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title: hledger news
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# hledger news
2010-12-06 00:14:18 +03:00
## unreleased
* move web, vty, chart commands into separate hledger-web, hledger-vty,
hledger-chart packages. This both simplifies (no more build flags) and
complicates (more room for dependency hassles), but I hope overall it
will be easier and more scalable.
* all packages but chart are now marked "beta", ie "not finished but
suitable for everyday use"
* parsing: ledger compatibility: support D default commodity directive
* parsing: ledger compatibility: ignore metadata tags on transactions and postings
* parsing: ledger compatibility: ignore cleared flags at the start of postings
* parsing: ledger compatibility: ignore C commodity conversion directives
* add: add the default commodity, if any, to commodity-less amounts (#26)
* add: misc. bugfixes for commodity/precision/defaults handling
* add: readline-style editing, tab-completion for account names
* chart: update for current Chart (0.14)
* chart: give a meaningful error message for empty journals
* web: use support files from ./.hledger/web/, and auto-create them if missing
* web: page layout is more robust with wide content
* web: offer a choice of files to edit when there are multiple (included) files
* web: update for current yesod (0.6.*)
* web: handle multiple filter patterns correctly
* web: allow single- or double-quoted filter patterns containing spaces
* transaction balancing is now based on display precision (#23)
* price precisions no longer affect commodities' display precisions
* briefer, more informative usage error messages
2010-09-07 00:13:23 +04:00
## 2010/9/6 hledger 0.12.1
* web: fix account filtering breakage
* installing: tighten up utf8-string dependency
2010-09-06 02:45:32 +04:00
## 2010/9/5 hledger 0.12
2010-09-07 00:13:23 +04:00
* web: new, better web ui; accounts are now a permanent sidebar; add form uses auto-completing combo fields
2010-09-06 02:45:32 +04:00
* installing: fix a build error with parsec 3 (#22)
* installing: require exactly matching hledger-lib version for more robust builds
* installing: explicit data-object dependency to ensure hledger and hledger-lib use the same time version
2010-09-07 00:13:23 +04:00
* installing: explicit hamlet dependency for more robust building
2010-09-06 02:45:32 +04:00
* installing: build threaded and with warnings
* installing: drop -fweb610 flag
* installing: add gtk2hs-buildtools dependency needed to build with -fchart
2010-09-07 00:13:23 +04:00
* installing: require cabal 1.6 or greater
2010-09-06 02:45:32 +04:00
* add -D/--daily flag
* register: with --depth, clip account names or aggregate postings rather than excluding them
* fix !include with deeply nested directories (#21)
* fix obscured date parse errors with parsec 3
* handle unicode better in errors
* fix a ghc 6.12.3 error when running interpreted
2010-09-07 00:13:23 +04:00
Stats: 50 days and 90 commits since last release, now at 5741
lines of code with 136 tests and 41% unit test coverage.
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
## 2010/07/17 hledger 0.11.1
2010-07-18 02:04:39 +04:00
* fix --version output
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
## 2010/07/17 hledger 0.11
2010-07-14 11:07:55 +04:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* split --help, adding --help-options and --help-all/-H, and make
it the default command
* use "journal" instead of "ledger file"; default suffix is
.journal, default file is \~/.journal
2010-07-14 11:07:55 +04:00
* auto-create missing journal files rather than giving an error
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* new format-detecting file reader (mixed journal transactions
and timelog entries are no longer supported)
* work around for first real-world rounding issue (test zero to 8
decimal places instead of 10)
* when reporting a balancing error, convert the error amount to
cost
* parsing: support double-quoted commodity symbols, containing
anything but a newline or double quote
* parsing: allow minus sign before commodity symbol as well as
after (also fixes a convert bug)
2010-07-14 11:07:55 +04:00
* parsing: fix wrong parse error locations within postings
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* parsing: don't let trailing whitespace in a timelog description
mess up account names
2010-07-18 01:03:53 +04:00
* add: allow blank descriptions
2010-07-14 11:07:55 +04:00
* balance: --flat provides a simple non-hierarchical format
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* balance: --drop removes leading account name components from a
--flat report
* print, register, balance: fix layout issues with
mixed-commodity amounts
2010-07-14 11:07:55 +04:00
* print: display non-simple commodity names with double-quotes
* stats: layout tweaks, add payee/description count
* stats: don't break on an empty file
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* stats: -p/--period support; a reporting interval generates
multiple reports
2010-07-14 11:07:55 +04:00
* test: drop verbose test runner and testpack dependency
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* web: a new web ui based on yesod, requires ghc 6.12; old ghc
6.10-compatible version remains as -fweb610
* web: allow wiki-like journal editing
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* web: warn and keep running if reloading the journal gives an
error
* web: --port and --base-url options set the webserver's tcp port
and base url
* web: slightly better browser opening on microsoft windows,
should find a standard firefox install now
* web: in a web-enabled build on microsoft windows, run the web
ui by default
2010-07-14 11:07:55 +04:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
Stats: 55 days and 136 commits since last release. Now at 5552
lines of code with 132 tests and 54% unit test coverage.
2010-07-14 11:07:55 +04:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
## 2010/05/23 hledger 0.10
2010-05-17 18:29:05 +04:00
2010-05-24 03:05:16 +04:00
* fix too-loose testpack dependency, missing safe dependency
* fix ghc 6.12 compatibility with -fweb
* fix handling of non-ascii arguments with ghc 6.12
* fix "0.8" in --version output
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* fix an occasional stack overflow error due to infinite
recursion in Posting/Transaction equality tests
* the -fwebhappstack build flag is gone for now, to avoid a cabal
problem
* parsing: if there is no description, don't require a space
after the transaction date
* parsing: balance balanced-virtual postings separately, allow
them to have an implicit amount
* parsing: timelog entries now generate balanced transactions,
using virtual postings
2010-05-24 03:05:16 +04:00
* parsing: simpler high-level parse error message
2010-05-17 18:29:05 +04:00
* parsing: clearer bad date errors
* add: fix wrongful program exit on bad dates
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* print: negative account patterns now exclude transactions
containing any posting to a matched account
2010-05-24 03:05:16 +04:00
* vty: rename the ui command to vty for consistency
* vty: fix restricted account scope when backing up to top level
* web: fix non-ascii handling with ghc 6.12
* web: fix a bug possibly affecting reload-on-change
* consolidate module namespace under Hledger, api cleanups
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
Stats: 44 days, 81 commits since last release. Now at 4904 lines of
code including tests, 144 tests, 53% coverage.
2010-05-17 18:29:05 +04:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
## 2010/04/10 hledger 0.9
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* ghc 6.12 support
* split off hledger-lib package, containing core types & utils
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* parsing: ignore D, C, N, tag, end tag directives; we should now
accept any ledger 2.6 file
* parsing: allow numbers in commodities if double-quoted, like
ledger
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* parsing: allow transactions with empty descriptions
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* parsing: show a better error for illegal month/day numbers in
dates
* parsing: don't ignore trailing junk in a smart date, eg in web
add form
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* parsing: don't ignore unparsed text following an amount
* parsing: @ was being treated as a currency symbol
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* add: fix precision handling in default amounts (\#19)
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* add: elide last amount in added transactions
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* convert: keep original description by default, allow
backreferences in replace pattern
* convert: basic csv file checking, warn instead of dying when it
looks wrong
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* convert: allow blank/comment lines at end of rules file
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* print: always show zero amounts as 0, hiding any
commodity/decimal places/price, like ledger
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* register: fix bad layout with years < 1000
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* register: fix a Prelude.head error with reporting interval,
--empty, and --depth
* register: fix a regression, register should not show posting
comments
* register: with --empty, intervals should continue to ends of
the specified period
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* stats: better output when last transaction is in the future
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* stats: show commodity symbols, account tree depth, reorder
slightly
* web: -fweb now builds with simpleserver; to get happstack, use
-fwebhappstack instead
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* web: pre-fill the add form with today's date
* web: help links, better search form wording
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* web: show a proper error for a bad date in add form (\#17)
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* web: fix for unicode search form values
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* web: fix stack overflow caused by regexpr, and handle requests
faster (\#14)
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* web: look for more-generic browser executables
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* web: more robust browser starting (\#6)
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
* error message cleanups
* more tests, refactoring, docs
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
Stats: 58 days, 2 contributors, 102 commits since last release. Now
at 3983 lines of non-test code, 139 tests, 53% coverage.
2010-04-10 04:24:20 +04:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
## 2010/02/11 hledger 0.8
2010-02-12 03:57:40 +03:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* parsing: in date=date2, use first date's year as a default for
the second
2010-02-12 03:57:40 +03:00
* add: ctrl-d doesn't work on windows, suggest ctrl-c instead
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* add: --no-new-accounts option disallows new accounts (Roman
Cheplyaka)
* add: re-use the previous transaction's date as default (Roman
Cheplyaka)
* add: a command-line argument now filters by account during
history matching (Roman Cheplyaka)
* chart: new command, generates balances pie chart (requires
-fchart flag, gtk2hs) (Roman Cheplyaka, Simon Michael)
* register: make reporting intervals honour a display expression
(\#18)
2010-02-12 03:57:40 +03:00
* web: fix help link
* web: use today as default when adding with a blank date
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* web: re-enable account/period fields, they seem to be fixed,
along with file re-reading (\#16)
* web: get static files from the cabal data dir, or the current
dir when using make (\#13)
* web: preserve encoding during add, assuming it's utf-8 (\#15)
* fix some non-utf8-aware file handling (\#15)
* filter ledger again for each command, not just once at program
start
2010-02-12 03:57:40 +03:00
* refactoring, clearer data types
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
Stats: 62 days, 2 contributors, 76 commits since last release. Now
at 3464 lines of non-test code, 97 tests, 53% test coverage.
## 2009/12/11 hledger 0.7
* price history support (first cut): P directives now work,
though differently from c++ ledger. Each posting amount takes its
fixed unit price from the price history (or
@) when available. This is simple and useful for things like
foreign currency expenses (but not investment tracking). Like
ledger, balance and register don't show amount prices any more, and
don't separate differently-priced amounts. Unlike ledger, print
shows all amount prices, and supports -B.
* --effective option, will use transactions' effective dates if
any
* convert: new rules file format, find/create rules file
automatically, more robust parsing, more useful --debug output
* print: always sort by date, fix long account name truncation,
align amounts, show end of line comments, show all amounts for
clarity (don't elide the final balancing amount)
* ui: use vty 4, fixes non-ascii and gnome terminal problems
(issues \#3, \#4)
* web: allow data entry, react to data file changes, better
layout, help links, remove histogram command and filter fields for
now, fix bad localhost redirect, filter form did not work in eg
firefox (issue \#7), reset link did not work in all browsers
* parsing: require whitespace between date and status code, allow
(and ignore) a time in price records, better error messages,
non-zero exit code on parse failure
* display non-ascii error messages properly (issue \#5)
* fix an arithmetic bug that occasionally rejected valid
transactions
2009-12-05 03:08:51 +03:00
* fix a regex bug in showtree
* don't break if HOME is undefined
* --debug now implies --verbose
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* add functional tests like ledger's, use test-framework for
speedy running, release shelltestrunner as a separate package
2009-12-12 11:42:03 +03:00
* many hlint cleanups (Marko Kocić)
2009-12-12 06:04:55 +03:00
* many site and documentation updates
2009-12-05 03:08:51 +03:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
Stats: 60 days, 1 contributor, 50 commits since last release. Now
at 3377 lines of non-test code, 97 tests, 53% test coverage.
2009-12-05 03:08:51 +03:00
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## 2009/06/22 hledger 0.6.1
2010-02-12 03:57:40 +03:00
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* avoid use of exitSuccess which was breaking ghc 6.8/base 3
compatibility (issue \#2)
2009-06-22 22:21:05 +04:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
## 2009/06/13 hledger 0.6
2010-02-12 03:57:40 +03:00
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* now cabal-installable on unix, mac, and windows, with Haskell
Platform
2009-06-13 23:35:40 +04:00
* provide experimental platform binaries
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* parsing: fix a silly failure to open ledger file paths
containing \~
* parsing: show better errors for unbalanced transaction and
missing default year
* parsing: allow parentheses and brackets inside account names,
as ledger does
* parsing: fail on empty account name components, don't just
ignore
* add: description passed as arguments now affects first
transaction only
2009-06-13 23:35:40 +04:00
* add: better handling of virtual postings and default amounts
* print, register: show virtual accounts bracketed/parenthesised
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* web: improved web ui supporting full patterns & period
expressions
2009-06-13 23:35:40 +04:00
* new "stats" command reports some ledger statistics
* many dev/doc/deployment infrastructure improvements
* move website into darcs repo, update home page
* move issue tracker to google code
Release stats:
* Contributors: Simon Michael
* Days since last release: 21
* Commits: 94
* Lines of non-test code: 2865
* Tests: 82
* Test coverage: 53% expressions
* Known errors: 3 (inconsistent eliding, vty-related failures)
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* Performance: similar
(http://hledger.org/profs/200906131120.bench)
## 2009/05/23 hledger 0.5.1
* two fixes: really disable vty flag by default, and include
ConvertCommand in cabal file
## 2009/05/23 hledger 0.5
* 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
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* be more accurate about checking balanced amounts, don't rely on
display precision
2009-05-24 03:51:57 +04:00
* 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 stats:
* Contributors: Simon Michael, Sergey Astanin
2009-05-24 03:51:57 +04:00
* Days since last release: 51
* Commits: 101
* Lines of non-test code: 2795
* Tests: 76
* Known errors: 0
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## 2009/04/03 hledger 0.4
2009-05-24 03:51:57 +04:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* 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
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* patterns now use not: and desc: prefixes instead of \^ and \^\^
2009-04-02 13:42:29 +04:00
* patterns are now case-insensitive, like ledger
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* !include directives are now relative to the including file (Tim
Docker)
* "Y2009" default year directives are now supported, allowing m/d
dates in ledger
2009-04-02 13:42:29 +04:00
* individual transactions now have a cleared status
2009-04-03 03:02:12 +04:00
* unbalanced entries now cause a proper warning
2009-04-02 13:42:29 +04:00
* balance report now passes all ledger compatibility tests
* balance report now shows subtotals by default, like ledger 3
2009-04-03 03:02:12 +04:00
* balance report shows the final zero total when -E is used
* balance report hides the final total when ..no-total is used
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* ..depth affects print and register reports (aggregating with a
reporting interval, filtering otherwise)
2009-04-03 03:02:12 +04:00
* register report sorts transactions by date
* register report shows zero-amount transactions when -E is used
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* provide more convenient timelog querying when invoked as
"hours"
2009-04-02 13:42:29 +04:00
* multi-day timelog sessions are split at midnight
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* unterminated timelog sessions are now counted. Accurate time
reports at last!
* the test command gives better ..verbose output
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* ..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
2009-04-02 13:50:20 +04:00
Release stats:
2009-04-02 13:42:29 +04:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* Contributors: Simon Michael, Tim Docker; thanks to the HAppS,
happstack and testpack developers
* Days since release: 76
* Commits: 144
* Lines of non-test code: 2367
* Tests: 56
* Known errors: 0
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
## 2009/01/17 hledger 0.3
2009-01-18 00:03:49 +03:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* count timelog sessions on the day they end, like ledger, for
now
2009-01-18 00:03:49 +03:00
* when options are repeated, use the last instead of the first
* builds with ghc 6.10 as well as 6.8
2009-01-18 00:12:18 +03:00
* a simple ui for interactive report browsing: hledger ui
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* 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]")
2009-01-18 00:03:49 +03:00
* !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
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* modifier and periodic entries can appear anywhere (but are
still ignored)
2009-01-18 00:03:49 +03:00
* help and readme improvements
* runs much faster than 0.2
2009-01-18 00:03:49 +03:00
Release stats:
2009-01-18 00:03:49 +03:00
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* Contributors: Simon Michael, Nick Ingolia, Tim Docker; thanks
to Corey O'Connor & the vty team
2009-01-18 01:07:07 +03:00
* Lines of non-test code: 2123
* Tests: 58
* Known errors: 1
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
## 2008/11/23 hledger 0.2
2008-11-24 00:49:41 +03:00
* fix balance report totals when filtering by account
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* fix balance report selection of accounts when filtering by
account
2008-11-24 00:49:41 +03:00
* fix a bug with account name eliding in balance report
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* if we happen to be showing a not-yet-auto-balanced entry, hide
the AUTO marker
2008-11-24 00:49:41 +03:00
* 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
2008-11-24 00:49:41 +03:00
* don't require quickcheck
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* 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'
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* smarter y/m/d date parsing for -b and -e (any number of digits,
month and day default to 1, separator can be / - or .)
2008-11-24 00:49:41 +03:00
* -n flag for balance command
* ..empty/-E flag
2008-11-24 00:49:41 +03:00
* 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
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* support -C/..cleared flag to filter by entry status (not
transaction status)
2008-11-24 00:49:41 +03:00
* support virtual and balanced virtual transactions
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* 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
2008-11-24 00:49:41 +03:00
* clearer error message when we can't balance an entry
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* 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
2010-09-06 02:30:20 +04:00
* add a ..verbose/-v flag, use it to show more test-running
detail
2008-11-24 00:49:41 +03:00
Release stats:
2009-01-18 00:03:49 +03:00
* Contributors: Simon Michael, Tim Docker
2009-01-18 00:03:49 +03:00
* Lines of non-test code: 1350
* Tests: 43
* Known errors: 0
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## 2008/10/15 hledger 0.1
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Release stats:
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* Contributors: Simon Michael