Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 (phoronix.com)
(Monday March 10, 2025 @06:50PM (BeauHD)
from the years-in-the-making dept.)
- Reference: 0176669409
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/10/2055237/wine-releases-framework-mono-614
- Source link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Framework-Mono-6.14
Today marks the release of Framework Mono 6.14, the [1]first major Mono release in five years and the first [2]under WineHQ's stewardship . This update includes long-awaited improvements such as native macOS ARM64 support, enhancements to System.Windows.Forms for X11, better COM interface support, and various stability fixes. Phoronix reports:
> 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.
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> 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."
You can download and learn more about the release [3]here .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Framework-Mono-6.14
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/08/27/2043216/microsoft-donates-the-mono-project-to-wine
[3] https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/releases/mono-6.14.0
> 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.
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> 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."
You can download and learn more about the release [3]here .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Framework-Mono-6.14
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/08/27/2043216/microsoft-donates-the-mono-project-to-wine
[3] https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/releases/mono-6.14.0