Add release notes for 1.1.0-M1 up to 1.1.0-M4

notes/1.1.0-M1.markdown

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+### Changes
+
+* Remove some references to types directly under `sbt.` in `sbt-shared` module, to ease using coursier from sbt itself ([#775], thanks to [@leonardehrenfried])
+* Update points in `DEVELOPMENT.md` ([#777] thanks to [@baroquebobcat], [#776])
+* Automatically initialize and update submodules when compiling coursier ([#785])
+* Allow to specify the URL of a dependency via the CLI ([#774], thanks to [@dotordogh], use like `coursier fetch org:name:ver,url=https%3A%2F%2F…%2Ffoo.jar`)
+* `core` and `cache` modules don't depend on scalaz anymore ([#781], [#796], [#807])
+* Remove some deprecated methods ([#800], thanks to [@wisechengyi])
+* Switch to [directories] 6 ([#806])
+* Better handling of classifiers in JSON report ([#782], thanks to [@baroquebobcat])
+* Reattempt downloads in case of checksum error ([#797], thanks to [@wisechengyi])
+* Handle invalid partial content response code by retrying to download from start of file ([#795], thanks to [@rberenguel])
+
+
+[#774]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/774
+[#775]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/775
+[#776]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/776
+[#777]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/777
+[#781]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/781
+[#782]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/782
+[#785]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/785
+[#795]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/795
+[#796]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/796
+[#797]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/797
+[#800]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/800
+[#806]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/806
+[#807]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/807
+
+
+[@baroquebobcat]: https://github.com/baroquebobcat
+[@dotordogh]: https://github.com/dotordogh
+[@leonardehrenfried]: https://github.com/leonardehrenfried
+[@rberenguel]: https://github.com/rberenguel
+[@wisechengyi]: https://github.com/wisechengyi
+
+[directories]: https://github.com/soc/directories-jvm

notes/1.1.0-M2.markdown

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+### Changes
+
+* Don't require manually launching docker images of Nexus 2 and 3 to run the integration tests ([#805])
+* Fixes in reverse tree printing ([#808], thanks to [@shanielh])
+* Require Java >= 8 from now on ([#817])
+* Update Travis CI scala-native setup ([#825], thanks to [@densh])
+* Switch to [directories] 10 ([#834])
+* Tweak main class discovering ([#841], thanks to [@2m])
+* Switch to scala-native 0.3.7, use its new build API ([#849], thanks to [@densh])
+* Allow to copy `file:/` artifacts to cache ([#831], thanks to [@dotordogh], enable with `--cache-file-artifacts` on the CLI)
+* Add `tailRecM` method on `coursier.util.Task` ([#846], thanks to [@johnynek] - even though `coursier.util.Task` is stacksafe for now)
+
+
+[#805]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/805
+[#808]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/808
+[#817]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/817
+[#825]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/825
+[#831]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/831
+[#834]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/834
+[#841]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/841
+[#846]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/846
+[#849]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/849
+
+
+[@2m]: https://github.com/2m
+[@densh]: https://github.com/densh
+[@dotordogh]: https://github.com/dotordogh
+[@johnynek]: https://github.com/johnynek
+[@shanielh]: https://github.com/shanielh

notes/1.1.0-M3.markdown

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+### Changes
+
+* Take into account `--property k=v` options when generating bootstraps (sets Java properties, [#850])
+* Allow to generate assemblies via the `bootstrap` command ([#850], pass the `--assembly` option to the `bootstrap` command)
+
+
+
+[#850]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/850

notes/1.1.0-M4.markdown

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+### Changes
+
+* Allow not to add bash preamble in generated bootstraps ([#854], pass `--preamble=false` to the `bootstrap` command)
+* Have generated bootstraps pass options starting with `-J…` to Java rather than the launched app ([#852], thanks to [@2m])
+
+
+[#852]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/852
+[#854]: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/854
+
+
+[@2m]: https://github.com/2m