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+# 1.1.0
+
+External contributions:
+* Add additional percentile samples to mysql_service benchmark and others
+  (thanks @zbjornson; GH-729).
+* Add Mesos-Marathon as a provider (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski; GH-679,
+  GH-731).
+* Use only available floating-ips for OpenStack (thanks @meteorfox; GH-733).
+* Add OpenStack CLI-based support for object_storage_service benchmark (thanks
+  @meteorfox; GH-738).
+* Make printed benchmark results more readable (thanks @wonderfly; GH-747).
+* Clean up formatting, grammar, and markdown in README.md (thanks @mbrukman;
+  GH-748).
+* Add links to projects and licenses in README.md (thanks @mbrukman; GH-763).
+* Fix a bug that caused --helpxml to not work (thanks @jldiaz; GH-782).
+* Make OpenStack VM username configurable with a new --openstack_image_username
+  flag (thanks @lwatta; GH-788).
+
+New features:
+* Allow users to specify a storage region for the object_storage_service
+  benchmark with a new --object_storage_region flag (GH-609).
+* Add support for running a background CPU workload while executing a benchmark
+  (GH-715, GH-762).
+* Allow creating GCE custom VMs easily from command-line flags (GH-727).
+* Add the --gce_network_name to allow GCE users to use pre-existing networks
+  (GH-746).
+* Publish a PTRANS sample from the hpcc benchmark (GH-785).
+* Add support for running a background network workload while executing a
+  benchmark (GH-786).
+* Add a CSV sample output format (GH-791).
+
+Enhancements:
+* Trim blocks while formatting and mounting disks (GH-692).
+* Raise an error when no requests succeed in redis_benchmark (GH-702).
+* Update the Google benchmark set (GH-705).
+* Add input-checking to disk specs (GH-675, GH-779).
+* Let disks on Windows machines return Windows DeviceIds (GH-743).
+* Speed up Cassandra cluster boot by setting "auto_bootstrap" to false (GH-751).
+* Defer package update for Ubuntu (GH-752).
+* Add provider-specific requirements.txt files (GH-753).
+* Increase preload thread count for YCSB benchmarks (GH-760). This change
+  affects some of the samples generated by the aerospike_ycsb, cassandra_ycsb,
+  and mongodb_ycsb benchmarks, including the overall Runtime and overall
+  Throughput.
+* Guarantee order of VM and disk spec config option decoding (GH-792).
+
+Bugfixes and maintenance updates:
+* Create one AWS VPC/IGW/PlacementGroup per region (GH-687, GH-798).
+* Update README.md instructions for setting up PKB for GCE (GH-689).
+* Update comments in pkb.py to reflect new provision and teardown stages
+  (GH-691).
+* Fix bug that prevented object_storage_service benchmark from running in stages
+  (GH-694).
+* Add test helpers that make it easier to mock command-line flags (GH-695,
+  GH-730).
+* Delete set-interrupts.sh (GH-703).
+* Make process exit status non-zero upon benchmark failure (GH-713).
+* Move "To run again" message from teardown to cleanup stage (GH-714).
+* Fix creation of AWS VMs using Placement Groups (GH-721).
+* Create AWS/GCE default access rules before creating VMs (GH-726, GH-756).
+  This change affects the Boot Time measured by the cluster_boot benchmark.
+* Fix a GCE boot disk creation bug (GH-736).
+* ntttcp benchmark fixes (GH-737).
+* Force mongodb_ycsb benchmark to use only one VM (GH-755).
+* Unmount /mnt if it exists prior to creating a scratch filesystem (GH-757).
+* Move provider constants to a separate module (GH-758).
+* Fix a bug when creating an AWS VPC outside the user's default region (GH-774).
+* Add tests for generating help strings (GH-782).
+* Kill servers started by the iperf benchmark as part of its cleanup (GH-784).
+* Fix some style inconsistencies (GH-789).
+* Move operating system constants to a separate module (GH-790).
+* Fix some broken tests (GH-795, GH-796).
+
 # 1.0.1
 
 * Fix for benchmark_compatibility_checking flag. (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski;