I'm pleased to announce a #hledger double release! First, hledger 1.52, with

more robust paging,
faster valuation,
commodity tags,
and cost basis annotations which are preserved and can be exported (examples provided).

- https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/releases/1.52
- https://hledger.org/relnotes.html#2026-03-20-hledger-152
- https://hledger.org/install

#plaintextaccounting #haskell

https://shinglyu.com/blog/2026/03/18/hledger-and-ai.html

“Once you see how clean the numbers are — and how easy it is to verify them — going back to spreadsheets feels like going back to a flip phone.”
#plaintextaccounting @shinglyu

Support question for the #hledger #plaintextaccounting community:

Prefacing this by acknowledging that I know I'm probably trying to do something weird, but I’m just getting started so please be patient.

I’m trying to import a large CSV file and am running into unbalance transaction errors. For example:
> hledger: Error: /Users/cris/checking.csv:1751-1750:
> 1751 | 2025-03-21 Starting Balance
> | SBA $-100
>
> This transaction is unbalanced.
> The real postings' sum should be 0 but is: $-100

The line from the CSV file is:
> SBA,,03/21/2025,Starting Balance,,,,,$100,$0.00,Cleared

And the relevant rule from my import rules:
> fields account1, , date, description, , , account2, comment, amount-out, amount-in,

I can manually add the above transaction without issues, so I guess I need some clarity as to what I'm doing wrong with my import file.

Thanks!