First release to integrate Microsoft open-source. Will become release 3.0Ĭ# 5.0 support, async support, Async Base Class Library Upgrade and MVC4 - Partial, no async features support.ĭefault Garbage Collector is now the SGEN, instead of Boehmĭefaults to. NET 4.0 profile, C# 4.0 support, new generational garbage collector, includes Parallel Extensions, WCF Routing, CodeContracts, ASP.NET 4.0, drops the 1.0 profile support the LLVM engine tuned to support 99.9% of all generated code, runtime selectable llvm and gc incorporates Dynamic Language Runtime, MEF, ASP.NET MVC2, OData Client open-source code from Microsoft. The xbuild build system is introduced.ĭefaults to. The Interactive shell supports auto-completion and the LINQ to SQL supports multiple database backends. On the class library System.IO.Packaging, WCF client, WCF server, LINQ to SQL debut. The Mono runtime is now able to use LLVM as a code generation backend and this release introduces Mono co-routines, the Mono Soft Debugger and the CoreCLR security system required for Moonlight and other Web-based plugins. This release mostly polishes all the features that shipped in 2.2 and became the foundation for the Long-Term support of Mono in SUSE Linux. Mono introduces Full Ahead of Time compilation that allows developers to create full static applications and debuts the C# Compiler as a Service and the C# Interactive Shell (C# REPL) Mono switches its JIT engine to a new internal representation that gives it a performance boost and introduces SIMD support in the Mono.Simd Mono.Simd namespace. The Gendarme verification tool and Mono Linker are introduced.

New Mono-specific APIs: Mono.Cecil, Mono.Cairo and Mono.Posix. Introduces the C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 8 compilers. Mono booth at OSCON 2009 in San Jose, California Release history Date

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