We are delighted to announce that GHC now has a full-time support engineer. He is Ian Lynagh (aka Igloo on IRC), and is well known to many of you on the Haskell and GHC mailing lists. He'll be helping with all aspects of GHC, especially release management, bug diagnosis and tracking, documentation, packaging, and supporting other GHC hackers. Welcome Ian! We were absolutely delighted by both the number and quality of the people who applied for the post, and we want to thank them all very much for doing so. We love you all! Andrew Herbert, the lab director of Microsoft Research Cambridge lab director, also deserves a big thank-you, for supporting this post (no strings attached!). It'll make a huge difference. Looking forward to seeing many of you soon, at the GHC Hackathon [1] (25 people registered), and/or at ICFP in Portland. Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Hackathon