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@@ -1,5 +1,71 @@ Ledger NEWS +* 2.6.0.90 + +- Gnucash parser is fixed. + +- Fix a memory leak bug in the amount parser. + +- (This feature is from 2.6, but was not documented anywhere): + + Commodities may now specify lot details, to assign in managing set + groups of items, like buying and selling shares of stock. + + For example, let's say you buy 50 shares of AAPL at $10 a share: + + 2007/01/14 Stock purchase + Assets:Brokerage 50 AAPL @ $10 + Assets:Brokerage + + Three months later, you sell this "lot". Based on the original + purchase information, Ledger remembers how much each share was + purchased for, and the date on which it was purchased. This means + you can sell this specific lot by price, by date, or by both. Let's + sell it by price, this time for $20 a share. + + 2007/04/14 Stock purchase + Assets:Brokerage $1000.00 + Assets:Brokerage -50 AAPL {$10} @ $20 + Income:Capital Gains $-500.00 + + Note that the Income:Capital Gains line is now required to balance + the transaction. Because you sold 50 AAPL at $20/share, and because + you are selling shares that were originally valued at $10/share, + Ledger needs to know how you will "balance" this difference. An + equivalent Expenses:Capital Loss would be needed if the selling + price were less than the buying price. + + Here's the same example, this time selling by date and price: + + 2007/04/14 Stock purchase + Assets:Brokerage $1000.00 + Assets:Brokerage -50 AAPL {$10} [2007/01/14] @ $20 + Income:Capital Gains $-500.00 + + If you attempt to sell shares for a date you did not buy them, note + that Ledger will not complain (as it never complains about the + movement of commodities between accounts). In this case, it will + simply create a negative balance for such shares within your + Brokerage account; it's up to you to determine whether you have them + or not. + +- To facilitate lot pricing reports, there are some new reporting + options: + + --lot-prices Report commodities with different lot prices as if + they were different commodities. Otherwise, Ledger + just gloms all the AAPL shares together. + + --lot-dates Separate commodities by lot date. Every + transaction that uses the '@' cost specifier will + have an implicit lot date and lot price. + + --lot-tags Separate commodities by their arbitrary note tag. + Note tags may be specified using (note) after the + commodity. + + --lots Separate commodities using all lot information. + * 2.6 - The style for eliding long account names (for example, in the |