Reactor 1.1.0 - CHANGELOG

This is a non-exhaustive list of changes between Reactor 1.0 and 1.1:

`reactor-core`

Numerous bug fixes and improvements

Stream / Promise

Improved Stream and Promise value-handling
Additional composition methods like connect(), merge(), timeout(), window() and more
Many methods moved into Composable so shared between Stream and Promise

Utilities

Robust HashWheelTimer implemenation based on a RingBuffer
Allocator API for efficient object pooling
New Consumer Registry implementation based on gs-collections 5.0 [1]

Testing

Numerous improvements to benchmarking
Added dedicated reactor-benchmark project based on JMH [2]
Removed most benchmarking code from core project
Expanded and improved test coverage

`reactor-logback`

Extremely efficient high-speed logging using Java Chronicle
Re-written Reactor-based async appender implementations

`reactor-groovy`

Better organization of Groovy support
AST-based extensions moved to their own subproject for better Gradle compatibility
Ready for Groovy 2.3 and Java 1.8

`reactor-net`

Renamed reactor-tcp to reactor-net
Refactored base abstractions to handle both TCP and UDP
Added UDP support using Netty
Added ZeroMQ support using jeromq
Rewritten reconnect support
Improved and exapanded testing
Numerous bug fixes and improvements

[1] - https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections

[2] - http://openjdk.java.net/projects/code-tools/jmh/