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Mono 2.8 is Released.

By Atiq, on October 8th, 2010%

The Mono developers have released Mono 2.8, a major update to the implementation of Microsoft’s .NET technology for Linux and other platforms. Miguel de Icaza, project lead, said in his blog that the release “contains ten months worth of new features, stability fixes, performance work and bug fixes”. The Mono C# compiler is now a complete implementation of the C# 4.0 specification and defaults to operating as a 4.0 based platform. A new Generational GC (Garbage collector) offers better performance for applications which consume and reuse large amounts of memory; benchmarkingshows CPU use is now much more predictable. Support for LLVM has now been marked as stable with a mono-llvm command allowing server applications to run with an LLVM back end, potentially offering greater performance; JIT compilation with LLVM is described as “very slow” in the release notes and therefore only currently suits long-lived server processes. . . . → Read More: Mono 2.8 is Released.

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ASP.NET Security Vulnerability Workaround

By Administrator, on September 27th, 2010%

In our first community post we covered a workaround you can apply immediately on your sites and applications to prevent attackers from exploiting it. Today, we are revising it to include an additional defensive measure. This additional step can be done at a server-wide level, and should take less than 5 minutes to implement. Importantly, this step does not replace the other steps in the original workaround, rather it should be done in addition to the steps already in it. Below are instructions on how to enable it. . . . → Read More: ASP.NET Security Vulnerability Workaround

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