I think we should merge https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/696 before we release.
>I am wondering, if the new notice I placed at the end of the Readme would be better placed in the notice file NOTICE is highly sensitive to "legal stuff", so I would refrain from modifying NOTICE unless there's an explicit need to do that. In the long-term, it would be great if we could replace the dependency with something less legal-confusing :) Vladimir