10/14/18 Binary Snapshot

• Updated to latest changeset.

1/19/19 Binary Snapshot (Anniversary Release)

Celebrating the Mono for i anniversary with a new snapshot!

• Updated to latest changeset.

• NetworkInterface works on AIX now, with partial support for i.

Beginning in this release, we plan to sunset usage of savefiles in favour of yum/RPM for a more sustainable build infrastructure. We will inform users when these changes move forward.

7/6/18 Binary Snapshot

• Updated to latest changeset.

• Issues with System.Decimal have been fixed.

• Issues with System.TimeZoneInfo have been fixed, by including the standard IANA time zone info files with the distribution. The tools to manage the database are also included inside a distribution.

6/26/18 Binary Snapshot

*Updated to latest changeset. Upstream has done significant work, including progress towards Roslyn on PowerPC, Span<T> intrinsics, and further integration of the CoreFX platform abstraction layer. CoreFX PAL work will involve heavy work for AIX and PASE integration, and the beginnings of such work have been done.

• Spurious messages when spawning new threads on AIX have been reduced.

• System.Diagnostics.Process should function better on AIX.

4/28/2018 Binary Snapshot

Changes in the 4/28/18 release

• Updated to latest changeset. Note upstream is doing refactoring work on tail calls, so we have applied an experimental patch to fix PPC support for such things.

Please read the README, available at https://github.com/MonoOni/binarydist/blob/master/README.md for further information. The save file containing the Mono binaries for IBM i 7.1 and up is named "mono0428.savf". For AIX users, a tarball is provided for your convenience.

4/15/2018 Binary Snapshot

Changes in the 4/15/18 release

• Rebased to latest Mono main tree.

Please read the README, available at https://github.com/MonoOni/binarydist/blob/master/README.md for further information. The save file containing the Mono binaries for IBM i 7.1 and up is named "mono0415.savf". For AIX users, a tarball is provided for your convenience.

4/10/2018 Binary Snapshot

Changes in the 4/10/18 release

• Rebased to latest Mono main tree.
• Some dependencies for libgdiplus have been built. Progress is being made towards making libgdiplus possible.

Please read the README, available at https://github.com/MonoOni/binarydist/blob/master/README.md for further information. The save file containing the Mono binaries for IBM i 7.1 and up is named "mono0410.savf". For AIX users, a tarball is provided for your convenience.

3/27/18 Binary Snapshot

Changes in the 3/27/18 release

• Updated to latest changeset.

Please read the README, available at https://github.com/MonoOni/binarydist/blob/master/README.md for further information. The save file containing the Mono binaries for IBM i 7.1 and up is named "mono0327.savf". For AIX users, a tarball is provided for your convenience.

3/13/18 Binary Snapshot

Changes in the 3/13/18 release

• Updated to latest changeset.

• BoringTLS is now available, with TLSv1.2 support. Certificates will need to be installed to trust remote sites.

• An experimental patch to resolve exception crashes in static constructors has been integrated. Thanks to Bernhard for trying to fix this!

Please read the README, available at https://github.com/MonoOni/binarydist/blob/master/README.md for further information. The save file containing the Mono binaries for IBM i 7.1 and up is named "mono0313.savf". For AIX users, a tarball is provided for your convenience.

2/27/18 Binary Snapshot

Changes in the 2/27/18 release

• Changed to self-compiled libiconv and gettext

Please read the README, available at https://github.com/MonoOni/binarydist/blob/master/README.md for further information. The save file containing the Mono binaries for IBM i 7.1 and up is named "mono0227.savf". For AIX users, a tarball is provided for your convenience.