Hello Haskellers, I'd like to announce the first release of hbeanstalk, a new library for interfacing with the Beanstalk message/work queue service. Beanstalk is a simple, fast workqueue service written in C http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/ , which is often used to facilitate moving time-consuming tasks off a web application server, reducing latency for users. hbeanstalk is a library that allows Haskell programs to either produce jobs, or consume them. It's a perfect way to have Haskell do your heavy lifting. The entire Beanstalk protocol is implemented, so you can also use hbeanstalk to inspect jobs and gather statistics. A large number of other languages have clients as well, so using Beanstalk can be a convenient way to cross language barriers. http://wiki.github.com/kr/beanstalkd/client-libraries Check it out on Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hbeanstalk Or at GitHub: http://github.com/scsibug/hbeanstalk/ Enjoy, Greg Heartsfield