We have just released Mono 2.4.3.1, a bug fix release for the Mono 2.4.x series. The Mono 2.4.3.1 Release Notes include the full details on new features and bug fixes.

Mono 2.4.3.1 can be downloaded from our download page.

We have just released Mono 2.6.1, a bug fix release for the Mono 2.6.x series. The Mono 2.6.1 Release Notes include the full details on new features and bug fixes.

Mono 2.6.1 can be downloaded from our download page.

Today we are releasing the much anticipated upgrades to both. Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2.

For those in a hurry, binaries and source are available from:

• Mono Download page.
• MonoDevelop Download page.

And if you want a quick mnemonic to remember this release, just think debugger! and cross platform.

The Mono team and contributors worked on this release like we have never worked before. Thanks to everyone that reported bugs, filed feature requests, contributed code and helped newcomers with Mono.

Mono 2.6 highlights:

• WCF client and server, the subset exposed by Silverlight 2.0.
• LLVM support, to improve performance on server/computational loads.
• Continuations/Co-routine framework Mono.Tasklets (background info)
• LINQ to SQL using DbLinq.
• New Soft Debugger, integrated with MonoDevelop on Unix and OSX (background).
• System.IO.Packaging.
• csharp shell now supports auto-completion (press tab to complete)
• xbuild can now build most msbuild projects.
• Mono debuts a verifier and security sandbox (used by Moonlight).
• More complete 3.5 API coverage.
• This release includes Microsoft's open sourced ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX and Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime.
• Faster and slimmer.

MonoDevelop 2.2 highlights (screenshots here and here):

• MonoDevelop code is now LGPLv2 and MIT X11 licensed. We have removed all of the GPL code, allowing addins to use Apache, MS-PL code as well as allowing proprietary add-ins to be used with MonoDevelop (like RemObject's Oxygene).
• User interface improvements: the first thing that MonoDevelop users will notice is that we have upgraded the UI to fit modern ideas. We borrowed ideas from Chrome, Firefox, Visual Studio, Eclipse and XCode.
• ASP.NET MVC support, you can now develop, debug and build ASP.NET MVC applications from MonoDevelop.
• New T4 Macro processor (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) integrated directly into the IDE (Mono's T4 is also available as a reusable library for use and abuse in your own programs).
• Moonlight Project Support: you can now build, debug and run Moonlight applications using MonoDevelop.
• New MacOS and Windows support. Check our feature matrix for details.
• New Debugger support allows debugging Console, Gtk#, ASP.NET, iPhone and Moonlight applications.
• Extensive text editor improvements:
  • Dynamic abbrev (Just like Emacs' Alt-/)
  • Code generator (Alt-Insert)
  • Acronym matching
  • Code templates
  • Block selection
  • C# Formatter
• New refactoring commands:
  • Inline Rename (see screenshot).
  • Resolve Namespace
  • Rename Refactoring with Preview
  • Extract Method
  • Declare Local Variable
  • Integrate Temporary Variable
  • Introduce Constant
  • Move Type to Own File
  • Remove Unused Usings
  • Sort Usings
  • Create/Remove Backing Store
  • Keybindable Commands
• Python add-in has graduated to be a supported plugin, includes code completion, syntax checking, method and class locator and code folding.
• iPhone development plugin.

The team is on #mono, #monodev and #monodevelop on irc.gnome.org fielding any questions you might have.

We have just released Mono 2.4.3, a bug fix release for the Mono 2.4.xx series. The Mono 2.4.3 Release Notes include the full details on new features and bug fixes.

Mono 2.4.3 can be downloaded from our download page.

Mono Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 has officially been released.

Support for developing and debugging Mono applications from within Microsoft Visual Studio has been a feature requested from the .NET developer community since very early in the project.s history. While our own MonoDevelop continues to grow in features in adoption, we also understand that developers working in Visual Studio today are in no rush to leave behind their current IDE and favorite Visual Studio add-ins.

Mono Tools integrates several key pieces of functionality directly into Visual Studio.s menu system:

• Analyze for Mono Migration - Scan open projects for compatibility with Mono while developing, and navigate directly to issues from the Error List within Visual Studio
• Run on Mono on Windows - Test against Mono on Windows to isolate issues arising from differences between Mono and .NET.
• Run on Mono on Linux - Deploy and run your application on Mono on Linux with minimal effort.
• Debug on Mono on Linux - Remotely debug your application running on the target platform

In addition to these features that improve the day-to-day experience of developing with Mono, this release incorporates a few additional features to aid in deployment of .NET applications on Mono.

• Package for Linux - Visually create a RPM installer packages for SUSE and openSUSE Linux for your .NET application
• Create a SUSE Linux Appliance - Use SUSE Studio to bundle your application into a Linux appliance for simplified distribution to your users.

To see the full functionality of the add-in, check out the full tutorial of taking an ASP.NET application through each feature from Analyze to Appliance.

You can Download a free, fully-functional 30-day trial of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, as well as fully preconfigured VMware or Virtual PC images, from the Mono Tools for Visual Studio download page.

To purchase Mono Tools for Visual Studio, visit our store

Ever wondered what Mono's roadmap is, or how you could easily describe Mono's current status as to your friends and significant others?

You can point them to our roadmap page and our compatibility pages.

Over the past few weeks, the final details of the program for the Monospace Conference have been announced, and now the event is just less than two weeks away. Some key details you may have missed:

• The Monspace conference features 2 days of workshops and 2 days of Open Space sessions.
• The full conference agenda has been posted, and now includes a full day of MonoTouch training (Mono for the iPhone).
• The two-day open space sessions will be kicked off on Thursday with an Open Source Panel featuring Miguel de Icaza (Mono Project Founder), Sam Ramji (CodePlex Foundation), Ayende Rahien (NHibernate and Castle Contributor), and Glenn Block (Managed Extensibility Framework), and moderated by Rod Paddock, Editor of CoDe Magazine.

The Monospace conference will be held in Austin, TX on Tuesday, October 27 through Friday, October 30. To register for the event, visit the Monospace Conference Registration Page.

Check the program for more information.

Registered Monospace attendees will receive a $150 discount on MonoTouch, if they purchase in the month of October.

MonoTouch - Mono for iPhone is now available. This is a commercial product, to buy it, visit the MonoTouch Store.

A refresh of the Mono 2.4.2.3 Framework Installer for Mac has been released. The only change in this release is a new version of GTK+ that resolves a number of known issues in MonoDevelop, including redraw bugs, control-click functionality, and Mac keybindings for standard GTK+ widgets. The GTK+ build uses a branch of GTK+ 2.17.9 maintained by Christian Hergert, sponsored by Unity.

You can find it on the downloads section.

We are doing a preview/beta release of MonoTouch (Mono for the iPhone) this week (August 5th/August 6th) and are looking for developers that might be interested in trying out the API, the IDE plugin and the development pipeline.

If you are interested in participating, please fill out the form.

You can browse the source code for the sample widget catalog built using the MonoTouch.UIKit .NET binding to Cocoa's UIKit.

This release fixes issues with precompiled websites.

See the release notes for more details.

Due to an oversight on our part, Mono 2.4.2 did not actually bundle ASP.NET MVC. This mistake has been corrected. Mono 2.4.2.1 is a release that merely includes the prepackaged source for ASP.NET MVC.

Today Microsoft announced that they were going to apply the Community Promise patent licensing to the ECMA C# and ECMA CLI standards.

Mono 2.4.2 has been released, this is a maintenance release for Mono 2.4 and contains over 150 bug fixes. It can be downloaded from our downloads page.

This version is the first version to integrate Microsoft's open source ASP.NET MVC stack.

Check the release notes for more details.

Mono Tools for Visual Studio have been released to a limited number of developers for a closed preview cycle.

This first release of the Mono tools integrates four major pieces of new functionality into Visual Studio:

• Scan for Mono Compatibility (MoMA integration) - The integrated Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) can scan open projects for incompatibilities and guide you to directly to them, making it easy to find and work through issues as you develop.
• Run on Mono on Windows - Testing against Mono on Windows can help isolate issues arising from differences between Mono and .NET.
• Run on Mono on Linux - Testing against Mono on Linux helps work through issues that could be caused by differences in Windows and Linux.
• Debug on Mono on Linux - Often, the best way to work through an issue will be to debug the application on the target environment. Debug on Mono on Linux brings this functionality to Visual Studio developers by enabling remote debugging of Mono applications running on Linux.

If you are interested in joining the program during the next wave of invitations, please visit the Mono Tools for Visual Studio website, and follow the "Sign Up!" link.