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@@ -14,6 +14,23 @@ The SRA Toolkit and SDK from NCBI is a collection of tools and libraries for
 using data in the INSDC Sequence Read Archives.
 
 ### ANNOUNCEMENT:
+SRA Toolkit 2.11.1 August 17, 2021
+
+**align, axf, sra-pileup, vdb, vfs**: resolve reference sequences within output directory
+**cloud, kns, sra-tools**: do not acquire CE more often than necessary
+**kget**: renamed to vdb-get
+**kns, sra-tools**: improved reporting of peer certificate information
+**kns, sra-tools**: improved timeout management in CacheTeeFile
+**ncbi-vdb, ngs, ngs-tools, sra-tools**: configure prints the version of compiler
+**prefetch**: better control of reference sequences
+**prefetch**: fixed failure when protected repository exists
+**prefetch, vdb, vfs**: prefetch with "-O" will now correctly place references in output directory
+**prefetch, vfs**: fixed error message 'multiple response SRR URLs for the same service...' when downloading
+**prefetch**: will download any missed dependencies
+**prefetch**: will not hang when failing to download dependencies
+**sratools**: allow driver tool to handle debug output for modules
+**vdb-dump**: using --info with URLs now works correctly
+**vfs, sra-tools**: updated interaction with SRA Data Locator
 
 April 19, 2021
 SRA data is stored and freely available worldwide from Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s Open Data Sponsorship Program. The data being retrieved and delivered by the SRA Toolkit comes from AWS storage and is also free for users everywhere.