Update version for 1.1.0 RC1 release
diff --git a/.rat-excludes b/.rat-excludes
index 9dc6311..f41d97a 100644
--- a/.rat-excludes
+++ b/.rat-excludes
@@ -30,3 +30,4 @@
 build.properties.default
 test/data/legacy-sstables/**
 examples/pig/**
+examples/hadoop_word_count/conf/log4j.properties
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 2286b27..ca83a0d 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="1.1.0-beta2"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="1.1.0-rc1"/>
     <property name="scm.connection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.url" value="http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=tree"/>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 01bf383..9c795f1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+cassandra (1.1.0~rc1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New Release Candidate
+
+ -- Sylvain Lebresne <slebresne@apache.org>  Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:59:27 +0200
+
 cassandra (1.1.0~beta2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New beta release