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Release notes

(2.0 preview 5)

The fastest hledger yet (4x faster than 1.99.4, 2x faster than 1.52),
UI translations (--lang),
find-anywhere query ( :: ),
compact transactions report,
lossless print --export,
CSV multi-record merge rule,
includable CSV/rules files,
simpler balancing and gains using cost-basis,
lot tracking fixes,
short positions,
hledger-ui auto-updates by default,
hledger-web balance reports/paging/dark mode.

hledger 1.99.5

Breaking changes

These can affect journals and rules files that work with hledger 1:

With a decimal-mark directive (or CSV rule) in effect, a number using a
different decimal mark (1,000.00 when decimal-mark , is declared), or
using the declared mark more than once (1.2.34, previously read as
1234), is now an error.
#1985, #1904
In CSV rules files, * at the start of a line is no longer a comment character;
comment lines begin with # or ; only. (Previously a matcher line
beginning with * was silently read as a comment, disabling the
if block. Now it is rejected as an invalid regexp, with a suggestion
to escape it.
A lot acquisition's {} cost basis and @ transacted cost must now agree;
a difference is an error (and basis check is removed). Legacy files
with a decorative {} different from the transacted cost still load.
if you use -I or --ignore-lots.

Some other breaking changes only affect behaviour introduced in a
2.x preview release, and are documented in the sections below.

Command line

setup: detects terminal colour support and explains the colour
verdict; the "accounts of all types exist" check has been
simplified; and minor display improvements.
A new --lang=LANG general option for hledger, hledger-ui and
hledger-web (also usable in config files) shows report titles,
headings, month names etc in another language. English (--lang=en,
default), German (--lang=de) and Simplified Chinese (--lang=zh) are
built in; or --lang=auto will choose based on your system locale.
You can add or override a translation by installing a gettext PO
file at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hledger/locale/LANG.po; no compilation is
needed. New translations are welcome ! See the manual's Languages
section. (Arthur Cinader, Henning Thielemann, Chunhui Ouyang, Simon
Michael, #2736)
Multi-period reports with more than 10000 periods, or a --forecast
generating more than 100000 transactions, now print a warning, so
you can cancel. Such numbers usually mean a mistyped date, and could
use many gigabytes of memory. #1683
hledger is now built with GHC runtime system options enabled.
So eg you can use hledger +RTS -M2G -RTS ... to cap memory use
(an overflow will raise an error rather than consuming all memory).
Or +RTS -c to use 20-40% less memory at the cost of speed.
Previously only statistics options like -s were accepted.
A hyphenated date range like 2026-13 is no longer interpreted as
"from 2026 to the 13th of this month"; it is rejected as a mistyped
date instead. (To express that date range, use 2026..13).
-o - now writes to stdout, as documented. And when using -o FILE,
an error no longer leaves an empty or truncated file behind.
On Linux, output redirected to a file on a network drive (eg a CIFS
mount) could be silently truncated; this is now fixed.
The --infer-costs and --infer-equity had their help strings swapped;
fixed.
check: an unknown check name is now reported right away, instead of
only after reading the journal and passing other checks.

Journal format

Commodity aliases now require individual alias tags, and
single-quoted symbols are no longer accepted.
So ; alias: $ US$ 'US dollars' should now be written as
; alias: $, alias: US$, alias: "US dollars".
A commodity alias can optionally specify a multipler, for expressing
differently-sized units. Eg commodity h 1.00 ; alias: 60 min or
commodity $ ; alias: 0.000001 megabucks.
Amounts using a commodity alias are now automatically converted to
the canonical commodity symbol. So with commodity USD 1.00 ; alias: $,
$100 and 100 USD are both treated as USD, and can balance against
each other. print still shows the symbols as written, whereas print
-x shows them converted. The sym: query is removed.
Like commodity directives, account directives can now declare
aliases via alias tags. Eg account assets:bank:checking ; alias: checking
is equivalent to writing alias checking = assets:bank:checking directive
at that point in the file. For Ledger compatibility, an indented
alias NAME subdirective is also accepted.
One or more adjacent comment lines directly above a transaction (a
"preceding comment") are now considered part of the transaction, and
will be shown when the transaction is printed.
Single tab is once again not sufficient as the separator between
account and amount (reverting 1.99.4's change). Instead we keep the
consistent hledger 1 syntax: two or more spaces or tabs are needed.
check tags now also checks commodity directive tags. And alias
and lots are recognised as builtin tags, and need not be declared.
An old limitation has been lifted: journal files can now include
CSV/SSV/TSV files or CSV rules files. include FILE.csv always
uses a nearby FILE.csv.rules file; for more flexibility, include
the rules file and specify the data with a source rule.

Data import

CSV rules files allow more flexible commenting. Comment lines or
blank lines can be used inside if block, and comment lines inside
if tables can be indented.
A new merge rule combines several CSV records into one transaction.
merge (or merge N) appends the next record(s) to the current
record, naming their fields with a _ROWNUM suffix: %description_2,
%4_2, etc. This is useful for banks and brokers which export a
currency conversion or stock trade as multiple rows.
CSV error messages are much improved, making troubleshooting easier.
They show the CSV file and record position with an excerpt; the
record's field values with their numbers and names; where each
field's rule was defined, and any rules it overrode; and if a
CSV-converted entry is rejected later (eg by balancing), the record
it came from. This also affects balance assertion errors and print
--location.
hledger get now preserves the format of existing prices when
merging new prices.

Lot tracking

--ignore-lots or -I now silence lot errors without adding new ones;
previously some valid lot entries failed to balance with it.
Lot error messages are now clearer and more compact: they point at
the problem posting, the explanation comes first, and long lot lists
are elided. Also lot errors are now reported before balance
assertion failures, since they usually indicate the more fundamental
problem.
Lot disposals now balance at cost basis, using just a single
realised gain posting. The equity:unrealised-gain counter-postings
used by the earlier 2.0 previews are no longer used; if you have
written any of these explicitly, you'll need to remove them. (And
the UnrealisedGain account type remains supported, but is not
currently used.) This is historical cost accounting, as used in
hledger 1, and it preserves the accounting equation and bse's zero
total. Also amountless gain postings are allowed once again, and the
amount will be inferred, as expected. #2731
--infer-equity in disposals now records the units sold at cost basis
rather than sale price, so bal --infer-equity totals zero instead of
minus the realised gains. #2751
print now always shows lot postings with an explicit cost basis by
default, eg 10 AAPL {$50} @ $50 or -5 AAPL {2026-02-01, $50} @ $70,
so that plain print output stays re-readable now that disposals
balance at cost basis. print --lots, print --export and rewrite show
entries as they were written.
-B/--value=cost now converts lot postings at their cost basis.
Non-lot amounts are unaffected. But for lot balances, -B now shows
the cost of the units still held, and bse -B balances to zero.
The old behaviour of -B can be enabled for lot balances by using
--value=transacted, which shows proceeds and net cash invested.
--gain now shows value minus cost basis, however costs were written:
with @ or @@, with or without --lots. #2751
Short positions (units sold before they are bought) are now supported,
as lots in a Liability-typed account, where the lot flow is reversed:
a negative posting opens a short lot, whose cost basis is the
short-sale price, and a positive one covers it, with the gain
calculated like any disposal's. Balancing, print --lots, -B, -V,
--gain and holdings all work for shorts.
#2756
Miscellaneous fixes: a {{TOTAL}} basis on a negative posting gave a
negative unit basis, so the disposal never matched its lot; closing
lots to equity (close --lots) could book to a wrongly-named lot
subaccount when the closing entry omitted hledger's generated label,
as when combining yearly files; a multi-lot stock split could be
misread as a transfer; auto-generated lot labels could be reused
after disposal; a zero-cost lot's name lost its commodity symbol;
and balance assertions on a lot's base account were dropped in the
collapsed view.

Holdings

holdings' column headings now clearly say whether they are per unit
or a total: Unit cost, Unit price, Total cost, Total value. (In
CSV/TSV/JSON output and HTML cell classes: unitcost, unitprice,
totalcost, totalvalue).
The totals row now shows the overall average cost per unit, and the
total units, if all holdings are in one commodity.
Fixes: when lots were held in both an account and its subaccount, the
parent's row was dropped in list mode, losing its lots from the totals;
Units could include a non-lot-tracked account's units; and Avg cost
and RGain could show the wrong number of decimal digits.

Reports

A new "find anywhere" query, written as find:PATTERN or
::PATTERN, tries to match a regular expression in any of a
transaction's fields (code, description, comment, account name, or
amount); and if PATTERN can be parsed as a period expression, it
will also match dates within that period. This allows many queries
to be written more briefly, especially when you're not sure where
some text might be. Eg ::2025 ::food matches things in 2025 (or
mentioning "2025") and mentioning "food", in any field.
A new transactions (tx) command lists transactions on one line each.
It replaces the print --oneline flag that was added in 1.99.4.
It's like print but better for seeing a quick overview.
The commodities, tags and payees command now have a --directives
flag, which shows directives ready to paste into a journal. (Use
with --undeclared to generate directives satisfying strict mode.)
In html or fods output, with --base-url, every balance report amount
now links to the correponding register view, so you can click to see
where an amount comes from. Links carry correct period terms, and a
title saying where they lead. Totals link to the register of the
whole report, or of the section's account types. (Arthur Cinader)
HTML output now uses CSS classes instead of inline styles, and
negative amounts get a "negative" class (Arthur Cinader).
FODS multi-period and compound reports have the correct number of
header columns (Henning Thielemann).
aregister now supports the -A/--average flag, showing the running
average change per transaction instead of the running balance. It
implies --empty, and makes aregister cumulative by default; add -H
to include earlier transactions in the average.
aregister: a new --matched flag shows the matched account(s) in each
row instead of the other account(s). The -r/--related and --matched
flags are opposites, and the last one wins. (Caleb Maclennan, Simon
Michael, #2540)
aregister: with historical balances, a date2: start date in the query
is now honoured; previously such a register started from zero.
(Note: secondary dates are supported but deprecated in hledger, as usual.)
(Arthur Cinader)
register: with a report interval, account-specific depth limits
(--depth REGEXP=N) now work correctly; and account names are no
longer clipped twice, which gave wrong names when an
account-specific rule matched. #2423
register: with multiple files, the transaction indexes visible in
csv/tsv/fods/html/json output now continue across files instead of
restarting.
stats: the --oneline flag now has a -q short spelling, and it and the
-1/--depth 1 option now work as expected, independently.
stats: the elapsed time and txns/s figures once again cover the
whole run (from 1.51 to 1.99.4 they covered only the journal-reading
phase, so the time was too low and the txns/s was up to 20% too high).
stats now produces its report faster on large journals.
stats now says "1 day ago", not "1 days ago". (Arthur Cinader)
A two-year interval's report title now says "Biennial", not
"Biannual". (Arthur Cinader)

Export

print now makes reformatting or exporting easier: with --export, it
reproduces the whole journal losslessly, preserving directives,
comment lines and blank lines. Included files are inlined (see the
manual for a workaround). With --forecast and/or --auto, the
generated transactions and postings are exported instead of their
= and ~ rules. With ledger output format selected, it uses
Ledger's lot syntax and comments out directives Ledger does not
support. With beancount output format selected, it generates the
directives Beancount needs (options, commodity, open, prices directives),
and accounts whose top-level name is not one of Beancount's are now
prefixed with one based on their hledger account type, if known.
(Without --export, print -O beancount now prints transactions only.)

Error messages

More error messages use the standard layout, with a position and an
excerpt, and are detected correctly by editor addons like
flycheck-hledger and flymake-hledger (and those emacs packages have
been updated). And single-line positions now show the line number
just once (FILE:5, not FILE:5-5).
Very long "expecting" lists in parse errors are now abbreviated.
date: query parse errors now show the actual error.
Errors inside a cost amount are now reported more specifically.
Balance assertion failures' suggested troubleshooting command now
includes -e, to end the register at the assertion.

Performance

hledger has been optimised, and this the fastest and most
memory-efficient version yet. On a 100k-transaction synthetic
journal with simple transactions, balance is 4x faster than 1.99.4,
3x faster than 1.52 and 2x faster than 1.25, and it uses a third
less memory than 1.52. On a messy real world journal, it is about 2x
faster than 1.52. Unnecessary work is avoided, so you pay only for
the features you are using. Detailed stats, performance tips, and a
new set of benchmarks comparing the plain text accounting apps, are
in doc/PERFORMANCE.md: https://hledger.org/PERFORMANCE.html.
--debug=1 now prints a timing line for each phase of hledger's work,
with its run time and allocation; also, it shows how much of the
journal was parsed by the new fast-path parser.
hledger release binaries are built with megaparsec 9.8.3, which
contains our fix for a performance regression in megaparsec 9.3 to
9.8.2, making hledger ~10% faster. Packagers who want the speedup
should use megaparsec 9.8.3+.
hledger now avoids searching PATH for add-ons when the command is a
builtin command, allowing faster startup. Eg hledger --version now
takes 23ms instead of 32ms on my machine.
Interval reports no longer slow down quadratically with the number
of periods (a daily register over 100 years spent 2.5s in that
alone, and a mistyped five-digit year could hang hledger for a day),
and register and --forecast use constant memory however many periods
there are. #1683

Other

hledger's source tarball no longer ships the benchmark suite's 1.6MB
journal.
hledger no longer depends on lucid; blaze-html is used for HTML
output #2737 (Arthur Cinader).
Haskell API changes: Hledger.Cli.Anchor gains LinkOpts and link
builders; Balance exports its report specs, spreadsheet parts and
titles, with shared functions in Balance.Internal;
balanceReportAsText returns Text; setDisplayCommodityBare's
parameters are swapped. (Henning Thielemann, Arthur Cinader)

Docs

The hledger manual is reorganised, with more getting started info at
the start; Options and Config files consolidated; COMMANDS moved
before DATA FORMATS; detailed Command line tips moved to PART 5; a
new "hledger 1 and hledger 2" section on migrating/interop; and a
shorter, better grouped topic list in the website sidebar. Also
many edits, cleanups, and link fixes.
The "Lot reporting" section is renamed "Lots and capital gains" and
rewritten/reorganised: example first, the notations compared, lot
movements and other lot events (gifts, bonus shares, stock splits),
gains, lot reports (including unrealised gains and --gain),
troubleshooting. #2751

Examples

hledger.conf.sample: show a custom 'watch' command
csv: new paypal-json.rules, demonstrating paypaljson/paypalcsv;
simplefin download notes in unify-*.rules;
new kraken.rules, demonstrating multi-record merge

Scripts/addons

getdata: more simplefin/paypal/rules explanation
krakencsv: new script to help convert Kraken CSV
bashrc: holdings, tx aliases.

hledger-ui 1.99.5

Breaking changes

Watch mode is now enabled by default: hledger-ui watches for data
and date changes, and reloads automatically. The new --no-watch flag
disables this, reloading only with the g key. The rightmost
--watch/--no-watch flag wins, so a config file setting can be
overridden on the command line.
-B/--value=cost now converts lot postings at their cost basis (see
hledger changelog).

Fixes

The mouse wheel now scrolls all the way. Wheeling up or down moved the
viewport at most to the current selection and then stopped; you had to
move the selection with the arrow keys to get any further. Scrolling
down now stops with the last item at the bottom of the window, like the
END key.
The transaction screen now always shows the whole journal
entry. Previously with a cur: or amt: query in effect, it showed the
entry without the non-matching postings. (A long-standing bug, since
hledger 1.23.)
Pressing L to hide lot detail while on a lot subaccount's transaction
or register screen no longer leaves a broken display; such screens now
show the lot's base account, where the collapsed postings appear, and
pressing L again restores the lot subaccount view.

Improvements

The new --lang option translates the menu and accounts screen names
to supported languages (currently en, de, zh; see hledger changelog).
The help dialog and the register screen's labels are not yet translated.
(Arthur Cinader)
hledger-ui can now read the journal from stdin (-f-), on unix-like
systems. With a stdin journal the data can't be re-read or edited,
so the g, a, A and E keys and watch mode have no effect. On Windows,
stdin input remains unsupported.
With more than one of --cash/--bs/--is/--all/--register, the last
one wins, so a config file's choice can be overridden on the command
line. (Previously they had a fixed priority order.)
See the hledger changelog for other changes, such as: improved
commodity aliases, sym: query removed, the new :: find-anywhere
query, support for GHC runtime options, faster starts and reloads.
Allow brick 3.0, doclayout 0.6.

Docs

The manual's KEYS section is grouped like the help dialog; the depth
keys, help dialog keys, CTRL-z and editor variables are documented;
the watch mode and BUGS sections are updated; and various typos and
stale statements are fixed.

hledger-web 1.99.5

Fixes

hledger-web no longer exits prematurely due to being in a background
browser tab. Browsers may run the timers of background tabs much
less often, so with the old 2 minute timeout hledger-web could exit
while a Safari tab was still open. Now the timeout is 15 minutes,
and a page pings as soon as it is foregrounded again.
(Arthur Cinader)
When hledger-web is failing to ping the server, the page shows a
notice saying hledger-web is no longer running and how to continue,
instead of failing silently on the next click. (Arthur Cinader)

Improvements

hledger's balance, balance sheet, balance sheet with equity, income
statement, and cashflow reports are now also available in
hledger-web. Every amount links to the register it is derived from,
column headings link to the report for that period, and a "Report:"
row links the five pages to one another. A report interval can be
selected, and the balance report can show either balance changes or
end balances. (Henning Thielemann, Arthur Cinader)
The register can start from the balance brought forward
(accum=historical), so its running balance is the account's balance
rather than a total of the transactions shown. The oldest row shows
the brought-forward balance, and links to the earlier transactions.
(Arthur Cinader)
The register view now properly shows the to/from account names, when
restricted by a type: query, instead of blank cells. (Arthur Cinader)
The journal and register views are now paged, showing the newest
1000 matching transactions and page navigation links. When the
matches span more than one year, a years row links to each year
(grouped by decade when there are more than twenty). Account links
from a transaction open the account register at the appropriate
page.
(Arthur Cinader, #586)
hledger-web now has a dark mode, enabled automatically when the
browser or system is in dark mode. (Arthur Cinader, #2706)
Pages are shown in the viewer's language, when a translation is
available (currently en, de, zh; see the hledger changelog). The
language is chosen by a _LANG query parameter (which saves a
browser cookie); a previously saved _LANG cookie; or the browser's
Accept-Language header. Or, it can be overridden at startup by the
--lang option. See the manual's LANGUAGE section.
(Arthur Cinader)
Links in the journal, register and sidebar now behave consistently:
an account name opens its view, an amount opens the register it comes
from, and a date narrows to that day. The sidebar's amounts are now
links, and its Journal link keeps the current search. (Arthur Cinader)
Transaction tooltips, shown when hovering a transaction in the journal
or a register, are now drawn by hledger-web in a fixed-width font, so
amounts and comments line up as in the journal; long lines wrap at the
window edge, and the tooltip stays within the window #2716
(Arthur Cinader).
Remove some outdated browser-specific CSS rules for input placeholders
and transitions. (AidenTHu)
See the hledger changelog for other changes, such as: improved
commodity aliases, sym: query removed, the new :: find-anywhere
query, support for GHC runtime options, faster starts and reloads.
hledger-web no longer depends on lucid #2737.

Docs

The manual has a new WEB UI section (views, sidebar, search, add form,
shortcuts), describes the report pages, paging, dark mode and
languages, says --allow=edit / --allow=add instead of the old
"capability" terms, and has an updated JSON API section.

project changes 1.99.5

Docs

dev docs: general cleanup and consolidation; added "last updated" lines to docs more than a year old
AI: rewrote the copyright/license discussion as prose; other edits
BENCHMARKS: renamed to PERFORMANCE and rewritten for both users and developers, with performance tips and detailed stats for hledger and other PTA apps
CODE: added module maps, reading order, conventions and debug output; fixed stale links and paths; condensed the haddock section
DECISIONS: recorded some dev decisions
errors/README: clarifications, updates
FINANCE: dropped regression bounties and funded projects; added paid review; clarified the reports' scope
ISSUES: fixed table labels; described label families; issues.hledger.org redirects to the issue tracker again
NOTE-performance: new note recording performance findings and remaining ideas
PULLREQUESTS: noted the maintainer exception for security fixes on hledger 1
README: use the generated sponsor avatars, replacing the stale Open Collective slots
RELEASING: updated the release script with lessons from the 1.52.4 and 1.99.4 releases; run the manual anchor check when updating manuals
SPEC-lots: added a tested comparison of lot handling in Ledger, Beancount and hledger; notes on lot tracking in other software, and more
TRANSLATING: a new guide for translators, plus rules and tooling details for developers (Arthur Cinader)

Website

On hledger.org, the hledger manual's sidebar sections are properly indented, and there are 10 top level entries instead of 48.

Tools/infrastructure

ai: just ai-session SESSIONID [SINCE] and just ai-sessions [DATE] report one Claude Code session's output tokens, or each session's on a day
benchmarking scripts moved into bench/, updated; just perftest added
checkanchors (just anchortest): checks that #anchor links in the manual sources point to existing headings, using mdbook's heading id rules
errors tests: converted to shelltest v3 format; make tests now only drafts missing tests; hledger2shelltest drafts v3 tests; added tags, lots, basis and timedot error examples
generatejournal: --start and --days, for sparse and dense journals; new sample journals century-sparse and dense-year (Arthur Cinader)
generaloptionshelp: also generates the hledger-web manual's general options, without --lang (hledger-web lists its own)
i18n: i18n-extract.py collects translatable strings into hledger-lib/locale/hledger.pot, writes a pseudo-locale catalog, and checks catalogs for stale and untranslated entries; just i18n-pot, i18n-check, i18n-merge, i18n-pseudo (Arthur Cinader)
installpage: also updates get-hledger-installed's version example
Justfile: etags recipes write control characters as escapes (the literal form feeds crashed just-lsp); profiling recipes fixed; just site-update
Shake changelogs: accepts release tag resume points; skips release-day changelog and relnotes commits
stack-prof.yaml: a profiling build config that works on GHC 9.14

credits 1.99.5

Simon Michael,
Arthur Cinader,
Henning Thielemann,
Chunhui Ouyang,
AidenTHu,
Caleb Maclennan.

Install

The hledger Install page lists the easiest ways to install a recent release,
such as brew on macos, choco/scoop/winget on Windows, or eget on all platforms.

Or, follow these instructions to install the specific release binaries below:

GNU/Linux, 64-bit Intel

At the command line:

curl -fL https://github.com/hledgerorg/hledger/releases/download/1.99.5/hledger-linux-x64.tar.gz | tar -xzv -f- -C/usr/local/bin hledger hledger-ui hledger-web
hledger --version; hledger-ui --version; hledger-web --version    # should show 1.99.5

Prefix tar with sudo if /usr/local/bin is not writable.

Mac, 64-bit ARM or Intel

Open a terminal window.
(Don't download these binaries with your web browser - they won't get authorised.)

On ARM macs:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
curl -fL https://github.com/hledgerorg/hledger/releases/download/1.99.5/hledger-mac-arm64.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzv -f- -C/usr/local/bin hledger hledger-ui hledger-web
hledger --version; hledger-ui --version; hledger-web --version    # should show 1.99.5

On Intel macs:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
curl -fL https://github.com/hledgerorg/hledger/releases/download/1.99.5/hledger-mac-x64.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzv -f- -C/usr/local/bin hledger hledger-ui hledger-web
hledger --version; hledger-ui --version; hledger-web --version    # should show 1.99.5

If the version check shows an older version, you have another hledger earlier in $PATH; which -a hledger will find it.

Windows, 64-bit ARM or Intel

In a powershell window (press WINDOWS-R, powershell, ENTER).
(Don't download the zip with your web browser - programs downloaded that way may be blocked when you run them.)

cd ~
curl.exe -fLO https://github.com/hledgerorg/hledger/releases/download/1.99.5/hledger-windows-x64.zip
Expand-Archive hledger-windows-x64.zip -Force -DestinationPath "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\hledger"

$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\hledger (ie C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Programs\hledger) is not in $env:Path by default,
so if $env:Path doesn't show it, add it once:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\hledger;" + [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path','User'), 'User')
$env:Path = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\hledger;$env:Path"    # for this window; new windows will pick it up automatically

Then:

hledger --version; hledger-ui --version; hledger-web --version    # should show 1.99.5

If the version check shows an older version, you have another hledger earlier in $env:Path; where.exe hledger will find it.

These are 64-bit Intel binaries; they also run on ARM machines (emulated).

They may also work on Windows 7:
use Windows Explorer to extract hledger-windows-x64.zip into a folder of your choice,
then open a command window (WINDOWS-R, cmd, ENTER) and run the hledger programs.

Next steps

Once installed, run hledger, and see the Docs.