diff --git a/History.markdown b/History.markdown
index 886affd6..a672e253 100644
--- a/History.markdown
+++ b/History.markdown
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 ## HEAD
 
+### Major Enhancements
+
+### Minor Enhancements
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+### Development Fixes
+
+### Site Enhancements
+
+## 1.1.0 / 2013-07-14
+
 ### Major Enhancements
   * Add 'docs' subcommand to read Jekyll's docs when offline. (#1046)
   * Support passing parameters to templates in 'include' tag (#1204)
@@ -68,8 +80,6 @@
   * Add suggestion for Xcode CLT install to troubleshooting page in docs (#1296)
   * Add 'Working with drafts' page to docs (#1289)
 
-### Development Fixes
-
 ## 1.0.3 / 2013-06-07
 
 ### Minor Enhancements
diff --git a/jekyll.gemspec b/jekyll.gemspec
index 2f2db1dd..a39ac9a5 100644
--- a/jekyll.gemspec
+++ b/jekyll.gemspec
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.rubygems_version = '1.3.5'
 
   s.name              = 'jekyll'
-  s.version           = '1.0.3'
+  s.version           = '1.1.0'
   s.license           = 'MIT'
-  s.date              = '2013-06-07'
+  s.date              = '2013-07-14'
   s.rubyforge_project = 'jekyll'
 
   s.summary     = "A simple, blog aware, static site generator."
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
     features/create_sites.feature
     features/drafts.feature
     features/embed_filters.feature
+    features/include_tag.feature
     features/markdown.feature
     features/pagination.feature
     features/permalinks.feature
@@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
     lib/jekyll/deprecator.rb
     lib/jekyll/draft.rb
     lib/jekyll/errors.rb
+    lib/jekyll/excerpt.rb
     lib/jekyll/filters.rb
     lib/jekyll/generator.rb
     lib/jekyll/generators/pagination.rb
@@ -123,11 +125,20 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
     site/_includes/docs_contents_mobile.html
     site/_includes/footer.html
     site/_includes/header.html
+    site/_includes/news_contents.html
+    site/_includes/news_contents_mobile.html
+    site/_includes/news_item.html
     site/_includes/primary-nav-items.html
     site/_includes/section_nav.html
     site/_includes/top.html
     site/_layouts/default.html
     site/_layouts/docs.html
+    site/_layouts/news.html
+    site/_layouts/news_item.html
+    site/_posts/2013-05-06-jekyll-1-0-0-released.markdown
+    site/_posts/2013-05-08-jekyll-1-0-1-released.markdown
+    site/_posts/2013-05-12-jekyll-1-0-2-released.markdown
+    site/_posts/2013-06-07-jekyll-1-0-3-released.markdown
     site/css/gridism.css
     site/css/normalize.css
     site/css/pygments.css
@@ -135,6 +146,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
     site/docs/configuration.md
     site/docs/contributing.md
     site/docs/deployment-methods.md
+    site/docs/drafts.md
     site/docs/extras.md
     site/docs/frontmatter.md
     site/docs/github-pages.md
@@ -148,6 +160,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
     site/docs/permalinks.md
     site/docs/plugins.md
     site/docs/posts.md
+    site/docs/quickstart.md
     site/docs/resources.md
     site/docs/sites.md
     site/docs/structure.md
@@ -157,6 +170,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
     site/docs/usage.md
     site/docs/variables.md
     site/favicon.png
+    site/feed.xml
+    site/freenode.txt
     site/img/article-footer.png
     site/img/footer-arrow.png
     site/img/footer-logo.png
@@ -166,13 +181,17 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
     site/img/tube1x.png
     site/index.html
     site/js/modernizr-2.5.3.min.js
+    site/news/index.md
+    site/news/releases/index.md
     test/fixtures/broken_front_matter1.erb
     test/fixtures/broken_front_matter2.erb
     test/fixtures/broken_front_matter3.erb
     test/fixtures/exploit_front_matter.erb
     test/fixtures/front_matter.erb
     test/helper.rb
+    test/source/+/foo.md
     test/source/.htaccess
+    test/source/_includes/params.html
     test/source/_includes/sig.markdown
     test/source/_layouts/default.html
     test/source/_layouts/simple.html
diff --git a/lib/jekyll.rb b/lib/jekyll.rb
index 06242de9..77cc7cd5 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll.rb
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ require_all 'jekyll/tags'
 SafeYAML::OPTIONS[:suppress_warnings] = true
 
 module Jekyll
-  VERSION = '1.0.3'
+  VERSION = '1.1.0'
 
   # Public: Generate a Jekyll configuration Hash by merging the default
   # options with anything in _config.yml, and adding the given options on top.
diff --git a/site/_posts/2013-07-14-jekyll-1-1-0-released.markdown b/site/_posts/2013-07-14-jekyll-1-1-0-released.markdown
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c379ba8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/site/_posts/2013-07-14-jekyll-1-1-0-released.markdown
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+layout: news_item
+title: "Jekyll 1.1.0 Released"
+date: "2013-07-14 19:38:02 +0200"
+author: parkr
+version: 1.1.0
+categories: [release]
+---
+
+After a month of hard work, the Jekyll core team is excited to announce the release of
+Jekyll v1.1.0! This latest release of Jekyll brings some really exciting new additions:
+
+- Add 'docs' subcommand to read Jekyll's docs when offline. ([#1046][])
+- Support passing parameters to templates in 'include' tag ([#1204][])
+- Add support for Liquid tags to post excerpts ([#1302][])
+- Fix pagination for subdirectories ([#1198][])
+- Provide better error reporting when generating sites ([#1253][])
+- Latest posts first in non-LSI `related_posts` ([#1271][])
+
+See the [History][] page for more a more detailed changelog for this release.
+
+{% assign issue_numbers = "1046|1204|1302|1198|1171|1118|1098|1215|1253|1271" | split: "|" %}
+{% for issue in issue_numbers %}
+[#{{ issue }}]: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/issues/{{ issue }}
+{% endfor %}
+
+[History]: /docs/history/#110__20130714