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Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 In Taking Over The Mono Project

([WINE] 6 Hours Ago Mono 6.14)


Last year [1]Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five years and the first under the WineHQ organization.

Framework Mono 6.14 is out today as the newest for the Mono project now being developed and maintained by Wine developers and the broader open-source community. Today's release announcement notes:

"This is the first release of Framework Mono from its new home at Winehq. It includes work from the past 5 years that was never included in a stable release because no stable branch had been created in that time. Highlights are native support for ARM64 on macOS and many improvements to windows forms for X11."

In addition to the native macOS ARM64 support and System.Windows.Forms improvements for X11, some of the other Mono 6.14 improvements carried out over the past half-decade include improved support for generated COM interfaces, many warning fixes, addressing common cases where processes would hang on exit, and more.

As for the "Framework Mono" name rather than just Mono, the release announcement explains:

"Framework Mono is the project previously hosted at https://github.com/mono/mono, which was then simply called Mono. I have made this change to distinguish it from "monovm" and "Wine Mono", which are different projects. Framework Mono is a cross-platform runtime compatible with .NET Framework."

Downloads and more details on the Framework Mono 6.14 release via [2]WineHQ.org GitLab .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Gives-Mono-To-Wine

[2] https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/releases/mono-6.14.0



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