What's new
Mono now defaults to sgen
Fixed AOT on OSX 10.9
Update Mono.Cairo to include APIs from cairo 1.10
Update the LLVM used from Nov-2012 to Jul-2013
Several optimizations to improve string performance, exposed by a naive implementation of Sudoku:
- Enable managed allocation using gsharing
- Implemented the string allocator for SGen
- Fixed String.Contains, as it is not supposed to be culture aware (Mono was, so we took a big perf hit, and were wrong)
Added a dummy implementation of System.Net.Http.WebRequestHandler
On iOS, managed-to-native wrappers now follow the native ABI and can be unwinded.
Better FreeBSD support, sgen and dtrace can now be enabled
Bug fixes
3324 - Make WebClient report an error when the download aborted prematurely.
12457 - Add [Serializable] to X509Certificate2 (added in .NET 4.0)
12544 - Fix order of capturing of this inside switch statement.
12608 - Rewrite lifted binary operators to match C# spec more closely.
12638 - Fix MethodImplOptions argument checks.
12640 - Make ServicePointManager hash on the proxy as well as uri and use_connect
12731 - Emit dwarf line number info using .file/.loc assembler directives on osx.
12741 - Fix register allocation for hw remainder opcodes on armv7s.
12745 - Block task awaiter until task completes.
12762 - Use directly captured this instead of parent reference for nested state machine inside another state machine without anonymous storey.
12786 - When unloading domains, free dynamic assemblies first.
12799 - Mutate generic catch block type when needed.
12856 - Fix MethodInfo::ToString () to properly format generic structs.
12889 - Recover more from invalid throw statement.
12892 - Path.GetFullPath() may return incorrect relative path under Windows
12898 - Verify if the catch type is valid under the method context.
12949 - Call correct ApplyToExtraTarget base override.
12991 - Do system.object type scan after all references are loaded.