by Miguel de Icaza

After a year and a half, we have finally released Mono 3.0.

Like I discussed last year, we will be moving to a more nimble release process with Mono 3.0. We are trying to reduce our inventory of pending work and get new features to everyone faster. This means that our "master" branch will remain stable from now on, and that large projects will instead be developed in branches that are regularly landed into our master branch.

What is new

Check our release notes for the full details of this release. But here are some tasty bits:

C# Async compiler

Unified C# compiler for all profiles

4.5 Async API Profile

Integrated new Microsoft's Open Sourced stacks: ASP.NET MVC 4 ASP.NET WebPages Entity Framework Razor System.Json (replaces our own)

New High performance Garbage Collector (SGen - with many performance and scalability improvements)

Metric ton of runtime and class library improvements.

Also, expect F# 3.0 to be bundled in our OSX distribution.