adaptations for release 1.1
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 			<h3>News</h3>
+			<h4>1.1 is out!</h4>
+			<p>
+				We are proud to announce the <a href="downloads.php">SMILA release 1.1</a>. The major new features are the
+				migration of file, web, JDBC and feed crawler implementations to self-scaling ETL and the integration of Solr 3.5. As always, please try it out and give us your feedback.
+			</p>
 			<h4>YourKit donates free licenses for its Java Profiler</h4>
 			<p>
 				We are happy to announce that thanks to YourKit's donation we are now able to profile and further improve SMILA!