Prepare v0.8.1 release

Author: clue

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.8.1 (2018-01-05)
+
+*   Major request handler performance improvement. Benchmarks suggest number of
+    requests/s improved by more than 50% for common `GET` requests!
+    We now avoid queuing, buffering and wrapping incoming requests in promises
+    when we're below limits and instead can directly process common requests.
+    (#291, #292, #293, #294 and #296 by @clue)
+
+*   Fix: Fix concurrent invoking next middleware request handlers
+    (#293 by @clue)
+
+*   Small code improvements
+    (#286 by @seregazhuk)
+
+*   Improve test suite to be less fragile when using `ext-event` and
+    fix test suite forward compatibility with upcoming EventLoop releases
+    (#288 and #290 by @clue)
+
 ## 0.8.0 (2017-12-12)
 
 *   Feature / BC break: Add new `Server` facade that buffers and parses incoming

README.md

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 # Http
 
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/reactphp/http.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/reactphp/http)
-[![Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com/github/reactphp/http/badges/gpa.svg)](https://codeclimate.com/github/reactphp/http)
 
 Event-driven, streaming plaintext HTTP and secure HTTPS server for [ReactPHP](https://reactphp.org/).
 
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ Event-driven, streaming plaintext HTTP and secure HTTPS server for [ReactPHP](ht
 
 ## Quickstart example
 
-This is an HTTP server which responds with `Hello World` to every request.
+This is an HTTP server which responds with `Hello World!` to every request.
 
 ```php
 $loop = React\EventLoop\Factory::create();
@@ -1132,13 +1131,13 @@ A non-exhaustive list of third-party middleware can be found at the [`Middleware
 
 ## Install
 
-The recommended way to install this library is [through Composer](http://getcomposer.org).
-[New to Composer?](http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md)
+The recommended way to install this library is [through Composer](https://getcomposer.org).
+[New to Composer?](https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md)
 
 This will install the latest supported version:
 
 ```bash
-$ composer require react/http:^0.8
+$ composer require react/http:^0.8.1
 ```
 
 See also the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for details about version upgrades.
@@ -1151,7 +1150,7 @@ It's *highly recommended to use PHP 7+* for this project.
 ## Tests
 
 To run the test suite, you first need to clone this repo and then install all
-dependencies [through Composer](http://getcomposer.org):
+dependencies [through Composer](https://getcomposer.org):
 
 ```bash
 $ composer install