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+title:  The hledger project
+author: Simon Michael
+date:   November 2016
+status: stable, actively developed
+...
+
+hledger is a set of cross-platform tools (and Haskell libraries) for
+tracking money, time, or any other commodity using double-entry
+accounting and a simple plain text file format.
+hledger aims to be reliable and practical for daily use, and provides
+command-line, curses-style and web interfaces.  It is a largely
+compatible Haskell reimplementation of John Wiegley's Ledger program.
+hledger is released under GNU GPLv3+.
+
+In November 2015, the immediate plans were to
+improve docs and help,
+improve parser speed and memory efficiency, 
+integrate a separate parser for Ledger files built by John Wiegley,
+hledger-ui improvements,
+and work towards the 1.0 release.
+
+All but one of these goals have been achieved:
+
+- docs have been reorganized, with more focussed manuals available in
+  multiple versions, formats and as built-in help
+  
+- 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
+  
+- the ledger4 parser is not yet integrated
+
+- hledger-ui has acquired many new features making it more useful
+  (file editing, filtering, historical/period modes, quick period browsing..)
+
+- 1.0 has been released!
+
+Also,
+
+- 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
+- we now support GHC 8 and GHC 7.10, dropping GHC 7.8 and 7.6 support.
+  (GHC 7.8 support requires a maintainer).
+- hpack is now used for maintaining cabal files
+- our benchmarking tool has been spun off as the quickbench package
+- the hledger.org website is simpler, clearer, and more mobile-friendly
+- a call for help was sent out last month, and contributor activity
+  has increased.
+
+Future plans include:
+
+- support the 1.0 release
+- improve the website and docs
+- grow the user & developer community
+- clean up, automate, improve and scale our processes
+- improve quality, reduce waste
+- add the ledger4 parser
+- add budget/goal-tracking features
+- improve hledger-ui usability and features; live reloading
+
+hledger is available from the hledger.org website, from Github,
+Hackage, and Stackage, and is packaged for a number of systems
+including Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, and NixOS.
+
+For more, see <http://hledger.org>.