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Date:   Sun Feb 26 18:03:41 2017 -0800

    docs: updated release notes for 3.7.11
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-ChangeLog v3.7.10
+ChangeLog v3.7.11
 =================
 
-This significant feature release of the 3.7 API series, and
-incorporates all the bug fixes implemented in the 3.7.9.3 maintenance
-release.
+This is a feature release of the 3.7 API series, and incorporates all
+the bug fixes implemented in the 3.7.10.2 maintenance release.
 
 
 Contributors
 ------------
 
 The following list of people directly contributed code to this
-release:
-
- * A. Maitland Bottoms <address@hidden>
- * Andrej Rode <address@hidden>
- * Andy Sloane <address@hidden>
- * Andy Walls <address@hidden>
- * Chris Kuethe <address@hidden>
- * Clayton Smith <address@hidden>
- * Daehyun Yang <address@hidden>
- * Derek Kozel <address@hidden>
- * Federico La Rocca <address@hidden>
- * Geof Nieboer <address@hidden>
- * Glenn Richardson <address@hidden>
- * Glenn Richardson <address@hidden>
- * Jiří Pinkava <address@hidden>
- * Johannes Schmitz <address@hidden>
- * Johnathan Corgan <address@hidden>
- * Kevin McQuiggin <address@hidden>
- * Laur Joost <address@hidden>
- * Marcus Müller <address@hidden>
- * Martin Braun <address@hidden>
- * Matt Hostetter <address@hidden>
- * Michael Dickens <address@hidden>
- * Nathan West <address@hidden>
- * Paul Cercueil <address@hidden>
- * Paul David <address@hidden>
- * Philip Balister <address@hidden>
- * Ron Economos <address@hidden>
- * Sean Nowlan <address@hidden>
- * Sebastian Koslowski <address@hidden>
- * Seth Hitefield <address@hidden>
- * Stefan Wunsch <address@hidden>
- * Tim O'Shea <address@hidden>
- * Tom Rondeau <address@hidden>
- * Tracie Renea <address@hidden>
-
-## Major Development Areas
-
-This release sees the integration of a number of long-time development
-efforts in various areas of the tree, including GRC, new packet/burst
-communications features for gr-digital, new standards implementations
-for gr-dtv.  In addition, it incorporates all of the bug fixes
-released as part of the 3.7.9.3 maintenance release.
-
-
-### GRC
-
-The GNU Radio Companion development environment continues to undergo
-rapid development and refactoring. The tools and workflow have been
-improved in the following ways:
-
- * Variable explorer panel and option to hide variables from canvas
- * Nicer block documentation tool-tip and properties dialog tab
- * Screenshots can have transparent background
- * Darker color for bypassed blocks
- * Select all action
- * Block alignment tools
- * Added bits (unpacked bytes) as a data type
- * Show warning for blocks flagged as deprecated
- * Remove [] around categories in the block library
- * Separate core and OOT block trees via the category of each block
-
-The refactor of GRC continues. This should be mostly feature neutral
-and make it easier for new contributors to come in and make useful
-changes. Part of this is deprecating blks2 and and xmlrpc blocks and
-moving them to components where they would be expected to be found
-rather than the GRC sub-tree.
-
-### Packet Communications
-
-A long-time feature branch developed by Tom Rondeau has been merged
-into the tree, implementing new blocks and methods for packet
-communications.  This is intended to replace much of the older,
-overlapping, and Python-only packet-based code that already exists.
-As this code matures, we will be marking this older code as deprecated
-with the plan to remove it in the new 3.8 API.
-
-### DTV
-
-DTV has new transmitters for DVB-S and ITU-T J.83B 64QAM. New support
-for DVB-S2X VL-SNR code rates, modulation, and framing for AMSAT are
-also available.
-
-A significantly improved OFDM symbol synchronizer was implemented for
-the DVB-T receiver (Ron Economos, Federico La Rocca).
-
-## Other Feature Development
-
-### Runtime
-
-Clear tags and reset all item counters when merging connections
-between blocks, which prevents bad values from being propagated on
-lock/unlock operations.
-
-Blocks always set their max_noutput_items before a flowgraph starts if
-it hasn't already been set.
-
-Added some options to gnuradio-config-info that prints information
-about the gnuradio prefs file. The old customized preference file
-reader is replaced with a boost program options object.
-
-### QT GUIs
-
-The QT GUI widgets can now toggle axis labels and the frequency sink
-has a new feature to set the y-axis label. This could be useful for
-changing units on calibrated measurements.
-
-The QT GUI Entry widget has a new message port that emits a message
-containing the new text whenever editing is finished.
-
-QT widgets recently had an optional message port to plot PDUs. This
-release adds a feature to plot the tag metadata contained in the PDU.
-
-A new example shows how to build a C++ only QT based application.
+release and the incorporated maintenance release:
+
+* A. Maitland Bottoms <address@hidden>
+* Alexandru Csete <address@hidden>
+* Andrej Rode <address@hidden>
+* Andy Walls <address@hidden>
+* Artem Pisarenko <address@hidden>
+* Bastian Bloessl <address@hidden>
+* Ben Hilburn <address@hidden>
+* Bob Iannucci <address@hidden>
+* Chris Kuethe <address@hidden>
+* Christopher Chavez <address@hidden>
+* Clayton Smith <address@hidden>
+* Darek Kawamoto <address@hidden>
+* Ethan Trewhitt <address@hidden>
+* Geof Gnieboer <address@hidden>
+* Hatsune Aru <email witheld>
+* Jacob Gilbert <address@hidden>
+* Jiří Pinkava <address@hidden>
+* Johannes Demel <address@hidden>
+* Johannes Schmitz <address@hidden>
+* Johnathan Corgan <address@hidden>
+* Jonathan Brucker <address@hidden>
+* Josh Blum <address@hidden>
+* Kartik Patel <address@hidden>
+* Konstantin Mochalov <address@hidden>
+* Kyle Unice <address@hidden>
+* Marcus Müller <address@hidden>
+* Martin Braun <address@hidden>
+* Michael De Nil <address@hidden>
+* Michael Dickens <address@hidden>
+* Nathan West <address@hidden>
+* Nicholas Corgan <address@hidden>
+* Nick Foster <address@hidden>
+* Nicolas Cuervo <address@hidden>
+* Paul Cercueil <address@hidden>
+* Pedro Lobo <address@hidden>
+* Peter Horvath <address@hidden>
+* Philip Balister <address@hidden>
+* Ron Economos <address@hidden>
+* Sean Nowlan <address@hidden>
+* Sebastian Koslowski <address@hidden>
+* Sebastian Müller <address@hidden>
+* Stephen Larew <address@hidden>
+* Sylvain Munaut <address@hidden>
+* Thomas Habets <address@hidden>
+* Tim O'Shea <address@hidden>
+* Tobias Blomberg <email witheld>
+
+
+Changes
+=======
+
+The GNU Radio project tracks changes via Github pull requests.  You
+can get details on each of the below by going to:
+
+https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio
+
+Note: Please see the release notes for 3.7.10.2 for details on the bug
+fixes included in this release.
+
+
+### gnuradio-runtime
+
+* \#1077 Support dynamically loaded gnuradio installs (Josh Blum)
+
+
+### gnuradio-companion
+
+* \#1118 Support vector types in embedded Python blocks (Clayton Smith)
 
-### gr-digital
-
-New QA for tagged stream correlate access code blocks further cement
-how these blocks should be behaving.
-
-16QAM is now available from the GRC constellation object dialog drop
-down menu.
-
-### gr-analog
-
-The frequency modulator now has sensitivity exposed through
-controlport.
-
-New FM pre emphasis and de-emphasis filters. The previous filters were
-effectively all-pass filters. There is a very nice write up on the new
-filters in gr-analog/python/analog/fm_emph.py
-
-A new message port to sig_source is available that can set signal
-frequency with the same convention as gr-uhd usrp_source.
+### gr-audio
 
-### gr-filter
+* \#1051 Re-implemented defunct Windows audio source (Geof Gnieboer)
+* \#1052 Implemented block in Windows audio sink (Geof Gnieboer)
 
-Use the max_noutput_items in start() to allocate FFT buffers for the
-PFB decimator rather than always allocating/freeing a buffer in
-work().
 
 ### gr-blocks
 
-Add a run-time accessor and setter for interpolation of repeat blocks.
+* \#896 Added PDU block setters and GRC callbacks (Jacob Gilbert)
+* \#900 Exposed non-vector multiply const to GRC (Ron Economos)
+* \#903 Deprecated old-style message queue blocks (Johnathan Corgan)
+* \#1067 Deprecated blks2 namespace blocks (Johnathan Corgan)
 
-vector_sink.reset() clears tags now
 
-Add accessors for the vector_source repeat flag so it's settable
-outside the ctor.
-
-Fix tuntap devices MTU size. Previously MTU size argument was used to
-allocate correct buffer size, but didn't actually change the MTU of
-the underlying device.
-
-The UDP source block can read gr prefs file for the payload buffer
-size or default to the existing value of 50.
-
-Yet another block making use of VOLK: the divide_cc block is now 10x
-faster on some machines.
-
-### gr-uhd
+### gr-digital
 
-New argument in usrp_source initializer to start streaming on the
-start of a flowgraph which defaults to true (the existing behavior).
+* \#910 Deprecated correlate_and_sync block 3.8 (Johnathan Corgan)
+* \#912 Deprecated modulation blocks for 3.8 (Sebastian Müller)
+* \#1069 Improved build memory usage with swig split (Michael Dickens)
+* \#1097 Deprecated mpsk_receiver_cc block (Johnathan Corgan)
+* \#1099 Deprecated old-style OFDM receiver blocks (Martin Braun)
 
-Add a clock-source argument to uhd_fft.
+### gr-dtv
 
-A new message command handler for the usrp_source block will trigger a
-time and rate tag to be emitted.
+* \#875 Added ability to cross-compile gr-dtv (Ron Economos)
+* \#876 Improved ATSC transmitter performance (Ron Economos)
+* \#894 Refactored DVB-T RS decoder to use gr-fec (Ron Economos)
+* \#898 Improved error handling and logging (Ron Economos)
+* \#900 Improved DVB-T performance (Ron Economos)
+* \#907 Updated examples to use QT (Ron Economos)
+* \#1025 Refactor DVB-T2 interleaver (Ron Economos)
 
-Added support for importing, exporting, and sharing LOs.
 
-### gr-audio
+### gr-filter
 
-Refactor audio sink for windows with multiple buffers to prevent
-skipping.
+* \#885 Added set parameter msg port to fractional resampler (Sebastian 
Müller)
 
-### modtool
 
-Add an option to set the copyright field for new files.
+### gr-trellis
 
-New modules will detect PYBOMBS_PREFIX and install to the defined
-location.
+* \#908 Updated examples to use QT (Martin Braun)
 
-Add versioning support for OOT modules by default.
 
-### Builds
+### gr-uhd
 
-Enable controlport for static builds.
+* \#872 Added relative phase plots to uhd_fft (Martin Braun)
+* \#1032 Replace zero-timeout double-recv() with one recv() (Martin Braun)
+* \#1053 UHD apps may now specify multiple subdevs (Martin Braun)
+* \#1101 Support TwinRX LO sharing parameters (Andrej Rode)
+* \#1139 Use UHD internal normalized gain methods (Martin Braun)
 
-Enable GR_GIT_COUNT and GR_GIT_HASH environment variables for extended
-versioning number for packagers.
 
-We explicitly set the C/C++ standards to C++98 and gnu11 rather than
-use the compiler defaults since many compilers are moving to C++11 by
-default.  Incidentally this caused minor breakage with a subtle VOLK
-API fix in gr-dtv which was also fixed.
+### gr-utils
 
-Fixed finding GNU Radio + VOLK in non-standard prefixes when compiling
-OOT modules.
+* \#897 Improved python docstring generation in gr_modtool
diff --git a/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-3.7.11.md b/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-3.7.11.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b1b118b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-3.7.11.md
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+ChangeLog v3.7.11
+=================
+
+This is a feature release of the 3.7 API series, and incorporates all
+the bug fixes implemented in the 3.7.10.2 maintenance release.
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following list of people directly contributed code to this
+release and the incorporated maintenance release:
+
+* A. Maitland Bottoms <address@hidden>
+* Alexandru Csete <address@hidden>
+* Andrej Rode <address@hidden>
+* Andy Walls <address@hidden>
+* Artem Pisarenko <address@hidden>
+* Bastian Bloessl <address@hidden>
+* Ben Hilburn <address@hidden>
+* Bob Iannucci <address@hidden>
+* Chris Kuethe <address@hidden>
+* Christopher Chavez <address@hidden>
+* Clayton Smith <address@hidden>
+* Darek Kawamoto <address@hidden>
+* Ethan Trewhitt <address@hidden>
+* Geof Gnieboer <address@hidden>
+* Hatsune Aru <email witheld>
+* Jacob Gilbert <address@hidden>
+* Jiří Pinkava <address@hidden>
+* Johannes Demel <address@hidden>
+* Johannes Schmitz <address@hidden>
+* Johnathan Corgan <address@hidden>
+* Jonathan Brucker <address@hidden>
+* Josh Blum <address@hidden>
+* Kartik Patel <address@hidden>
+* Konstantin Mochalov <address@hidden>
+* Kyle Unice <address@hidden>
+* Marcus Müller <address@hidden>
+* Martin Braun <address@hidden>
+* Michael De Nil <address@hidden>
+* Michael Dickens <address@hidden>
+* Nathan West <address@hidden>
+* Nicholas Corgan <address@hidden>
+* Nick Foster <address@hidden>
+* Nicolas Cuervo <address@hidden>
+* Paul Cercueil <address@hidden>
+* Pedro Lobo <address@hidden>
+* Peter Horvath <address@hidden>
+* Philip Balister <address@hidden>
+* Ron Economos <address@hidden>
+* Sean Nowlan <address@hidden>
+* Sebastian Koslowski <address@hidden>
+* Sebastian Müller <address@hidden>
+* Stephen Larew <address@hidden>
+* Sylvain Munaut <address@hidden>
+* Thomas Habets <address@hidden>
+* Tim O'Shea <address@hidden>
+* Tobias Blomberg <email witheld>
+
+
+Changes
+=======
+
+The GNU Radio project tracks changes via Github pull requests.  You
+can get details on each of the below by going to:
+
+https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio
+
+Note: Please see the release notes for 3.7.10.2 for details on the bug
+fixes included in this release.
+
+
+### gnuradio-runtime
+
+* \#1077 Support dynamically loaded gnuradio installs (Josh Blum)
+
+
+### gnuradio-companion
+
+* \#1118 Support vector types in embedded Python blocks (Clayton Smith)
+
+### gr-audio
+
+* \#1051 Re-implemented defunct Windows audio source (Geof Gnieboer)
+* \#1052 Implemented block in Windows audio sink (Geof Gnieboer)
+
+
+### gr-blocks
+
+* \#896 Added PDU block setters and GRC callbacks (Jacob Gilbert)
+* \#900 Exposed non-vector multiply const to GRC (Ron Economos)
+* \#903 Deprecated old-style message queue blocks (Johnathan Corgan)
+* \#1067 Deprecated blks2 namespace blocks (Johnathan Corgan)
+
+
+### gr-digital
+
+* \#910 Deprecated correlate_and_sync block 3.8 (Johnathan Corgan)
+* \#912 Deprecated modulation blocks for 3.8 (Sebastian Müller)
+* \#1069 Improved build memory usage with swig split (Michael Dickens)
+* \#1097 Deprecated mpsk_receiver_cc block (Johnathan Corgan)
+* \#1099 Deprecated old-style OFDM receiver blocks (Martin Braun)
+
+### gr-dtv
+
+* \#875 Added ability to cross-compile gr-dtv (Ron Economos)
+* \#876 Improved ATSC transmitter performance (Ron Economos)
+* \#894 Refactored DVB-T RS decoder to use gr-fec (Ron Economos)
+* \#898 Improved error handling and logging (Ron Economos)
+* \#900 Improved DVB-T performance (Ron Economos)
+* \#907 Updated examples to use QT (Ron Economos)
+* \#1025 Refactor DVB-T2 interleaver (Ron Economos)
+
+
+### gr-filter
+
+* \#885 Added set parameter msg port to fractional resampler (Sebastian 
Müller)
+
+
+### gr-trellis
+
+* \#908 Updated examples to use QT (Martin Braun)
+
+
+### gr-uhd
+
+* \#872 Added relative phase plots to uhd_fft (Martin Braun)
+* \#1032 Replace zero-timeout double-recv() with one recv() (Martin Braun)
+* \#1053 UHD apps may now specify multiple subdevs (Martin Braun)
+* \#1101 Support TwinRX LO sharing parameters (Andrej Rode)
+* \#1139 Use UHD internal normalized gain methods (Martin Braun)
+
+
+### gr-utils
+
+* \#897 Improved python docstring generation in gr_modtool