Another Beta release of the upcoming Mono 3 project, a portable and open source implementation of the .NET framework for UNIX and Linux OSes, is now available for download and testing.
Mono 3.0.1 Beta comes with just a few enhancements and runtime optimizations, compared to the previous Beta release, which brought lots of interesting features, such as:
• C# Async compiler; • Unified C# compiler for all profiles; • 4.5 Async API profile; • ASP.NET MVC 4 integration; • ASP.NET WebPages integration; • Entity Framework integration; • Razor integration; • System.Json integration; • Added a high-performance garbage collector, called SGen; • Numerous other small bugfixes and improvements. Download Mono 3.0.1 Beta right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.