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Attention, attention hledger-folk! Once again, Happy Hallowe'en.
After almost ten years of steady development, and one year since
our last major release, I am very pleased to announce..
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hledger's 1.0 release! It's about time!
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.
Notable changes since 0.27:
- the hledger.org website is simpler, clearer, and more mobile-friendly
- 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
Contributors to this release include:
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 install:
(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
or see http://hledger.org/download for more install options,
including cabal, OS packages and Windows binaries.
I hope you find these tools helpful in achieving your goals.
If you like hledger, your support and participation is welcome!
-Simon