# ANN: hledger-1.99.6 (2.0 preview 6)

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I'm very pleased to announce hledger 1.99.6 (2.0 preview release 6).  
This is the last preview before hledger 2.0, due next month;  
by using it, you'll help make 2.0 better!

(hledger is accounting software for both beginners and experts,  
using human-readable, version-controllable, future-proof plain text files.  
It's dependable, free, fast, friendly, cross-platform, double-entry,  
multi-currency, multi-interface, multi-language, GPLv3+-licensed, and fun.  
[https://hledger.org](https://hledger.org))

**Highlights**

- reports can be shown as charts in the terminal, as SVG images,  
or in html pages
- --view opens reports in your browser/viewer
- run combines multiple reports into one html
- amounts can be written as arithmetic expressions
- CSV rules can use text processing functions
- holdings supports report intervals, charts, and is faster
- roi computes TWR more robustly
- hledger-web is much more powerful, with charts, a holdings report,  
a report options panel, and hledger-ui-like keyboard shortcuts
- twelve UI languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, English, French,  
German, Hawaiian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.

For details, see the release notes:

- [Release notes - hledger](https://hledger.org/relnotes.html)
- [Release 1.99.6 · hledgerorg/hledger · GitHub](https://github.com/hledgerorg/hledger/releases/tag/1.99.6)
- [Install - hledger](https://hledger.org/install)

**Release contributors**

Simon Michael,  
Arthur Cinader,  
Henning Thielemann,  
Dmitry Astapov,  
Martin,  
Daniil Iaitskov,  
Diego Depaoli,  
Patrick van de Glind,  
Chunhui Ouyang.  
The amount expressions work was a bounty funded by James Shubin.

**Translators wanted**

Most of the new translations are machine-made and await review by native speakers.  
hledger --write-lang=LANG gives you the po file to edit;  
see [TRANSLATING - hledger](https://hledger.org/TRANSLATING.html).

**A reminder of current status**

hledger 1 is receiving only essential fixes; the hledger 2 preview releases are  
strictly better, and normally require no changes to your hledger 1 data.  
hledger 2's goals have been:

- continue and improve 1.x's reliability
- provide excellent lot tracking and capital gains calculation
- explore ethical use of AI as a dev tool
- more cleanup and simplification of code, docs, process, finance
- more speed
- more interoperability
- more use of jj for version management
- easier contribution

Our current AI policy is here: [AI - hledger](https://hledger.org/AI.html)  
If you disagree with it, please continue enjoying hledger 1,  
and be patient while we navigate this period. In summary:

- hledger, hledger-ui and hledger-web do not use AI at runtime.

- hledger 1.52.1 and below had no AI-assisted development.  
(Level 0, [Using AI to Contribute to Open Source | VisiData](https://www.visidata.org/blog/2026/ai/#self-assessed-ai-level-for-contributions))

- hledger 1.52.2+ contains a few small security fixes backported from 2.x  
(Level 2-4)

- hledger 2 uses careful AI-assisted development (Level 5).  
As a result, it has become more secure, more correct, better tested, better documented,  
and much faster.

- Providing an efficient tool that AI users will use, can help reduce  
wasteful AI computation, offsetting resource usage during development.  
See the AI policy and usage reports for more on this:  
[hledger/doc/ai at main · hledgerorg/hledger · GitHub](https://github.com/hledgerorg/hledger/tree/main/doc/ai)

**Sponsorship**

If hledger is providing value to you or your organisation, and your finances  
allow it, consider supporting this work: [Sponsor - hledger](https://hledger.org/sponsor.html)

Thanks for using and supporting hledger!  
-Simon