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 Release notes
 =============
 
+1.1.1 (2016-07-13)
+------------------
+
+Bug fixes
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Add "Host" header in CONNECT requests to HTTPS proxies (:issue:`2069`)
+- Use response ``body`` when choosing response class
+  (:issue:`2001`, fixes :issue:`2000`)
+- Do not fail on canonicalizing URLs with wrong netlocs
+  (:issue:`2038`, fixes :issue:`2010`)
+- a few fixes for ``HttpCompressionMiddleware`` (and ``SitemapSpider``):
+
+  - Do not decode HEAD responses (:issue:`2008`, fixes :issue:`1899`)
+  - Handle charset parameter in gzip Content-Type header
+    (:issue:`2050`, fixes :issue:`2049`)
+  - Do not decompress gzip octet-stream responses
+    (:issue:`2065`, fixes :issue:`2063`)
+
+- Catch (and ignore with a warning) exception when verifying certificate
+  against IP-address hosts (:issue:`2094`, fixes :issue:`2092`)
+- Make ``FilesPipeline`` and ``ImagesPipeline`` backward compatible again
+  regarding the use of legacy class attributes for customization
+  (:issue:`1989`, fixes :issue:`1985`)
+
+
+New features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Enable genspider command outside project folder (:issue:`2052`)
+- Retry HTTPS CONNECT ``TunnelError`` by default (:issue:`1974`)
+
+
+Documentation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- ``FEED_TEMPDIR`` setting at lexicographical position (:commit:`9b3c72c`)
+- Use idiomatic ``.extract_first()`` in overview (:issue:`1994`)
+- Update years in copyright notice (:commit:`c2c8036`)
+- Add information and example on errbacks (:issue:`1995`)
+- Use "url" variable in downloader middleware example (:issue:`2015`)
+- Grammar fixes (:issue:`2054`, :issue:`2120`)
+- New FAQ entry on using BeautifulSoup in spider callbacks (:issue:`2048`)
+- Add notes about scrapy not working on Windows with Python 3 (:issue:`2060`)
+- Encourage complete titles in pull requests (:issue:`2026`)
+
+Tests
+~~~~~
+
+- Upgrade py.test requirement on Travis CI and Pin pytest-cov to 2.2.1 (:issue:`2095`)
+
+
 1.1.0 (2016-05-11)
 ------------------