GitHub Steps Up to Recognizing Developers' Creative Rights

GitHub’s Balanced Employee Intellectual Property agreement (BEIPA) is an attempt to strike a new balance to assign developers more rights on their intellectual creation outside of work. By making it an open source project, GitHub also hopes to make it reusable and open to outside contributions.

GitLab 9 Brings Subgroups, Deploy Boards, and Integrated Monitoring

GitLab has announced version 9 of its collaborative platform for software development. Some of its most notable new features are subgroups and integrated performance monitoring, among others. InfoQ has spoken with Sid Sijbrandij, Co-Founder and CEO at GitLab.

C++17 Is Ready

At its winter meeting in Kona, HI, USA, the ISO C++ committee has finalized work on C++17, writes Herb Sutter. A short summary of its main features here.

Dependent-Types Language Idris Reaches 1.0

A few months after reaching what could be considered alpha stage, Idris 1.0 is out, writes Idris creator Edwin Brady, Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, UK.

A Preview of Coming Features in PostgreSQL 10

While PostgreSQL continues to progress towards its tenth major release in September 2017, EnterpriseDB Chief Architect and PostgreSQL contributor Robert Hass compiled a list of notable features that will likely make it into PostgreSQL 10 based on its official roadmap.