diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b681322..cdf126b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
> This project uses [Break Versioning](https://github.com/ptaoussanis/encore/blob/master/BREAK-VERSIONING.md) as of **Aug 16, 2014**.
+## v2.11.0-RC1 / 2016 Jan 23
+
+> Identical to v2.11.0-beta1 (published December 13 2015)
+
+```clojure
+[com.taoensso/nippy "2.11.0-RC1"]
+```
+
+
## v2.11.0-beta1 / 2015 Dec 13
> This is a major performance release that **drops default support for thawing Nippy v1 archives** but is otherwise non-breaking
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ade9620..9285817 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,42 +1,50 @@
-**[API docs][]** | **[CHANGELOG][]** | [other Clojure libs][] | [Twitter][] | [contact/contrib](#contact--contributing) | current [Break Version][]:
+
+
+
+**[CHANGELOG]** | [API] | current [Break Version]:
```clojure
-[com.taoensso/nippy "2.10.0"] ; Stable
-[com.taoensso/nippy "2.11.0-beta1"] ; Dev, see CHANGELOG for details
+[com.taoensso/nippy "2.10.0"] ; Stable
+[com.taoensso/nippy "2.11.0-RC1"] ; See CHANGELOG for details
```
-# Nippy, a Clojure serialization library
+# Nippy
-Clojure's [rich data types](http://clojure.org/datatypes) are *awesome*. And its [reader](http://clojure.org/reader) allows you to take your data just about anywhere. But the reader can be painfully slow when you've got a lot of data to crunch (like when you're serializing to a database).
+## The fastest serialization library for Clojure
-Nippy is an attempt to provide a reliable, high-performance **drop-in alternative to the reader**. It's used as the serializer for the [Carmine Redis client](https://github.com/ptaoussanis/carmine), the [Faraday DynamoDB client](https://github.com/ptaoussanis/faraday), and a number of other projects.
+Clojure's [rich data types] are *awesome*. And its [reader] allows you to take your data just about anywhere. But the reader can be painfully slow when you've got a lot of data to crunch (like when you're serializing to a database).
-## What's in the box™?
- * Small, uncomplicated **all-Clojure** library
- * **Terrific performance** (the fastest for Clojure that I'm aware of)
- * Comprehesive **support for all standard data types**
- * **Easily extendable to custom data types** (v2.1+)
- * Java's **Serializable** fallback when available (v2.5+)
- * **Reader-fallback** for all other types (including Clojure 1.4+ tagged literals)
- * **Full test coverage** for every supported type
- * Fully pluggable **compression**, including built-in high-performance [LZ4](https://code.google.com/p/lz4/) compressor
- * Fully pluggable **encryption**, including built-in high-strength AES128 enabled with a single `:password [:salted "my-password"]` option (v2+)
- * Utils for **easy integration into 3rd-party tools/libraries** (v2+)
+Nippy is an attempt to provide a reliable, high-performance **drop-in alternative to the reader**. Used by the [Carmine Redis client], the [Faraday DynamoDB client], [PigPen], [Onyx] and others.
+
+## Features
+ * Small, uncomplicated **all-Clojure** library
+ * **Terrific performance** (the fastest for Clojure that I'm aware of)
+ * Comprehesive **support for all standard data types**
+ * **Easily extendable to custom data types** (v2.1+)
+ * Java's **Serializable** fallback when available (v2.5+)
+ * **Reader-fallback** for all other types (including Clojure 1.4+ tagged literals)
+ * **Full test coverage** for every supported type
+ * Fully pluggable **compression**, including built-in high-performance [LZ4] compressor
+ * Fully pluggable **encryption**, including built-in high-strength AES128 enabled with a single `:password [:salted "my-password"]` option (v2+)
+ * Utils for **easy integration into 3rd-party tools/libraries** (v2+)
## Getting started
-### Dependencies
-
-Add the necessary dependency to your [Leiningen][] `project.clj` and `require` the library in your ns:
+Add the necessary dependency to your project:
```clojure
-[com.taoensso/nippy "2.10.0"] ; project.clj
-(ns my-app (:require [taoensso.nippy :as nippy])) ; ns
+[com.taoensso/nippy "2.10.0"]
+```
+
+And setup your namespace imports:
+
+```clojure
+(ns my-ns (:require [taoensso.nippy :as nippy]))
```
### De/serializing
-As an example of what Nippy can do, let's take a look at its own reference stress data:
+As an example of what it can do, let's take a look at Nippy's own reference stress data:
```clojure
nippy/stress-data
@@ -120,7 +128,7 @@ Nippy also gives you **dead simple data encryption**. Add a single option to you
(nippy/thaw {:password [:salted "my-password"]}) ; Decrypt
```
-There's two default forms of encryption on offer: `:salted` and `:cached`. Each of these makes carefully-chosen trade-offs and is suited to one of two common use cases. See the `aes128-encryptor` [docstring](http://ptaoussanis.github.io/nippy/taoensso.nippy.encryption.html) for a detailed explanation of why/when you'd want one or the other.
+There's two default forms of encryption on offer: `:salted` and `:cached`. Each of these makes carefully-chosen trade-offs and is suited to one of two common use cases. See the `aes128-encryptor` [API] docs for a detailed explanation of why/when you'd want one or the other.
### Custom types (v2.1+)
@@ -140,33 +148,45 @@ There's two default forms of encryption on offer: `:salted` and `:cached`. Each
## Performance
-
+![benchmarks-png]
-[Detailed benchmark information](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuSXb68FH4uhdE5kTTlocGZKSXppWG9sRzA5Y2pMVkE) is available on Google Docs.
+[Detailed benchmark info] is available on Google Docs.
-## Contact & contributing
+## Contacting me / contributions
-`lein start-dev` to get a (headless) development repl that you can connect to with [Cider][] (Emacs) or your IDE.
+Please use the project's [GitHub issues page] for all questions, ideas, etc. **Pull requests welcome**. See the project's [GitHub contributors page] for a list of contributors.
-Please use the project's GitHub [issues page][] for project questions/comments/suggestions/whatever **(pull requests welcome!)**. Am very open to ideas if you have any!
+Otherwise, you can reach me at [Taoensso.com]. Happy hacking!
-Otherwise reach me (Peter Taoussanis) at [taoensso.com][] or on [Twitter][]. Cheers!
+\- [Peter Taoussanis]
## License
-Copyright © 2012-2015 Peter Taoussanis. Distributed under the [Eclipse Public License][], the same as Clojure.
+Distributed under the [EPL v1.0] \(same as Clojure).
+Copyright © 2012-2016 [Peter Taoussanis].
-
-[API docs]: http://ptaoussanis.github.io/nippy/
-[CHANGELOG]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/releases
-[other Clojure libs]: https://www.taoensso.com/clojure
-[taoensso.com]: https://www.taoensso.com
-[Twitter]: https://twitter.com/ptaoussanis
-[issues page]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/issues
-[commit history]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/commits/master
+
+[Taoensso.com]: https://www.taoensso.com
+[Peter Taoussanis]: https://www.taoensso.com
+[@ptaoussanis]: https://www.taoensso.com
+[More by @ptaoussanis]: https://www.taoensso.com
[Break Version]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/encore/blob/master/BREAK-VERSIONING.md
-[Leiningen]: http://leiningen.org/
-[Cider]: https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
-[CDS]: http://clojure-doc.org/
-[ClojureWerkz]: http://clojurewerkz.org/
-[Eclipse Public License]: https://raw2.github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/master/LICENSE
+
+
+[CHANGELOG]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/releases
+[API]: http://ptaoussanis.github.io/nippy/
+[GitHub issues page]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/issues
+[GitHub contributors page]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/graphs/contributors
+[EPL v1.0]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/master/LICENSE
+[Hero]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/master/hero.png "Title"
+
+
+[rich data types]: http://clojure.org/reference/datatypes
+[reader]: http://clojure.org/reference/reader
+[Carmine Redis client]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/carmine
+[Faraday DynamoDB client]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/faraday
+[PigPen]: https://github.com/Netflix/PigPen
+[Onyx]: https://github.com/onyx-platform/onyx
+[LZ4]: https://code.google.com/p/lz4/
+[benchmarks-png]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/raw/master/benchmarks.png
+[Detailed benchmark info]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuSXb68FH4uhdE5kTTlocGZKSXppWG9sRzA5Y2pMVkE
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 11f664d..5692047 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-(defproject com.taoensso/nippy "2.11.0-beta1"
+(defproject com.taoensso/nippy "2.11.0-RC1"
:author "Peter Taoussanis "
- :description "Clojure serialization library"
+ :description "High-performance serialization library for Clojure"
:url "https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy"
:license {:name "Eclipse Public License"
:url "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html"
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
:dependencies
[[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]
[org.clojure/tools.reader "0.10.0"]
- [com.taoensso/encore "2.28.0"]
+ [com.taoensso/encore "2.32.0"]
[org.iq80.snappy/snappy "0.4"]
[org.tukaani/xz "1.5"]
[net.jpountz.lz4/lz4 "1.3"]]
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@
:test {:jvm-opts ["-Xms1024m" "-Xmx2048m"]
:dependencies [[org.clojure/test.check "0.9.0"]
[org.clojure/data.fressian "0.2.1"]
- [org.xerial.snappy/snappy-java "1.1.2"]]}
+ [org.xerial.snappy/snappy-java "1.1.2.1"]]}
:dev [:1.8 :test
{:plugins
[[lein-pprint "1.1.2"]
[lein-ancient "0.6.8"]
- [lein-codox "0.9.0"]]}]}
+ [lein-codox "0.9.1"]]}]}
:test-paths ["test" "src"]
diff --git a/src/taoensso/nippy.clj b/src/taoensso/nippy.clj
index 813e2ca..f0fa701 100644
--- a/src/taoensso/nippy.clj
+++ b/src/taoensso/nippy.clj
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
(ns taoensso.nippy
- "High-performance JVM Clojure serialization library. Originally adapted from
- Deep-Freeze (https://goo.gl/OePPGr)."
+ "High-performance serialization library for Clojure.
+ Originally adapted from Deep-Freeze (Ref. https://goo.gl/OePPGr)."
{:author "Peter Taoussanis (@ptaoussanis)"}
(:require [taoensso.encore :as enc]
[taoensso.nippy