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Mono 1.2.6 Preview 4 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

IKVM 0.36 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

Mono 1.2.6 preview 3 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

IKVM 0.36 Release Candidate 6 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes: custom assembly class loaders, bug fixes, and other changes.

Mono Summit 2007 has put out a call for presenters. It will be held from November 28 to 30, 2007, in Madrid, Spain.

Mono Summit 2007 has been announced. "The Mono Summit is a place to come discuss using Mono to create new applications for Linux, Windows, MacOS or embedded devices or learn how to port your existing applications from Windows to Linux, learn what Mono and Linux have to offer for .NET developers."

It will be held from November 26 to 30, 2007, in Madrid, Spain.

Mono 1.2.5 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes: DLR-related fixes; support for C# 3.0 features such as variable type inference, anonymous types, array type inference, object initialization, collection initialization, and automatic properties; improvements to the invocation speed of non-multicast delegate methods; SSE2-optimized double to int conversions on x86; the addition of an IL verifier; bug fixes; and other changes.

Mono 1.2.5 Preview 2 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

Mono 1.2.4 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes: improvements to the ASP.NET 2.0 implementation, runtime support for HandleRef, initial support for C# 3.0, support for Solaris/AMD64, bug fixes, and other changes.

Jim Hugunin has written an article discussing Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime. It includes discussion about the support for Python, Ruby, EcmaScript 3.0 and Visual Basic.

Mono 1.2.4 Preview 3 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes bug fixes. Testing is requested.

Mono 1.2.4 Preview has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

Mono 1.2.3.1 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes a number of fixes.

Mono 1.2.3 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes: a self-hosting Visual Basic 8 compiler; documentation updates; security enhancements; runtime optimizations; updated Alpha, MIPS and ARM ports; Windows.Forms improvements; bug fixes; and other changes.

Mono 1.2.3 Preview has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

Mono 1.2.1 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

This release incudes: the implementation of Thread.Interrupt, a partial MIPS port, security improvements, plus other changes and fixes.

Mono 1.2 has been released. Mono is a portable, open-source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes: complete C# 1.0 and C# 2.0 compilers, optimizations, Visual Basic .NET 1.0 and 2.0 runtimes, a JScript runtime, the bundling of the IKVM Java virtual machine, plus other changes.

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 has been released.

Mono 1.1.18 has been released. Mono is a portable, open-source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes: a new IO portability layer, security-related improvements, MonoDoc support for generics, Alpha port improvements, initial support for the new floating point operations ABI on the Nokia 770, performance optimizations, the unification of the mcs and gmcs code bases, a redesign of the anonymous method and iterator infrastructure, plus other changes and bugfixes.

It has been announced that videos of the Lang.NET 2006 Symposium presentation slides are now available. The conference focused on "the pragmatics and experience of designing languages, implementing compilers, and building language tools that target managed execution platforms such as the .NET CLR and other implementations of the ECMA CLI."