All, The previous decision[1] of the libraries list is that major HP releases are to be on a 4 month cycle for at least the first 12 months. [1]: http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Policy That means we're aiming for the next major release being in early September, about a month away from now. This email is to propose "obvious" updates. We hope these are not controversial and that we can quickly get an OK. We suggest updating each package to its latest stable release, except where noted below. In most cases this means relatively insignificant API changes. The cases of particular interest are: regex-* packages updated from 0.7x versions to 0.9x versions QuickCheck update from version 1.2.x to version 2.x We are not proposing to switch to parsec-3.x at this time. This proposal does not cover updates to the OpenGL package(s). Remove editline package Remove packedstring package The rationale for removing editline is that it is no longer used by ghc. It was only included in the platform in the first place because early releases of ghc-6.10.x shipped it as a core library. The rationale for removing packedstring is that is has been deprecated for some years now. It was only included in the platform because the template-haskell package still depended on it. The latest version of template-haskell no longer requires it. Duncan (on behalf of the HP release team)