diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index da8b7d5..9a4752d 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,71 +1,15 @@
-c-ares version 1.11.0
+c-ares version 1.11.1
 
 Changes:
 
- o Add a unit test suite
- o Allow builds with code converage with --enable-code-coverage configure option
- o Allow library-wide override of malloc/free
- o Allow multiple -s options to the ahost command
- o api: Expose the ares_library_initialized() function
- o api: Add ares_set_sortlist(3) entrypoint
- o api: Add entrypoints to allow use of per-server ports
- o api: introduce `ares_parse_txt_reply_ext`
- o api: Add ares_set_socket_configure_callback()
-
+ o
+ 
 Bug fixes:
 
- o timeadd: make static
- o timeoffset: made static and private
- o nowarn: use <limits.h> instead of configure for size of long
- o single_domain: Invalid memory access for empty string input
- o ares_build.h: fix building on 64-bit powerpc
- o Allow specification of search domain in ahost
- o Don't override explicitly specified search domains
- o ares_parse_soa_reply: Do not leak rr_name on allocation failure
- o Update ahost man page to describe -s option
- o host_callback: Fall back to AF_INET on searching with AF_UNSPEC
- o Add -t u option to ahost
- o CONTRIBUTING: added
- o ares_set_servers_csv: fix NULL dereference
- o Fix integer shift overflow if both tcp_socket and udp_socket are set
- o fix acountry memory leak
- o lookup_service: prevent tmpbuf from overrunning
- o ares_getnameinfo.3: there is no ares_getaddrinfo
- o init_by_defaults: Continue loop if space for hostname not large enough
- o Destroy options if ares_save_options fails
- o ares__read_line: free buf on realloc failure
- o added define for visual studio 2013
- o windows: fix slow DNS lookup issue
- o Use libresolv to initialize cares on iPhone targets
- o buildconf: remove check for libtool, it only requires libtoolize
- o init_by_resolv_conf: Don't exit loop early leaving uninitialized entries
- o ahost: check the select() return code
- o configure_socket: explicitly ignore return code
- o read_tcp_data: don't try to use NULL pointer after malloc failure
- o Distribute all man pages
- o ares_expand_name: check for valid bits in label length
- o ares__read_line: clear buf pointer on realloc failure
- o process_answer: fix things up correctly when removing EDNS option
- o ares_parse_txt_reply: propagate errors from per-substring loop
- o ares_gethostbyname: don't leak valid-but-empty hostent
- o ares_init_options: don't lose init failure
- o ares_dup: clear new channel on failure
- o config_sortlist: free any existing sortlist on (re)alloc failure
- o ares_striendstr: fix so non-NULL return can happen
- o bitncmp: update comment to match code behaviour
- o ares_set_servers_csv.3: make return type match code
- o init_by_resolv_conf: ignore `fopen` errors to use default values
- o Use "resolve" as synonym of "dns" in nsswitch.conf
- o ares_win32_init: make LoadLibrary work when using UNICODE too
- o dist: Distribute README.md
- o configure: build silently by default
- o ares_dup.3: remove mention of nonexistent function
-
+ o
+ 
 Thanks go to these friendly people for their efforts and contributions:
 
-  Andrew Andkjar, Andrew Ayer, Daniel Stenberg, David Drysdale,
-  Doug Kwan, Fedor Indutny, Frederic Germain, Gisle Vanem, Gregor Jasny,
-  Guenter Knauf, Jakub Hrozek, Lei Shi, Nicolas "Pixel" Noble,
-  Svante Karlsson, Tor Arntsen, Yang Tse
+
 
 Have fun!
diff --git a/ares_version.h b/ares_version.h
index 2c9146d..d0050cf 100644
--- a/ares_version.h
+++ b/ares_version.h
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@
 #define ARES__VERSION_H
 
 /* This is the global package copyright */
-#define ARES_COPYRIGHT "2004 - 2013 Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>."
+#define ARES_COPYRIGHT "2004 - 2016 Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>."
 
 #define ARES_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define ARES_VERSION_MINOR 10
+#define ARES_VERSION_MINOR 11
 #define ARES_VERSION_PATCH 1
 #define ARES_VERSION ((ARES_VERSION_MAJOR<<16)|\
                        (ARES_VERSION_MINOR<<8)|\
                        (ARES_VERSION_PATCH))
-#define ARES_VERSION_STR "1.10.1-DEV"
+#define ARES_VERSION_STR "1.11.1-DEV"
 
 #if (ARES_VERSION >= 0x010700)
 #  define CARES_HAVE_ARES_LIBRARY_INIT 1