diff --git a/contrib/debian/changelog b/contrib/debian/changelog
index e2cbaab82..96675ed7b 100644
--- a/contrib/debian/changelog
+++ b/contrib/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+zcash (1.0.11~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * 1.0.11-rc1 release.
+
+ -- Zcash Company <team@z.cash>  Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:12:52 +0200
+
 zcash (1.0.10+1) stable; urgency=medium
 
   * 1.0.10-1 release.
diff --git a/doc/authors.md b/doc/authors.md
index b1e6c924d..9c62b43d0 100644
--- a/doc/authors.md
+++ b/doc/authors.md
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Zcash Contributors
 ==================
 
-Jack Grigg (428)
-Simon Liu (266)
+Jack Grigg (443)
+Simon Liu (269)
 Sean Bowe (188)
-Daira Hopwood (95)
+Daira Hopwood (102)
 Taylor Hornby (65)
-Wladimir J. van der Laan (60)
+Wladimir J. van der Laan (61)
 Nathan Wilcox (51)
 Jay Graber (49)
 Jonas Schnelli (48)
@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ Joe Turgeon (2)
 Jack Gavigan (2)
 ITH4Coinomia (2)
 Gavin Andresen (2)
+Ariel Gabizon (2)
 Amgad Abdelhafez (2)
 zathras-crypto (1)
 unsystemizer (1)
+practicalswift (1)
 mruddy (1)
 mrbandrews (1)
 kazcw (1)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.11-rc1.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.11-rc1.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4542a448c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.11-rc1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+Changelog
+=========
+
+Ariel Gabizon (2):
+      make-release.py: Versioning changes for 1.0.11-rc1.
+      make-release.py: Updated manpages for 1.0.11-rc1.
+
+Daira Hopwood (7):
+      Clean up imports to be pyflakes-checkable. fixes #2450
+      For unused variables reported by pyflakes, either remove the variable,     suppress the warning, or fix a bug (if the wrong variable was used).     refs #2450
+      Cosmetics (trailing whitespace, comment conventions, etc.)
+      Alert 1004 (version 1.0.10 only)
+      Remove UPnP support. fixes #2500
+      Change wording in Security Warnings section of README.md.
+      Document our criteria for adding CI workers. closes #2499
+
+Jack Grigg (15):
+      Pull in temporary release notes during the release process
+      Ansible playbook for installing Zcash dependencies and Buildbot worker
+      Variable overrides for Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora
+      Variable overrides for FreeBSD
+      Simplify Python installation, inform user if they need to manually configure
+      Add test for issue #2444
+      Add Buildbot worker setup to Ansible playbook
+      Add steps for setting up a latent worker on Amazon EC2
+      Add pyblake2 to required Python modules
+      Remove Buildbot version from host file
+      Add a separate Buildbot host info template for EC2
+      Add pyflakes to required Python modules
+      Add block download progress to metrics UI
+      Correct and extend EstimateNetHeightInner tests
+      Improve network height estimation
+
+Simon Liu (3):
+      Closes #2446 by adding generated field to listunspent.
+      Fixes #2519. When sending from a zaddr, minconf cannot be zero.
+      Fixes #2480. Null entry in map was dereferenced leading to a segfault.
+
+Wladimir J. van der Laan (1):
+      rpc: Add WWW-Authenticate header to 401 response
+
+practicalswift (1):
+      Net: Fix resource leak in ReadBinaryFile(...)
+