draft release notes 2.1.1
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 paginate_path: "blog/page:num"
 permalink: /blog/:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title
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-latest_version: 2.1.0
-latest_version_date: 2018-02-21
+latest_version: 2.1.1
+latest_version_date: 2018-08-09
 latest_snapshot: 2.2.0-SNAPSHOT
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                     <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Release Notes<strong class="caret"></strong></a>
                     <ul class="dropdown-menu">
                         <!-- only keep the release notes for supported versions in this list -->
+                        <li><a href="/releasenotes/2.1.1">2.1.1</a></li>
                         <li><a href="/releasenotes/2.1.0">2.1.0</a></li>
                         <li><a href="/releasenotes/2.0.3">2.0.3</a></li>
                         <li><a href="/releasenotes/2.0.2">2.0.2</a></li>
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     <category rdf:resource="http://projects.apache.org/category/library" />
     <release>
       <Version>
+        <name>Apache jclouds 2.1.1</name>
+        <created>2018-08-09</created>
+        <revision>2.1.1</revision>
+      </Version>
+    </release>
+    <release>
+      <Version>
         <name>Apache jclouds 2.1.0</name>
         <created>2018-02-21</created>
         <revision>2.1.0</revision>
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+---
+layout: releasenotes
+title: Release Notes for Version 2.1.1
+date: 2018-08-09 16:00:00
+release_notes: true
+permalink: /releasenotes/2.1.1/
+---
+
+1. [Introduction](#intro)
+1. [Release Highlights](#highlights)
+1. [Known Issues](#knownissues)
+1. [Credits](#credits)
+1. [Test Results](#test)
+
+## <a id="intro"></a>Introduction
+
+Apache jclouds 2.1.1 is the first bugfix release after jclouds 2.1 and comes with several bugfixes and performance improvements. 
+You can [read the official announcement here](https://s.apache.org/jclouds211). To get started with jclouds, please see the [jclouds installation guide](/start/install/).
+
+## <a id="highlights"></a>Release Highlights
+
+Apache jclouds 2.1.1 new features include:
+
+* Add support for c5 and R4 instance types in AWS ec2.
+* Add the new Paris region to aws-ec2
+* Support different "domain" for "identity/user" and "project" in OpenStack Keystone V3
+* Improve Azure ARM clean resources up especially for orphaned networks and orphaned resource groups.
+
+### Bugs and patches
+
+* [JCLOUDS-1200] - org.jclouds.http.HttpResponseException fails to serialize
+* [JCLOUDS-1263] - Listing objects in Openstack Swift blob store containers fails if a key has an invalid URL encode sequence
+* [JCLOUDS-1294] - Azure ARM improve HTTP retry logic
+* [JCLOUDS-1330] - Azure ARM orphaned networks not cleaned up when node deleted
+* [JCLOUDS-1331] - Azure ARM orphaned resource groups are not cleaned up due to api caching/timing issue
+* [JCLOUDS-1362] - Randomly generated node password can be invalid in Azure ARM
+* [JCLOUDS-1368] - GCS cannot upload multipart file larger than 1 GB
+* [JCLOUDS-1373] - Add the new Paris region to aws-ec2
+* [JCLOUDS-1381] - NullPointerException provisioning VM in GCE: could not find image for disk
+* [JCLOUDS-1389] - Multipart upload to Google cloud storage failing with 400 bad request
+* [JCLOUDS-1391] - Headers must be sorted by lowercase when calculating signature
+* [JCLOUDS-1392] - When fetching blob metadata with details all folders are removed from response
+* [JCLOUDS-1400] - GCS's presigned url requires blank Content-Type
+* [JCLOUDS-1401] - S3 SignatureDoesNotMatch when listing keys using prefix with ampersand
+* [JCLOUDS-1405] - Dimension Data Live Tests Broken - Domain classes for Server and Image with List nics incorrect
+* [JCLOUDS-1410] - SoftLayer cannot provision with private image
+* [JCLOUDS-1422] - LocalBlobStore.list ignores recursive flag when prefix set
+* [JCLOUDS-1427] - NPE when deserializing Elastic IPs that have tags
+* [JCLOUDS-1433] - IllegalArgumentException from Strings2.replaceTokens
+
+The complete list of fixed issues and improvements can be found [here](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12314430&version=12342884).
+
+## <a id="knownissues"></a> Known Issues
+
+There are a number of open JIRA issues related to OpenStack endpoint and API version support: [JCLOUDS-114](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-114), [JCLOUDS-773](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-773) and [JCLOUDS-1197](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1197). In particular, jclouds does not currently support OpenStack Keystone v3; the community is currently [actively working on that](https://s.apache.org/OSbY).
+
+## <a id="credits"></a>Credits
+
+jclouds would like to thank everyone who contributed time and effort in order to make this release happen:
+
+* [Daniel Estevez](https://github.com/danielestevez) for his contributions to the Azure ARM provider.
+* Apache jclouds [PMC](http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#jclouds-pmc) and community for verifying the release.
+* Check out who has been busy on [Open Hub](https://www.openhub.net/p/jclouds/contributors?query=&sort=latest_commit).
+
+## <a id="test"></a>Test Results
+
+Please see the discussion and the vote threads for live test results for 2.1.1:
+
+* RC1 [vote](https://s.apache.org/jclouds211rc1vote) and [discussion](https://s.apache.org/jclouds201rc1discuss) threads.
diff --git a/releasenotes/index.md b/releasenotes/index.md
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 The Release Notes and Javadocs for every major release of Apache jclouds are listed chronologically below.
 
+* [2.1.1](/releasenotes/2.1.1) | [Javadoc](/reference/javadoc/2.1.x/)
 * [2.1.0](/releasenotes/2.1.0) | [Javadoc](/reference/javadoc/2.1.x/)
 * [2.0.3](/releasenotes/2.0.3) | [Javadoc](/reference/javadoc/2.0.x/)
 * [2.0.2](/releasenotes/2.0.2) | [Javadoc](/reference/javadoc/2.0.x/)