Cut release-0.11.0 candidate branch again

[Jackie-Jiang]

Since we cut release-0.11.0 candidate branch, we have introduced several bug-fixes (list of new commits here), and several of them are critical because we recently upgraded several dependencies. I checked all the new commits, none of them can break the existing use cases.

Since we haven't released 0.11.0, I would propose to re-cut the release candidate branch to include these new commits.

cc @atris @siddharthteotia @mayankshriv @walterddr for opinions

[walterddr]

+1. @atris