Mono 3.0 Beta officially released

Mono boss Miguel de Icaza announced the release of Mono 3.0 on his blog. This is a beta release, but it is not officially released. Therefore, we should use it with caution in the operating environment, there are still many bugs to fix. However, this also means mono DevelopmentCodeThe master branch will remain stable. Miguel pointed out that all these improvements should support monotouch and mono for Android as appropriate. He also hinted that mono development will aim at a faster release speed, so important development will be carried out in an independent branch and then merged into the trunk branch, in order to ensure the stability of the trunk whenever possible.

The release notes of Mono 3.0 lists 3.0 of new content, many of which are exciting. Net 4.5:

• C # asynchronous Compiler
• Unified C # All compiler configuration files
• 4.5 introduction to asynchronous APIs
• Integrate the new Microsoft OpenSource codeSTACK:
  • ASP. net mvc 4
  • ASP. NET webpages
  • Entity Framework
  • Razor
  • System. JSON (replaces our own) system. JSON (instead of Mono's own)
• New High-Performance garbage collector (sgen-many performance and scalability improvements)
• A large number of runtime and class library improvements.

If you need to install mono 3.0 Beta, you can only install through source code, currently only provides the installation package under MAC, http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html.

Mono 3.0 preview packages for Debian and Ubuntu http://www.meebey.net/posts/mono_3.0_preview_debian_ubuntu_packages/

Content: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Oct-22.html