It is our pleasure to announce the release of HTk, a graphical user interface toolkit and library for Haskell. Version 0.98 (World Cup edition) Htk is a typed, portable encapsulation of Tcl/Tk into Haskell. Its distinctive features are the use of Haskell types and type classes for structuring the interface, an abstract notion of event for describing user interaction, and portability across Windows, Unix and Linux. HTk is easily installed -- we provide precompiled binaries for Windows & Linux on x86 and Sparc/Solaris. All you need apart from one of these and a matching version of GHC (5.02.3) is a reasonable recent installation of the Tcl/Tk interpreter "wish". HTk should be particularly useful for teaching, but its reliability and extensive functionality also make it useful in many Haskell projects requiring easily designed graphical user interfaces. This release is for version 0.98. We hope to release version 1.00 in August. The HTk Homepage is http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/htk There, you will find binary downloads, source downloads, documention, and much more. HTk is (C) Universität Bremen, 2002. All rights reserved. Please do not hestitate to directed any further questions to George Russell Christoph Lüth