Greetings friends! I'm pleased to announce binary 0.3! The 'binary' package provides efficient serialization of Haskell values to and from lazy ByteStrings. ByteStrings constructed this way may then be written to disk, written to the network, or further processed (e.g. stored in memory directly, or compressed in memory with zlib or bzlib). In total 14 people have contributed code and many more given feedback and cheerleading on #haskell@freenode. Thanks to all of you! It's available through Hackage: tarball: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary/binary-0.3.tar.gz darcs: darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/binary homepage: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/binary.html It's been a while since the last release of binary [1] the 25th of January earlier this year. Lets have a look of what's changed since then: API additions ------------- The first thing you're going to notice that differs is the polished API. Being used by more people now than it was in January, we've added features that where missing before. More functions has been added to the Get/Put monads giving information over bytes read, remaining bytes etc for whenever you need to do custom serialization. You can now also read and write words in host endian order. Instances has been added to handle Double, Float and Ratio. Performance ----------- Decoding speed has been tuned by a rewrite and is currently about half the speed of the lightning fast encoding. Don't hesitate to give feedback on #haskell or by mail, we've always got time for a chat :) The Binary Strike Force, Lennart Kolmodin Duncan Coutts Don Stewart Spencer Janssen David Himmelstrup Björn Bringert Ross Paterson Einar Karttunen John Meacham Ulf Norell Tomasz Zielonka Stefan Karrmann Bryan O'Sullivan Florian Weimer [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/14800 -- "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." -- Albert Einstein