Git 2.8 Adds Improvements to Submodules, Identity Handling, and Windows Support

Recently [announced](https://github.com/blog/2131-git-2-8-has-been-released) Git 2.8 brings many new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Among the most noteworthy are parallel fetch for submodules, an improvement to how Git handles a user’s identity, and better support for Windows.

Agile Epics in GitHub with ZenHub Epics

GitHub-based project management solution ZenHub has recently introduced “Epics”, a new tool that provides a complete re-work of GitHub issues and issue management that aims to make it possible to fully manage product roadmaps inside of GitHub.

LFE Brings Lisp to the Erlang Virtual Machine

After 8 years of development, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE) has reached version 1.0, bringing stable support for Lisp programming on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). LFE was created by Robert Virding, one of the initial developers of Erlang. InfoQ has spoken with Duncan McGreggor, current maintainer of LFE.

GitHub’s DGit Improves Reliability, Performance, and Availability

GitHub has been quietly rolling out DGit, short for “distributed Git”, a new distributed storage system built on top of Git with the aim of improving reliability, availability, and performance of using GitHub.

Rust 1.8 Introduces New Cargo-based Build System and more

Rust 1.8 adds a couple of new language features and a number of improvements to the standard library. Additionally, it introduces a new Cargo-based build system for rustc which can be seen as the first step towards bootstrapping Rust.