I'm pleased to announce the first release of lens-family-core and lens-family. This package provide first class(†) functional references. In addition to the usual operations of getting, setting and composition, plus integration with the state monad, lens families provide some unique features: * Polymorphic updating * Cast projection functions to read-only lenses * Cast semantic editor combinators to modify-only lenses (†) For optimal first-class support use the lens-family package with rank 2 / rank N polymorphism. Lens.Family.Clone allows for first-class support of lenses for those who require Haskell 98. -- Russell O'Connor http://r6.ca/ ``All talk about `theft,''' the general counsel of the American Graphophone Company wrote, ``is the merest claptrap, for there exists no property in ideas musical, literary or artistic, except as defined by statute.''