LedgerSMB is a fork of a popular general ledger software package called SQL-Ledger

Some of the improvements that they've made to the code base so far include:

• Enhanced security
• Better Windows support
• More reports
• An Open Development Model
• Better data integrity controls
• Central database for users and preferences
• Better Point of Sale hardware support

They goal with LedgerSMB is develop new features with a true community driven project.

First release was largely to fix the serious security flaws, and we have started mapping out a plan to make the code base clearer, more secure and more standards compliant.

Some features that we started building and/or are planning for future releases of LedgerSMB:

• More authentication options
• LDAP customer/staff support
• More logic in the database with more constraints
• Improvements on the data structure
• Platform and language neutral APIs (XML)