Preparing release of 1.1.1

Renamed RELEASE-NOTES.md to CHANGELOG.md, added note regarding new ve…

…rsion format

We want the year in the docs to always be current

(cherry picked from commit f7f7d5c)

v1.1.0-rc1

About time to declare this as a stable version, should have done this…

… ages

ago...

Changed version...

Forgot to check in the new VERSION file

Preparing official "release" of a first rc to help in packaging