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I'm very pleased to announce hledger 1.5.
Happy New Year all! I'm very pleased to announce hledger 1.5.
hledger (http://hledger.org) is a reliable, cross-platform program for
tracking money, time or other commodities, using double-entry
accounting and simple plain text file formats. It provides
command-line, curses and web interfaces, and aims to be a pleasant and
practical tool for personal, business or institutional use.
A big thank you to the release contributors:
Dmitry Astapov,
Mykola Orliuk,
Eli Flanagan,
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Nadrieril,
Alvaro Fernando García.
The next major release is scheduled for 2018/03/31.
In 2017, four quarter-end releases were shipped on schedule,
and our feature set, marketing reach and contributor activity
continue to grow. The next release is scheduled for 2018/03/31.
What is hledger ?
-----------------
hledger (http://hledger.org) is an evolving, reliable, cross-platform
program for tracking money, time, or any other commodity, using
double-entry accounting and a simple plain text file format. It is a
haskell reimplementation of Ledger and the plain text accounting
concept, providing command-line, curses and web interfaces. hledger
aims to be a pleasant and practical tool for personal, business or
institutional finance and time tracking.
New users and contributors are always welcome! Give feedback, report
bugs, send pull requests, write about it, etc. And if you have been
finding hledger useful, consider becoming a sponsor or donor to help
to sustain and accelerate our progress (see home page).
Our IRC channel is #hledger on Freenode (http://irc.hledger.org).
What's new ?
------------
The full release notes are at http://hledger.org/release-notes#hledger-1.5 .
Some highlights:
Some highlights from the release notes at http://hledger.org/release-notes#hledger-1.5 :
* Ledger-style automated posting rules to modify transactions, enabled
with --auto flag
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* commodity or default commodity directives give more control over
display precision and decimal point/digit group separator
Get started
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Getting started
---------------
See http://hledger.org/download for all install methods.
Windows users can download nightly binaries.
On other platforms, you may need to build the latest release yourself.
The easiest and most reliable way is to run the hledger install script.
This requires only bash and will install the hledger tools in $HOME/.local/bin/.
(It uses an installed cabal or stack if possible, otherwise installs
stack and GHC in $HOME/.local/bin and $HOME/.stack/).
Here's the responsible way to run it:
See http://hledger.org/download for all install methods. Windows
users can download nightly binaries. On other platforms, you may need
to build the latest release yourself. The easiest and most reliable
way is to run the hledger install script. This requires only bash and
will install the hledger tools in $HOME/.local/bin/. (It uses an
installed cabal or stack if possible, otherwise installs stack and GHC
in $HOME/.local/bin and $HOME/.stack/). Here's the responsible way to
run it:
$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonmichael/hledger/master/hledger-install/hledger-install.sh
$ less hledger-install.sh # (do security review)
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$ cabal update
$ cabal install hledger-1.5 # hledger-ui-1.5 hledger-web-1.5 hledger-api-1.5 etc.
Note: building haskell apps can take significant time, memory, and disk space, especially the first time.
You can kill and restart the installer without losing progress.
If it fails, please help us improve it by reporting the full output.
Note: building haskell apps can take significant time, memory, and
disk space, especially the first time. You can kill and restart the
installer without losing progress. If it fails, please help us
improve it by reporting the full output.
After installation, ensure $HOME/.local/bin is in your $PATH.
Now try some commands:
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Or say hello and ask questions in the #hledger IRC channel on Freenode:
http://irc.hledger.org
If you have been finding hledger useful, I invite you to become a
sponsor or donor to make it stronger (see home page).
Also give feedback, report bugs, send pull requests, write about it,
etc. Thanks for your help!
Wishing you a highly prosperous and serene 2018,
-Simon

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***
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<!-- ([announcement](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/hledger/)) -->
([announcement](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/hledger/CyNifndzZxk))
Release contributors:
Dmitry Astapov,