Dear Haskellers, I am pleased to announce the release of Vital, an interactive visual programming environment based on Haskell. Vital provides the user with a workspace within which Haskell expressions and declarations can be located and their values displayed textually or graphically. The display is 'live' in the sense that the effects of graphical Copy and Paste operations carried out displayed values are automatically reflected in the Haskell source code. The long-term aim of the Vital project is to make Haskell available in a form that supports the open-ended, incremental style of program development that end users (engineers, scientists, analysts, etc.) often prefer. It may also be useful in teaching Haskell. This release of the Vital system is available from: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/vital/ The site includes screenshots and a downloadable implementation with demo programs. If you happen to have Java installed on your machine, you can (in principle!) run the Vital interpreter and these demo programs simply by clicking on this link http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/vital/download/start.jnlp Enjoy! Keith Hanna