docs: preliminary release notes

NEWS

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 hledger news
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+  * site and documentation updates
+  * parsing: require whitespace between date and status code, prevent
+    silent effective date breakage, return non-zero exit code on parse
+    failure, allow (and ignore) a time in price records, better error
+    messages
+  * support --effective option, uses transactions' effective dates if any
+  * price history support (first cut):
+    P directives now work, though differently from c++ ledger. Each
+    posting amount takes its fixed unit price from the price history (or
+    @) when available. This is simple and useful for things like foreign
+    currency expenses (but not investment tracking). Like ledger, balance
+    and register don't show amount prices any more, and don't separate
+    differently-priced amounts. Unlike ledger, print shows all amount
+    prices, and supports -B.
+  * convert: new rules file format, find/create rules file automatically,
+    more robust parsing, more useful --debug output
+  * print: always sort by date, fix long account name truncation, align
+    amounts, show end of line comments, show all amounts for clarity
+    (don't elide the final balancing amount)
+  * ui: use vty 4, fixes non-ascii symbol display (issue #3)
+  * web: allow data entry, react to data file changes, better layout, help
+    links, remove histogram command, fix bad localhost redirect, filter form
+    did not work in eg firefox (issue #7), reset link did not work in all
+    browsers
+  * handle utf8 properly in error messages (issue #5)
+  * fix an arithmetic bug that occasionally rejected valid transactions
+  * fix a regex bug in showtree
+  * don't break if HOME is undefined
+  * --debug now implies --verbose
+  * many hlint cleanups (Marko Kocic)
+  * add functional tests like ledger's, use test-framework for speedy
+    running, release shelltestrunner as a separate package
+
+  Stats:
+  _ contributors,
+  (jun 19) days since release,
+  _ commits,
+  _ non-test code lines,
+  n tests,
+  53% test coverage,
+  2 known errors,
+  similar performance.
+
 2009/06/22 hledger 0.6.1
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   * avoid use of exitSuccess which was breaking ghc 6.8/base 3 compatibility (issue #2)