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Liquid Ledger Changelog

What's new in Liquid Ledger 2.4.1

Sep 26, 2014
  • Fixes several crashes that only occurred on Mac OS X Lion or later. It also fixes an issue that failed to upgrade documents from Liquid Ledger 1.2 or earlier. Existing customers can install the update free of charge by choosing “Check for Updates” from the Liquid Ledger menu.

New in Liquid Ledger 2.4 (Aug 30, 2011)

  • Reports:
  • Introduced two new report types: “Cash Balance” and “Unassigned Transactions.”
  • Added the ability to view reports with pie charts and bar charts by clicking the Edit icon in the status bar at the bottom of the window when viewing a report.
  • Added a new Screen mode button to the status bar at the bottom of the window for viewing reports without pagination.
  • Added a new button to the status bar at the bottom of the window for reloading a report's data.
  • Added a new Edit button to the status bar at the bottom of the window for editing a report's date range.
  • Notable Fixes and Improvements:
  • OS X Lion Support
  • A crash previously occurned when choosing the “Focus on Transactions > Custom…” command from the Account menu, or when attempting to view an account that had previously been focused on a custom date range. This has been fixed.
  • The ability to import OFX data from financial institutions previously did not work on OS X Lion. This has been fixed.
  • Accounting:
  • Previously when deleting an account with one or more transactions, attempting to save the document would generate an error message stating that the document could not be saved. This has been fixed.
  • When clicking on the Account Info button at the bottom of the navigation panel, holding down the Option key now shows a list of all possible account types in the Account type pop-up menu.
  • Check Printing:
  • Entering a cheque number for a transaction now automatically updates the transaction's type property from a Generic transaction to a Cheque transaction.
  • Previously when selecting the “Print Cheques” command from the Account menu, nothing would happen if there were no transactions found having the Cheque transaction type. An informational sheet is now presented to explain that one or more transactions must be designated with a Cheque transaction type before printing cheques.
  • Import and Export:
  • Previously when clicking on a column header in the Specify Delimited Text Format page of the Import Assistant window, the click would only display the available attributes menu when the vertical scrollbar thumb was at the top position. This has been fixed.
  • Previously when importing transactions from a delimited text file (such as CSV), the Import Assistant would incorrectly create a transaction (with the name “untitled0”) if it encountered a blank line in the import file. This has been fixed.
  • The “Match against existing transactions” option in the Import Assistant window was not causing the Import Assistant to suggest any matches. This has been fixed.
  • Previously when importing transactions, the import process sometimes had the side-effect of replacing existing account names with the corresponding account names in the import file. This only occurred when using the Match Accounts feature in the Import Assistant window and when the advanced import option to replace existing values with imported values was also selected. This has been fixed.
  • Interface and Workflow:
  • Changed the keyboard equialent for the “Hide Selection” command in the Selection menu to use Command-Option-J instead of Command-Option-H, since the latter conflicts with the “Hide Others” command in the Application menu.
  • Previously the Backup to MobileMe command was not automatically backing up documents to a user's iDisk. This has been fixed.
  • Fixed a drawing issue that sometimes caused the border of text fields in the Inspector to not draw the right edge.
  • Documents are no longer marked as dirty when first opened.
  • Dragging and dropping transactions into a transaction group previously used to modify the dropped transactions so they would all adopt the same date as the transaction at the drop location. This has changed so that dropped transactions are only modified if there is no previous value.
  • Dragging and dropping transactions into a transaction group would sometimes cause the application to crash. This has been fixed.
  • When viewing an account's transactions, choosing the “Hide Inspector View” command from the View menu closed the Inspector as expected but didn't always resize columns to fill the available space left by the Inspector. This has been fixed.
  • Previously it was possible to drag a transaction group and drop it onto itself, causing the application to crash instead of ignoring the drop. This has been fixed.
  • The Focus on Transactions command was previously not hiding groups that had empty subgroups. This has been fixed.
  • Previously when opening an account to view its transactions, the transactions would sometimes not be in sorted order according to the currently selected column. This has been fixed.
  • Selecting the previous or next transaction in an account no longer causes the transfers pop-up window to begin editing the newly selected transaction.
  • Performance:
  • Fixed a number of memory leaks that would previously cause the program to crash after prolonged use.
  • Reports:
  • Improved the Page Setup command so it now respects the selected page size.
  • Adding a warning to the Balance Sheet report that appears if there are missing income or expense assignments, where previously it would pool any unassigned transactions in Retained Earnings.
  • Fixed the Journal Entries report so it no longer displays 0.00 in the Unassigned Amount column.
  • Fixed an issue where reports with line charts, such as the Net Worth report, would sometimes draw data points that did not line up with x-axis labels.

New in Liquid Ledger 2.3.3 (May 31, 2009)

  • Accounting:
  • A new “Verify Integrity” command is available in the File menu that can help detect and repair document errors that previously would prevent documents from being saved. The new utility is automatically invoked if an internal data integrity error occurs while saving.
  • Previously when creating a new account, the account was missing an opening balance transaction. This has been fixed.
  • Import and Export:
  • When running Liquid Ledger on Mac OS X 10.5.6, transactions imported from a QIF file with comma separators (such as “1,234.00”) were being imported as “1.00”. This has been fixed.
  • Transactions imported from an OFX file were previously marked as cleared even if the “Mark imported transactions as cleared” checkbox was unchecked in the Advanced Options panel of the Import Assistant window. This has been fixed.
  • On the “Select an Account” page, the Import Assistant now does a better job of suggesting the account into which transactions should be imported. For example, if you are importing account activity downloaded from your financial institution in OFX format, the Import Assistant now correctly selects the matching account in your document if possible. Otherwise, it suggests using the account loaded in the frontmost window. Previously, the Import Assistant always suggested importing transactions into a new account.
  • Liquid Ledger would sometimes crash in the final stages of importing transactions. This has been fixed.
  • Interface and Workflow:
  • Previously when modifying a transaction's date, the transaction would jump to a new position in order to keep transactions sorted. However, the transaction would not remain selected, making it difficult to locate the transaction in its new position. This has been fixed.
  • Choosing the “Ungroup Selection” command from the Selection menu previously caused the automatic sorting of transactions during editing to stop working. This has been fixed.
  • The “New Group” command now inserts new transaction groups into the currently selected group instead of inserting new groups at the top level.
  • Clicking on the disclosure triangle for a transaction group no longer resizes the Name column, which previously had the side-effect of unintentionally activating the horizontal scroll bar.
  • When viewing a transaction in the Inspector panel, it was previously not possible to scroll the text within some fields such as the Memo field. This has been fixed.
  • Double-clicking an account’s name in the navigation sidebar of the main window now opens the Edit Account Info panel.
  • Performance:
  • The application would previously quit unexpectedly after prolonged use due to a memory leak. This has been fixed.
  • Reports:
  • Previously when running the Balance Sheet report, the Total Assets and Total Liabilities sections would correctly display their totals; however, some of the accounts that contributed to those totals would be missing when a subgroup such as “Banking” or “Credit Card” contained both home and foreign currency accounts, in which case the entire subgroup would not be displayed. This has been fixed.
  • The Income Statement report was previously formatting positive values in parentheses, causing a net income to be misinterpreted as a net loss. This has been fixed.

New in Liquid Ledger 2.3.2 (Feb 4, 2009)

  • Accounting:
  • Users running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5 or later were previously unable to enter or import transaction amounts since the amounts were being interpreted in seemingly random ways. One common symptom was that transaction amounts would be padded with “9” digits. This has been fixed.
  • AppleScript:
  • Accessing the “entry date” property of a ledger transaction via AppleScript previously generated an error. This has been fixed.
  • Check Printing:
  • Numeric amounts on printed checks are now padded with asterisks for better security against check tampering. For example, an amount of “10.00” now prints as “***10.00.”The format of amounts in word form has improved, where “10.00” now prints as “ten and 0/100” instead of the previous “ten point zero” format.The Preview pane in the Print Checks dialog would previously show a blank preview when only one check was selected for printing. This has been fixed.
  • Interface and Workflow:
  • Transaction AutoFill no longer copies the memo, reference number, or highlight colour attributes of automatically completed transactions.When loading an account's transactions, column widths would previously not be restored, requiring manual adjustment each time an account was loaded. This has been fixed.Modifying a transaction's amount by entering values in the Curency Translation field of the Inspector panel was previously problematic. This has been fixed.
  • Import / Export:
  • The Export Assistant window now makes it possible to export just the transactions for income and expense accounts.Improved the parsing of date values when importing delimited text files.
  • Investments:
  • The realized gain calculation for a foreign currency investment transaction would previously be incorrect if the transaction also realized a gain or loss from foreign currency exchange. This has been fixed.
  • Reports:
  • Selecting “Journal Entries” from the Reports & Graphs section of the main window's sidebar previously had no effect.

New in Liquid Ledger 2.3.1 (May 19, 2008)

  • This update fixes compatibility issues between Version 2.3 and Mac OS X 10.4, including an issue where clicking in the Browser sidebar would cause a crash. It also improves the ability to reorder transactions in an account using drag and drop.

New in Liquid Ledger 2.3 (May 13, 2008)

  • Backup to .Mac - Liquid Ledger now automatically saves a backup copy of your document to your iDisk so you can recover your financial data if your computer is ever lost or damaged. For more information on backing up to .Mac, refer to the help documentation by choosing �Liquid Ledger Help� from the Help menu.
  • Floating Transfers/Track Interface - A new �Show Split Transaction� command in the Account menu makes it easier to split a transaction's amount among several income or expense accounts by using a new floating inspector panel that remains anchored to the selected transaction. The new command also offers a keyboard shortcut so you can define a split transaction without lifting your fingers from the keyboard.
  • New Inspector Interface - The Inspector panel has been redesigned to make it easier to view and edit the attributes of the selected transaction.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented AppleScript commands such as �make new ledger transaction� from successfully creating new objects on Mac OS X Leopard.
  • Using the View Options panel to select a text size for an account's transactions previously would not be remembered the next time the account was loaded. This has been fixed.
  • When loading an account's transactions, a horizontal scroll bar was previously not being displayed when there were too many columns to fit within the window. This has been fixed. In addition, a new option has been added to the View Options panel to make the horizontal scroll bar permanently visible, if desired.
  • Added headings to items in the Browser sidebar to make it easier to navigate.
  • Added animation effects when paging forward or backward through the navigation history.
  • Fixed a number of crashing issues introduced with the Version 2.2 release.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Version 1.5 documents from being upgraded successfully

New in Liquid Ledger 2.0 (Oct 10, 2007)

  • Adds new features such as investments, budgets, and check printing, and it sports a redesigned user interface that increases productivity and reduces the learning curve for first-time users.