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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.
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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