Mono 3.0

On October 18, a new version of the free cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework was released: Mono 3.0. A complete list of new features can be found in the Release Notes on the official website, but for now some of them are:

• Asynchronous C # 5.0 programming model support
• Uniform C # compiler for all profiles
• C # Interactive Shell
• 4.5 Async API Profile
• Work with ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET WebPages, Entity Framework, Razor, System.Json
• Improved performance garbage collector
• CodeContracts support
• Partial support for Portable Class Libraries