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Formally handing over control of the upstream Mono project to WineHQ is a nice move by Microsoft rather than just letting the upstream Mono die off or otherwise forked. Mono Microsoft to WineHQ Microsoft posted to the Mono-Project.com project site: The Mono Project (mono/mono) ('original mono') has been an important part of the .NET ecosystem since it was launched in 2001. Microsoft became the steward of the Mono Project when it acquired Xamarin in 2016. The last major release of the Mono Project was in July 2019, with minor patch releases since that time. The last patch release was February 2024. We are happy to announce that the WineHQ organization will be taking over as the stewards of the Mono Project upstream at wine-mono / Mono * GitLab (winehq.org). Source code in existing mono/mono and other repos will remain available, although repos may be archived. Binaries will remain available for up to four years. Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/ runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork. We want to recognize that the Mono Project was the first .NET implementation on Android, iOS, Linux, and other operating systems. The Mono Project was a trailblazer for the .NET platform across many operating systems. It helped make cross-platform .NET a reality and enabled .NET in many new places and we appreciate the work of those who came before us. Thank you to all the Mono developers! Microsoft acquired Xamarin back in 2016 as the developers behind Mono and other Xamarin projects. Mono originally was started by Miguel de Icaza and the gang as Ximian that was acquired by Novell two decades ago and then SUSE handed off Mono control to Xamarin in 2011. 10 Comments Tweet Related News Wine 9.16 Begins Working On Driver Store Implementation, Pbuffer Support For Wayland Wine-Staging 9.15 Adds Fixes For Lotus Approach & Need For Speed: Underground Wine 9.15 Brings A Lot Of Work On MSHTML, More Windows ODBC Driver Support Wine 9.14 Continues Working On ODBC Windows Driver Support, Fixes For AOL Wine 9.13 Released - Continues Rewriting The CMD.EXE Engine Wine 9.12 Lands Rewrite Of CMD.EXE Engine & Other Improvements About The Author Michael Larabel Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. 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