hledger/NEWS

2009/05/23 hledger 0.5 released
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Changes:

  * the vty flag is disabled by default again, to ease installation on windows
  * use ledger 3 terminology: a ledger contains transactions which contain postings
  * new "add" command prompts for transactions interactively and adds them to the ledger
  * new "convert" command transforms bank CSV exports to ledger format, with rule-based cleanup
  * new "histogram" command shows transaction counts per day or other reporting interval
  * most commands now work properly with UTF8-encoded text (Sergey Astanin)
  * invoking as "hours" is now less different: it just uses your timelog, not your ledger
  * --quarterly/-Q option summarises by quarter
  * --uncleared/-U option looks only at uncleared transactions
  * be more accurate about checking balanced amounts, don't rely on display precision
  * enforce balancing for bracketed virtual postings
  * fix bug in eliding of posting amounts
  * don't show trailing spaces on amountless postings
  * parse null input as an empty ledger
  * don't treat comments as part of transaction descriptions
  * require some postings in ledger transactions
  * require a non-empty description in ledger transactions
  * don't fail when matching an empty pattern, as in "not:"
  * make the web server handle the null path
  * code, api and documentation updates
  * add a contributor agreement/list

Release contributors:

  * Simon Michael
  * Sergey Astanin

Release stats:

  * Days since last release: 51
  * Committers: 2
  * Commits: 101
  * Lines of non-test code: 2795
  * Known errors: 0
  * Tests: 76
  * Performance:

                            || hledger-0.4 | hledger-0.5 | ledger
   =========================++=============+=============+=======
   -f sample.ledger balance ||        0.01 |        0.01 |   0.06
   -f 1000.ledger balance   ||        1.33 |        1.46 |   0.53
   -f 10000.ledger balance  ||       15.28 |       16.35 |   4.67



2009/04/03 hledger 0.4 released
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Changes:

  * new "web" command serves reports in a web browser (install with -f happs to build this)
  * make the vty-based curses ui a cabal build option, which will be ignored on MS windows
  * drop the --options-anywhere flag, that is now the default
  * patterns now use not: and desc: prefixes instead of ^ and ^^
  * patterns are now case-insensitive, like ledger
  * !include directives are now relative to the including file (Tim Docker)
  * "Y2009" default year directives are now supported, allowing m/d dates in ledger
  * individual transactions now have a cleared status
  * unbalanced entries now cause a proper warning
  * balance report now passes all ledger compatibility tests
  * balance report now shows subtotals by default, like ledger 3
  * balance report shows the final zero total when -E is used
  * balance report hides the final total when --no-total is used
  * --depth affects print and register reports (aggregating with a reporting interval, filtering otherwise)
  * register report sorts transactions by date
  * register report shows zero-amount transactions when -E is used
  * provide more convenient timelog querying when invoked as "hours"
  * multi-day timelog sessions are split at midnight
  * unterminated timelog sessions are now counted. Accurate time reports at last!
  * the test command gives better --verbose output
  * --version gives more detailed version numbers including patchlevel for dev builds
  * new make targets include: ghci, haddocktest, doctest, unittest, view-api-docs
  * a doctest-style framework for functional/shell tests has been added

..

  * performance has decreased slightly::

                                   || hledger-0.3 | hledger-0.4 | ledger-0.3
     ==============================++=============+=============+===========
     -f sample.ledger balance      ||        0.02 |        0.01 |       0.07
     -f sample1000.ledger balance  ||        1.02 |        1.39 |       0.53
     -f sample10000.ledger balance ||       12.72 |       14.97 |       4.63

Contributors:

  * Simon Michael
  * Tim Docker
  * HAppS, happstack and testpack developers

Stats:

  * Known errors: 0
  * Commits: 144
  * Committers: 2
  * Tests: 56
  * Non-test code lines: 2367
  * Days since release: 76


2009/01/17 hledger 0.3 released
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Fixes:

  * count timelog sessions on the day they end, like ledger, for now
  * when options are repeated, use the last instead of the first
  * builds with ghc 6.10 as well as 6.8
  * runs much faster than 0.2::

     $ bench hledger-0.2 hledger ledger
                                       || hledger-0.2 | hledger | ledger
     ==================================++=============+=========+=======
     -f 2008.ledger -s balance         ||        2.59 |    0.26 |   0.11
     -f 10000entries.ledger -s balance ||      566.68 |    2.72 |   0.96

Features:

  * a simple ui for interactive report browsing: hledger ui
  * accept smart dates everywhere (YYYYMMDD, Y/M/D, Y, M/D, D, jan, today, last week etc.)
  * --period/-p flag accepting period expressions like "in 2008", "weekly from last month"..
  * -W/-M/-Y convenience flags to summarise register weekly, monthly, yearly
  * --depth and -E flags also affect summarised register reports (including depth=0)
  * --display/-d flag supporting date predicates (like "d<[DATE]", "d>=[DATE]")
  * !include directive to include additional ledger files
  * !account directive to set a default parent account
  * Added support for reading historical prices from files
  * timelog and ledger entries can be intermixed in one file
  * modifier and periodic entries can appear anywhere (but are still ignored)
  * help and readme improvements

Contributors:

  * Simon Michael
  * Nick Ingolia
  * Tim Docker
  * Corey O'Connor & the vty team

Stats:

  * Known errors: 1
  * Tests: 58
  * Lines of non-test code: 2123


2008/11/23 hledger 0.2 released
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Summarised changes:

* fixes

  * fix balance report totals when filtering by account
  * fix balance report selection of accounts when filtering by account
  * fix a bug with account name eliding in balance report
  * if we happen to be showing a not-yet-auto-balanced entry, hide the AUTO marker
  * fix print command filtering by account
  * omit transactions with zero amount from register report
  * Fix bug in parsing of timelogs
  * rename --showsubs to --subtotal, like ledger
  * drop --usage flag
  * don't require quickcheck

* features

  * priced amounts (eg "10h @ $50") and --basis/--cost/-B flag to show them with cost basis
  * easy --depth option, equivalent to c++ ledger's -d 'l<=N'
  * smarter y/m/d date parsing for -b and -e
    (any number of digits, month and day default to 1, separator can be / - or .)
  * -n flag for balance command
  * --empty/-E flag
  * build a library, as well as the exe
  * new home page url (http://joyful.com/hledger)
  * publish html and pdf versions of README
  * detect display preferences for each commodity like c++ ledger
  * support amounts with multiple currencies/commodities
  * support --real/-R flag
  * support -C/--cleared flag to filter by entry status (not transaction status)
  * support virtual and balanced virtual transactions
  * parse comment lines beginning with a space, as from M-; in emacs ledger-mode
  * allow any non-whitespace in account names, perhaps avoiding misleading missing amounts errors
  * clearer error message when we can't balance an entry
  * when we fail because of more than one missing amount in an entry, show the full entry
  * document the built-in test runner in --help
  * add a --verbose/-v flag, use it to show more test-running detail

Contributors:

  * Simon Michael
  * Tim Docker

Stats:

  * Known errors: 0
  * Tests: 43
  * Lines of non-test code: 1350


2008/10/15 hledger 0.1 released
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Contributors:

  * Simon Michael