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iHappy New Year all! I'm very pleased to announce hledger 1.5.
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hledger (http://hledger.org) is a reliable, cross-platform program for
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tracking money, time or other commodities, using double-entry
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accounting and simple plain text file formats. It provides
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command-line, curses and web interfaces, and aims to be a pleasant and
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practical tool for personal, business or institutional use.
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A big thank you to the release contributors:
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Dmitry Astapov,
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Mykola Orliuk,
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Eli Flanagan,
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Elijah Caine,
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Sam Jeeves,
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Matthias Kauer,
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Hans-Peter Deifel,
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Mick Dekkers,
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Nadrieril,
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Alvaro Fernando García.
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In 2017, four quarter-end releases were shipped on schedule,
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and our feature set, marketing reach and contributor activity
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continue to grow. The next release is scheduled for 2018/03/31.
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New users and contributors are always welcome! Give feedback, report
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bugs, send pull requests, write about it, etc. And if you have been
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finding hledger useful, consider becoming a sponsor or donor to help
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to sustain and accelerate our progress (see home page).
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Our IRC channel is #hledger on Freenode (http://irc.hledger.org).
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What's new ?
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Some highlights from the release notes at http://hledger.org/release-notes#hledger-1.5 :
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* Ledger-style automated posting rules to modify transactions, enabled
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with --auto flag
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* Ledger-style periodic transaction rules to generate forecast
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transactions (--forecast) and budget goals
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* a new budget report (balance --budget) comparing amounts with
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per-period and per-account budget goals
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* more expressive period expressions
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* space can be used as digit group separator character in numbers
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* commodity or default commodity directives give more control over
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display precision and decimal point/digit group separator
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Get started
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See http://hledger.org/download for all install methods. Windows
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users can download nightly binaries. On other platforms, you may need
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to build the latest release yourself. The easiest and most reliable
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way is to run the hledger install script. This requires only bash and
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will install the hledger tools in $HOME/.local/bin/. (It uses an
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installed cabal or stack if possible, otherwise installs stack and GHC
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in $HOME/.local/bin and $HOME/.stack/). Here's the responsible way to
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run it:
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$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonmichael/hledger/master/hledger-install/hledger-install.sh
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$ less hledger-install.sh # (do security review)
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$ bash hledger-install.sh # (add -v for more detail; use bash -x to show commands being run)
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or the more convenient, less secure way:
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$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonmichael/hledger/master/hledger-install/hledger-install.sh | bash
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or, to install individual tools:
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$ stack install hledger-lib-1.5 hledger-1.5 # hledger-ui-1.5 hledger-web-1.5 hledger-api-1.5 etc.
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or:
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$ cabal update
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$ cabal install hledger-1.5 # hledger-ui-1.5 hledger-web-1.5 hledger-api-1.5 etc.
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Note: building haskell apps can take significant time, memory, and
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disk space, especially the first time. You can kill and restart the
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installer without losing progress. If it fails, please help us
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improve it by reporting the full output.
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After installation, ensure $HOME/.local/bin is in your $PATH.
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Now try some commands:
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$ hledger -h # quick help
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$ hledger help # list built-in manuals
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$ hledger add # record some transactions
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$ hledger # list available commands
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Now perhaps work through the tutorial at http://hledger.org/step-by-step.html
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Or review the fine documents, presentations etc. at http://hledger.org
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and http://plaintextaccounting.org
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Or say hello and ask questions in the #hledger IRC channel on Freenode:
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http://irc.hledger.org
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Wishing you a highly prosperous and serene 2018,
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-Simon
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