Last week we released MonoDevelop 1.0 RC1, the (hopefully) last release before 1.0. This is a bug fix release, with no real new features, so the release notes are a bit boring this time. There is however a nice improvement: many icons have been redesigned to better fit the Tango style, so MonoDevelop now looks nicer. Those icons were designed by Vincent Depizzol as part of a GHOP project. We had other GHOP collaborations, such as for example new translations, I hope Michael can find the time to blog soon about all of them.



In addition to bug fixing, we are also starting to do some post-1.0 work in SVN trunk. Mike has been working on a new managed editor, fully implemented in C#, and it progressing very well. Ankit has started doing some preliminary work on the debugger integration, and I've been doing an internal redesign of the project model which will allows us to move to MSBuild as default file format. After so much time being focused on bug fixing, it is refreshing to start implementing new features.

I spent last week working on the add-in authoring extension for MonoDevelop, which has been stalling in my hard disk since I blogged about it almost one year ago. The add-in is not yet ready to be used, but it is close, and the code is finally in SVN. Let's see if I can find the time to finish it. So many things to do...