diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index d36883d37..e5090eed1 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-## 1.1.0 (in progress)
+## 1.1.0 (11 July 2018)
 
-- Unzip GTF file prior to installation when installing a custom genome.
 - Germline calls: rename outputs to `samplename-germline` to provide easier
   to understand outputs in final directory.
+- Add bcbioRNASeq object creation and automatic quality report generation
+  with `tools_on: [bcbiornaseq]`
 - CWL: Support germline/somatic calling for tumor samples.
 - CNVkit: improve whole genome runs. Better speed in normalize_sv_coverage
   through parallelization and avoiding logging. Avoid memory errors in segmentation.
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@
 - CWL: adjust defaults for align_split_size and nomap_split_targets to match
   different parallelization and overhead for these runs
 - CWL: support for Cromwell runner
+- custom genomes: Unzip GTF file prior to installation.
 - Avoid making variant_regions required during processing (by filling with
   coverage) to differentiate targeted and non analyses downstream.
 - Avoid attempts to download pre-installed S3 genomes, providing better
@@ -31,7 +33,6 @@
 - Adding BAM file for each sample in small-RNAseq pipeline, samtools
   and qualimap qc metrics to multiqc report.
 - Allow arbitrary genomes for ChIP-seq. Thanks to @evchambers for pointing out the issue.
-- Add bcbioRNASeq object creation and automatic quality report generation.
 
 ## 1.0.9 (10 April 2018)
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 92a1da79d..91a8fb23f 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '1.0.9'
+version = '1.1.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.0.9'
+release = '1.1.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/requirements-conda.txt b/requirements-conda.txt
index 5b5651f8d..ad982b616 100644
--- a/requirements-conda.txt
+++ b/requirements-conda.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-bcbio-nextgen=1.0.9
+bcbio-nextgen=1.1.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b6b03259f..c16b8ff53 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-bcbio-nextgen==1.0.9
+bcbio-nextgen==1.1.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1a8ba1118..6b70eccbe 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import os
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-version = "1.1.0a0"
+version = "1.1.0"
 
 def write_version_py():
     version_py = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'bcbio', 'pipeline',