hledger 1.50 Release: Improved Transaction Balancing and New Features
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Summary
hledger 1.50 release introduces significant improvements to transaction balancing, now using local precisions like Ledger instead of global display precisions. The update includes better include functionality, auto posting account interpolation, CSV data commands, import archiving, timeclock improvements, and various fixes. This represents a major enhancement to the accounting software's core functionality.
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Until now, a transaction was required to balance using its commodities's global display precisions
Small imbalances were tolerated by configuring display precisions for the whole journal (with commodity directives)
Now, a transaction is required to balance using the precisions in its journal
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