[incubator-mxnet] branch v1.1.0 updated: update news.md (#191)

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commit bc30e1aa10697535099b42370a8b4b75cf55609e
Author: Haibin Lin <li...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Jan 27 18:18:35 2018 -0800

    update news.md (#191)
    
    * Update NEWS.md
    
    * Update README.md
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diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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 MXNet Change Log
 ================
+## 1.1.0
+### Usability Improvements
+- Improved the usability of examples and tutorials
+### Bug-fixes
+- Fixed I/O multiprocessing for too many open file handles (#8904), race condition (#8995), deadlock (#9126).
+- Fixed image IO integration with OpenCV 3.3 (#8757).
+- Fixed Gluon block printing (#8956).
+- Fixed float16 argmax when there is negative input. (#9149)
+- Fixed random number generator to ensure sufficient randomness. (#9119, #9256, #9300)
+- Fixed custom op multi-GPU scaling (#9283)
+- Fixed gradient of gather_nd when duplicate entries exist in index. (#9200)
+- Fixed overriden contexts in Module `group2ctx` option when using multiple contexts (#8867)
+### New Features
+- Added experimental API in `contrib.text` for building vocabulary, and loading pre-trained word embeddings, with built-in support for 307 GloVe and FastText pre-trained embeddings. (#8763)
+- Added experimental structural blocks in `gluon.contrib`: `Concurrent`, `HybridConcurrent`, `Identity`. (#9427)
+- Added `sparse.dot(dense, csr)` operator (#8938)
+- Added `Khatri-Rao` operator (#7781)
+- Added `FTML` and `Signum` optimizer (#9220, #9262)
+- Added `ENABLE_CUDA_RTC` build option (#9428)
+### API Changes
+- Added zero gradients to rounding operators including `rint`, `ceil`, `floor`, `trunc`, and `fix` (#9040)
+- Added `use_global_stats` in `nn.BatchNorm` (#9420)
+- Added `axis` argument to `SequenceLast`, `SequenceMask` and `SequenceReverse` operators (#9306)
+- Added `lazy_update` option for standard `SGD` & `Adam` optimizer with `row_sparse` gradients (#9468, #9189)
+- Added `select` option in `Block.collect_params` to support regex (#9348)
+- Added support for (one-to-one and sequence-to-one) inference on explicit unrolled RNN models in R (#9022) 
+### Depreciations
+- The Scala API name space is still called `ml.dmlc`. The name space is likely be changed in a future release to `org.apache` and might brake existing applications and scripts (#9579, #9324)
+### Performance Improvements
+- Improved GPU inference speed by 20% when batch size is 1 (#9055)
+- Improved `SequenceLast` operator speed (#9306)
+- Added multithreading for the class of broadcast_reduce operators on CPU (#9444)
+- Improved batching for GEMM/TRSM operators with large matrices on GPU (#8846)
+### Known Issues
+- "Predict with pre-trained models" tutorial is broken
+
+
 ## 1.0.0
 ### Performance
   - Enhanced the performance of `sparse.dot` operator.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index feff029..dbae65d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ deep learning systems, and interesting insights of DL systems for hackers.
 
 What's New
 ----------
+* [Version 1.1.0 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.1.0) - MXNet 1.1.0 Release.
 * [Version 1.0.0 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.0.0) - MXNet 1.0.0 Release.
 * [Version 0.12.1 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/0.12.1) - MXNet 0.12.1 Patch Release.
 * [Version 0.12.0 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/0.12.0) - MXNet 0.12.0 Release.

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