User-visible changes in the hledger command line tool and library.


# 5435150d

- cli: command help: reduce width, line wrapping
  cmdargs wraps any lines longer than 78 characters.  To (mostly) avoid
  this, we now display verbatim blocks unindented, and some of
  register's examples have been altered to make them fit.

- cli: render command help as plain text, hiding markup
  This means committing a bunch more generated files, but it's probably
  worthwhile, so we can have both rich hyperlinked/styled command docs
  and clean readable command help.

- cli: commands list: update, reorganise, show addons prefixed with +

- doc: integrate CLI help & manual for remaining commands

- renamed HelpTemplate -> CommandDoc

- journal: account directive: account sort codes like `account 1000`
  are no longer supported. (introduced in 1.9, deprecated in 1.11)

- journal: account directive: the account name can now be followed by
  a comment on the same line

- journal: account directive: account types can now be set with a
  `type:` tag, whose value is `Asset`, `Liability`, `Equity`,
  `Revenue`, `Expense`, `A`, `L`, `E`, `R` or `X` (case-insensitive).
  The previous syntax (`account assets A`) is now deprecated.

- journal: transaction modifiers can affect periodic transactions
  (--auto can add postings to transactions generated with --forecast).
  (Dmitry Astapov)

- journal: fixed a periodic transaction parsing failure (Dmitry
  Astapov)

- journal: balance assertion errors now show exact amounts with all
  decimal digits.  Previously it was possible, in case of a commodity
  directive limiting the display precision, to have a balance
  assertion error with asserted and actual amounts looking the
  same. (#941)

- balance --budget: budget amounts now aggregate hierarchically, like
  account balances. Unbudgeted accounts can be shown with -E/--empty
  (along with zero-balance accounts), and the --show-budgeted flag has
  been dropped.  (Dmitry Astapov)

- balance: a new --transpose flag switches the rows and columns of
  tabular balance reports (in txt and csv output formats) (Dmitry
  Astapov)

- close: generated balance assertions now have exact amounts with all
  decimal digits, ignoring display precision. Also, balance assertion
  amounts will no longer contain prices. (#941, #824, #958)

- files: added this command to the commands list

- import: be silent when there's nothing to import

- roi: percentages smaller than 0.01% are displayed as zero (Dmitry
  Astapov)

- stats, ui: correct file order is preserved when using --auto (#949)

- comprehensive bash completion support is now provided (in the
  hledger repo, see shell-completion/) (Jakob Schöttl)

# 1.12.1 (2018/12/03)

-   roi: use math-functions lib instead of statistics,
    be more stackage nightly compatible

# 1.12 (2018/12/02)

-   install script: ensure a new-enough version of stack; more informative output

-   build with GHC 8.6/base-4.12 (Peter Simons)

-   add required upper bound for statistics (Samuel May)

-   --anon anonymises more thoroughly (including linked original postings) (Moritz Kiefer)

-   unbalanced transaction errors now include location info (Mykola Orliuk)

-   accounts command: --drop also affects the default flat output, without needing an explicit --flat flag

-   accounts command: the --codes flag has been dropped

-   accounts command: filtering by non-account-name queries now works

-   add command: fix transaction rendering regression during data entry and in journal file

-   balance command: fix wrongful eliding of zero-balance parent accounts in tree mode (Dmitry Astapov)

-   journal format, bs/bse/cf/is commands: account directives can declare account types (#877)
    Previously you had to use one of the standard english account names
    (assets, liabilities..) for top-level accounts, if you wanted them to
    appear in the right place in the balancesheet, balancesheetequity,
    cashflow or incomestatement reports.

    Now you can use your preferred account names, and use account directives
    to declare which accounting class (Asset, Liability, Equity, Revenue or
    eXpense) an account (and its subaccounts) belongs to, by writing one of
    the letters A, L, E, R, X after the account name, after two or more
    spaces. This syntax may change (see issue). Experimental.

    Currently we allow unlimited account type declarations anywhere in the
    account tree. So you could declare a liability account somewhere under
    assets, and maybe a revenue account under that, and another asset account
    even further down. In such cases you start to see oddities like accounts
    appearing in multiple places in a tree-mode report. I have left it this
    way for now in case it helps with, eg, modelling contra accounts, or
    combining multiple files each with their own account type
    declarations. (In that scenario, if we only allowed type declarations on
    top-level accounts, or only allowed a single account of each type,
    complications seem likely.)

-   journal format: periodic transaction rules now require a double space separator.
    In periodic transaction rules which specify a transaction description or
    same-line transaction comment, this must be separated from the period
    expression by two or more spaces, to prevent ambiguous parsing. Eg
    this will parse correctly as "monthly" thanks to the double space:

        ~ monthly  In 2020 we'll end this monthly transaction.

-   journal format: exact/complete balance assertions (Samuel May).
    A stronger kind of balance assertion, written with a double equals sign,
    asserts an account's complete account balance, not just the balance in
    one commodity. (But only if it is a single-commodity balance, for now.)
    Eg:

        1/1
          (a)  A 1
          (a)  B 1
          (a)  0   =  A 1   ; commodity A balance assertion, succeeds
          (a)  0   == A 1   ; complete balance assertion, fails

-   journal format: account directives now allow whitespace or a comment after the account name

-   journal format: using \~ for home directory in include directives now works (#896) (Mykola Orliuk)

-   journal format: prevent misleading parse error messages with cyclic include directives (#853) (Alex Chen)

-   journal format: transaction modifier multipliers handle total-priced amounts correctly (#928).
    Multipliers (*N) in transaction modifier rules did not multiply
    total-priced amounts properly. Now the total prices are also multiplied,
    keeping the transaction balanced.

-   journal format: do amount inference/balance assignments/assertions before transaction modifiers (#893, #908) (Jesse Rosenthal)
    Previously, transaction modifier (auto postings) rules were applied
    before missing amounts were inferred. This meant amount multipliers could
    generate too many missing-amount postings, making the transaction
    unbalanceable (#893).

    Now, missing amount inference (and balance assignments, and balance
    assertions, which are interdependent) are done earlier, before
    transaction modifier rules are applied (#900, #903).

    Also, we now disallow the combination of balance assignments and
    transaction modifier rules which both affect the same account, which
    could otherwise cause confusing balance assertion failures (#912).
    (Because assignments now generate amounts to satisfy balance assertions
    before transaction modifier rules are applied (#908).)

-   journal format: periodic transaction rules are now aware of Y default year directives. (#892)
    Ie when a default year Y is in effect, they resolve partial or relative
    dates using Y/1/1 as the reference date, rather than today's date.

# 1.11.1 (2018/10/06)

-   fix wrong transaction rendering in balance assertion errors and when
    using the add command

# 1.11 (2018/9/30)

-   The default display order of accounts is now influenced by
    the order of account directives. Accounts declared by account
    directives are displayed first (top-most), in declaration order,
    followed by undeclared accounts in alphabetical order. Numeric
    account codes are no longer used, and are ignored and considered
    deprecated.

    So if your accounts are displaying in a weird order after upgrading,
    and you want them alphabetical like before, just sort your account
    directives alphabetically.

-   Account sorting (by name, by declaration, by amount) is now more
    robust and supported consistently by all commands (accounts,
    balance, bs..) in all modes (tree & flat, tabular & non-tabular).

-   close: new --opening/--closing flags to print only the opening or
    closing transaction

-   files: a new command to list included files

-   prices: query arguments are now supported. Prices can be filtered by
    date, and postings providing transaction prices can also be filtered.

-   rewrite: help clarifies relation to print --auto (#745)

-   roi: a new command to compute return on investment, based on hledger-irr

-   test: has more verbose output, more informative failure messages,
    and no longer tries to read the journal

-   csv: We use a more robust CSV lib (cassava) and now support
    non-comma separators, eg --separator ';' (experimental, this flag
    will probably become a CSV rule) (#829)

-   csv: interpolated field names in values are now properly case insensitive, so
    this works:

        fields  ...,Transaction_Date,...
        date %Transaction_Date

-   journal: D (default commodity) directives no longer break multiplier
    amounts in transaction modifiers (AKA automated postings) (#860)

-   journal: "Automated Postings" have been renamed to "Transaction Modifiers".

-   journal: transaction comments in transaction modifier rules are now parsed correctly. (#745)

-   journal: when include files form a cycle, we give an error instead
    of hanging.

-   upper-case day/month names in period expressions no longer give an error (#847, #852)

# 1.10 (2018/6/30)

-   journal: many parse error messages have become more informative, and
    some now show the source line and error location.

-   journal: ;tag: is no longer parsed as a tag named ";tag" (#655)

-   journal: transaction price amounts having their own price amounts is
    now a parse error

-   journal: amounts with space as digit group separator and trailing whitespace
    now parse correctly (#780)

-   journal: in amounts containing digits and a single space, the space
    is now interpreted as a digit group separator, not a decimal separator (#749)

-   journal: in commodity/format/D directives, the amount must now include a decimal separator.

    When more precise control is needed over number parsing, our
    recommended solution is commodity directives. Commodity directives
    that don't specify the decimal separator leave things ambiguous,
    increasing the chance of misparsing numbers. In some cases it could
    cause amounts with a decimal point to be parsed as if with a digit
    group separator, so 1.234 became 1234.

    It seems the simple and really only way to do this reliably is to require
    an explicit decimal point character. Most folks probably do this already.
    Unfortunately, it makes another potential incompatiblity with ledger and
    beancount journals. But the error message will be clear and easy to
    work around.

-   journal: directives currently have diverse and somewhat tricky
    semantics, especially with multiple files. The manual now describes
    their behaviour precisely.

-   journal: `alias` and `apply account` directives now affect `account` directives (#825)

-   journal: periodic transactions can now have all the usual transaction fields
    (status mark, code, description, comment), for generating more expressive
    forecast transactions.

-   journal: forecast transactions now have the generating period
    expression attached as a tag named "recur".

-   journal: periodic transactions now start on the first instance of the
    recurring date, rather than the day after the last regular transaction (#750)

-   journal: periodic transaction rules now allow period expressions relative to today's date

-   csv: amount-in/amount-out errors are more detailed

-   balance: --drop is now ignored when not in flat mode,
    rather than producing a corrupted report (#754)

-   budget: --drop now preserves the <unbudgeted> top-level account in --budget reports

-   register: in CSV output, the code field is now included (#746)

-   smart dates now allow the YYYYMM format, and are better documented

-   use hledger-lib 1.10

# 1.9.1 (2018/4/30)

-   use hledger-lib 1.9.1

-   budget (balance --budget): monthly columns are displayed in the
    proper order. This fixes a regression in 1.9.

-   budget: budgets can be built from periodic transactions with
    different intervals again. In 1.9, budgets were restricted to a
    single interval, but this was a mistake. This restores the 1.5
    behaviour.

-   budget: budget reports are more intuitive and much less likely to
    produce no output.

-   budget: when no report interval is specified, a budget report for
    the whole journal period is shown.

-   budget: periodic transactions and the requested report period can
    each have their own start/end dates, and the resulting report will
    span the union of those periods, showing zeroes where data is
    missing.

-   budget: total row and total/average columns are now calculated correctly

-   budget: actual, percentage, and goal amounts are now aligned in
    columns for better readability (usually, unless numbers get huge).

-   budget: combining --budget and --sort-amount is not yet supported
    and now gives an error.

-   csv: handle "-%amount" in a rule when the CSV amount is parenthesised (#736)

-   journal: automated postings are now generated early, before journal finalisation,
    so they are present for amount inference, transaction balancing, and balance assertions
    (#729)

-   journal: automated postings are now inserted right after the posting that triggered them
    (#729)

-   cli: command-line account aliases are now applied early, before journal finalisation,
    so they are equivalent to alias directives in the journal (#730)

-   journal: inferred amounts now have the appropriate standard amount style applied
    (setting the precision correctly, eg). (#737)

-   journal: when checking for balanced transactions, amount styles declared with
    commodity directives are also used (previously only inferred amount styles were).

# 1.9 (2018/3/31)

-   support ghc 8.4, latest deps

-   journal: account directives can define a numeric account code to
    customize sorting. bal/bs/cf/is will sort accounts by account code,
    if any, then account name.

-   journal: support scientific number notation (#704, #706)

-   csv: reading a CSV file containing no records is no longer an error

-   cli: when the system text encoding is UTF-8, ignore any UTF-8 BOM
    prefix found when reading files. (Paypal's new CSV has this BOM
    prefix, causing a confusing parse error.)

-   cli: tabular reports no longer have a trailing blank line added.
    (This allows omitting the ">=0" delimiters in our functional tests,
    making them easier to read and maintain.)

-   acc: the accounts command now has --declared and --used flags

-   bal: the --invert flag flips all signs

-   bal: --drop now works with CSV output

-   bal/bs/bse/cf/is: show overall report span in title

-   bal/bs/bse/cf/is: show short month names as headings in monthly reports

-   bal/bs/bse/cf/is: these commands can now generate HTML output

-   bal/bs/is/cf: drop short name and indent fields from multicolumn CSV

-   bs/bse/cf/is: these, the "financial statement" commands, now show
    normal income, liability and equity balances as positive numbers.
    Negative numbers now indicate a contra-balance (eg an overdrawn
    checking account), a net loss, or a negative net worth. This makes
    these reports more like conventional financial statements, and easier
    to read and share with others. (Other commands, like balance, have not
    changed.) (experimental)

-   bs/cf/is: always show a tabular report, even with no report
    interval. Previously you would get a simple borderless report like
    the original balance command. Less code, fewer bugs.

-   bs/bse/cf/is: in CSV output, don't repeat the headings row for each subreport

-   budget: warn that CSV output with bal --budget is unimplemented

-   budget: bal --budget shows budget goals even with no or zero actual amounts.
    Makes budget reports more intuitive, at the cost of a temporary hack
    which may misorder columns in some cases (if actual and budget
    activity occur in a different range of columns).

-   budget: --budget uses only periodic txns with the selected interval.\
    Budgets with different interval, eg a daily and weekly budget, are independent.

-   budget: show mostly fixed-width columns for readability

-   budget: fix bug where a budget report could include budget goals
    ending on the day before the report start date (splitSpan issue)

-   close: the equity command has been renamed to close. It now ignores
    any begin date (it always closes historical end balances). It also
    ignores --date2.

# 1.5 (2017/12/31)

-   --auto adds Ledger-style automated postings to transactions (Dmitry Astapov, Mykola Orliuk)

-   --forecast generates Ledger-style periodic transactions in the future (Dmitry Astapov, Mykola Orliuk)

-   -V/--value uses today's market prices by default, not those of last transaction date. #683, #648

-   add: suggest implied (parent) and declared (by account directives) account names also

-   bal: --budget shows performance compared to budget goals defined
    with periodic transactions. Accounts with budget goals are
    displayed folded (depth-clipped) at a depth matching the budget
    specification. Unbudgeted accounts are hidden, or with
    --show-unbudgeted, shown at their usual depth. (Dmitry Astapov)

-   import: the output of --dry-run is now valid journal format

-   print: -B shows converted amounts again, as in 1.1, even without
    -x. #551 (Mykola Orliuk, Simon Michael)

-   tag: the first argument now filters tag names, additional arguments
    filter transactions (#261)

-   remove upper bounds on all but hledger* and base (experimental)

# 1.4 (2017/9/30)

-   cli: a @FILE argument reads flags & args from FILE, one per line

-   cli: reorganized commands list, added some new command aliases:

    -   accounts: a
    -   balance: b
    -   print: p, txns
    -   register: r

-   cli: accept -NUM as a shortcut for --depth=NUM (eg: -2)

-   cli: improve command-line help for --date2 (#604)

-   cli: make --help and -h the same, drop --man and --info for now (#579)

-   help: offers multiple formats, accepts topic substrings.
    The separate info/man commands have been dropped. help now
    chooses an appropriate documentation format as follows:

    -   it uses info if available,
    -   otherwise man if available,
    -   otherwise $PAGER if defined,
    -   otherwise less if available,
    -   otherwise it prints on stdout
    -   (and it always prints on stdout when piped).

    You can override this with the `--info`/`--man`/`--pager`/`--cat` flags.
    (#579)

-   bal/bs/cf/is: --sort-amount/-S sorts by largest amount instead of
    account name

-   bs/cf/is: support --output-file and --output-format=txt\|csv
    The CSV output should be reasonably ok for dragging into a
    spreadsheet and reformatting.

-   bal/bs/cf/is: consistent double space between columns, consistent
    single final blank line. Previously, amounts wider than the column
    headings would be separated by only a single space.

-   bs/is: don't let an empty subreport disable the grand totals (fixes #588)

-   cf: exclude asset accounts with ":fixed" in their name (Christian G. Warden, Simon Michael, #584)

-   new balancesheetequity command: like balancesheet but also shows
    equity accounts (Nicholas Niro)

-   new import command: adds new transactions seen in one or more input
    files to the main journal file

-   print: --new shows only transactions added since last time
    (saves state in .latest.JOURNALFILE file)

-   new tags command: lists tags in matched transactions

-   most addons formerly shipped in bin/ are now builtin commands. These
    include: check-dates, check-dupes, equity, prices, print-unique,
    register-match, rewrite.

-   refactor: new Commands module and subdirectory.
    Builtin commands are now gathered more tightly in a single module,
    Hledger.Cli.Commands, facilitating change. The legacy "convert"
    command has been dropped.

-   refactor: BalanceView -> CompoundBalanceCommand

-   deps: drop support for directory < 1.2

-   deps: allow ansi-terminal 0.7

-   deps: drop oldtime flag, require time 1.5+

-   deps: simplify shakespeare bounds

-   deps: remove ghc < 7.6 support

# 1.3.1 (2017/8/25)

-   bs/is: don't let an empty subreport disable the grand totals (#588)

-   allow megaparsec 6 (#594)

-   allow megaparsec-6.1 (Hans-Peter Deifel)

-   restore upper bounds on hledger packages

# 1.3 (2017/6/30)

The "uncleared" transaction/posting status, and associated UI flags
and keys, have been renamed to "unmarked" to remove ambiguity and
confusion. This means that we have dropped the `--uncleared` flag,
and our `-U` flag now matches only unmarked things and not pending
ones. See the issue and linked mail list discussion for more
background. (#564)

Also the -P short flag has been added for --pending, and the -U/-P/-C
flags can be combined.

bs/is: fix "Ratio has zero denominator" error (#535)

bs/is/cf: fix --flat (#552) (Justin Le, Simon Michael)

bal/bs/is/cf: show negative amounts in red (Simon Michael, Justin Le).
These commands now shows negative amounts in red, when hledger detects
that ANSI codes are supported, (ie when TERM is not "dumb" and stdout
is not being redirected or piped).

print: show pending mark on postings (fixes #563).
A pending mark on postings is now displayed, just like a cleared mark.
Also there will now be a space between the mark and account name.

print: amounts are now better aligned, eg when there are posting
status marks or virtual postings

# 1.2 (2017/3/31)

## CLI

"hledger" and "hledger -h" now print a better organised commands list
and general usage message respectively (#297).

The common reporting flags can now be used anywhere on the command line.

Fixed deduplication of addons in commands list.

Fixed ugly stack traces in command line parse error messages.

The -V/--value flag is now a global report flag, so it works with
balance, print, register, balancesheet, incomestatement, cashflow,
etc. (Justin Le)

The `--pivot` global reporting option replaces all account names with
the value of some other field or tag. It has been improved, eg:

-   we don't add the field/tag name name as a prefix
-   when pivoting on a tag, if the tag is missing we show a blank
    (rather than showing mixed tag values and account names)
-   a pipe character delimiter may be used in descriptions to get a more accurate
    and useful payee report (`hledger balance --pivot payee`)

options cleanups

## Addons

Easier installation:
move add-ons and example scripts to bin/,
convert to stack scripts,
add a build script to install all deps,
add some functional tests,
test add-ons with Travis CI,
add installation docs to download page.

Improved docs:
all addons now contain their own documentation. Most of them (all but
hledger-budget) use a new reduced-boilerplate declaration format
and can show short (-h) and long (--help) command line help.
(Long help is declared with pre and postambles to the generated
options help, short help is that truncated at the start of the hledger
common flags.)

`hledger` now shows a cleaner list of addon commands, showing only the
compiled version of an addon when both source and compiled versions
are in $PATH. (Addons with .exe extension or no extension are
considered compiled. Modification time is not checked, ie, an old
compiled addon will override a newer source version. If there are
three or more versions of an addon, all are shown. )

New addons added/included:

-   autosync - example symlink to ledger-autosync
-   budget - experimental budget reporting command supporting Ledger-like periodic transactions and automated transactions (Mykola Orliuk)
-   chart - pie-chart-generating prototype, a repackaging of the old hledger-chart tool
-   check - more powerful balance assertions (Michael Walker)
-   check-dupes - find accounts sharing the same leaf name (Stefano Rodighiero)
-   prices - show all market price records (Mykola Orliuk)
-   register-match - a helper for ledger-autosync's deduplication, finds best match for a transaction description

The equity command now always generates a valid journal transaction,
handles prices better, and adds balance assertions (Mykola Orliuk).

The rewrite command is more robust and powerful (Mykola Orliuk):

-   in addition to command-line rewrite options, it understands rewrite rules
    defined in the journal, similar to Ledger's automated transactions (#99).
    Eg:

        = ^income
            (liabilities:tax)  *.33

        = expenses:gifts
            budget:gifts  *-1
            assets:budget  *1

-   it can generate diff output, allowing easier review of the proposed
    changes, and safe modification of original journal files (preserving
    file-level comments and directives). Eg:

        hledger-rewrite --diff Agency --add-posting 'Expenses:Taxes  *0.17' | patch

-   rewrites can affect multiple postings in a transaction, not just one.

-   posting-specific dates are handled better

## balance

A new --pretty-tables option uses unicode characters for rendering
table borders in multicolumn reports (#522) (Moritz Kiefer)

## balancesheet/cashflow/incomestatement

These commands are now more powerful, able to show multicolumn reports
and generally having the same features as the balance command. (Justin Le)

balancesheet has always ignored a begin date specified with a `-b` or
`-p` option; now it also ignores a begin date specified with a `date:`
query. (Related discussion at #531)

## print

The output of print is now always a valid journal (fixes #465) (Mykola Orliuk).

print now tries to preserves the format of implicit/explicit balancing
amounts and prices, by default. To print with all amounts explicit,
use the new `--explicit/-x` flag (fixes #442). (Mykola Orliuk)

Don't lose the commodity of zero amounts/zero balance assertions (fixes #475) (Mykola Orliuk)

## Misc

Fix a regression in the readability of option parsing errors (#478) (Hans-Peter Deifel)

Fix an example in Cli/Main.hs (Steven R. Baker)

Allow megaparsec 5.2 (#503)

# 1.1 (2016/12/31)

## balance

-   with -V, don't ignore market prices in the future (#453, #403)

-   with -V and multiple same-date market prices, use the last parsed not the highest price (#403)

## misc

-   fix non-existent "oldtime" dependency (#431)

-   extra/hledger-equity.hs now generates valid journal format when there are multiple commodities

# 1.0.1 (2016/10/27)

-   allow megaparsec 5.0 or 5.1

-   fix benchmark build failure (#423)

# 1.0 (2016/10/26)

## add

-   suggest only one commodity at a time as default amount (#383)

    (since we currently can't input more than one at a time)

## balance

-   added --change flag for consistency

-   -H/--historical now also affects single-column balance reports with a start date (#392).

    This has the same effect as just omitting the start date, but adds consistency.

-   in CSV output, render amounts in one-line format (#336)

## balancesheet

-   fix an infinite loop (#393)

## print

-   in CSV output, fix and rename the transaction id field

## register

-   fix a sorting regression with --date2 (#326)

-   --average/-A is now affected by --historical/-H

-   added --cumulative flag for consistency

-   in CSV output, include the transaction id and rename the total field (#391)

## stats

-   fixed an issue with ordering of include files

## misc

-   --pivot option added, groups postings by tag instead of account (#323) (Malte Brandy)

-   --anon option added, obfuscates account names and descriptions (#265) (Brian Scott)

    (Only affects the hledger tool, for now.)

-   try to clarify balance/register's various report modes,

    kinds of "balance" displayed, and related options and language.

-   with multiple --change/--cumulative/--historical flags, use the last one instead of complaining

-   don't add the "d" suffix when displaying day periods

-   stack-ify extra/hledger-rewrite.hs

## misc

-   added GHC 8 support, dropped GHC 7.6 and 7.8 support.

    GHC 7.8 support could be restored with small code changes and a maintainer.

-   a cabal.project file has been added (Moritz Kiefer)

-   use hpack for maintaining cabal files (#371).

    Instead of editing cabal files directly, we now edit the less
    verbose and less redundant package.yaml files and let stack (or
    hpack) update the cabal files. We commit both the .yaml and
    .cabal files.

-   clean up some old cabal flags

-   tools/simplebench has been spun off as the quickbench package.

-   add Appveyor CI builds, provide up-to-date binaries for Windows

-   extra: add a bunch of CSV rules examples

## docs

-   the website is simpler, clearer, and more mobile-friendly.

    Docs are now collected on a single page and organised by type: getting started, reference, more.

-   reference docs have been split into one manual for each executable and file format.

    This helps with maintenance and packaging and also should make it
    easier to see what's available and to read just what you need.

-   manuals are now provided in html, plain text, man and info formats

    generated from the same source by a new Shake-based docs build system. (#292)

-   versioned manuals are provided on the website, covering recent releases and the latest dev version (#385, #387)

-   manuals are built in to the hledger executables, allowing easy offline reading on all platforms.

        PROG -h              shows PROG's command-line usage
        PROG --help          shows PROG's manual (fixed width)
        PROG --man           shows PROG's manual with man (formatted/paged)
        PROG --info          shows PROG's manual with info (hypertext)
        hledger help [TOPIC] shows any manual
        hledger man  [TOPIC] shows any manual with man
        hledger info [TOPIC] shows any manual with info

-   the general and reporting options are now listed in all executable manuals.

    We assume any of them which are unsupported are harmlessly ignored.

-   demo.hledger.org is using beancount's example journal.

    This is the somewhat realistic example journal from the beancount
    project, tweaked for hledger.

-   minor copyedits (jungle-boogie)

## cli

-   parsing multiple input files is now robust.

    When multiple -f options are provided, we now parse each file
    individually rather than just concatenating them, so they can
    have different formats (#320). Note this also means that
    directives (like \`Y\` or \`alias\`) no longer carry over from one
    file to the next.

-   -I has been added as the short flag for --ignore-assertions

    (this is different from Ledger's CLI, but useful for hledger-ui).

-   parsing an argument-less --debug option is more robust

0.27 (2015/10/30)

Account aliases:

-   Regular expression account aliases are now fast enough that you can
    use lots of them without slowing things down. They now take
    O(aliases x accounts) time, instead of O(aliases x transactions);
    also, regular expressions are no longer recompiled unnecessarily.

Documentation:

-   Each hledger package now includes one or more man pages, generated
    from markdown by the mighty pandoc. Currently there are six: one
    for each main executable and each input file format. Currently these
    somewhat duplicate the manual on the website; this will be resolved
    somehow. (#282).

-   The site is now built with hakyll-std, a generic hakyll script.

-   hledger once again has a HCAR entry.

Tools:

-   The hledger cabal files are now generated from package.yaml files by
    hpack, in principle, removing a lot of error-prone duplication and
    boilerplate. (In practice, both files are being updated manually
    for the moment, until hpack supports flags and conditional blocks.)

-   Time/allocation and heap profiling is working again, and easier:

    -   `make quickprof-CMD` generates a profile for CMD, which runs
        against one of the sample journals. (CMD must be one word,
        enclosing in double quotes isn't working here for some reason).

    -   `make quickheap-CMD` generates a heap profile for CMD, in
        hledgerprof.ps, and tries to open it in a viewer (currently the
        mac-friendly "open" executable, so you may need to adjust this in
        the makefile). As with quickprof, CMD must be one word and runs
        against one of the sample journals.

    -   `make hledgerprof` builds the hledgerprof executable used for
        time/allocation profiling. `make hledgercov` builds the hledgercov
        executable used for coverage reports.

-   Travis CI now tests the build on each github push and announces
    status changes by email and on #hledger.

Journal format:

-   Dates must now begin with a digit (not /, eg).

-   The comment directive longer requires an end comment, and will
    extend to the end of the file(s) without it.

Command-line interface:

-   Output (balance reports, register reports, print output etc.)
    containing wide characters, eg chinese/japanese/korean characters,
    should now align correctly, when viewed in apps and fonts that show
    wide characters as double width (#242).

-   The argument for --depth or depth: must now be positive.

add:

-   Journal entries are now written with all amounts explicit, to avoid
    losing price info (#283).

-   Fixed a bug which sometimes (when the same letter pair was repeated)
    caused it not to pick the most similar past transaction for defaults.

balance:

-   There is now a -V/--value flag to report current market value (as in Ledger).
    It converts all reported amounts using their "default market price".
    "Market price" is the new name for "historical prices", defined with the P directive.
    The default market price for a commodity is the most recent one found in the journal on or before the report end date.

    Unlike Ledger, hledger's -V uses only the market prices recorded
    with P directives; it does not use the "transaction prices"
    recorded as part of posting amounts (which are used by -B/--cost).
    Also, using both -B and -V at the same time is supported.

-   Fixed a bug in amount normalization which caused amount styles
    (commodity symbol placement, decimal point character, etc.) to be
    lost in certain cases (#230, #276).

-   The balance command's --format option can now adjust the rendering
    style of multi-commodity amounts, if you begin the format string
    with one of:

        %_  - renders amounts on multiple lines, bottom-aligned (the default)
        %^  - renders amounts on multiple lines, top-aligned
        %,  - renders amounts on one line, comma-separated

-   The balance report's final total (and the line above it) now adapt
    themselves to a custom --format.

print:

-   The --match option prints the journal entry that best matches a
    description (ie whose description field is most similar to the value
    given, and if there are several equally similar, the most recent).
    This was originally an add-on I used to guess account names for
    ledger-autosync. It's nice for quickly looking up a recent
    transaction from a guessed or partial description.

-   print now always right-aligns the amounts in an entry, even when
    they are wider than 12 characters. (If there is a price, it's
    considered part of the amount for right-alignment.)

register:

-   Amount columns now resize automatically, using more space if it's
    needed and available.

0.26 (2015/7/12)

Account aliases:

-   Account aliases are once again non-regular-expression-based, by default. (#252)

    The regex account aliases added in 0.24 trip up people switching between
    hledger and Ledger. (Also they are currently slow).

    This change makes the old non-regex aliases the default; they are
    unsurprising, useful, and pretty close in functionality to Ledger's.

    The new regex aliases are still available; they must be enclosed
    in forward slashes. (Ledger effectively ignores these.)

Journal format:

-   We now parse, and also print, journal entries with no postings, as
    proposed on the mail lists. These are not well-formed General
    Journal entries/transactions, but here is my rationale:

    -   Ledger and beancount parse them
    -   if they are parsed, they should be printed
    -   they provide a convenient way to record (and report) non-transaction events
    -   they permit more gradual introduction and learning of the concepts.
        So eg a beginner can keep a simple journal before learning about accounts and postings.

-   Trailing whitespace after a `comment` directive is now ignored.

Command-line interface:

-   The -f/file option may now be used multiple times.
    This is equivalent to concatenating the input files before running hledger.
    The add command adds entries to the first file specified.

Queries:

-   real: (no argument) is now a synonym for real:1

-   tag: now matches tag names with a regular expression, like most other queries

-   empty: is no longer supported, as it overlaps a bit confusingly with
    amt:0. The --empty flag is still available.

-   You can now match on pending status (#250)

    A transaction/posting status of ! (pending) was effectively equivalent
    to * (cleared). Now it's a separate state, not matched by --cleared.
    The new Ledger-compatible --pending flag matches it, and so does
    --uncleared.

    The relevant search query terms are now status:*, status:! and
    status: (the old status:1 and status:0 spellings are deprecated).

    Since we interpret --uncleared and status: as "any state except cleared",
    it's not currently possible to match things which are neither cleared
    nor pending.

activity:

-   activity no longer excludes 0-amount postings by default.

add:

-   Don't show quotes around the journal file path in the "Creating..."
    message, for consistency with the subsequent "Adding..." message.

balancesheet:

-   Accounts beginning with "debt" or now also recognised as liabilities.

print:

-   We now limit the display precision of inferred prices. (#262)

    When a transaction posts to two commodities without specifying the
    conversion price, we generate a price which makes it balance (cf
    http://hledger.org/manual.html#prices). The print command showed
    this with full precision (so that manual calculations with the
    displayed numbers would look right), but this sometimes meant we
    showed 255 digits (when there are multiple postings in the
    commodity being priced, and the averaged unit price is an
    irrational number). In this case we now set the price's display
    precision to the sum of the (max) display precisions of the
    commodities involved. An example:

          hledgerdev -f- print
          <<<
          1/1
              c    C 10.00
              c    C 11.00
              d  D -320.00
          >>>
          2015/01/01
              c  C 10.00 @ D 15.2381
              c  C 11.00 @ D 15.2381
              d     D -320.00

          >>>=0

    There might still be cases where this will show more price decimal
    places than necessary.

-   We now show inferred unit prices with at least 2 decimal places.

    When inferring prices, if the commodities involved have low
    display precisions, we don't do a good job of rendering
    accurate-looking unit prices. Eg if the journal doesn't use any
    decimal places, any inferred unit prices are also displayed with
    no decimal places, which makes them look wrong to the user. Now,
    we always give inferred unit prices a minimum display precision of
    2, which helps a bit.

register:

-   Postings with no amounts could give a runtime error in some obscure case, now fixed.

stats:

-   stats now supports -o/--outputfile, like register/balance/print.
-   An O(n\^2) performance slowdown has been fixed, it's now much faster on large journals.

        +--------------------------------------++--------+--------+
        |                                      ||   0.25 |   0.26 |
        +======================================++========+========+
        | -f data/100x100x10.journal     stats ||   0.10 |   0.16 |
        | -f data/1000x1000x10.journal   stats ||   0.45 |   0.21 |
        | -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  stats ||  58.92 |   2.16 |
        +--------------------------------------++--------+--------+

Miscellaneous:

-   The June 30 day span was not being rendered correctly; fixed. (#272)

-   The bench script invoked by "cabal bench" or "stack bench" now runs
    some simple benchmarks.

    You can get more accurate benchmark times by running with --criterion.
    This will usually give much the same numbers and takes much longer.

    Or with --simplebench, it benchmarks whatever commands are
    configured in bench/default.bench. This mode uses the first
    "hledger" executable in $PATH.

-   The deprecated shakespeare-text dependency has been removed more thoroughly.

0.25.1 (2015/4/29)

-   timelog: support the description field (#247)

0.25 (2015/4/7)

-   GHC 7.10 compatibility (#239)

-   build with terminfo support on POSIX systems by default

    On non-windows systems, we now build with terminfo support by
    default, useful for detecting terminal width and other things.

    This requires the C curses dev libaries, which makes POSIX
    installation slightly harder; if it causes problems you can
    disable terminfo support with the new `curses` cabal flag, eg:
    cabal install -f-curses ... (or cabal might try this
    automatically, I'm not sure).

-   register: use the full terminal width, respect COLUMNS, allow column width adjustment

    On POSIX systems, register now uses the full terminal width by
    default. Specifically, the output width is set from:

    1.  a --width option
    2.  or a COLUMNS environment variable (NB: not the same as a bash shell var)
    3.  or on POSIX (non-windows) systems, the current terminal width
    4.  or the default, 80 characters.

    Also, register's --width option now accepts an optional
    description column width following the overall width (--width
    WIDTH\[,DESCWIDTH\]). This also sets the account column width, since
    the available space (WIDTH-41) is divided up between these two
    columns. Here's a diagram:

          <--------------------------------- width (W) ---------------------------------->
          date (10)  description (D)       account (W-41-D)     amount (12)   balance (12)
          DDDDDDDDDD dddddddddddddddddddd  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  AAAAAAAAAAAA  AAAAAAAAAAAA

    Examples:

          $ hledger reg                 # use terminal width on posix
          $ hledger reg -w 100          # width 100, equal description/account widths
          $ hledger reg -w 100,40       # width 100, wider description
          $ hledger reg -w $COLUMNS,100 # terminal width and set description width

-   balance: new -T/--row-total and -A/--average options

    In multicolumn balance reports, -T/--row-total now shows a row totals
    column and -A/--average shows a row averages column.
    This helps eg to see monthly average expenses (hledger bal \^expenses -MA).

    NB our use of -T deviates from Ledger's UI, where -T sets a custom
    final total expression.

-   balance: -N is now short for --no-total
-   balance: fix partially-visible totals row with --no-total

    A periodic (not using --cumulative or --historical) balance report
    with --no-total now hides the totals row properly.

-   journal, csv: comment lines can also start with *

    As in Ledger. This means you can embed emacs org/outline-mode nodes in
    your journal file and manipulate it like an outline.

0.24.1 (2015/3/15)

-   journal: fix balance accumulation across assertions (#195)

    A sequence of balance assertions asserting first one commodity, then
    another, then the first again, was not working.

-   timelog: show hours with two decimal places instead of one (#237)
-   in weekly reports, simplify week 52's heading like the others
-   disallow trailing garbage in a number of parsers

    Trailing garbage is no longer ignored when parsing the following:
    balance --format option, register --width option, hledger-rewrite
    options, hledger add's inputs, CSV amounts, posting amounts,
    posting dates in tags.

-   allow utf8-string-1 (fpco/stackage/#426)

0.24 (2014/12/25)

General:

-   fix redundant compilation when cabal installing the hledger packages
-   switch to Decimal for representing amounts (#118)
-   report interval headings (eg in balance, register reports) are shown
    compactly when possible
-   general speedups

Journal format:

-   detect decimal point and digit groups more robustly (#196)
-   check that transaction dates are followed by whitespace or newline
-   check that dates use a consistent separator character
-   balance assertions now are specific to a single commodity, like
    Ledger (#195)
-   support multi-line comments using "comment", "end comment"
    directives, like Ledger

CSV format:

-   reading CSV data from stdin now works better
-   the rules file include directive is now relative to the current
    file's directory (#198)
-   the original order of same-day transactions is now usually preserved
    (if the records appear to be in reverse date order, we reverse them
    before finally sorting by transaction date)
-   CSV output is now built in to the balance, print, and register
    commands, controlled by -O/--output-format (and -o/--output-file,
    see below)

CLI:

-   the --width and --debug options now require their argument (#149)
-   when an option is repeated, the last value takes precedence (#219).
    This is helpful eg for customising your reporting command aliases on
    the fly.
-   smart dates (used in -p/-b/-e/date:/date2:) now must use a
    consistent separator character, and must be parseable to the end
-   output destination and format selection is now built in to the
    balance, print and register commands, controlled by -o/--output-file
    and -O/--output-format options. Notes:
    -   -o - means stdout
    -   an output file name suffix matching a supported format will also
        set the output format, unless overridden by --output-format
    -   commands' supported output formats are listed in their
        command-line help. Two formats are currently available:
        txt (the default) and csv.
-   balance assertions can be disabled with --ignore-assertions

Account aliases:

-   all matching account aliases are now applied, not just one directive
    and one option
-   account aliases now match by case insensitive regular expressions
    matching anywhere in the account name
-   account aliases can replace multiple occurrences of the pattern
    within an account name
-   an account alias replacement pattern can reference matched groups
    with \N

Queries:

-   date:/date2: with a malformed date now reports an error instead of
    being ignored
-   amt: now supports >= or <=
-   clarify status: docs and behaviour; \"*\" is no longer a synonym for
    "1" (fixes #227)

balance:

-   fix: in tree mode, --drop is ignored instead of showing empty account names
-   a depth limit of 0 now shows summary items with account name "...",
    instead of an empty report (#206)
-   in multicolumn balance reports, -E now also shows posting-less
    accounts with a non-zero balance during the period (in addition to
    showing leading & trailing empty columns)
-   in multicolumn reports, multi-commodity amounts are rendered on one
    line for better layout (#186)
-   multicolumn reports' title now includes the report span

register:

-   runs faster with large output
-   supports date2:, and date:/date2: combined with --date2, better (fixes
    #201, #221, #222)
-   a depth limit of 0 now shows summary items (see balance)
-   -A/--average now implies -E/--empty
-   postings with multi-commodity amounts are now top-aligned, like
    Ledger

Extra commands:

-   hledger-equity: fix end date in title; print closing entry too
-   hledger-check-dates: added

0.23.3 (2014/9/12)

-   allow text 1.2+ (#207)

0.23.2 (2014/5/8)

-   register: also fix date sorting of postings (#184)

0.23.1 (2014/5/7)

-   register: fix a refactoring-related regression that the tests
    missed: if transactions were not ordered by date in the journal,
    register could include postings before the report start date in the
    output. (#184)
-   add: don't apply a default commodity to amounts on entry (#138)
-   cli: options before the add-on command name are now also passed to it (#182)
-   csv: allow the first name in a fields list to be empty (#178)
-   csv: don't validate fields count in skipped lines (#177)

0.23 (2014/5/1)

Journal format:

-   A # (hash) in column 0 is now also supported for starting a top-level journal comment, like Ledger.
-   The "too many missing amounts" error now reminds about the 2-space rule.
-   Fix: . (period) is no longer parsed as a valid amount.
-   Fix: default commodity directives no longer limit the maximum display precision (#169).
-   Fix: + before an amount is no longer parsed as part of the commodity (#181).

CLI:

-   Command-line help cleanups, layout improvements.
-   Descriptions are shown for known add-ons in the command list.
-   Command aliases have been simplified.
-   Add-ons can now have any of these file extensions:
    none, hs, lhs, pl, py, rb, rkt, sh, bat, com, exe.
-   Add-ons are displayed without their file extensions when possible.
-   Add-ons with the same name as a built-in command or alias are ignored.
-   Fix: add-on detection and invocation now works on windows.
-   Fix: add-ons with digits in the name are now found.
-   Fix: add-on arguments containing a single quote now work.
-   Fix: when -- is used to hide add-on options from the main program,
    it is no longer passed through as an add-on argument.

Queries:

-   The currency/commodity query prefix (sym:) has been renamed to cur:.
-   Currency/commodity queries are applied more strongly in register and
    balance reports, filtering out unwanted currencies entirely. Eg
    hledger balance cur:'$' now reports only the dollar amounts even if
    there are multi-currency transactions or postings.
-   Amount queries like amt:N, amt:<N and amt:>N, where N is not 0, now do an unsigned
    comparison of the amount and N. That is, they compare the absolute magnitude.
    To do a signed comparison instead, write N with its sign (eg amt:+N, amt:<+N, amt:>-N).
-   Fix: amount queries no longer give false positives on multi-commodity amounts.

accounts:

-   An accounts command has been added, similar to Ledger's, for listing account names
    in flat or hierarchical mode.

add:

-   Tab completion now works at all prompts, and will insert the default if the input area is empty.
-   Account and amount defaults are more robust and useful.
-   Transactions may also be completed by the enter key, when there are no more default postings.
-   Input prompts are displayed in a different colour when supported.

balance:

-   Balance reports in flat mode now always show exclusive (subaccount-excluding) balances.
-   Balance reports in flat mode with --depth now aggregate deeper accounts at the depth limit instead of excluding them.
-   Multicolumn reports in flat mode now support --drop.
-   Multicolumn balance reports can now show the account hierarchy with --tree.
-   Multicolumn report start/end dates are adjusted to encompass the displayed
    report periods, so the first and last periods are "full" and comparable to the others.
-   Fix: zero-balance leaf accounts below a non-zero-balance parent are no longer always shown (#170).
-   Fix: multicolumn reports now support --date2 (cf #174).

balancesheet, cashflow, incomestatement:

-   These commands now support --flat and --drop.

print:

-   Tag queries (tag:) will now match a transaction if any of its postings match.

register:

-   The --display option has been dropped. To see an accurate running total which
    includes the prior starting balance, use --historical/-H (like balance).
-   With a report interval, report start/end dates are adjusted to encompass the displayed
    periods, so the first and last periods are "full" and comparable to the others.
-   Fix: --date2 now works with report intervals (fixes #174).

Miscellaneous:

-   Default report dates now derive from the secondary dates when --date2 is in effect.
-   Default report dates now notice any posting dates outside the transaction dates' span.
-   Debug output improvements.
-   New add-on example: extra/hledger-rewrite.hs, adds postings to matched entries.
-   Compatible with GHC 7.2 (#155) - GHC 7.8, shakespeare 2

0.22.2 (2014/4/16)

-   display years before 1000 with four digits, not three
-   avoid pretty-show to build with GHC < 7.4
-   allow text 1.1, drop data-pprint to build with GHC 7.8.x

0.22.1 (2014/1/6) and older: see http://hledger.org/release-notes or doc/release-notes.md.
