GH-706 Update version & RELEASENOTES.md for release 8.1.1
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# Cordova-lib Release Notes
+### 8.1.1 (Sep 30, 2018)
+* [GH-706](https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/issues/706) reintroduce `xcode` dependency to to avoid breaking plugins such as `branch-cordova-sdk` before next major release
+* [GH-708](https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/pull/708) reintroduce other dependencies that were dropped in version `8.1.0` to better ensure that any other plugins or applications using `requireCordovaModule` would not be broken by a minor release upgrade:
+ - `dependency-ls@1`
+ - `request@2`
+ - `unorm@1`
+ - `underscore@1`
+ - `valid-identifier@0.0.1`
+* [GH-708](https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/pull/708) `tar` dependency back to `tar@2`
+* [GH-707](https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/pull/707) minor optimization for `requireCordovaModule` for module names that do *not* start with "cordova-lib"
+
### 8.1.0 (Sep 17, 2018)
* [GH-691](https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/pull/691) update to use cordova-windows@~6.0.x by default
* [GH-693](https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/pull/693) minor workaround fixes needed to work on deprecated Node.js 4 version
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"name": "cordova-lib",
"license": "Apache-2.0",
"description": "Apache Cordova tools core lib and API",
- "version": "8.1.1-dev",
+ "version": "8.1.1",
"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib"
