--- title: The hledger project author: Simon Michael date: November 2016 status: stable, actively developed ... hledger is a set of cross-platform tools (and Haskell libraries) for tracking money, time, or any other commodity using double-entry accounting and a simple plain text file format. hledger aims to be reliable and practical for daily use, and provides command-line, curses-style and web interfaces. It is a largely compatible Haskell reimplementation of John Wiegley's Ledger program. hledger is released under GNU GPLv3+. In November 2015, the immediate plans were to improve docs and help, improve parser speed and memory efficiency, integrate a separate parser for Ledger files built by John Wiegley, hledger-ui improvements, and work towards the 1.0 release. All but one of these goals have been achieved: - docs have been reorganized, with more focussed manuals available in multiple versions, formats and as built-in help - 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 - the ledger4 parser is not yet integrated - hledger-ui has acquired many new features making it more useful (file editing, filtering, historical/period modes, quick period browsing..) - 1.0 has been released! Also, - 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 - we now support GHC 8 and GHC 7.10, dropping GHC 7.8 and 7.6 support. (GHC 7.8 support requires a maintainer). - hpack is now used for maintaining cabal files - our benchmarking tool has been spun off as the quickbench package - the hledger.org website is simpler, clearer, and more mobile-friendly - a call for help was sent out last month, and contributor activity has increased. Future plans include: - support the 1.0 release - improve the website and docs - grow the user & developer community - clean up, automate, improve and scale our processes - improve quality, reduce waste - add the ledger4 parser - add budget/goal-tracking features - improve hledger-ui usability and features; live reloading hledger is available from the hledger.org website, from Github, Hackage, and Stackage, and is packaged for a number of systems including Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, and NixOS. For more, see .