diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 50b8bb8e1..e901d9af9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
                        |_| \__,_|_|_/___|_.__/\__,_|_||_|
 
 ================================================================================
-Fail2Ban (version 0.8.11.pre1)                                        2013/10/30
+Fail2Ban (version 0.8.11)                                             2013/11/13
 ================================================================================
 
-ver. 0.8.11 (2013/11/XXX) - loves-unittests-and-tight-DoS-free-filter-regexes
+ver. 0.8.11 (2013/11/13) - loves-unittests-and-tight-DoS-free-filter-regexes
 -----------
 
 In light of CVE-2013-2178 that triggered our last release we have put
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ please provide us with example log lines on the github issue tracker
 http://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues and NOT on a random blog in
 some obscure corner of the Internet.
 
+Many thanks to our contributors for this release Daniel Black, Yaroslav
+Halchenko, Steven Hiscocks, Mark McKinstry, Andy Fragen, Orion Poplawski,
+Alexander Dietrich, JP Espinosa, Jamyn Shanley, Beau Raines, François
+Boulogne and others who have helped on IRC and mailing list, logged issues
+and bug requests.
+
 - IMPORTANT incompatible changes:
   Filter name changes:
    * 'lighttpd-fastcgi' filter has been renamed to 'suhosin'
diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 43927a7a7..0e0eb3273 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ testcases/files/logs/exim
 testcases/files/logs/suhosin
 testcases/files/logs/mysqld-auth
 testcases/files/logs/named-refused
+testcases/files/logs/nginx-http-auth
 testcases/files/logs/pam-generic
 testcases/files/logs/postfix
 testcases/files/logs/proftpd
@@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ config/filter.d/apache-badbots.conf
 config/filter.d/apache-nohome.conf
 config/filter.d/apache-noscript.conf
 config/filter.d/apache-overflows.conf
+config/filter.d/nginx-http-auth.conf
 config/filter.d/courierlogin.conf
 config/filter.d/couriersmtp.conf
 config/filter.d/cyrus-imap.conf
@@ -239,3 +241,4 @@ files/bash-completion
 files/fail2ban-tmpfiles.conf
 files/fail2ban.service
 files/ipmasq-ZZZzzz_fail2ban.rul
+files/gen_badbots
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7c00233f4..24ed11ff1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
                         / _|__ _(_) |_  ) |__  __ _ _ _  
                        |  _/ _` | | |/ /| '_ \/ _` | ' \ 
                        |_| \__,_|_|_/___|_.__/\__,_|_||_|
-                       v0.8.11-pre1            2013/10/30
+                       v0.8.11                 2013/11/13
 
 ## Fail2Ban: ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
 
diff --git a/common/version.py b/common/version.py
index a0cb94ea4..c699a8db5 100644
--- a/common/version.py
+++ b/common/version.py
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ __author__ = "Cyril Jaquier, Yaroslav Halchenko"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2004 Cyril Jaquier, 2011-2013 Yaroslav Halchenko"
 __license__ = "GPL"
 
-version = "0.8.11.pre1"
+version = "0.8.11"
diff --git a/man/fail2ban-client.1 b/man/fail2ban-client.1
index aab2dde43..c5ccb8034 100644
--- a/man/fail2ban-client.1
+++ b/man/fail2ban-client.1
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.40.12.
-.TH FAIL2BAN-CLIENT "1" "October 2013" "fail2ban-client v0.8.11.pre1" "User Commands"
+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.40.4.
+.TH FAIL2BAN-CLIENT "1" "November 2013" "fail2ban-client v0.8.11" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 fail2ban-client \- configure and control the server
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B fail2ban-client
 [\fIOPTIONS\fR] \fI<COMMAND>\fR
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-Fail2Ban v0.8.11.pre1 reads log file that contains password failure report
+Fail2Ban v0.8.11 reads log file that contains password failure report
 and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
diff --git a/man/fail2ban-regex.1 b/man/fail2ban-regex.1
index 4a0e272b7..e2c995659 100644
--- a/man/fail2ban-regex.1
+++ b/man/fail2ban-regex.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.40.12.
-.TH FAIL2BAN-REGEX "1" "October 2013" "fail2ban-regex 0.8.11.pre1" "User Commands"
+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.40.4.
+.TH FAIL2BAN-REGEX "1" "November 2013" "fail2ban-regex 0.8.11" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 fail2ban-regex \- test Fail2ban "failregex" option
 .SH SYNOPSIS
diff --git a/man/fail2ban-server.1 b/man/fail2ban-server.1
index 7e09b49e6..147bdeaa3 100644
--- a/man/fail2ban-server.1
+++ b/man/fail2ban-server.1
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.40.12.
-.TH FAIL2BAN-SERVER "1" "October 2013" "fail2ban-server v0.8.11.pre1" "User Commands"
+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.40.4.
+.TH FAIL2BAN-SERVER "1" "November 2013" "fail2ban-server v0.8.11" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 fail2ban-server \- start the server
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B fail2ban-server
 [\fIOPTIONS\fR]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-Fail2Ban v0.8.11.pre1 reads log file that contains password failure report
+Fail2Ban v0.8.11 reads log file that contains password failure report
 and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.
 .PP
 Only use this command for debugging purpose. Start the server with