The first beta of MonoDevelop has just been released! I'm really excited on seeing a beta release of MD after so much time working on it, because it means that:

• MD has feature set complete enough for real life use.
• MD is becoming more and more stable. Yes, it still has bugs and crashes, but now that it is feature-frozen, we can focus 100% on bug fixing, and that's what we'll do in the following months.
• MD 1.0 is just around the corner. I hope it can be a nice Christmas gift.
  

We also have a new logo for the project. The logo started with this image of a monkey tail and ended being what you see up there. Inkscape does wonders.