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+I'm pleased to announce hledger and hledger-web 0.23!
+
+This release includes command-line fixes and polish, a new accounts
+command, and a number of changes to the balance command relating
+to --depth, --flat, and multicolumn mode, which I find has made it much
+more useful. Release notes:
+http://hledger.org/release-notes#hledger-023-201451 .
+Contributors to this release: Peter Simons and Marko Kocić.
+
+hledger (http://hledger.org) is a command-line tool and haskell library
+for tracking financial transactions, which are stored in a human-readable
+plain text format. It can also read CSV or timelog files. It provides useful
+reports, and can also help you record new transactions interactively.
+Add-on commands include hledger-web (a web interface),
+hledger-irr (for calculating internal rate of return) and hledger-interest
+(for generating interest transactions).  hledger is inspired by and largely
+compatible with Ledger.
+
+Installation:
+
+cabal update; cabal install hledger [hledger-web]
+(see http://hledger.org/installing for help)
+or sponsor a binary at http://hledger.org/download
+
+Best!
+-Simon
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-I have released hledger and hledger-web 0.22.
-
-hledger is a command-line tool and haskell library for tracking
-financial transactions, which are stored in a human-readable plain
-text format. In addition to reporting, it can also help you record new
-transactions, or convert CSV data from your bank. Add-on packages
-include hledger-web (providing a web interface), hledger-irr and
-hledger-interest.  hledger is inspired by and largely compatible with
-Ledger. For more, see http://hledger.org .
-
-Install it:
-
-cabal update; cabal install hledger [hledger-web]
-
-For more installation help, see http://hledger.org/MANUAL.html#installing .
-Or, sponsor a ready-to-run binary for your platform: http://hledger.org/download
-
-Release notes (http://hledger.org/release-notes#hledger-0.XX):
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-**Release contributors:**
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