Download Moonlight 2.0 Beta 2

The developers behind Mono, an open source implementation of the .Net Framework, have been working on Moonlight since 2007: an open source implementation of Microsoft’s silver light for Linux. Moonlight is available as a plugin for Mozilla Firefox in both 32bit and 64bit versions. Mono has now released the second beta version of Moonlight 2.0 and includes the following list of changes:

Beta Release Notice

This release is feature complete, but as a beta there are various known bugs (mostly minor) and most assuredly unknown ones as well. We still haven’t completed the security audit of the source code (mono or moonlight), so you need to be aware that there may be issues.

Beta 2

• ComboBox fixes involving the switching between the various item templates
• ContentControls will now use the ContentTemplate if ControlTemplate is null
• Various Template Binding fixes
• Layout fixes dealing with Grid, Shapes, and MediaElements.
• Animations (particularly when multiple animations target the same DO, as happens in VisualStates)
• TextBox event ordering/behavior
• Text layout and word-breaking fixes
• Font extents are now calculated using the same algorithm as silverlight, so text lines up even better
• various parser fixes for interesting cases found in the wild
• a lot of memory leak/corruption fixes
• lots of improvements in A11y from the UIA team

Beta 1

• This beta also contains some Silverlight 3.0 features
• Easing functions
• SaveFileDialog
• MultiScaleImage 3.0 API enhancements
• MediaStreamSource now supports PCM audio data, RGBA and YV12 video data.
• Writeable Bitmap is supported.