Download Mono 3.0.1 beta

A new development version of Mono was released a few weeks ago with version number 3.0 and a hotfix has already become available. Mono is an open source implementation of the .Net Framework. By using Mono, developers can write cross-platform applications that, in addition to Windows, also work on 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; the other offers all sorts of Linux and Unix-specific features. The most important improvements in version 3.0 are listed below.

Mono 3.0 is out

After a year and a half, we have finally released Mono 3.0.

Like I discussed last year, we will be moving to a more nimble release process with Mono 3.0. We are trying to reduce our inventory of pending work and get new features to everyone faster. This means that our “master” branch will remain stable from now on, and that large projects will instead be developed in branches that are regularly landed into our master branch.

what’s new

Check our release notesfor the full details of this release. But here are some tasty bits:

• C# Async compiler
• Unified C# compiler for all profiles
• 4.5 Async API Profile
• Integrated new Microsoft’s Open Sourced stacks:
  • ASP.NET MVC 4
  • ASP.NET WebPages
  • Entity Framework
  • Razor
  • System.Json (replaces our own)
• New High performance Garbage Collector (SGen – with many performance and scalability improvements)
• Metric tons of runtime and class library improvements.

Also, expect F# 3.0 to be bundled in our OSX distribution.