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Reputation: 1078

What Happened to Mono 2.11.X?

This is probably going to sound like a stupid question - what the heck happened to the Mono 2.11.X branches?

I am trying to compile several C# assemblies that require features that were introduced in the 2.11.X branch and I could have sworn that back in late 2012 I saw and read several announcements about its release. A Google search also confirms this.

Now when I go to the downloads page, I see the latest version is 2.10.X! What's going on? I found an archived link to download it but I see the last time it was modified was back in September 2012.

This is the first time I am actually using Mono so if there is anyone familiar with it or their development cycle, can confirm whether or not I should use it? In particular, I want to use the Entity Framework, which should be available in 2.11.X and is currently NOT available in the "latest" 2.10.X.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 260

Answers (2)

Lex Li
Lex Li

Reputation: 63264

From Miguel's blog post, you can see that in fact Mono 2.11.* becomes 3.0.*,

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

This post discusses about Mono 3.0.*, but it links to an old post about Mono 2.11.*.

They should have avoided to skip 2.11.*, as so far it leads most of the confusion. But I have to confess that Mono 3 sounds cooler.

If you want to use any new features, as @MarkHall explained you should use Mono 3.0.*.

In this case, search engines are less useful, as they cannot tell you enough history about a project via algorithms at this moment. If you want to know better about Mono, make sure you subscribe to its mail list, RSS feeds, and so on.

Upvotes: 1

Mark Hall
Mark Hall

Reputation: 54552

Everything I have seen on their list is that the last stable release is the 2.10.x, they will be maintaining it for about 6 months and are encouraging everyone to use the 3.0 branch even though it is still stated as beta. http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_3.0

From above link:

Mono 3.0 is an update to Mono 2.10 based on the master branch of github, it is not a minor upgrade to 2.10. Mono 3.0 was released on October 18th 2012.

We will continue to bug fix and update Mono 2.10 for another six months for users that can not upgrade to Mono 3.0.

New Microsoft Open Source Stacks

We now include the following assemblies as part of Mono from Microsoft's ASP.NET WebStack:
System.Net.Http.Formatting.dll
System.Web.Http.dll
System.Web.Razor.dll
System.Web.WebPages.Deployment.dll
System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll
System.Web.WebPages.dll
System.Web.Mvc.dll
System.Json.dll (Previously available in Mono, but now replaced with Microsoft's implementation)

We also bundle the recently open sourced Entity Framework and
EntityFramework.dll

Upvotes: 1

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