This is mainly to get the master branch in sync with thedevelop branch. develop has been ahead for a while and the last commit on master was not stable.
We decided that since develop is working and passing all the tests, it is a good time for sync'ing and creating a new release.
@deepio integrated travis-ci so unit tests are running automatically now.
The master branch is blocked, so any progress in develop can be tested automatically and merged to master through pull requests.