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Short announcement this quarter. Pleased to announce the release of hledger 1.11 on schedule!
hledger is a robust, cross-platform "plain text accounting" tool, for
tracking money, time, stocks, cryptocurrencies or any other commodity,
using double-entry accounting, private or shared plain text files,
revision control, and command-line, curses or web UIs.
Thanks to release contributors Joseph Weston, Dmitry Astapov, Gaith Hallak, Jakub Zárybnický, Luca Molteni, and SpicyCat.
stack users will need to get a copy of hledger source and do stack install from there, due to the recent GHC 8.6 release. cabal install hledger-1.11 should work normally.
From http://hledger.org/release-notes.html#hledger-1.11 :
hledger 1.11
- 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)
I'm pleased to announce the on-schedule release of hledger 1.12.
Thanks to release contributors: A, B.
Corrections:
What's new
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- http://hledger.org has been updated with the latest install methods.
hledger 1.12
- hledger-install.sh now ensures a new-enough stack.
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- stack users don't need to fetch hledger source, but do need to specify an extra dep on the command line, eg like so:
stack install --resolver=lts-12 cassava-megaparsec-1.0.0 hledger-lib-1.11 hledger-1.11 hledger-ui-1.11 hledger-web-1.11 hledger-api-1.11
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Full release notes are at http://hledger.org/release-notes.html#hledger-1.12
Install
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All install methods are described at http://hledger.org/download .
You can download windows binaries, or use a package manager, though in
some cases these will install an older hledger version.
You can build the latest hledger packages with stack:
$ stack install --resolver=lts-12 cassava-megaparsec-1.0.0 hledger-lib-1.11
hledger-1.11 [hledger-ui-1.11] [hledger-web-1.11] [hledger-api-1.11]
or with cabal:
$ cabal install hledger-1.11 [hledger-ui-1.11] [hledger-web-1.11]
[hledger-api-1.11]
If you don't have stack or cabal, or if you are having trouble,
on systems with bash installed (mac, linux, unix-like windows..)
hledger-install.sh is an easy and reliable way to get the latest hledger:
$ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonmichael/hledger/master/hledger-install/hledger-install.sh > hledger-install.sh
$ less hledger-install.sh # satisfy yourself that the script is safe
$ bash hledger-install.sh
Getting started
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$ hledger add # record some transactions, with guidance
$ hledger print # show recorded transactions
$ hledger balance # show totals by account
$ hledger -h # show quick help
$ hledger # list available commands
$ hledger help # list built-in manuals
To get oriented, see the tutorials and manuals at http://hledger.org .
To get help, say hello and ask questions in the #hledger IRC channel
on Freenode, accessible at http://irc.hledger.org .
New users and all forms of help are always welcome!
Best,
-Simon