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NEWS.md

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 # News
 
+## 2011/11/1 Haskell Communities and Activities Report
+
+hledger is a library and end-user tool (with command-line, curses and web
+interfaces) for converting, recording, and analyzing financial
+transactions, using a simple human-editable plain text file format. It is
+a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's Ledger, licensed under
+GNU GPLv3+.
+
+hledger aims to be a reliable, practical tool for daily use. It reports
+charts of accounts or account balances, filters transactions by type,
+helps you record new transactions, converts CSV data from your bank,
+publishes your text journal with a rich web interface, generates simple
+charts, and provides an API for use in your own financial scripts and
+apps.
+
+In the last six months there have been two major releases. 0.15 focussed
+on features and 0.16 focussed on quality. Changes include:
+
+- new modal command-line interface, extensible with hledger-* executables in the path
+- more useful web interface, with real account registers and basic charts
+- hledger-web no longer needs to create support files, and uses latest yesod & warp
+- more ledger compatibility
+- misc command enhancements, API improvements, bug fixes, documentation updates
+- lines of code increased by 3k to 8k
+- project committers increased by 6 to 21
+
+Current plans include:
+
+- Continue the release rhythm of odd-numbered = features, even-numbered =
+  quality/stability/polish, and releasing on the first of a month
+
+- In 0.17, clean up the storage layer, allow rcs integration via
+  filestore, and read (or convert) more formats
+
+- Keep working towards wider usefulness, improving the web interface and
+  providing standard financial reports
+
 ## 2011/10/26 hledger-web 0.16.5
 
   * web: fix a ghc 6.12 incompatibility in Settings.hs