Download Mono 2.6

Version 2.6 of Mono was released on Tuesday. Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET Framework. By using Mono, developers can write cross-platform applications that will work not only under Windows, but also on Mac OS X and Linux, for example. The software includes a C# compiler, a .Net-compatible runtime and two sets of APIs. The former provides compatibility with Microsoft’s .Net Framework including support for asp.net, ado.net, and a number of other components, and the other provides a variety of Linux and Unix-specific features. Below are the main changes made since version 2.4:

These are some of the major features in this release:

• WCF client and server, the subset exposed by Silverlight 2.0
• LLVM support, to improve performance on server/computational loads
• Co-routine framework Mono.Tasklets
• Preview of LINQ to SQL using DbLinq
• New Soft Debugger, integrated with MonoDevelop on Unix and OSX
• Joint release with MonoDevelop 2.2
• System.IO.Packaging
• csharp shell now supports auto-completion
• xbuild can now build most msbuild projects
• Support for CoreCLR security:
  • Mono debuts a full metadata and IL verifier
  • Security system used by Silverlight applications, reusable for other cases.