Dear Haskellers, I am pleased to announce that a test instance of the Hackage 2 server is now running at http://new-hackage.haskell.org/ The plan is to test the new server for 3 weeks (until Monday 24 September), before switching over to Hackage 2 for real. The server has a mirror of Hackage from about a month ago, but more recent uploads are not automatically mirrored. In order to upload packages to it, you will need to sign up for an account and then mail the Hackage admins (hackage-admin@haskell.org), telling them your username and asking to be added to the 'uploaders' group. If you run into any problems, please either file a ticket tagged 'hackage2' at https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues or send an e-mail to the cabal-devel@haskell.org mailing list. A few more details about the plan: Assuming no major issues are found, the plan for after Monday is to disable uploads to the current Hackage server, to make an up-to-date mirror of it, and then to switch over to Hackage 2. Finally, I would like to thank the Industrial Haskell Group (http://industry.haskell.org/) for funding this work. Thanks Ian -- Ian Lynagh, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/