Author: jpobst Date: 2008-02-06 17:42:40 -0500 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) New Revision: 95088
Modified: trunk/release/announce/mono-1.2.7.html Log: win!! forms!! rocks!! Modified: trunk/release/announce/mono-1.2.7.html =================================================================== --- trunk/release/announce/mono-1.2.7.html 2008-02-06 22:25:39 UTC (rev 95087) +++ trunk/release/announce/mono-1.2.7.html 2008-02-06 22:42:40 UTC (rev 95088) @@ -1,114 +1,134 @@ - <html> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> -<head> - <title>Mono 1.2.7: Release Notes.</title> - <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.0/mono.css"/> - <script src='http://www.go-mono.com/archive/prettyprint.js' - type='text/javascript'></script> - <style type="text/css" title="default"> - pre { - padding: 6pt; - background-color: #f6f6f6; - border: 1px solid #ddd; - } - </style> -</head> - -<html> -<body onload='paintColors();'> - -<h1>Mono 1.2.7 Release, 2007</h1> - - <p>Mono 1.2.7 is an update to <a - href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.6";>Mono 1.2.6</a> in - the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2";>Mono 1.2 - series</a>, it is a bug fix release for all the supported - components, but also includes updates on the 2.0 and 3.5 stacks. - - <ul> - <li><a href="#changes">Changes since version 1.2.6</a> - <li><a href="#install">Download and installation.</a> - <li><a href="#contributors">Contributors to this release.</a> - </ul> - - <p>All of the changes since 1.2 are documented in the - following release notes: - - <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.1";>1.2.1</a>, - <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.2";>1.2.2</a>, - <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3";>1.2.3</a>, - <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.4";>1.2.4</a>, - <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.5";>1.2.5</a> and - <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.6";>1.2.6</a>. - -<h2>Major Highlights</h2> - - <p>This version fixes a bug in reflection that affects - existing Gtk# deployments; To install this release you - should install the new version of Gtk# (released at the same - time as Mono). - - <p>Silverlight support is now enabled by default. - -<a name="changes"> -<h2>Runtime Engine</h2> - - <p>Optimization: Generics code sharing [Mark]. - - <p>AOT support for ARM processors [Zoltan]. - - <p><a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=fulltext&long_desc=&classification=Mono&product=Mono%3A+Runtime&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=2007-11-09&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=";>Runtime bugs fixed/closed in this release</a> - -<h2>LINQ</h2> - - <p>Core LINQ (Linq to Objects) library support has been - updated to the .NET 3.5 API [JB, MarekS] - - <p>System.Xml.Linq is now part of the standard distribution - [Atsushi] - - -<h2>ASP.NET</h2> - - <p>New mapping feature [Marek] - -<h2>Sqlite</h2> - - <p>Updated the Mono.Data.Sqlite assembly to the latest version - (which is a port of XXXX) [Marek]. - -<h2>Windows.Forms</h2> - - <p>Improved native OSX driver for Windows Forms (Drag and - Drop, enhanced keyboard drivers) [Geoff]. - - <p> - -<h2>Class Libraries</h2> - - <p> - -<h2>Visual Basic Runtime</h2> - - <p>More support in the IO classes for Visual Basic [Rolf] - -<h2>mod_mono, xsp</h2> - - <p>New support for controlling the number of requests that are - passed to the mod-mono-server process. If you have not - changed the number of threads in the Mono thread pool, this - can help you prevent deadlocks caused to the Mono ThreadPool - getting exhausted by incoming HTTP connections ([Joshua]). - - <p>This is controlled with two new Apache directives: - "MonoMaxActiveRequests" and "MonoMaxWaitingRequests". - -<h2>Security</h2> - - <p>SSL/TLS now support X.509 server certificate using - wildcards (e.g. *.novell.com) [Sebastien] - -CONFIRM BEFORE RELEASE: - - <p>Completed verifier for 1.0 CIL bytecode [Rodrigo]. - + <html> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> +<head> + <title>Mono 1.2.7: Release Notes.</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.0/mono.css"/> + <script src='http://www.go-mono.com/archive/prettyprint.js' + type='text/javascript'></script> + <style type="text/css" title="default"> + pre { + padding: 6pt; + background-color: #f6f6f6; + border: 1px solid #ddd; + } + </style> +</head> + +<html> +<body onload='paintColors();'> + +<h1>Mono 1.2.7 Release, 2007</h1> + + <p>Mono 1.2.7 is an update to <a + href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.6";>Mono 1.2.6</a> in + the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2";>Mono 1.2 + series</a>, it is a bug fix release for all the supported + components, but also includes updates on the 2.0 and 3.5 stacks. + + <ul> + <li><a href="#changes">Changes since version 1.2.6</a> + <li><a href="#install">Download and installation.</a> + <li><a href="#contributors">Contributors to this release.</a> + </ul> + + <p>All of the changes since 1.2 are documented in the + following release notes: + + <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.1";>1.2.1</a>, + <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.2";>1.2.2</a>, + <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3";>1.2.3</a>, + <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.4";>1.2.4</a>, + <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.5";>1.2.5</a> and + <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.6";>1.2.6</a>. + +<h2>Major Highlights</h2> + + <p>This version fixes a bug in reflection that affects + existing Gtk# deployments; To install this release you + should install the new version of Gtk# (released at the same + time as Mono). + + <p>Silverlight support is now enabled by default. + +<a name="changes"> +<h2>Runtime Engine</h2> + + <p>Optimization: Generics code sharing [Mark]. + + <p>AOT support for ARM processors [Zoltan]. + + <p><a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=fulltext&long_desc=&classification=Mono&product=Mono%3A+Runtime&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=2007-11-09&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=";>Runtime bugs fixed/closed in this release</a> + +<h2>LINQ</h2> + + <p>Core LINQ (Linq to Objects) library support has been + updated to the .NET 3.5 API [JB, MarekS] + + <p>System.Xml.Linq is now part of the standard distribution + [Atsushi] + + +<h2>ASP.NET</h2> + + <p>New mapping feature [Marek] + +<h2>Sqlite</h2> + + <p>Updated the Mono.Data.Sqlite assembly to the latest version + (which is a port of XXXX) [Marek]. + +<h2>Windows.Forms</h2> + + <p>Improved native OSX driver for Windows Forms (Drag and + Drop, enhanced keyboard drivers) [Geoff]. + + <p>More support for WebBrowser events/DOM [Andreia]. + + <p>Many fixes for RichTextBox, AutoScaling, and PropertyGrid + [Luke Page, James Purcell, Ivan, respectively]. + + <p>Over 100 reported bugs fixed for this release. + [Winforms team and contributors]. + +<h2>Class Libraries</h2> + + <p> + +<h2>Visual Basic Runtime</h2> + + <p>More support in the IO classes for Visual Basic [Rolf] + +<h2>mod_mono, xsp</h2> + + <p>New support for controlling the number of requests that are + passed to the mod-mono-server process. If you have not + changed the number of threads in the Mono thread pool, this + can help you prevent deadlocks caused to the Mono ThreadPool + getting exhausted by incoming HTTP connections ([Joshua]). + + <p>This is controlled with two new Apache directives: + "MonoMaxActiveRequests" and "MonoMaxWaitingRequests". + +<h2>Security</h2> + + <p>SSL/TLS now support X.509 server certificate using + wildcards (e.g. *.novell.com) [Sebastien] + +<h1>Contributors:</h1> + + Luke Page, James Purcell, Srikanth Madikeri + +<h1>CONFIRM BEFORE RELEASE:</h1> + + <p>Completed verifier for 1.0 CIL bytecode [Rodrigo]. + + <p>Please document that the default for gmcs is now + C#3 instead of C#2 and document the -langversion + switch to go back to C#2, as this is probably going + to cause _a lot_ of problems for people. + + <p>Please document that the default MWF driver on mac + has changed, what the new one may require, and the + environment variable to force the old X11 driver to run + for people who depend on it. + _______________________________________________ Mono-patches maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-patches
