hledger/doc/ANNOUNCE

I'm very pleased to announce hledger 1.22 !
https://hledger.org/release-notes.html#hledger-1-22 
describes the user-visible changes. Highlights include:

- Optimisations: about 20% faster overall, with register about 2x
  faster and 4x more memory-efficient

- Bugfixes, including fixes for several regressions.

Thank you to the following release contributors this time around:
Felix Yan,
crocket,
Eric Mertens,
Damien Cassou,
charukiewicz,
Garret McGraw,
and especially Stephen Morgan.


hledger (https://hledger.org) is a dependable, cross-platform "plain
text accounting" tool, with command-line, terminal and web interfaces.
It is an actively maintained, largely compatible reimplementation of
Ledger CLI with many improvements. You can use it to track money,
time, investments, cryptocurrencies, inventory and more. See also the
Plain Text Accounting site (https://plaintextaccounting.org).

https://hledger.org/download shows all the ways to install hledger on
mac, windows or unix (stack, cabal, brew, nix, CI binaries, your
package manager..). Or, run this bash script to install or upgrade to
the latest release:

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

New users, check out https://hledger.org/quickstart
or the tutorials (with pictures!) at hledger.org -> FIRST STEPS
or the https://hledger.org/videos.html.

To get help, see https://hledger.org#help, and join one of our chat rooms:

- #hledger:matrix.org  (http://matrix.hledger.org)
- #hledger:libera.chat (http://irc.hledger.org)

Beginners and experts, contributors, sponsors, and all feedback are most welcome!


Wishing you health and prosperity,

-Simon