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Aloha! I'm pleased to announce hledger 1.4.
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Thank you release contributors: Nicholas Niro, Hans-Peter Deifel,
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Jakub Zárybnický, Felix Yan, Mark Hansen, Christian G. Warden,
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Nissar Chababy and Peter Simons.
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Also, if I haven't already mentioned it: this year hledger turns 10!
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Here's the first commit, from January 27 2007:
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https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/commit/85864b41
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We have come a way, but there is much yet to look forward to.
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Onward and upward!
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The next major release is scheduled for 2017/12/31.
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What is hledger ?
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hledger (http://hledger.org) is an evolving, dependable, robust,
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cross-platform program for tracking money, time, or any other
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commodity, using double-entry accounting and a simple plain text file
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format. It is a haskell reimplementation of Ledger and the plain text
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accounting concept, providing command-line, curses and web
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interfaces. hledger aims to be a pleasant and practical tool for
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personal, business or institutional finance and time tracking.
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What's new ?
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The full release notes are at http://hledger.org/release-notes#hledger-1.4 .
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Some highlights:
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- Easy install script: we have a new installation method for the
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hledger tools, intended to dodge common pitfalls and just-work more
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often. Building on the stack team's install script, this bash script
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is cross platform, uses cabal or stack, installs stack and GHC if
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needed, and installs the latest release of all major hledger
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packages. See http://hledger.org/download for details.
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- More batteries included: most experimental addon commands formerly
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shipped in bin/ are now built in and work out of the box.
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- New commands:
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balancesheetequity (a balance sheet including equity),
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tags (list tags in use),
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import (detects new transactions in multiple input files and adds them
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to the main journal, particularly useful with CSV downloads).
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- Balance reports can be sorted by amount - makes those high expenses
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easy to spot.
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- CLI conveniences:
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@ARGSFILE is expanded to the set of args/flags in ARGSFILE.
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depth:2 or --depth=2 can be written as -2.
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- Help improvements: reorganized docs page, a more useful commands
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list, a smarter help command, --help and -h are the same again (by
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popular demand),
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Getting started
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---------------
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See http://hledger.org/download for all install methods.
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To get the latest hledger release, you may need to build it yourself
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using stack or cabal. But don't worry, this is.. getting quite painless.
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The new hledger installer requires only bash and will install
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everything you need in one step: the hledger tools in
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$HOME/.local/bin/, and (if required) stack and GHC in $HOME/.stack/.
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Run it like so:
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$ curl -sSLO http://hledger.org/hledger-install.sh
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$ less hledger-install.sh # review script, for the security conscious
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$ bash hledger-install.sh # install the latest hledger tools
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Ensure $HOME/.local/bin is in your $PATH. Now try some commands:
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$ 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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If you have been finding hledger useful, I invite you to become a
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sponsor or contributor to make it stronger. Donate using one of the
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funding links on the home page, give feedback, report bugs, send
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pull requests, write about it, or help in some other way.
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Thanks for your support! I hope to meet you online.
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-Simon
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