在社区很多人不看好的微软.NET开源实现Mono发布了Mono 2.8,这是一个重要的版本更新,有着显著的改善,Mono 2.8包括C#4.0的支持(也是现在的默认配置),新一代的垃圾回收器,新的框架,LLVM的支持,目前被认为是稳定的,2.0版本的embedding API ,对OpenBSD的支持,移除了对GLib的依赖,并有.NET 2.0的线程池的异常行为。 新的微软的开源协议的框架包括ASP.NET 4.0,并行框架,System.XAML,System.Dynamic,Managed Extensibility Framework ,ASP.NET MVC2,System.Data.Services.Client,WCF Route和.NET 4.0的CodeContracts。
更详细的说明参看:Mono 2.8 Release Notes,我在OpenSuse 11.3安装了下,很顺利就更新到了Mono 2.8,附安装的日志:
linux-4ugu:~> su Password: linux-4ugu:/home/geffzhang # zypper addrepo http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/download-stable/openSUSE_11.3 mono-stable Adding repository 'mono-stable' [done] Repository named 'mono-stable' already exists. Please use another alias. linux-4ugu:/home/geffzhang # zypper refresh --repo mono-stable Repository 'mono-stable' is up to date. Specified repositories have been refreshed. linux-4ugu:/home/geffzhang # zypper dist-upgrade --repo mono-stable Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Computing distribution upgrade...
The following NEW packages are going to be installed: libmono-2_0-1 libmono-llvm0 mono-mvc
The following package is going to be REMOVED: mono-jscript
The following packages are going to be upgraded: apache2-mod_mono art-sharp2 gconf-sharp2 glade-sharp2 glib-sharp2 gnome-sharp2 gnome-vfs-sharp2 gtkhtml314-sharp gtk-sharp2 libgdiplus0 mono-addins mono-basic mono-core mono-data mono-data-oracle mono-data-sqlite mono-debugger mono-devel monodevelop monodevelop-debugger-gdb monodevelop-debugger-mdb monodoc-core mono-extras mono-tools mono-wcf mono-web mono-winforms webkit-sharp xsp
The following package is going to change vendor: monodevelop obs://build.opensuse.org/Mono -> Novell, Inc.