
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:
1. Features
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.