hledger/doc/ANNOUNCE

I'm pleased to announce hledger 1.17 !

hledger is a robust, cross-platform, plain text accounting tool, with
command-line, terminal and web UIs. It is a modern and largely
compatible reimplementation of Ledger CLI with many improvements.
You can use it to track time, money, investments, cryptocurrencies,
inventory and more. See: 

http://hledger.org
http://plaintextaccounting.org

hledger 1.17 is released on schedule on 2020-03-01.
Thanks to release contributors Aleksandar Dimitrov, Brian Wignall,
Stephen Morgan, Jacek Generowicz, Gaith Hallak, Eric Mertens, Jakob
Schöttl, Carl Richard Theodor Schneider, David Zhang, Amarandus,
Evilham, Mateus Furquim, and Rui Chen.

HIGHLIGHTS:

CSV single-field matching, 
easier SSV/TSV conversion,
fixed/enhanced close command, 
undo in add command,
more JSON output, 
org headline support in timedot format,
GHC 8.10 support.

See all changes at https://hledger.org/release-notes .

GETTING STARTED:

Many install methods are described at http://hledger.org/download. 
Here are three ways to build from source:

  stack update; stack install --resolver=lts hledger-lib-1.17 hledger-1.17 hledger-ui-1.17 hledger-web-1.17 --silent

or:

  cabal v2-update; cabal v2-install hledger-1.17 hledger-web-1.17 hledger-ui-1.17

or:

  curl -sO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonmichael/hledger/master/hledger-install/hledger-install.sh
  less hledger-install.sh
  bash hledger-install.sh

While building, peruse https://hledger.org/start

For help, see http://hledger.org#help-feedback
and join us on Freenode (#hledger, http://irc.hledger.org)
or via Matrix (#freenode_#hledger:matrix.org, http://riot.hledger.org).

New and old users, contributors, sponsors, and all feedback are most welcome!

Best,
-Simon