Release samtools-0.1.11

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-Beta release 0.1.11 (19 November, 2010)
+Beta release 0.1.11 (21 November, 2010)
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-This is a bug fix release:
+This is mainly a bug fix release:
 
  * Fixed a bug in random retrieval (since 0.1.8). It occurs when reads
    are retrieved from a small region containing no reads.
@@ -11,12 +11,21 @@ This is a bug fix release:
 
  * Improved fault tolerence in remote access.
 
+One minor feature has been implemented in bcftools:
+
+ * Added a reference-free variant calling mode. In this mode, a site is
+   regarded as a variat iff the sample(s) contains two or more alleles;
+   the meaning of the QUAL field in the VCF output is changed
+   accordingly. Effectively, the reference allele is irrelevant to the
+   result in the new mode, although the reference sequence has to be
+   used in realignment when SAMtools computes genotype likelihoods.
+
 In addition, since 0.1.10, the `pileup' command has been deprecated by
 `mpileup' which is more powerful and more accurate. The `pileup' command
 will not be removed in the next few releases, but new features will not
 be added.
 
-(0.1.11: 19 November 2010, r842)
+(0.1.11: 21 November 2010, r851)