After more than a year of development, we are happy to announce Mono 2.11, the first in a series of beta releases that will lead to the next 2.12 stable release.
Continuous Integration
To assist those helping us with testing the release, we have setup a new continuous build system that builds packages for Mac, OpenSUSE and Windows at http://wrench.mono-project.com/Wrench.
Runtime Improvements in Mono 2.11
There are hundreds of new features available in this release as we have accumulated them over a very long time. Every fix that has gone into the Mono 2.10.xx series has been integrated into this release.
In addition, here are some of the highlights of this release.
Garbage Collector: Our SGen garbage collector is now considered production quality and is in use by Xamarin's own commercial products.
The collector on multi-CPU systems will also distribute various tasks across the CPUs, it is no longer limited to the marking phase.
The guide Working with SGen will help developers tune the collector for their needs and discusses tricks that developers can take advantage of.
ThreadLocal<T> is now inlined by the runtime engine, speeding up many threaded applications.
Full Unicode Surrogate Support this was a long standing feature and has now been implemented.
C# 5.0 -- Async Support
Mono 2.11 implements the C# 5.0 language with complete support for async programming.
The Mono's class libraries have been updated to better support async programming. See the section "4.5 API" for more details.
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