diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ae3b6324..a6d244d4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+1.1.11.dev0
+ * 
+
 1.1.10
  * Pass several Unix signals through to child processes like Borg. This means that Borg now properly
    shuts down if borgmatic is terminated (e.g. due to a system suspend).
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0991cb17..d933a4ed 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,11 +49,12 @@ on [GitHub](https://github.com/witten/borgmatic) for convenience.
 
 To get up and running, follow the [Borg Quick
 Start](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html) to create
-a repository on a local or remote host. Note that if you plan to run
-borgmatic on a schedule with cron, and you encrypt your Borg repository with
-a passphrase instead of a key file, you'll need to set the borgmatic
-`encryption_passphrase` configuration variable. See the repository encryption
-section of the Quick Start for more info.
+a repository on a local or remote host. Note that if you plan to run borgmatic
+on a schedule with cron, and you encrypt your Borg repository with a
+passphrase instead of a key file, you'll either need to set the borgmatic
+`encryption_passphrase` configuration variable or set the `BORG_PASSPHRASE`
+environment variable. See the repository encryption section of the Quick Start
+for more info.
 
 If the repository is on a remote host, make sure that your local root user has
 key-based ssh access to the desired user account on the remote host.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d99c9c62..4ab46017 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 
-VERSION = '1.1.10'
+VERSION = '1.1.11.dev0'
 
 
 setup(