diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 24860c957..a710da8b9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+v1.1.4
+cli : new : can compress in *.gz format, using --format=gzip command, by Przemyslaw Skibinski
+cli : new : advanced benchmark command --priority=rt
+cli : fix : write on sparse-enabled file systems in 32-bits mode, by @ds77
+API : new : ZSTD_getFrameCompressedSize(), ZSTD_getFrameContentSize(), ZSTD_findDecompressedSize(), by Sean Purcell
+API : change : ZSTD_compress*() with srcSize==0 create an empty-frame of known size
+doc : new : educational decoder, by Sean Purcell
+
 v1.1.3
 cli : zstd can decompress .gz files (can be disabled with `make zstd-nogz` or `make HAVE_ZLIB=0`)
 cli : new : experimental target `make zstdmt`, with multi-threading support
diff --git a/examples/simple_compression.c b/examples/simple_compression.c
index deb0bbfc4..2aab48f47 100644
--- a/examples/simple_compression.c
+++ b/examples/simple_compression.c
@@ -127,6 +127,6 @@ int main(int argc, const char** argv)
 
     const char* const outFilename = createOutFilename_orDie(inFilename);
     compress_orDie(inFilename, outFilename);
-
+    free(outFilename);
     return 0;
 }
diff --git a/lib/common/threading.c b/lib/common/threading.c
index b56e594b2..32d58796a 100644
--- a/lib/common/threading.c
+++ b/lib/common/threading.c
@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@
  * This file will hold wrapper for systems, which do not support pthreads
  */
 
-/* ======   Compiler specifics   ====== */
-#if defined(_MSC_VER)
-#  pragma warning(disable : 4206)        /* disable: C4206: translation unit is empty (when ZSTD_MULTITHREAD is not defined) */
-#endif
+/* When ZSTD_MULTITHREAD is not defined, this file would become an empty translation unit.
+* Include some ISO C header code to prevent this and portably avoid related warnings.
+* (Visual C++: C4206 / GCC: -Wpedantic / Clang: -Wempty-translation-unit)
+*/
+#include <stddef.h>
 
 
 #if defined(ZSTD_MULTITHREAD) && defined(_WIN32)
diff --git a/lib/zstd.h b/lib/zstd.h
index e2f752ddc..a71867837 100644
--- a/lib/zstd.h
+++ b/lib/zstd.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ extern "C" {
 /*------   Version   ------*/
 #define ZSTD_VERSION_MAJOR    1
 #define ZSTD_VERSION_MINOR    1
-#define ZSTD_VERSION_RELEASE  3
+#define ZSTD_VERSION_RELEASE  4
 
 #define ZSTD_LIB_VERSION ZSTD_VERSION_MAJOR.ZSTD_VERSION_MINOR.ZSTD_VERSION_RELEASE
 #define ZSTD_QUOTE(str) #str
diff --git a/programs/zstdcli.c b/programs/zstdcli.c
index 33c0cd8d5..588111913 100644
--- a/programs/zstdcli.c
+++ b/programs/zstdcli.c
@@ -51,8 +51,11 @@
 
 #define GZ_EXTENSION ".gz"
 #define ZSTD_EXTENSION ".zst"
-#define ZSTD_CAT "zstdcat"
 #define ZSTD_UNZSTD "unzstd"
+#define ZSTD_CAT "zstdcat"
+#define ZSTD_GZ "gzip"
+#define ZSTD_GUNZIP "gunzip"
+#define ZSTD_GZCAT "gzcat"
 
 #define KB *(1 <<10)
 #define MB *(1 <<20)
@@ -319,6 +322,9 @@ int main(int argCount, const char* argv[])
     /* preset behaviors */
     if (!strcmp(programName, ZSTD_UNZSTD)) operation=zom_decompress;
     if (!strcmp(programName, ZSTD_CAT)) { operation=zom_decompress; forceStdout=1; FIO_overwriteMode(); outFileName=stdoutmark; displayLevel=1; }
+    if (!strcmp(programName, ZSTD_GZ)) { suffix = GZ_EXTENSION; FIO_setCompressionType(FIO_gzipCompression); FIO_setRemoveSrcFile(1); }    /* behave like gzip */
+    if (!strcmp(programName, ZSTD_GUNZIP)) { operation=zom_decompress; FIO_setRemoveSrcFile(1); }                                          /* behave like gunzip */
+    if (!strcmp(programName, ZSTD_GZCAT)) { operation=zom_decompress; forceStdout=1; FIO_overwriteMode(); outFileName=stdoutmark; displayLevel=1; }  /* behave like gzcat */
     memset(&compressionParams, 0, sizeof(compressionParams));
 
     /* command switches */