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Major releases:

hledger 0.26 (2015/7/12)
hledger 0.25 (2015/4/7)
hledger 0.24 (2014/12/25)
hledger 0.23 (2014/5/1)
hledger 0.22 (2013/12/13)
hledger 0.21 (2013/6/1)
hledger 0.20 (2013/5/1)
hledger 0.19 (2012/10/21)
hledger 0.18 (2012/5/29)
hledger 0.17 (2012/2/1)
hledger 0.16 (2011/10/1)
hledger 0.15 (2011/9/1)
hledger 0.14 (2011/4/22)
hledger 0.13 (2010/12/6)
hledger 0.12 (2010/9/5)
hledger 0.11 (2010/07/17)
hledger 0.10 (2010/05/23)
hledger 0.9 (2010/04/10)
hledger 0.8 (2010/02/11)
hledger 0.7 (2009/12/11)
hledger 0.6 (2009/06/13)
hledger 0.5 (2009/05/23)
hledger 0.4 (2009/04/03)
hledger 0.3 (2009/01/17)
hledger 0.2 (2008/11/23)
hledger 0.1 (2008/10/15)

Release notes

Based on the hledger, hledger-web & hledger-lib change logs.

2015/7/12 hledger 0.26

Website & doc updates, account aliases, misc. bugfixes & cleanups, performance.

Release contributors: Simon Michael, Imuli, Carlos Lopez-Camey, Kyle Marek-Spartz, Rick Lupton, Simon Hengel.

Changes to hledger.org & docs:

examples everywhere, screenshots, content & style updates
manual: reorganise topics, add some undocumented things, clarify some things
dev guide: more links, put how-tos first, copy diagram from old wiki, update the setup docs

User-visible changes in hledger since 0.25.1:

Account aliases:

Account aliases are once again non-regular-expression-based, by default. (#252)

The regex account aliases added in 0.24 tend to trip up people switching between hledger and Ledger. (Also they are currently slow). We now use the old non-regular-expression aliases again, by default; these are unsurprising, useful, and pretty close in functionality to Ledger's aliases.

The new regex aliases are still available, but they must now be enclosed in forward slashes. (Ledger effectively ignores these.)

Journal format:

We now parse, and also print, journal entries with no postings, as proposed on the mail lists. These are not well-formed General Journal entries/transactions, but on the other hand: Ledger and beancount parse them; if they are parsed, they should be printed; they provide a convenient way to record (and report) non-transaction events; and they permit more gradual introduction and learning of the concepts (so eg a beginner can keep a simple journal before learning about accounts and postings).
Trailing whitespace after a comment directive is now ignored.

Command-line interface:

The -f/file option may now be used multiple times. This is equivalent to concatenating the input files before running hledger. The add command adds entries to the first file specified.

Queries:

real: (no argument) is now a synonym for real:1
tag: now matches tag names with a regular expression, like most other queries
empty: is no longer supported, as it overlaps a bit confusingly with amt:0. The --empty flag is still available.
You can now match on pending status (#250)

A transaction/posting status of ! (pending) was effectively equivalent to * (cleared). Now it's a separate state, not matched by --cleared. The new Ledger-compatible --pending flag matches it, and so does --uncleared.

The relevant search query terms are now status:*, status:! and status: (the old status:1 and status:0 spellings are deprecated).

Since we interpret --uncleared and status: as "any state except cleared", it's not currently possible to match things which are neither cleared nor pending.

activity:

activity no longer excludes 0-amount postings by default.

add:

Don't show quotes around the journal file path in the "Creating..." message, for consistency with the subsequent "Adding..." message.

balancesheet:

Accounts beginning with "debt" or now also recognised as liabilities.

print:

We now limit the display precision of inferred prices. (#262)

When a transaction posts to two commodities without specifying the conversion price, we generate a price which makes it balance (cf http://hledger.org/manual.html#prices). The print command showed this with full precision (so that manual calculations with the displayed numbers would look right), but this sometimes meant we showed 255 digits (when there are multiple postings in the commodity being priced, and the averaged unit price is an irrational number). In this case we now set the price's display precision to the sum of the (max) display precisions of the commodities involved. An example:
```
hledger -f- print
<<<
1/1
    c    C 10.00
    c    C 11.00
    d  D -320.00
>>>
2015/01/01
    c  C 10.00 @ D 15.2381
    c  C 11.00 @ D 15.2381
    d     D -320.00

>>>=0
```
There might still be cases where this will show more price decimal places than necessary.
We now show inferred unit prices with at least 2 decimal places.

When inferring prices, if the commodities involved have low display precisions, we don't do a good job of rendering accurate-looking unit prices. Eg if the journal doesn't use any decimal places, any inferred unit prices are also displayed with no decimal places, which makes them look wrong to the user. Now, we always give inferred unit prices a minimum display precision of 2, which helps a bit.

Postings with no amounts could give a runtime error in some obscure case, now fixed.

stats:

stats now supports -o/--outputfile, like register/balance/print.

An O(n^2) performance slowdown has been fixed, it's now much faster on large journals.

+--------------------------------------++--------+--------+
|                                      ||   0.25 |   0.26 |
+======================================++========+========+
| -f data/100x100x10.journal     stats ||   0.10 |   0.16 |
| -f data/1000x1000x10.journal   stats ||   0.45 |   0.21 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  stats ||  58.92 |   2.16 |
+--------------------------------------++--------+--------+

Miscellaneous:

The June 30 day span was not being rendered correctly; fixed. (#272)
The deprecated shakespeare-text dependency has been removed more thoroughly.
The bench script invoked by "cabal bench" or "stack bench" now runs some simple benchmarks. You can get more accurate benchmark times by running with --criterion. This will usually give much the same numbers and takes much longer. Or with --simplebench, it benchmarks whatever commands are configured in bench/default.bench. This mode uses the first "hledger" executable in $PATH.

User-visible changes in hledger-web since 0.25.1:

make the j keybinding respect --base-url (fixes #271)
respect command line options (fixes #225)
include the unminified jquery source again (#161)
fix build breakage from #165 (fixes #268)
fix a js error breaking add form in browsers other than firefox (fixes #251)
drop deprecated network-conduit dependency

2015/4/29 hledger-web 0.25.1

support/require base-compat >0.8 (#245)

2015/4/29 hledger 0.25.1

timelog: support the description field (#247)

2015/4/29 hledger-lib 0.25.1

support/require base-compat >0.8 (#245)

2015/4/7 hledger 0.25

announcement GHC 7.10 compatibility, terminal width awareness, useful averages and totals columns, and a more robust hledger-web add form.

Release contributors: Simon Michael, Julien Moutinho.

User-visible changes in hledger since 0.24.1:

GHC 7.10 compatibility (#239)
On POSIX systems, the register command now uses the full terminal width by default. Specifically, the output width is set from:
1. a --width option
2. or a COLUMNS environment variable (NB: not the same as a bash shell var)
3. or on POSIX (non-windows) systems, the current terminal width
4. or the default, 80 characters.
This feature requires the C curses dev libraries, making installation slightly harder. If that's a problem you can disable curses support with a cabal flag: cabal install -f-curses ....
register's --width option now accepts an optional description column width following the overall width (--width WIDTH[,DESCWIDTH]). This also sets the account column width, since the available space (WIDTH-41) is divided up between these two columns. Here's a diagram:

    <--------------------------------- width (W) ---------------------------------->
    date (10)  description (D)       account (W-41-D)     amount (12)   balance (12)
    DDDDDDDDDD dddddddddddddddddddd  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  AAAAAAAAAAAA  AAAAAAAAAAAA

Examples:

    $ hledger reg                 # use terminal width on posix
    $ hledger reg -w 100          # width 100, equal description/account widths
    $ hledger reg -w 100,40       # width 100, wider description
    $ hledger reg -w $COLUMNS,100 # terminal width and set description width

balance: new -T/--row-total and -A/--average options

In multicolumn balance reports, -T/--row-total now shows a totals column and -A/--average shows an averages column. This helps eg to see monthly average expenses (hledger bal ^expenses -MA).

NB our use of -T deviates from Ledger's UI, where -T sets a custom final total expression.
balance: -N is now short for --no-total
balance: fix partially-visible totals row with --no-total

A periodic (not using --cumulative or --historical) balance report with --no-total now hides the totals row properly.
journal, csv: comment lines can also start with *

As in Ledger. This means you can embed emacs org/outline-mode nodes in your journal file and manipulate it like an outline.

User-visible changes in hledger-web since 0.24.1:

GHC 7.10 compatibility (#239)
fix the add form when there are included files (#234)

NB to make this work, the add form now shows the full file path of the main and included journal files.
improve add form validation (#223, #234)

All add form errors are displayed as form errors, not internal server errors, and when there are errors the add form is redisplayed (form inputs are not preserved, currently).
keep the add button right-aligned when pressing ctrl - on the add form

2015/3/15 hledger 0.24.1

timelog: show hours with 2 decimal places, not 1 (#237)
fix balance accumulation through assertions in several commodities (#195)
fix rendering of week 52 heading in weekly reports
allow utf8-string-1 (fpco/stackage/#426)

2015/3/15 hledger-lib 0.24.1

fix JournalReader "ctx" compilation warning
add some type signatures in Utils to help make ghci-web

2015/1/10 hledger-web 0.24.1

add missing modules to fix cabal tests (#232)

2014/12/25 hledger 0.24

Release contributors: Simon Michael, Julien Moutinho, Ryan Desfosses, Gergely Risko, Gwern Branwen.

CSV export, a non-floating point number representation, more powerful account aliases, speedups, and a streamlined web UI.

User-visible changes in hledger since 0.23.3:

General:

fix redundant compilation when cabal installing the hledger packages
switch to Decimal for representing amounts (#118)
report interval headings (eg in balance, register reports) are shown compactly when possible
general speedups.

+--------------------------------------------++----------------+--------------+--------+
|                                            || hledger-0.23.3 | hledger-0.24 | ledger |
+============================================++================+==============+========+
| -f data/100x100x10.journal     balance     ||           0.05 |         0.03 |   0.01 |
| -f data/1000x1000x10.journal   balance     ||           0.34 |         0.21 |   0.04 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  balance     ||           2.72 |         1.48 |   0.19 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  balance aa  ||           3.16 |         1.55 |   0.14 |
| -f data/100x100x10.journal     register    ||           0.09 |         0.05 |   0.04 |
| -f data/1000x1000x10.journal   register    ||           0.66 |         0.32 |   0.30 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  register    ||           6.27 |         2.77 |   2.80 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  register aa ||           3.30 |         1.62 |   0.21 |
| -f data/100x100x10.journal     print       ||           0.06 |         0.05 |   0.01 |
| -f data/1000x1000x10.journal   print       ||           0.42 |         0.25 |   0.04 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  print       ||           3.95 |         2.57 |   0.38 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  print aa    ||           3.23 |         1.56 |   0.14 |
| -f data/100x100x10.journal     stat        ||           0.04 |         0.03 |   0.01 |
| -f data/1000x1000x10.journal   stat        ||           0.35 |         0.24 |   0.03 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  stat        ||          14.84 |        13.29 |   0.20 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  stat aa     ||          12.08 |        10.16 |   0.17 |
+--------------------------------------------++----------------+--------------+--------+

Journal format:

detect decimal point and digit groups more robustly (#196)
check that transaction dates are followed by whitespace or newline
check that dates use a consistent separator character
balance assertions now are specific to a single commodity, like Ledger (#195)
support multi-line comments using "comment", "end comment" directives, like Ledger

CSV format:

fix: reading CSV data from stdin now works better
the original order of same-day transactions is now usually preserved (if the records appear to be in reverse date order, we reverse them before finally sorting by transaction date)
the rules file include directive is now relative to the current file's directory (#198)
CSV output is now built in to the balance, print, and register commands, controlled by -O/--output-format (and -o/--output-file, see below). This means that hledger data can be easily exported, eg for spreadsheet reporting or to migrate to a different tool.

CLI:

the --width and --debug options now require their argument (#149)
when an option is repeated, the last value takes precedence (#219). This is helpful eg for customising your reporting command aliases on the fly.
smart dates (used in -p/-b/-e/date:/date2:) now must use a consistent separator character, and must be parseable to the end
output destination and format selection is now built in to the balance, print and register commands, controlled by -o/--output-file and -O/--output-format options. Notes: -o - means stdout. An output file name suffix matching a supported format will also set the output format, unless overridden by --output-format. Commands' supported output formats are listed in their command-line help. Two formats are currently available: txt (the default) and csv.
balance assertions can be disabled with --ignore-assertions

Account aliases:

all matching account aliases are now applied, not just one directive and one option
account aliases now match by case insensitive regular expressions matching anywhere in the account name
account aliases can replace multiple occurrences of the pattern within an account name
an account alias replacement pattern can reference matched groups with \N

Queries:

date:/date2: with a malformed date now reports an error instead of being ignored
amt: now supports >= or <=
clarify status: docs and behaviour; "*" is no longer a synonym for "1" (fixes #227)

balance:

fix: in tree mode, --drop is ignored instead of showing empty account names
a depth limit of 0 now shows summary items with account name "...", instead of an empty report (#206)
in multicolumn balance reports, -E now also shows posting-less accounts with a non-zero balance during the period (in addition to showing leading & trailing empty columns)
in multicolumn reports, multi-commodity amounts are rendered on one line for better layout (#186)
multicolumn reports' title now includes the report span

runs faster with large output
supports date2:, and date:/date2: combined with --date2, better (fixes #201, #221, #222)
a depth limit of 0 now shows summary items (see balance)
-A/--average now implies -E/--empty
postings with multi-commodity amounts are now top-aligned, like Ledger

User-visible changes in hledger-web since 0.23.3:

General:

fix: add missing hs/js files to package
the web UI has been streamlined, dropping the raw and entries views and the edit form
the help dialog has been improved
keyboard shortcuts are now available
the sidebar can be toggled open or closed (press s)

Journal view:

layout tweaks for less truncation of descriptions and account names

fix: don't show all zero amounts when searching by account within an account register view
chart improvements: show zero balances with correct commodity; show accurate balance at all dates; show transaction events & tooltips; show zero/today lines & background colors

Add form:

parses data more strictly and gives better errors (eg #194)
allows any number of postings, not just two
after adding a transaction, goes back to the journal
keyboard shortcut (a) allows quick access

Dependencies:

allow warp 3*, wai-handler-launch 3*
require yesod 1.4* (fixes #212)
js updated (jquery, bootstrap, flot), added (typeahead, cookie, hotkeys), removed (select2)

API-ish changes in hledger-lib since 0.23.3:

fix combineJournalUpdates folding order
fix a regexReplaceCI bug
fix a splitAtElement bug with adjacent separators
mostly replace slow regexpr with regex-tdfa (fixes #189)
use the modern Text.Parsec API
allow transformers 0.4*
regexReplace now supports backreferences
Transactions now remember their parse location in the journal file
export Regexp types, disambiguate CsvReader's similarly-named type
export failIfInvalidMonth/Day (closes #216)
track the commodity of zero amounts when possible (useful eg for hledger-web's multi-commodity charts)
show posting dates in debug output
more debug helpers

2014/9/12 hledger-web 0.23.3

remove warp, wai-handler-launch upper bounds (fixes #205)

2014/9/12 hledger 0.23.3

allow text 1.2+ (fixes #207)

2014/5/8 hledger 0.23.2

2014/5/7 hledger 0.23.1

register: fix a refactoring-related regression that the tests missed: if transactions were not ordered by date in the journal, register could include postings before the report start date in the output. (#184)
add: don't apply a default commodity to amounts on entry (#138)
cli: options before the add-on command name are now also passed to it (#182)
csv: allow the first name in a fields list to be empty (#178)
csv: don't validate fields count in skipped lines (#177)

2014/5/1 hledger 0.23

announcement command-line fixes and polish, a new accounts command, and a number of changes to the balance command relating to --depth, --flat, and multicolumn mode, which I find has made it much more useful.

Changes since 0.22.2:

Journal format:

A # (hash) in column 0 is now also supported for starting a top-level journal comment, like Ledger.
The "too many missing amounts" error now reminds about the 2-space rule.
Fix: . (period) is no longer parsed as a valid amount.
Fix: default commodity directives no longer limit the maximum display precision (#169).
Fix: + before an amount is no longer parsed as part of the commodity (#181).

CLI:

Command-line help cleanups, layout improvements.
Descriptions are shown for known add-ons in the command list.
Command aliases have been simplified.
Add-ons can now have any of these file extensions: none, hs, lhs, pl, py, rb, rkt, sh, bat, com, exe.
Add-ons are displayed without their file extensions when possible.
Add-ons with the same name as a built-in command or alias are ignored.
Fix: add-on detection and invocation now works on windows.
Fix: add-ons with digits in the name are now found.
Fix: add-on arguments containing a single quote now work.
Fix: when -- is used to hide add-on options from the main program, it is no longer passed through as an add-on argument.

accounts:

An accounts command has been added, similar to Ledger's, for listing account names in flat or hierarchical mode.

add:

Tab completion now works at all prompts, and will insert the default if the input area is empty.
Account and amount defaults are more robust and useful.
Transactions may also be completed by the enter key, when there are no more default postings.
Input prompts are displayed in a different colour when supported.

balance:

Balance reports in flat mode now always show exclusive (subaccount-excluding) balances.
Balance reports in flat mode with --depth now aggregate deeper accounts at the depth limit instead of excluding them.
Multicolumn reports in flat mode now support --drop.
Multicolumn balance reports can now show the account hierarchy with --tree.
Multicolumn report start/end dates are adjusted to encompass the displayed report periods, so the first and last periods are "full" and comparable to the others.
Fix: zero-balance leaf accounts below a non-zero-balance parent are no longer always shown (#170).
Fix: multicolumn reports now support --date2 (cf #174).

balancesheet, cashflow, incomestatement:

These commands now support --flat and --drop.

print:

Tag queries (tag:) will now match a transaction if any of its postings match.

The --display option has been dropped. To see an accurate running total which includes the prior starting balance, use --historical/-H (like balance).
With a report interval, report start/end dates are adjusted to encompass the displayed periods, so the first and last periods are "full" and comparable to the others.
Fix: --date2 now works with report intervals (fixes #174).

Queries:

The currency/commodity query prefix (sym:) has been renamed to cur:.
Currency/commodity queries are applied more strongly in register and balance reports, filtering out unwanted currencies entirely. Eg hledger balance cur:'$' now reports only the dollar amounts even if there are multi-currency transactions or postings.
Amount queries like amt:N, amt:N, where N is not 0, now do an unsigned comparison of the amount and N. That is, they compare the absolute magnitude. To do a signed comparison instead, write N with its sign (eg amt:+N, amt:<+N, amt:>-N).
Fix: amount queries no longer give false positives on multi-commodity amounts.

Miscellaneous:

Default report dates now derive from the secondary dates when --date2 is in effect.
Default report dates now notice any posting dates outside the transaction dates' span.
Debug output improvements.
New add-on example: extra/hledger-rewrite.hs, adds postings to matched entries.
Compatible with GHC 7.2 (#155) - GHC 7.8, shakespeare 2

2014/5/1 hledger-web 0.23

Changes since 0.22.8:

The --static-root flag has been renamed to --file-url.
hledger-web now builds with Cabal's default -O, not -O2, so may be a little quicker/less memory-hungry to install.

2014/4/29 hledger-web 0.22.8

allow shakespeare 2.* (#179)

2014/4/17 hledger-web 0.22.7

add Peter Simons' patch fixing Data.Conduit.Network HostIPv4 error (#171)

2014/4/16 hledger-web 0.22.6

depend on hledger[-lib] 0.22.2

2014/4/16 hledger 0.22.2

display years before 1000 with four digits, not three
avoid pretty-show to build with GHC < 7.4
allow text 1.1, drop data-pprint to build with GHC 7.8.x

2014/4/15 hledger-web 0.22.5

allow http-client 0.3.*, fixing cabal install again with GHC <= 7.6 (not yet 7.8)
use pretty-show only with GHC 7.4+, fixing GHC 7.2 (fixes #155)
allow warp 2.1, fixing cabal install

2014/2/10 hledger-web 0.22.4

web: include the right unminified version of jquery.url.js (1.1) to avoid js breakage

2014/2/10 hledger-web 0.22.3

web: fix version number reported by --version

2014/2/10 hledger-web 0.22.2

New:

web: new option --static-root to set the base url for static files

Improved:

web: include unminified source of all javascript to help packagers (fixes #161)
web: work around clang-related build failures with OS X mavericks/XCode 5
web: allow blaze-html 0.7 (closes #159)

2014/1/6 hledger 0.22.1

require the latest pretty-show so hledger installation no longer needs an upgraded version of happy, and the docs build on hackage
require regex-tdfa directly instead of regex-compat-tdfa, simplifying Debian packaging

2013/12/13 hledger 0.22

announcement

New:

balance: with a reporting interval (monthly, yearly etc.), the balance command will now show a multi-column report, showing either the per-period changes in balance (by default), the period ending balances starting from zero (--cumulative), or the actual period ending balances (--historical). A more detailed specification of the balance command's behaviour has been added to Hledger.Cli.Balance.
csv: rules files can now include other rules files, useful for factoring out common rules
queries: sym:REGEXP matches commodity symbols
register: --average/-A shows a running average, like ledger
in period expressions, - (hyphen) can be used as a more compact synonym for from and to. Eg: -p 2012/12/1-2013/2/1 or date:aug-.
the add-on script examples in extra/ have been updated; get the hledger source and add .../hledger/extra/ to your PATH to make them available. They include:
- hledger-accountnames.hs - print account names
- hledger-balance-csv.hs - print a balance report as CSV
- hledger-equity.hs - print an entry matching all account balances (like ledger)
- hledger-print-unique.hs - print only journal entries unique descriptions
- hledger-register-csv.hs - print a register report as CSV

Improved:

balancesheet: now shows just assets and liabilities, not equity
print: comment positions (same line or next line) are now preserved
queries: amt now uses the = operator by default, eg amt:50 is equivalent to amt:=50
command line processing has been overhauled and made more consistent, and now has tests and debug output. More flags now work both before and after COMMAND: -f, --rule-file, --alias, --help, --debug, --version. Command line help, command aliases, API docs and code have been improved.
--debug now takes an optional numeric argument to set the debug level higher than 1, for more verbose debug output in a few cases.

Fixed:

csv: CSV data containing non-ascii characters is now supported
build with latest versions of dependencies (text, warp, http-conduit etc.)

Release contributors:

Marko Kocić, Max Bolingbroke, and a big welcome to first-time committer John Wiegley! :)

2013/7/10 hledger-web 0.21.3

drop yesod-platform dependency, it is not worthwhile. The other yesod dependencies are currently without version ranges, so cabal install might require --constraint to restrict them in some cases.

2013/6/23 hledger 0.21.3

csv: fix wrong application of multiple assignments in a conditional block

2013/6/4 hledger 0.21.2

web: fix a build failure

2013/6/3 hledger 0.21.1

web: show proper Y-values in register chart (fixes #122)
web: avoid trailing commas in register chart values, in case of trouble with IE

2013/6/1 hledger 0.21

Bugs fixed:

parsing: don't fail when a csv amount has trailing whitespace (fixes #113)
web: don't show prices in the accounts sidebar (fixes #114)
web: show one line per commodity in charts. Needs more polish, but fixes #109.
web: bump yesod-platform dependency to avoid a cabal install failure

Journal reading:

balance assertions are now checked after reading a journal

web command:

web: support/require yesod 1.2
web: show zero-balance accounts in the sidebar (fixes #106)
web: use nicer select2 autocomplete widgets in the add form

Documentation and infrastructure:

add basic cabal test suites for hledger-lib and hledger

2013/5/4 hledger 0.20.0.1

web: require at least version 1.1.7 of yesod-core to avoid a potential build error
Update the bug tracker and source repository links on hackage

2013/5/1 hledger 0.20

Bugs fixed:

balance: a 0.19 regression which showed wrong total balance with --flat has been fixed (#94)
register: when --date2 is used, the register is now sorted by the secondary date
web: some missing static & template files have been added to the package, fixing cabal-dev and hackage builds (#97, #98)
web: some hardcoded static urls have been fixed
Dependencies and code have been updated to support the latest libraries and GHC versions. For now, hledger requires GHC 7.2+ and hledger-web requires GHC 7.4+.

Journal reading:

DOS-style line-endings are now also supported in journal and rules files.
! is now accepted in the status field as well as *, like ledger
The actual date and effective date terminology has changed to primary date and secondary date. Use --date2 to select the secondary date for reports. (--aux-date or --effective are also accepted for ledger and backwards compatibility).
Per-posting dates are supported, using hledger tags or ledger's posting date syntax
Comment and tag handling has been improved

CSV reading:

CSV conversion rules have a simpler, more flexible syntax. Existing rules files will need to be updated manually:
- the filename is now FILE.csv.rules instead of FILE.rules
- FIELD-field N is now FIELD %N+1 (or set them all at once with a fields rule)
- base-currency is now currency
- base-account is now account1
- account-assigning rules: add if before the list of regexps, add indented account2 before the account name
parenthesised amounts are parsed as negative

Querying:

Use code: to match the transaction code (check number) field
Use amt: followed by <, = or > and a number N to match amounts by magnitude. Eg amt:<0 or amt:=100. This works only with single-commodity amounts (multi-commodity amounts are always matched).
tag: can now match (exact, case sensitive) tag values. Eg tag:TAG=REGEXP.

add comand:

Transaction codes and comments (which may contain tags) can now be entered, following a date or amount respectively. (#45)
The current entry may be restarted by entering < at any prompt. (#47)
Entries are displayed and confirmed before they are written to the journal.
Default values may be specified for the first entry by providing them as command line arguments.
Miscellaneous UI cleanups

The --related/-r flag shows the other postings in each transaction, like ledger.
The --width/-w option increases or sets the output width.

web command:

The web command now also starts a browser, and auto-exits when unused, by default ("local ui mode"). With --server, it keeps running and logs requests to the console ("server mode").
Bootstrap is now used for styling and layout
A favicon is served
The search field is wider
yesod devel is now supported; it uses $LEDGER_FILE or ~/.hledger.journal
the blaze_html_0_5 build flag has been reversed and renamed to blaze_html_0_4

Add-ons:

The hledger-interest and hledger-irr commands have been released/updated.
hledger-chart and hledger-vty remain unmaintained and deprecated.

Documentation and infrastructure:

The hledger docs and website have been reorganised and updated
Manuals for past releases are provided as well as the latest dev version
hledger has moved from darcs and darcs hub to git and github (!)
The bug tracker has moved from google code to github
Feature requests and project planning are now managed on trello
A build bot builds against multiple GHC versions on each commit

Release contributors:

Sascha Welter commissioned register enhancements (--related and --width)
David Patrick contributed a bounty for add enhancements
Joachim Breitner added support for ! in status field
Xinruo Sun provided hledger-web build fixes
Peter Simons provided hledger-web build fixes, and a build bot
Marko Kocić provided hledger-web fixes

2012/11/24 hledger-web 0.19.3

web: fix "Prelude.read: no parse" errors with GHC >= 7.6
web & lib refactoring

2012/11/16 hledger-web 0.19

builds with yesod 1.1.3
obeys command-line query options at startup again
the autogenerated session file is now a dot file (.hledger-web_client_session.aes)

2012/11/16 hledger 0.19.1

87: fix an arithmetic and transaction balancing bug with multiple total-priced amounts ( @@ PRICE )
parsing: ignore ledger-style balance assertions ( = BAL ) and fixed lot price declarations ( {= PRICE} )

2012/10/21 hledger 0.19

announcement a much faster balance command, and support for the latest GHC and libs.

hledger, hledger-lib: support GHC 7.6 and latest cmdargs, haskeline, split

balance report no longer has an O(n^2) slowdown with large numbers of accounts, and is generally more speedy. Benchmark on a 2010 macbook:

+-------------------------------------------++--------------+--------------+--------+
|                                           || hledger-0.18 | hledger-0.19 | ledger |
+===========================================++==============+==============+========+
| -f data/100x100x10.journal     balance    ||         0.21 |         0.07 |   0.09 |
| -f data/1000x1000x10.journal   balance    ||        10.13 |         0.47 |   0.62 |
| -f data/1000x10000x10.journal  balance    ||        40.67 |         0.67 |   1.01 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  balance    ||        15.01 |         3.22 |   2.36 |
| -f data/10000x1000x10.journal  balance aa ||         4.77 |         4.40 |   2.33 |
+-------------------------------------------++--------------+--------------+--------+

build version is set with CPP instead of cabal-file-th

2012/7/7 hledger 0.18.2

web: fix compilation error with -fblaze_html_0_5 flag
bump base lower bound to 4.3 to enforce GHC 7 requirement

2012/6/29 hledger 0.18.1

register, print: fix reverse ordering of same-day transactions
balance: respect all query terms, not just acct
combine command-line flags like --depth properly with non-flag query patterns
web: don't auto-create a missing journal file at startup
stats: list included journal files
support tilde (~) in journal and rules file paths
expose more utilities from CsvReader
remove ensureRulesFile debug trace

2012/5/29 hledger 0.18

announcement

web: hledger-web is now based on yesod 1.0
web: fix js error breaking second use of add form (#72)
web: make yesod devel work
the command-line now supports a more powerful query language, consistent with the web UI
hledger now fully supports tags (aka metadata) on both transactions and postings, and querying by tag or tag value
new commands incomestatement, balancesheet, and cashflow provide basic financial statements under certain conditions
format conversion is now done on demand, and the convert command has been dropped. So instead of hledger convert FILE.csv just do hledger -f FILE.csv print or any other command. You can also pipe any supported format into hledger -f- CMD and hledger will try to do the right thing.
support for GHC 6.12 has been dropped; this release has been tested with GHC 7.0.4, 7.2.2, and 7.4.1
unicode is now handled properly on all supported GHC versions
API and internal cleanups

2012/3/3 hledger-web 0.17.1

set more upper bounds to fix cabal install issues with latest packages

2012/2/1 hledger 0.17

announcement fixes bugs and updates dependencies

support HP 2011.4.0.0
support and require cmdargs 0.9
allow non-threaded builds, supporting more debian architectures
parsing: give a clearer error when journal file path contains ~
parsing: -B/--cost now ignores P historical prices, like ledger
parsing: inferred amounts now use the cost commodity if known, like ledger (#69)
balance: report differently-priced lots in an account as a single amount, like ledger
web: support and require yesod >= 0.9.4
web: use the main aeson package again
web: fix a regression with dollar signs in hamlet templates
web: add form allowed blank account names (#81)
chart, vty: hledger-chart and hledger-vty demoted to non-maintained extras for now

2011/10/26 hledger-web 0.16.5

web: fix a ghc 6.12 incompatibility in Settings.hs

2011/10/24 hledger-web 0.16.4

web: yet another cabal install fix, fix AppConfig name clash

2011/10/4 hledger-web 0.16.3

web: another cabal install fix, disable favicon.ico since it's not easily embeddable

2011/10/4 hledger-web 0.16.2

web: more cabal install fixes (remove bad path, add routes and models) (#63)

2011/10/4 hledger 0.16.1

parsing: show correct line number for posting parse errors (#67)
web: declare static files as extra-source-files to fix cabal install (#63)
web: add a threaded flag for debian (#68)
web: fewer build warnings by default

2011/10/1 hledger 0.16

announcement a stability/bugfix/polish release (which may become the pattern for even-numbered releases in future.)

cli: strip the -- when calling add-on commands, so their options work (#64)
cli: hledger ADDON --version now shows add-on command's version
cli: only the add and web commands auto-create the journal file
cli: give a non-confusing error if LEDGER_FILE contains a literal tilde
add: clearer prompts, more validation, use . to end also
add: use unix line endings consistently, avoiding parse error on windows (#51)
add: avoid excess whitespace between transactions (#46)
balance: ledger compatibility fix: don't elide parent accounts with multiple displayed subaccounts
convert: always order converted transactions by date
convert: rename currency -> base-currency, in-field, out-field -> amount-in-field, amount-out-field
convert: give an error, not a zero when date or amount-in-field/amount-out-field parsing fails
register: show more useful range of intervals with --empty and a query pattern
print, web: always show both dates, ignoring --effective (#42)
web: production builds (the default with cabal) have all web content embedded (dev builds use ./static/) (#63)
web: update to yesod 0.9
web: obey at least some of the general reporting options, like --cost
web: adjust the default base url when a custom port is specified
web: prevent an infinite redirect when custom base url has a trailing slash
web: fix "not:'multi word'" patterns
web: hide old title and search form when adding/editing
web: adjust --help to indicate command-line arguments are not expected
web: don't bother running cli unit tests at startup

2011/9/12 hledger 0.15.2, hledger-web 0.15.3

handle multiple filter patterns on the command-line again
don't pass an add-on command's name to it as an extra argument
don't give a confusing error with -f and no command
fix a regression balancing a transaction containing different prices
web: fix journal edit form
web: fix wrong transaction amount in account register with virtual postings
web: fix some invalid html

2011/9/2 hledger 0.15.1, hledger-web 0.15.2

fix a parsec 2 incompatibility
web: add missing Hledger.Web.Options to cabal file
web: tighten up dependencies to reduce build problems

2011/9/1 hledger 0.15

announcement

hledger's options are now modal, providing better help (using cmdargs)
hledger now lists and runs any hledger-* add-ons found in the user's path
case insensitivity of filter patterns has been fixed
parsing: alias/end aliases directives, for renaming accounts, are supported, like ledger's but a bit more powerful; also an --alias option for renaming on the fly
parsing: the account directive now preserves posting type (normal/virtual/balanced virtual)
parsing: the pop directive is supported as an alias for end tag, like ledger
parsing: P (historical price) directives can contain a (ignored) numeric time zone, like ledger
parsing: the leading ! in directives is now optional and deprecated, like ledger
parsing: entries with a negative amount in the first posting now infer the correct balancing amount
parsing: bad date checking is more accurate
balance: collapsing of boring accounts to one line can be disabled with --no-elide
balance: fix a wrong precision regression from last release
convert: standard input can be converted
convert: an alternate rules file can be specified with --rules
convert: account2-field can be used when the CSV file specifies both accounts
convert: description-field can have a custom format and combine multiple CSV fields
convert: in-field and out-field support CSV files that use two amount columns
convert: don't fail when there's no default journal file
web: the web interface has been overhauled/cleaned up
web: account register views are now transaction-based, like gnucash etc., and show accurate historical balances when possible
web: simple balance charts are displayed (using flot)
web: more expressive and consistent search patterns, using a new matching engine
web: add form uses currently focussed account as default, redirects to itself, formats status messages better
web: sidebar now shows empty/boring accounts too
web: now uses warp and a newer yesod
api simplifications
importable Hledger, Hledger.Web, Hledger.Vty and Hledger.Chart modules
the basic reports are now provided by hledger-lib for easier reuse
new api use examples: equity.hs, uniquify.hs
some old base 3 support has been dropped
the old -s flag has been dropped

2011/4/22 hledger 0.14

announcement

remove the specific process dependency that caused too many cabal install problems
treat arguments as possibly-encoded platform strings, do not assume UTF-8
hledger now always reads and writes data as UTF-8, ignoring the system locale (#34)
look at the LEDGER_FILE env var for the journal path, otherwise LEDGER, like ledger
handle a blank LEDGER_FILE or LEDGER value more gracefully (use the default file path)
the default journal file path is now ~/.hledger.journal, to avoid breaking mac filevault (#41)
amounts with different prices are now aggregated, like ledger
zero amounts now have no sign or commodity, like ledger
parsing: assume current year when transaction dates have no year and there is no default year
parsing: more careful validation of eg leap years in transaction dates
parsing: better international number format support, allowing comma as decimal point and flexible digit groups (#32)
parsing: support @@ syntax specifying total price
parsing: infer the conversion price in transactions involving two unpriced commodities
parsing: support per-posting cleared status
parsing: more reporting interval syntax: biweekly, bimonthly, every N days/weeks/months/quarters/years, every Nst/nd/rd/th day of month/week
add: avoid offering account names for completion in inappropriate contexts
add: remember default account even if user submits a different amount.
convert: account-field directive specifies a field containing the base account name
convert: effective-date-field directive specifies a field containing the effective date
convert: date-format directive specifies custom date formats
convert: allow amount fields containing "AMT @@ PRICE"
histogram: honour the specified start or end dates
print: don't show a trailing space when description is blank
web: allow filter patterns with spaces if quoted, like command line
web: make edit form more cross-browser compatible, fixing it in firefox (#38)
web: move hidden add/edit/import forms below main content to help text-mode browsers a bit (#33)

Release contributors: Simon Michael, Dmitry Astapov, Eric Kow, Max Bolingbroke, Omari Norman. Stats: 137 days, 113 commits, 11 end-user features and 15 end-user bugfixes since last release. 189 unit & functional tests and 59% unit test coverage (hledger, hledger-lib packages). 5540 lines of code (all packages).

2010/12/6 hledger 0.13

announcement readline editing and tab completion from Judah Jacobson, more ledger compatibility, a more robust and installable web interface, bugfixes, and a much-deliberated package split.

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
parsing: price precisions no longer affect commodities' display precisions
add: readline-style editing
add: tab-completion for account names
add: add the default commodity, if any, to commodity-less amounts (#26)
add: misc. commodity/precision/defaults-related bugfixes
chart: give a meaningful error message for empty journals
chart: update for current Chart lib (0.14)
web: support files now live in ./.hledger/web/ and will be auto-created at startup
web: page layout is more robust with wide content
web: allow editing of included files
web: handle multiple filter patterns correctly
web: allow single- or double-quoted filter patterns containing spaces
web: update for current yesod lib (0.6.*)
transaction balancing is now based on display precision (#23)
briefer, more informative usage error messages

2010/9/6 hledger 0.12.1

announcement

web: fix account filtering breakage
installing: tighten up utf8-string dependency

2010/9/5 hledger 0.12

web: new, better web ui; accounts are now a permanent sidebar; add form uses auto-completing combo fields
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
installing: explicit hamlet dependency for more robust building
installing: build threaded and with warnings
installing: drop -fweb610 flag
installing: add gtk2hs-buildtools dependency needed to build with -fchart
installing: require cabal 1.6 or greater
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

Stats: 50 days and 90 commits since last release, now at 5741 lines of code with 136 tests and 41% unit test coverage.

2010/07/17 hledger 0.11.1

fix --version output

2010/07/17 hledger 0.11

announcement

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
auto-create missing journal files rather than giving an error
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)
parsing: fix wrong parse error locations within postings
parsing: don't let trailing whitespace in a timelog description mess up account names
add: allow blank descriptions
balance: --flat provides a simple non-hierarchical format
balance: --drop removes leading account name components from a --flat report
print, register, balance: fix layout issues with mixed-commodity amounts
print: display non-simple commodity names with double-quotes
stats: layout tweaks, add payee/description count
stats: don't break on an empty file
stats: -p/--period support; a reporting interval generates multiple reports
test: drop verbose test runner and testpack dependency
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
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

Stats: 55 days and 136 commits since last release. Now at 5552 lines of code with 132 tests and 54% unit test coverage.

2010/05/23 hledger 0.10

announcement installation and bug fixes and api improvements

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
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
parsing: simpler high-level parse error message
parsing: clearer bad date errors
add: fix wrongful program exit on bad dates
print: negative account patterns now exclude transactions containing any posting to a matched account
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

Stats: 44 days, 81 commits since last release. Now at 4904 lines of code including tests, 144 tests, 53% coverage.

2010/04/10 hledger 0.9

announcement many bugfixes and small improvements, GHC 6.12 support, and a separate library package to make building (h)ledger-compatible tools easier.

ghc 6.12 support
split off hledger-lib package, containing core types & utils
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
parsing: allow transactions with empty descriptions
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
parsing: don't ignore unparsed text following an amount
parsing: @ was being treated as a currency symbol
add: fix precision handling in default amounts (#19)
add: elide last amount in added transactions
convert: keep original description by default, allow backreferences in replace pattern
convert: basic csv file checking, warn instead of dying when it looks wrong
convert: allow blank/comment lines at end of rules file
print: always show zero amounts as 0, hiding any commodity/decimal places/price, like ledger
register: fix bad layout with years < 1000
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
stats: better output when last transaction is in the future
stats: show commodity symbols, account tree depth, reorder slightly
web: -fweb now builds with simpleserver; to get happstack, use -fwebhappstack instead
web: pre-fill the add form with today's date
web: help links, better search form wording
web: show a proper error for a bad date in add form (#17)
web: fix for unicode search form values
web: fix stack overflow caused by regexpr, and handle requests faster (#14)
web: look for more-generic browser executables
web: more robust browser starting (#6)
error message cleanups
more tests, refactoring, docs

Stats: 58 days, 2 contributors, 102 commits since last release. Now at 3983 lines of non-test code, 139 tests, 53% coverage.

2010/02/11 hledger 0.8

announcement Bug fixes, refactoring and Hi-Res Graphical Charts.

parsing: in date=date2, use first date's year as a default for the second
add: ctrl-d doesn't work on windows, suggest ctrl-c instead
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)
web: fix help link
web: use today as default when adding with a blank date
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
refactoring, clearer data types

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

announcement

price history support (first cut): P directives now work, though differently from 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
fix a regex bug in showtree
don't break if HOME is undefined
--debug now implies --verbose
add functional tests like ledger's, use test-framework for speedy running, release shelltestrunner as a separate package
many hlint cleanups (Marko Kocić)
many site and documentation updates

Stats: 60 days, 1 contributor, 50 commits since last release. Now at 3377 lines of non-test code, 97 tests, 53% test coverage.

2009/06/22 hledger 0.6.1

avoid use of exitSuccess which was breaking ghc 6.8/base 3 compatibility (issue #2)

2009/06/13 hledger 0.6

announcement Some pre-built binaries are now available. cabal install works on gnu/linux, mac and windows. Hurrah!

now cabal-installable on unix, mac, and windows, with Haskell Platform
provide experimental platform binaries
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
add: better handling of virtual postings and default amounts
print, register: show virtual accounts bracketed/parenthesised
web: improved web ui supporting full patterns & period expressions
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)
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

announcement

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 stats:

Contributors: Simon Michael, Sergey Astanin
Days since last release: 51
Commits: 101
Lines of non-test code: 2795
Tests: 76
Known errors: 0

2009/04/03 hledger 0.4

announcement There is also a new website at hledger.org, with screenshots (textual!), a demo (will it survive!?), and docs (not too many!) ... I wrote it because I did not want to hack on c++ and because haskell seemed a good fit ... new happstack-based web interface.

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

Release stats:

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

2009/01/17 hledger 0.3

announcement

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
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
runs much faster than 0.2

Release stats:

Contributors: Simon Michael, Nick Ingolia, Tim Docker; thanks to Corey O'Connor & the vty team
Lines of non-test code: 2123
Tests: 58
Known errors: 1

2008/11/23 hledger 0.2

announcement

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
priced amounts (eg "10h @ $50") and ..basis/..cost/-B flag to show them with cost basis
easy ..depth option, equivalent to 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 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

Release stats:

Contributors: Simon Michael, Tim Docker
Lines of non-test code: 1350
Tests: 43
Known errors: 0

2008/10/15 hledger 0.1

announcement I'm pleased to announce the first release of hledger, a command-line accounting tool similar to John Wiegley's c++ ledger. hledger generates simple ledger-compatible transaction & account balance reports from a plain text ledger file. It's simple to use, at least for techies. This has been my "learning Haskell" project, but I think it's also useful. It is much less featureful than ledger, and not quite as fast, but it has the virtue of being fun for haskellers to hack on. I am documenting the code, the app is simple, and I'm not too far up the haskell learning curve, so I think other people learning haskell might enjoy a look. It is currently ~1100 lines of haskell excluding tests. My thanks to John Wiegley for help with compatibility and for his very useful ledger tool. I use it (and now, both of them) daily to track time and money. This is of course a hot topic around our planet. I hope you find it useful or intriguing.

Release stats:

Contributors: Simon Michael

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2015/7/12 hledger 0.26

2015/4/29 hledger-web 0.25.1

2015/4/29 hledger 0.25.1

2015/4/29 hledger-lib 0.25.1

2015/4/7 hledger 0.25

2015/3/15 hledger 0.24.1

2015/3/15 hledger-lib 0.24.1

2015/1/10 hledger-web 0.24.1

2014/12/25 hledger 0.24

2014/9/12 hledger-web 0.23.3

2014/9/12 hledger 0.23.3

2014/5/8 hledger 0.23.2

2014/5/7 hledger 0.23.1

2014/5/1 hledger 0.23

2014/5/1 hledger-web 0.23

2014/4/29 hledger-web 0.22.8

2014/4/17 hledger-web 0.22.7

2014/4/16 hledger-web 0.22.6

2014/4/16 hledger 0.22.2

2014/4/15 hledger-web 0.22.5

2014/2/10 hledger-web 0.22.4

2014/2/10 hledger-web 0.22.3

2014/2/10 hledger-web 0.22.2

2014/1/6 hledger 0.22.1

2013/12/13 hledger 0.22

2013/7/10 hledger-web 0.21.3

2013/6/23 hledger 0.21.3

2013/6/4 hledger 0.21.2

2013/6/3 hledger 0.21.1

2013/6/1 hledger 0.21

2013/5/4 hledger 0.20.0.1

2013/5/1 hledger 0.20

2012/11/24 hledger-web 0.19.3

2012/11/16 hledger-web 0.19

2012/11/16 hledger 0.19.1

2012/10/21 hledger 0.19

2012/7/7 hledger 0.18.2

2012/6/29 hledger 0.18.1

2012/5/29 hledger 0.18

2012/3/3 hledger-web 0.17.1

2012/2/1 hledger 0.17

2011/10/26 hledger-web 0.16.5

2011/10/24 hledger-web 0.16.4

2011/10/4 hledger-web 0.16.3

2011/10/4 hledger-web 0.16.2

2011/10/4 hledger 0.16.1

2011/10/1 hledger 0.16

2011/9/12 hledger 0.15.2, hledger-web 0.15.3

2011/9/2 hledger 0.15.1, hledger-web 0.15.2

2011/9/1 hledger 0.15

2011/4/22 hledger 0.14

2010/12/6 hledger 0.13

2010/9/6 hledger 0.12.1

2010/9/5 hledger 0.12

2010/07/17 hledger 0.11.1

2010/07/17 hledger 0.11

2010/05/23 hledger 0.10

2010/04/10 hledger 0.9

2010/02/11 hledger 0.8

2009/12/11 hledger 0.7

2009/06/22 hledger 0.6.1

2009/06/13 hledger 0.6

2009/05/23 hledger 0.5.1

2009/05/23 hledger 0.5

2009/04/03 hledger 0.4

2009/01/17 hledger 0.3

2008/11/23 hledger 0.2

2008/10/15 hledger 0.1

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