Changes/Mono4.2

Mono 4.2

Summary

Update the Mono stack in Fedora to 4.2 aca Cyle 6

Owner

• Name: Claudio Rodrigo Pereyra Diaz
• Email: <elsupergomez@fedoraproject.org>
• Release notes owner:

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 24
• Last updated: 2016-02-05
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Mono 4.2 is the last release of Cycle 6 from Xamarin. See more details at Mono 4.2.1

Benefit to Fedora

Keep mono stack update with many new features and more compatible with .net platform.

Scope

• Proposal owners:

Mono 4.2 is in rawhide now. Most of the application must work fine with this update. See [1]

• Other developers:

Need check proper build on alternative platforms like ppc64 and s390

• Release engineering: N/A
  • List of deliverables: N/A

• Policies and guidelines: N/A

• Trademark approval: N/A

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Need check that all app depend on mono work fine.

How To Test

Interested testers do not need special hardware. Take a given Mono application and test it against the Mono from rawhide or at this copr repo and verify it works:

* http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/tpokorra/mono/

Any issue will be reported in github https://github.com/elsupergomez/lbs-mono-fedora or https://github.com/tpokorra/lbs-mono-fedora

User Experience

User should note speedy improvement running Mono applications.

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: Keep with Mono 4.0 from F23
• Contingency deadline: Alpha Freeze
• Blocks release? No
• Blocks product? None

Documentation

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Mono

https://github.com/mono/mono