From efebedb71f1c8c1d3bbd69e85a928b9e5e8ef7e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Michael Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 17:31:48 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc: 1.1 announcement --- doc/ANNOUNCE | 94 ++++++++++++++-------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/ANNOUNCE b/doc/ANNOUNCE index 4843e6975..18099804c 100644 --- a/doc/ANNOUNCE +++ b/doc/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,84 +1,38 @@ -Attention, attention hledger-folk! Once again, Happy Hallowe'en. +Two months since last release, I'm pleased to announce hledger 1.1 ! +Thank you to contributors Johannes Gerer, Nikolay Orlyuk, and Shubham +Lagwankar, along with all others who contributed in other ways. -After almost ten years of steady development, and one year since -our last major release, I am very pleased to announce.. +hledger (http://hledger.org) is a dependable, precise, cross-platform +program for tracking money, time, or any other commodity, using +double-entry accounting and a simple plain text file format. Inspired +by the Ledger project, hledger provides command-line, curses and web +interfaces, and aims to be a robust, practical tool for daily use. - _ _ _ _ ___ _ - | |__ | | ___ __| | __ _ ___ _ __ / | / _ \ | | - | '_ \| |/ _ \/ _` |/ _` |/ _ \ '__| | || | | | | | - | | | | | __/ (_| | (_| | __/ | | || |_| | |_| - |_| |_|_|\___|\__,_|\__, |\___|_| |_(_)___/ (_) - |___/ +Notable user-visible changes in this release: -hledger's 1.0 release! It's about time! +- hledger-ui --watch live-updates as files or the current date change, + useful eg when reconciling or for a time log dashboard -hledger (http://hledger.org) is a cross-platform program for tracking -money, time, or any other commodity using double-entry accounting -and a simple plain text file format. -Inspired by Ledger CLI, hledger provides command-line, curses -and web interfaces, and aims to be a reliable, practical tool -for daily use. +- Ledger-style balance assignments are now supported in journal files -Notable changes since 0.27: +Full release notes: http://hledger.org/release-notes#hledger-1.1 -- the hledger.org website is simpler, clearer, and more mobile-friendly +To install this release: -- docs have been reorganized, with more focussed manuals available in - multiple versions, formats and as built-in help - -- we support the latest GHC (8 and 7.10), stackage snapshots, and - libs. (GHC 7.8 and 7.6 support are not currently supported, - maintainers welcome.) - -- hledger has migrated from parsec to megaparsec and from String to - Text, parsers have been simplified, memory usage is ~30% less on - large files, speed is slightly improved all around - -- --pivot (group by arbitrary tag instead of account) and --anon - (obfuscate account names) are now supported - -- hledger-ui has acquired many new features making it more useful - (file editing, filtering, historical/period modes, quick period - browsing..) - -- hledger-web is more robust and more mobile-friendly - -- hledger-api, a simple web API server, has been added - -- a new "timedot" file format allows retroactive/approximate time - logging - -- the project continues to grow. A call for help was sent out last - month, and contributor activity is increasing - -- a new website, http://plaintextaccounting.org, has been created as a - portal and knowledge base for hledger, Ledger, beancount and related - tools and practices. - -Full release notes: http://hledger.org/release-notes#hledger-1.0 - -How to install: - -(Get stack, eg from http://haskell-lang.org/get-started) +Get stack, eg from http://haskell-lang.org/get-started $ stack install --resolver=nightly hledger [hledger-ui] [hledger-web] [hledger-api] -$ ~/.local/bin/hledger --version +$ ~/.local/bin/hledger -or see http://hledger.org/download for more install options, -including cabal, OS packages and Windows binaries. - -Contributors to this release: - -Simon Michael, Dominik Süß, Thomas R. Koll, Moritz Kiefer, -jungle-boogie, Sergei Trofimovich, Malte Brandy, Sam Doshi, -Mitchell Rosen, Hans-Peter Deifel, Brian Scott, and Andrew Jones. - -How to get and give help: +or see http://hledger.org/download for more installation options. +Our IRC channel is #hledger on Freenode, and you can find out more at +http://hledger.org. I hope you enjoy these tools and that they help you achieve your goals. -The hledger project is too large for one person to do it justice, -so it's great to see our developer community growing. If you like -hledger, your support and participation is welcome! Our IRC channel is -#hledger on Freenode, and you can find out more at http://hledger.org. +If you like hledger, your support and participation is appreciated! +Fund us on Gratipay or Bountysource, give feedback, report bugs, send +pull requests, write about it, etc. + +Happy 2017! Best, -Simon